“Sword of a thousand daos!” Li Hao bellowed.

Cracks appeared over his longsword. Even the fifth rank Firmament Sword didn’t seem capable of enduring the sudden eruption of energy.

To be on the safe side, Li Hao reversed time with a snarl. He grunted and slashed again, overlaying the second blow on top of the first blow. The strength of Nine Forged Force flared!

The dao of attachment snaked through the void and stretched toward Long Xuan. None of the sixth ranks were his target, they were too weak. The young man wanted to kill Long Xuan!

He wouldn’t give the other a single chance.

The swords of a thousand daos overlaid each other and became one. Thunder and lightning of destruction also crackled around it. For a moment, it crashed through the properties of time and the tribulation erupted anew!

It hadn’t been long since the Firmament Sword’s ascension, so it started shattering again. A fifth rank weapon could not endure the force of this blow.

“Kill!”

A sword landed!

Long Xuan had just occupied the upper hand against Void when his eyes widened. A ray of killing intent had risen behind him; his dragon scales rose in response. The killing intent nearly froze him on the spot!

What is this??

BOOM!

Thunder and lightning erupted when the sword struck. A seventh rank chaos tribulation exploded with two rays of sword intent—the combination of a thousand daos.

It was as if two thousand world domains smashed into Long Xuan at the same time. A full two thousand of them!

KABOOM!

The detonation rang through the chaos; the massive dragon body exploded! It was outright severed into two. A seventh rank dragon had been cut into two from one blow!

A dragon’s body was more formidable than the previous earth dragon, but it’d been chopped in half with one stroke!

“ROAR!!” Enraged howling filled Dragon Region. Long Xuan’s maddened snarls stunned the major world envoys.

How is this possible?! Long Xuan is a seventh rank dragon!! Dragons are invincible among chaos beasts!! They are domineering even among their peers!

But such an existence had been cut down by one stroke!

A dao universe formed over Long Xuan’s head and powerful might seeped out of it, but was promptly shoved back in.

Although the Dragon master didn’t know the specifics, he knew that something extremely undesirable had taken place. Long Xuan was gravely injured and his great dao was almost severed.

But how was that possible?!

......

The Dragon master did not get a chance to think, nor did Long Xuan have an opportunity to escape.

Li Hao growled, summoning time to freeze the void. He swung the breaking sword upward, pointing at an avenue of dao extending from the dao universe. The look in his eyes was cold as he completed the swing.

The blow wasn’t as tremendous as before, but neither was it something that a sixth rank could hope to measure up to.

A thousand worlds appeared once more.

BOOM!

There was a gigantic collision, snapping, collapse, and crumbling. Jaws dropped as the rest of the group goggled. The two halves of Long Xuan’s body started falling apart!

Countless dao crystals and dao foundation crystals took shape in the void. Long Xuan’s shadow appeared in the void—lost, reluctant, and baffled. He was also flabbergasted.

A sixth rank killed me in the blink of an eye!

But I’m a seventh rank and part of the chaos race! I am a dragon, the strongest of the strong! I am fortified by a major world. Although I am not a dao master, I am a seventh rank exalted emperor of an eighth rank world!

But he still hadn’t been able to defend himself against a single blow. Once the enemy cut an opening into his body, there were no more opportunities for him to resist.

His great dao was shattered!

If in ordinary times, the Dragon master could instantly descend upon the scene and rescue Long Xuan. But today... the Dragon master could not come.

“Li Hao...” A murmur traveled through the void. “The Silver Moon king...”

He seemed to have rushed back simply to die at the hands of another, to witness the rise of a powerhouse!

A seventh rank had died to one blow. Even though the other had utilized some special methods, this was sufficient for Li Hao to declare himself a local tyrant of the chaos. He could be an overlord!

Boom!

The shadow exploded, leaving behind only that lingering echo of Long Xuan’s existence.

A dao universe appeared over Feng Yan’s head and a hand appeared. It vanished after grabbing Feng Yan!

The Phoenix master had chosen to retrieve Feng Yan instead of coming in person.

“Silver Moon king Li Hao?” rang the Phoenix master’s voice. “You’ve set in motion events that you do not understand. Dragon Region will pursue you to the fullest extent of our capabilities!”

She didn’t come because she’d sensed that Long Xuan had died in the blink of an eye. What use was there for her to come in person? She might suffer tremendously instead.

She would have to bring both seventh ranks with her to ensure her safety, but that meant that the Thunder master would attack her world.

The Phoenix master suddenly realized that the two might be colluding!

She’d thought that this was an opportunity, but now understood that Phoenix was being checked by Thunder World!

Were there problems even with the Dragon master entering Skyward? Why else would the Silver Moon king be so brazen as to outright kill a Dragon seventh rank?

This is a trap!

“What can you do about me without the Dragon master?” Li Hao answered. His laughter rang through Dragon Region. The Dragon master could not return!

Hahaha!!

As strong as you guys are, dream on if you want to surround me and kill me in the absence of an eighth rank! Here I come, Dragon Region!

Li Hao’s presence swelled and he swept his sword forward, killing every exalted emperor his sword came in contact with. Dao universes shook, but no one arrived at the scene!

Thunder and lightning surged from Thunder World in the distance.

“Congratulations, fellow daoist!” The Thunder master boomed through the void. Although he was very far away, congratulations were in order since he could somewhat sense that Li Hao had killed a seventh rank!

The force that the young man had erupted with had reached even outside Dragon’s sphere of influence.

Another human powerhouse was on the rise! There was another premier powerhouse among the four regions. It didn’t matter how Long Xuan had died. Any seventh rank who sensed that blow would be incredibly wary of it. Why else would there be none of them traveling through their dao universes to retaliate against Li Hao?

The young man smiled radiantly. It’s been three years since I entered the chaos. I finally have enough strength to protect myself!

“Clean up the battlefield and devour Long Xuan. We leave after that!”

The river of dao swept through the area and took all of the people with it. Only countless mournful souls were left wailing their misfortune. All of Dragon Region seemed to turn into a cemetery.

......

Silver Moon king Li Hao had killed Long Xuan with a single blow!

The region boiled with activity from the news. All of the seventh rank worlds had sensed it. The tranquil region that had been at peace for many years began to agitate in response.

......

Thunder World.

The Thunder master threw his head back with laughter. The Silver Moon king had unexpectedly killed Earth Dragon and Long Xuan! It’d been many years since Dragon lost a seventh rank, and now they’d lost two in one go!

Clearly, the Silver Moon king was descended from New Martial lineage.

He’d heard before that the seventh ranks that’d died in Red Moon Region were tied to the Silver Moon king, but no one believed those rumors. They simply felt that the Silver Moon king was just riding on New Martial’s coattails.

But today, the Thunder master fully understood that that was not the case. Silver Moon cultivators were themselves a source of trouble!

But just as he finished laughing, three seventh rank presences appeared around him. It was the Phoenix master.

She glared frostily and demanded, “You plotted with him from a while ago, didn’t you?”

Why else would there be such a coincidence? How could all of these things happen at once?

“Phoenix, our deadline of one month has not yet arrived,” responded the Thunder master.

“Do you take me for an idiot?!” hissed Phoenix. What talk was there of the deadline now? “You will be the cause of your own demise! If you’d been willing to bend the knee, I might have spared you. But now, you will die!

“Kill all Thunder World cultivators!”

The dao universe rippled and the power of fire spread outward. Phoenix knew that her opponent had no intention of engaging her in single combat. His actions had simply been to redirect her attention. So how would she wait any longer?

Kill the Thunder master!

Even if they couldn’t, they needed to fully suppress Thunder World!

One hundred exalted emperors manifested in the surroundings, sweeping their might through the world. The three seventh ranks took up three separate directions.

Treasure, Valiant Tiger, and Giant Elephant swiftly moved into place as well. Seventh rank might erupted from all of them and crashed down on Thunder World!

The Thunder master cursed to himself. Just Phoenix alone had three seventh ranks. Of the other three worlds, Valiant Tiger had two seventh ranks and the other two had one. He faced seven opponents!

Phoenix was even a peak seventh rank! There was no way he would triumph over them.

The Thunder master didn’t waste time with talk. These guys clearly couldn’t tolerate his existence anymore. He swiftly directed his world toward Thunder Region.

Since he couldn’t beat them, he could only avoid them!

But hiding in Thunder Region was too dangerous. Thankfully, he’d obtained a large sum of dao crystals prior to this and could maintain operations for a while. They would be able to neutralize some of the chaos tribulations in the region. He wouldn’t have chosen this path otherwise!