Modern World's Martial Dao Human Immortal-Chapter 555 - 542

"Wherever there are intelligent creatures, there will be war. Every war represents a new distribution of interests, completely destroying the old and dragging intelligent beings from their original comfort into perilous zones until one side is thoroughly extinguished."

In the vastness of space, Alkaid maneuvered the Great Dao Tower, using the Void, Time, and Streaming Light Dao within it for rapid traversal, "And what all intelligent life seeks is survival. War is the redistribution of benefits through these inhuman acts."

While traversing, he occasionally observed the civilizations he encountered along the way.

The universe is immense.

For many ordinary mortals and civilizations at the First Level that have not ventured out of their home planets, a light-year might be a distance they could never cross in their lifetime.

He remembered in the Alkaid Realm, the average living space was close to one kilometer, and for ants, they spend their entire lives within a one-kilometer range.

Therefore, to those beyond the First Level civilizations, a light-year in their understanding is no different from the one kilometer that ants perceive.

Thus, many ants never see a human being in their lifetime.

But just as if the range was expanded from one kilometer to ten kilometers, a hundred kilometers, a thousand kilometers, ten thousand kilometers, ants would discover just how populous this world of humans really is.

Similarly, if the distance scale is increased from one light-year to tens of thousands of light-years, these civilizations beyond the First Level would also discover that there are so many other civilizations in the universe.

It's just that most of these civilizations are at such a low level that they find it hard to come into contact with other civilizations within their lifetimes, leading them to the illusion that they are the only beings in the world.

Moreover, many civilizations only leave traces for a mere few thousand years, and at most, tens of thousands of years.

Yet, this amount of time is so insignificant in the scale of the boundless universe.

A Dao Lord like Alkaid could easily observe civilizations on a planet being destroyed and revived, cycling through several periods.

If even a Dao Lord can do this, not to mention those rumored to have attained eternal life, the immortals, Immortal Venerables, and even the Immortal Kings.

...

After a short period of traversing, Alkaid's figure stopped above a planet less than thirty thousand kilometers in diameter.

The environment of this planet...

From a human perspective, it is quite beautiful.

As far as the eye can see, it is enveloped in greenery, lush and vibrant everywhere.

Amid countless trees and forests, in the gaps between them, there are cities that rely on giant trees for sustenance.

Living within these cities are creatures about one and a half meters tall, who feed on dew and clothe themselves in leaves.

They all have soft green long hair and features that align nicely with human aesthetic standards. Despite their slender bodies, they possess considerable strength, nimbly leaping and dashing through the trees with ease.

The architectural structures of these creatures' civilization are also filled with artistic style, blending flawlessly with the green mountains, blue waters, and forests.

Alkaid glanced over and immediately focused his attention on the largest forest city, which sustained millions of such creatures.

In the central part of that city lies a colossal temple.

Within the temple, the deity of this race, even this entire planet, is worshiped.

The power of this deity is vast and endless, as if comparable to the sun in the sky...

Well, judging from this civilization's description of their deity, this should be a Cultivator of at least the Crimson Red Gold Core, at most the Sunburst Golden Core Level, but one would never imagine that this Cultivator, merely depicted to be at the Seventh Layer of the Golden Core, was actually a Dao Lord.

A Void Dao Lord.

In an instant, Alkaid blinked into existence above the palace. The Void Dao Lord, who was idly playing at being a deity, immediately felt something. She lazily looked up, as if to see who was so audacious, but the next second...

Her expression froze.

A Sword of the Void descended from the heavens, shattering the temple.

"No!"

The Void Dao Lord, horrified, tried to resist, but with the Void Path completely suppressed, she was unable to resonate with the Great Dao in her haste. She watched helplessly as she was torn apart by the Sword of the Void.

Fortunately, Alkaid controlled the dispersion of his power.

With a single strike, he destroyed the temple, killed the Void Dao Lord, sealed the surrounding space, took her and the area she was in, and then with a flash, vanished from the planet.

It was only after the temple was destroyed and the Void Dao Lord had fallen for a dozen breaths that the High Priests, Bishops, and Holy Maidens within finally reacted.

Panicked screams filled every corner of the temple.

Months later, news spread that divine punishment had descended; the Forest God who had guarded the Forest Empire for a thousand years had fallen.

Afterward, the millennial rule of the Forest Empire crumbled, and the world entered a turbulent era of warlords vying for power.

This ancient civilization, unchanging for a thousand years, now turned a new page, gradually transitioning from a theocracy to a feudal society.

...

Alkaid's figure continued to traverse through the cosmos.

Following his Perception of the Void Dao Lord, he soon appeared on another planet.

Compared to the previous forest civilization, the development of this civilization was already very high, even surpassing that of the Alkaid Realm.

Yet, this civilization encountered a great disaster thirty years ago.

A being claiming to be a "deity" came to this planet, digitized the entire planet, turning it into a game, with some of the lifeforms becoming Guardians and others monsters. The Guardians could evolve by killing monsters, grow stronger day by day, while the monsters could also grow and evolve by killing Guardians.

The two sides slaughtered each other.

In just thirty years, a class of cultivators emerged among the guardians, with the weakest comparable to martial artists, and the strongest among them rivaling cultivators of the Heavenly Fire Realm, possessing the power comparable to a nuclear explosion with a mere wave of their hand.

With such power, they had replaced the system that was originally established by technology and became the new rulers of the world.

Similarly, in the monster camp, beings as powerful as the beast kings and beasts at the emperor level were born, confronting these cultivators of the Heavenly Fire Realm.

Unfortunately...

The game ended here.

As Alkaid descended from the sky and annihilated this Dao Lord, the entire world recovered from being "digitalized."

After casually dealing with this Void Dao Lord, Alkaid set off again.

During this period, he spared no Dao Lord he encountered, regardless of their type.

He was well aware that if these people ascended to the Immortal Realm, they would immediately become nourishment for the nine major groups, becoming part of Chaotic Origin Realm's invasion of the Ancient Immortal Realm.

In such circumstances, he knew his actions amounted to indiscriminate killing, yet he did not hesitate.

After all, who among those who could cultivate to the level of a Dao Lord would dare claim innocence?

Alkaid himself did not dare deny the mistakes and guilt he had accumulated along the way.

But these matters were insignificant.

To use human moral standards to judge the good and evil of such a great life as a Dao Lord was, in itself, preposterous.

Just as in the world view of a sheep, whether looking at a tiger or a human, they would both seem utterly inexcusable.

But, which human would consider the sheep's perspective and feel that their actions towards sheep were egregiously evil?

...

A vast journey of twenty billion light-years was thus traversed by Alkaid in a mere one hundred and fifty years.

And that was because he often took detours to annihilate nearby Dao Lords and obliterate surrounding forces.

Otherwise, crossing this mere twenty billion light-year distance would not have taken him one hundred and fifty years; sixty or seventy years would have been nearly enough.

Compared to the influence of the Sun and Star Sect, the dominion of the Gate of Immortality over this expanse of stars was much more stable.

This sect was established three million three hundred thirty thousand years ago, and it has been the ruler of this starry sky for all that time.

Generations of Dao Lords over the long years have turned the three billion light-years centered on the Gate of Immortality into an iron bastion.

They had detected every void node.

And on each void node, a fifteenth-level formation had been established, ensuring that any Dao Lord...

including those of the Void Path who passed by, would be detected by the formation, thereby ensuring the Gate of Immortality's surveillance over the star domain.

Of course, some Void Dao Lords could travel without using the star gates established on spatial nodes, but...

To cross three billion light-years by flight alone, even a Void Dao Lord wouldn't dream of doing so in a lifetime.

In addition, the Gate of Immortality had detection equipment in place on many planets and key locations.

Any Dao Lord who entered the territory of the Gate of Immortality without passing through the border star gates would be promptly detected upon appearing in a cultivators' enclave, drawing the inquiry and scrutiny of Dao Lords from the Gate of Immortality.

Yes!

Scrutiny!

For the Gate of Immortality, which openly boasts one hundred thirty-six Dao Lords, even a Dao Lord who enters their territory without adhering to their rules and processing entry documents at the border would be subject to strict scrutiny.

If one accidentally entered the realm of the Gate of Immortality, that might be forgiven.

But if one were to be discovered after delving deeper into the territory of the Gate of Immortality...

They might be captured on the spot by specialized task forces led by Dao Lords similar to Thousand Realms or Myriad Calamities, as an invader, with serious offenders being killed without hesitation.

"The Gate of Immortality."

Alkaid gazed at the star gate ahead that represented the border of the Gate of Immortality.

This was the largest starport of the Gate of Immortality leading to the outside world.

Through the star gate on the starport, one could be quickly transported to the hinterland of the Gate of Immortality.

After passing through a few more direct star gates, one would arrive at the headquarters of the Gate of Immortality.

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As this star gate was extremely important, there was actually a Dao Lord personally stationed there.

The formation enveloping the star gate was composed of six fifteenth-level formations, its power closely rivaling an Immortal Array.

"On Northern Sea Star, in another three years, the Gate of the Immortal Realm will be fully opened, and by then, my temporal clone will choose to ascend to the Immortal Realm, stepping officially onto the land of the Immortal Realm. But now, I know the Immortal Realm is dangerous, yet I have no idea how perilous it is, but the Gate of Immortality, having been the center of the universe... an organizational institution that has had dealings with the Changsheng Group, must know something."

Driving his flying boat slowly forward, Alkaid thought, "If that's the case... I will conquer the Gate of Immortality first, obtaining the Immortal Realm information I am most lacking from it, to ensure that Shao Hua is not utterly clueless and disarrayed after ascending to the Immortal Realm."

With that thought in mind, he performed a Void Blink, arriving directly at the outskirts of the star gate. A unique Dao resonance vibration belonging to Dao Lords emanated from him, instantly startling the entire starport.