Star Gate-Chapter 1535: Unparalleled Massacre (III)

A third rank exalted emperor was not weak. The speaker had plainly kept a lot in reserve as he erupted after exhorting others to do the same. Immense strength of fire rose in the surroundings and immolated the void. Panther’s massive body was set on fire!

A hard light glinted out of the other third rank’s eyes; he sent a gale force through the area!

The two rivers of dao swayed and shook from the barrage, nearly torn apart by the wind. The two third ranks were united enough in critical moments—they managed to reach an accord in the blink of an eye. Everything could wait until after they took out the Silver Moon contingent!

The other two exalted emperors thought briefly when they saw their brethren spring into action; they struck viciously as well.

Lin Hongyu suffered the most as she wasn’t an exalted emperor. It would be one thing if a true exalted emperor showed some mercy and pulled their punches. The difference between their cultivation levels was evident when the exalted emperor brought their full strength to bear!

Under normal conditions, six half step emperors would find it hard to contend with a single exalted emperor.

Off to the side, Celestial Pole cursed loudly. His insults and chatter echoed through the entire battlefield. “All of you guys are courting death! I am Celestial Pole of New Martial! My father is the Western Emperor of New Martial and I am just a replica!

“My primary body is nearby! If you dare kill me, you low ranks will be dead without a doubt! you won’t be getting away no matter where you run to!”

The second rank fighting him frowned, then struck more savagely than before! We’re all chaos wanderers, so who’s afraid of you? We’ll just run after we kill you!

As strong as New Martial might be, New Martial was not the overlord of the chaos. The civilization could talk about that after they took care of Red Moon. It was just the Western Emperor’s name being thrown around—the two third ranks were aware of this being. That was a fifth rank exalted emperor.

So what?

Who are you trying to scare? New Martial’s Western Emperor... has a lousy battle record!

These two were from Skyward Region. They didn’t know much about Red Moon Region, but they knew a thing or two about the battle records of the premier powerhouses. The strongest opponent that this Western Emperor had defeated was only a fourth rank. He’d defeated that fourth rank and... nothing else.

He hadn’t killed his opponent!

In that case, what were the two third ranks afraid of? Not to mention, this was only Celestial Pole’s replica, not his primary body!

After another round of jeering and receiving a hefty beating for it, Celestial Pole was quite resigned. What a pity that my old man’s name isn’t useful for much.

“If you’re not afraid of my father, then what about Supreme Zhang?? The supreme’s grandson is here. If he flies into a rage, the Human King, Sun God, and Ash Emperor won’t let you guys off the hook...”

Boom!

A loud sound traveled through the air as the second rank landed a thunderbolt on him. Celestial Pole blinked with charred surprise.

“New Martial should take care of Red Moon first! Celestial Pole, your primary body is a third rank at least. Is there a point in being so childish?”

We’re in the middle of a fight! Who cares about your backers?

Some apprehension had been present before the scuffle, but now that the situation had developed thus, levying threats like these only stiffened the attackers’ resolve to eliminate Silver Moon.

“I’m a third rank now?” Celestial Pole ignored everything else that the man said. He hadn’t thought that they would really show mercy, he was just yelling for the sake of it. But he’d learned something new from his nonsense, and that was his primary body was a third rank now. Not bad at all!

He’d been a second rank a hundred thousand—no, fifty years ago. Seeing as his primary body was now a third rank, it looked like he’d fought some battles over the past fifty years too!

I wonder if I’m an initial third rank or peak third rank. Celestial Pole had the presence of mind to let his thoughts wander wildly.

He suffered a thunderbolt for his lapse in attention. He was an exalted emperor at the end of the day, facing another low rank. Although he was caught on the back foot, things were well enough. However, Lin Hongyu was battered and bruised.

Death qi wafted from her—she half resembled a dead spirit.

Even so, it was hard for her to withstand an exalted emperor’s attack. Her first rank opponent attacked increasingly viciously; this was an exalted emperor that specialized in the dao of weapons.

A blade ripped through the void. Lin Hongyu evaded it by the skin of her teeth, but was nearly hacked into two for it. Although she wasn’t fully torn apart, countless cracks marredher body. It looked like she was about to fall apart.

Off to the side, Gan Wuliang erupted with everything he had. He was more afraid of Lin Hongyu dying than himself! I’d rather you guys kill us! If Lin Hongyu dies... No matter what Li Hao thinks of his relationship with Lin Hongyu, everyone in Silver Moon knows that she is the marquise.

If everyone’s fine after this battle and she’s the only one dead, how will we explain ourselves to Li Hao when he comes back? The young man is ruthless!

Indeed, while Li Hao was a genteel, cultured, urbane young man in the eyes of others, he was coldhearted and ruthless to Gan Wuliang.

Li Hao had had innumerable enemies all throughout Silver Moon, but how many were alive now?

Not a single one!

No one dared bear enmity toward Li Hao, no matter how strong, weak, old, or young they were. He always casually took out his opponents, like it was just an afterthought!

Anyone who looked at him with the slightest hint of enmity died at his hands. No one was left standing!

Something called the White Sacred Sect had taken in some of the weaklings that disliked him. And then... the sect was annihilated.

That was the hallmark of a truly merciless person, so Gan Wuliang didn’t dare watch Lin Hongyu be killed right in front of him!

Thus, he brought everything he had to bear. If other people died, Li Hao would only punish them once he found out. But if someone close to him died? The consequences didn’t bear imagining!

The second rank exalted emperor that was part Hong Yitang and part Gan Wuliang suddenly undertook an astonishing course of action! Endless vitality drifted up in the river of dao.

“Stop!” Hong Yitang’s voice rang out. Gan Wuliang ignored him!

He’d spontaneously extracted life force from countless cultivators on Silver Moon. Being the master of dao, he had the ability to do so. Gan Wuliang didn’t take too much from the billions of Silver Moon cultivators either, just a little from every single person. The droplets of vitality amounted to a flood when taking into account ten billion people!

Vitality surged forth.

“You...” Hong Yitang protested again.

“Shut up!” Gan Wuliang had no presence of mind to spare for him. Death qi wafted through the air as an untold number of people died in Silver Moon. Some were people with death qi attached to them—perhaps they were old, had reached the end of life, or were gravely sick. Whatever the reason was, those about to die were wreathed by death qi to a certain degree, yet stood a chance for recovery.

Gan Wuliang didn’t care about those chances.

Endless vitality and death qi converged in the blink of an eye, shooting toward Lin Hongyu in the distance. She was about to fall to the onslaught of attacks when she felt infinite life force and death qi wash over her. The energy melted into her body, instantly healing her wounds.

Eyes wide, she tilted her head to the side. Gan Wuliang was grappling with the third rank again. He had nothing to spare for Lin Hongyu’s fight. Honest to goodness, I’ve done my best! He’d be in for it if anyone learned of what he’d done, but that was better than watching Lin Hongyu die in front of him!

He heard Hong Yitang sigh, but his counterpart didn’t say anything. Could the master of dao be fair and impartial?

Clearly not.

In Gan Wuliang’s eyes, it didn’t matter how many people died, so long as those closest to Li Hao didn’t die. Although Hong Yitang didn’t find his actions appropriate, he didn’t say anything against them.

Third rank Dusk Wind greeted the new development with surprise, then delight. Was that a master of dao??

Silver Moon only had a newly born dao universe, but this person could manipulate the myriad of daos within and gather life and death. Dao masters were nearly truly immortal without limits on their lifespan. They could pull vitality from the myriad of daos when they were about to die.

Such was to be a master of dao!

The third rank was newly excited to the peak of extreme fervor.

......

At the same time.

A long-haired exalted emperor looked over with a slight frown. There seemed to be ripples of great dao coming from that direction! Was someone fighting?

Li Hao was not present. But even if he was, he wouldn’t recognize the other. However, he would recognize the person’s strength as being from Red Moon.

Red Moon had sent a fourth rank when Silver Moon escaped. Although the vassal world had disappeared for a year, the fourth rank did not return to Red Moon. His primary mission was to capture Silver Moon powerhouses and seize the world. Hence, he’d remained on guard here for a year.

Sensing some ripples now, he decided to make his way over after some thought. Although his designation was on the edge of Red Moon territory, it fell under Red Moon jurisdiction nonetheless.

He was bolder than most, but would not necessarily have set forth if the destination didn’t fall within range of Red Moon. There were too many attacks from New Martial on Red Moon and the latter’s allies these days.

......

Li Hao knit his brows together.

The star of life and death within the river flickered. It’d shown signs of being extinguished before, but now blazed anew. This meant that Lin Hongyu had almost died just now, but recovered after absorbing a large quantity of vitality and death qi.

She was in trouble and the situation was getting out of hand!

He was a bit far away from Silver Moon world; the chaos was too big. Although his world didn’t seem that far away and he was traveling at a pace that rivaled a fourth rank’s, one seemed so insignificantly small in the universe. He was unable to close the distance no matter how fast he traveled.

Arriving at the last possible second was an outcome that Li Hao wished least to see. He preferred taking everything into account when he worked and operating with great assurance.

A corpse appeared in the void with a thought—it had started to melt, so the power of time circulated around it to revitalize the strength of a fifth rank.

Li Hao darted into the body; it seemed to come back alive. He reached out to grab Ming Hao and the rest. “Come with me!” 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Ming Hao’s jaw dropped. Fifth rank?! How could a young man utilize a corpse’s strength so easily?! This was a dead exalted emperor! Logically speaking, one could only absorb the energy of a dead exalted emperor. No one could utilize the dead’s energy.

It was a completely different concept!

One could absorb or refine the fifth rank’s power, but not make it yours. If that was possible... then carting around the body of a high rank would make oneself a high rank exalted emperor!