Chapter 2168: Heart Gate (III)

At the same time, in the distance.

The Human King shouted sternly and swung his blade down. The power of darkness appeared, yin and yang integrated. One massive collision resulted in a ninth rank outright hacked into two!

The cataclysm occurring in the chaos grew even worse.

Bam!

Li Hao suddenly flew backward, a smile appeared on Calamity’s face. He smirked at the Human King in the distance.

Fang Ping shot a sidelong glance over and shrugged with amusement as well.

“Does Senior Human King... not think of me that fondly?” Li Hao chuckled.

“It’s not that, but that you really annoy me!” Fang Ping laughed. “But don’t mind me. I’m just here to kill people. Calamity is relying on the chaos to fill with unrest. The more people die or fights break out, the greater this catastrophe of his. That makes him stronger!

“But it’s not like we can sit on our hands and let them beat us into the ground, can we?”

Calamity had become stronger thanks to the Human King killing a ninth rank! Such was the dao of calamity.

The longer they fought without killing their opponents, the more issues might crop up. But if they did kill their opponent, that shook the chaos and strengthened the dao of calamity.

It was why Calamity hadn’t cared about the fates of those ninth ranks. He’d been growing stronger all this time!

The Human King had combined yin and yang. He seemed to be waiting, waiting all this time for someone to suppress Calamity before undertaking this action.

Li Hao struck again with his sword without saying anything. Calamity sniffed with amusement and didn’t choose to meet the young man in battle. He dodged the move instead, wanting to wait for this group of people to kill more powerhouses.

In fact, he didn’t care who lived or died. The more that died, the better for him!

......

It wasn’t just the Human King who was erupting with strength. There’d been nine ninth ranks in the field, Li Hao cut one down as soon as he appeared. The Human King had just killed another, leaving seven in the field.

Spring Autumn’s replicas of a myriad daos completed their integration at this time. Even Silver Moon’s river of dao was part of her. The cicada felt mighty, unbounded strength rising in her!

Spirit was materializing at a crazed pace.

The desires of other exalted emperors appeared in her mind as well. They seemed to speak of wanting to resolve this era of unrest together. It was a kind of yearning and anticipation that caused the cicada to temporarily lose herself within it.

Was this the strength of the multitude?

She sensed something different in this moment and understood why the Human King and others could improve so quickly. They incorporated the strength of the people into them, including Li Hao!

Spring Autumn disappeared. The worlds seemed to silence and the endless chaos fully withered away in this moment. Life wilted and shriveled up.

The ninth rank fighting Yuan Shuo sighed. He knew that Spring Autumn was targeting him. The cicada was strong to begin with and had now absorbed the daos of ten thousand exalted emperors.

No, not only that, but the spirits of ten thousand exalted emperors as well. Spring Autumn had returned to peak condition and was even much stronger than before.

The ninth rank had barely edged out Yuan Shuo before this. How was he a match for Spring Autumn being added to the mix??

“This age of unrest... is truly an eye-opening era!” The ninth rank laughed and looked at Yuan Shuo. The latter keenly sensed some impending danger.

Overwhelming force rose from the ninth rank’s body and an incredibly thick dao rule surfaced in the void.

Chaos dao could be seen with the naked eye.

“Let’s kick things up a notch!” sneered the ninth rank. “There is no reconstruction without demolition. We can afford to have everything be a bit more jumbled!”

He dashed for chaos dao!

Indeed, he didn’t choose to redouble his efforts against Yuan Shuo. The latter jerked with surprise. Ah...

The other ninth ranks in the vicinity suddenly disengaged from their opponents and ran straight for chaos dao as well. Their spirit flared to their full extent.

In the distance.

Skyward frowned and materialized in front of chaos dao, placing himself as an obstacle for the ninth ranks.

“It looks like you didn’t account for everything,” sneered the ninth ranks.

Skyward didn’t say anything.

The ninth ranks flared their spirit and dao strength once more, violently shaking chaos dao.

That was when Skyward made his move!

An immense spatial force manifested, turning into a massive shield. The ninth ranks sought to charge straight into chaos dao, but they bounced off the shield.

“I hadn’t wanted to kill you guys!” Skyward frowned.

The ninth ranks were trying to sabotage chaos dao! Clearly, they knew that the momentum for their side had passed. In that case, they would rather everyone go down together.

This was not the result that Skyward wanted.

“I didn’t plan on killing anyone...” Endless spatial force appeared and forced the ninth ranks apart from each other. Multiple Skywards appeared, one for each ninth rank. He murmured with nostalgia, “One million years...”

White light flashed!

The Human King and others blinked, clearing their eyes. There was nothing to be seen.

Spring Autumn had just strengthened herself and wanted to prove it by killing a ninth rank, but there was suddenly a dearth of opponents in the field. She stared blankly, then whipped her head around when a massive explosion sounded in the distance!

It’d only been a few moments, but the ninth rank who’d fought Yuan Shuo earlier had been eliminated!

Spring Autumn’s jaw dropped and she cursed under her breath. I just got stronger, okay? That old bastard!

She had a body full of energy and no place to use it. So instead, she shot for Skyward.

The man flicked a glance at the little girl coming his way and shook his head with a chuckle. He punched!

The entire chaos seemed to shatter from his blow. Skyward was waiting for Li Hao, not Spring Autumn. Had the cicada gotten too full of herself? Did she think she could match him just because she’d absorbed the strength of ten thousand exalted emperors?

Space exploded!

Spring Autumn buzzed, which was answered in kind all around her. Space seemed to freeze and the seasons passed. The fissure in the void dissipated.

“Is that all you’re good for?!” Spring Autumn gloated.

She screeched the next second as the void exploded around her.

“Is that all you’re good for?” Skyward looked at her with a faint smile.

Many of Spring Autumn’s replicas were spontaneously obliterated. She paled with horror!

“What did you go and poke him for?” Li Hao couldn’t help but complain. He’s on the warpath and not targeting you? What did you have to go and provoke him? Do you really not have enough brains in that head of yours??

Nearby.

Spring Autumn smiled, despite having many of her replicas ripped apart by space. Do all of you guys think I’m actually an idiot?

It was only the blink of an eye before space seemed to freeze again. The little girl vanished, reappearing on one side of chaos dao. She disappeared again when Skyward raised a hand to strike her!

The next time she reappeared, she was present in her primary body. She quickly absorbed everything she was worth and collected endless dao strength.

With that, she turned on her heel and ran!

Skyward blinked, staring at the little girl who’d just done a hit and run. “Your vision... is too narrow!” he laughed.

He’d thought that Spring Autumn wanted to go toe-to-toe with him. As it turned out, she simply wanted to devour the dao strength of a ninth rank that he’d killed. What a base character!

Spring Autumn preened with immense self-satisfaction. She’d just devoured Yuan Shuo’s opponent, the one she’d wanted to kill. Since Skyward had stolen it from under her nose, she took it back with her own hands!

She’d lost a few replicas for it, but she gained the dao strength of a ninth rank in return! It was worth it!

“My vision is too narrow?” Spring Autumn darted back in the form of a little girl and pointed at Skyward’s finger. “You have a lofty vision, don’t you? As grand as your vision is, I don’t see you conquering the chaos! Not now, not in the one million years ago!

“Your Skyward major world has been destroyed, but aren’t you still sitting here, waiting for an opportunity with that oh-so-high vision of yours? Who are you waiting for? Li Hao, the Human King, or Su Yu?”

“You do make a bit of sense.” Skyward blinked and smiled again.

Spring Autumn ignored him. She’d gained something for her efforts!

Skyward made another move, not at Spring Autumn, but the remaining ninth ranks. A domain came down over them, whereas the Human King and Su Yu also struck!

The ninth ranks fled, but were hemmed in by Skyward. They didn’t have many opponents left at this point, not to mention that they were pretty much all destined to die.

Of the three ninth ranks in front of Number Two, one of them suddenly fled to Skyward’s side. The remaining two exchanged glances and disappeared!

The Li Hao that Number Two and Hu Qingfeng had created out of Li Hao’s flesh and blood sought to stop them, but abruptly paused and withdrew his hand.

It was Spring Autumn’s turn to whirl around with shock. The two were headed straight for her!

Me again?! Do you guys think I’m easy to pick on? I’m not who I was just now!

She was just about to rage when she suddenly paused, just like Number Two had done. The two ninth ranks reappeared, exchanged glances, and nodded at the same time.

A power of emptiness flourished, crushing endless spirit. All of it entered Spring Autumn’s body. She rapidly backed away, but didn’t sense any danger. She thought they wanted to seize her body, similar to what had happened with Chaos Sky.

However, the two ninth ranks simply incorporated all of the shattered spirit and dao strength into her body. They didn’t wait for her to say anything before roaring and summoning the chaos dao to them!

It wasn’t the complete chaos dao, but a projection.

Neither of the two wanted to do what they were about to embark on, but the great dao trembled and broke with a loud roar.

“Stop playing around, Life!” one of the two shouted.

Spring Autumn was still hesitating.