Cultivation Begins from Infancy - Chapter 347

Volume 3 - Chapter 71: Ninefold Dao Domain, Extreme Reincarnation – Part 1

Li Hao continued questioning Feng Lingxiao. The reason he hadn't immediately struck them down in anger earlier was that he wanted to uncover the schemes behind these demons.

He sensed that the methods these demons employed against the Great Yu Divine Dynasty went far beyond what was apparent.

Moreover, the Great Yu Divine Dynasty itself seemed more complicated than it appeared.

"Hmm?"

Just as Li Hao was about to ask further, he suddenly felt a subtle fluctuation ripple through the heavens and earth.

The fluctuation was silent, almost imperceptibly closing in and brushing against his Dao Domain within an instant.

When he struck in anger earlier, he had suppressed the two great Demon Kings with the strength of fivefold Dao Domains, while also enveloping himself in the domain’s protection. Yet now, his Dao Domain was being torn apart. A sharp force, like a razor-edged blade, slashed through the domain and rushed straight toward him.

The attack came abruptly and with alarming speed. Li Hao’s expression shifted slightly before flames of fury erupted in his eyes.

With a resounding hum, his Dao Domains unfurled again from his body. The sixth layer, the seventh layer!

As two additional layers of Dao Domain overlaid the first five, the strength of his domain increased rapidly. The previously unstoppable attack that had been ripping through the domain slowed significantly. By the time all seven layers were stacked, the attack was completely suppressed, coming to a halt several meters before Li Hao.

It was a pulsating streak of violet lightning.

The violet lightning writhed violently, as if trying to escape the domain's restraints. At its core lay a thread-like silver strand.

Li Hao could sense that the silver thread was Dao Force—true Dao Force!

This was not something easily bound by rules; it carried an aura of indestructibility and immortality.

A chilling glint flashed in Li Hao’s eyes as he looked toward the void beyond Qingzhou City.

There, two figures stood, though they exuded no detectable aura. If not for his eyesight, Li Hao wouldn’t have noticed their presence.

One was a woman with a graceful figure and snow-white legs; the other, a young man clad in black robes.

As Li Hao fixed his gaze on them, they also observed him. Their expressions showed a trace of surprise when they saw that Li Hao had managed to suppress the Dao Force attack. However, their eyes soon grew colder.

Revealing themselves and taking action had been a calculated risk. Li Hao’s displayed strength was far too monstrous, yet even so, they hadn’t expected their initial strike to fail in killing him.

From the desperate cries of the fleeing Demon Kings, they had learned the boy’s identity—this was the one from Liang Province who had appeared out of nowhere and disrupted their plans.

But according to their previous intelligence, he was supposed to be only fifteen years old, at the Threefold Undying Realm.

Yet now, he had reached the Supreme Dao Realm?

A breakthrough to the Fourth Pillar Realm within a year was barely acceptable, given Li Hao’s previously displayed extraordinary talent.

However, to establish a Dao Heart and cultivate to the Supreme Dao Realm in just one year was absurd.

Even the revered Holy Son couldn’t achieve this. It bordered on the unnatural!

They began to suspect that perhaps some other Saint Realm figure had noticed their movements and was leveraging this scion of the Li family to disrupt their plans.

“Desolate God!”

Following Li Hao’s gaze, Feng Lingxiao and Long Jue Shen also saw the graceful woman, and their expressions instantly changed. They hadn’t expected two of the three Desolate Gods to appear!

Was the last one still waiting in the imperial capital for the revered True Person to make a mistake?

Feng Lingxiao’s face turned grim. He hadn’t thought these two Desolate Gods would intervene personally.

Earlier, when they conversed with the leaders of these demonic forces, they repeatedly emphasized the importance of staying hidden to avoid unforeseen disasters. While they hadn’t elaborated, it was clear there was something that made the three Desolate Gods cautious enough to refrain from direct action.

After all, there was only one True Person, but three Desolate Gods. If they weren’t wary of something, they would have stormed the imperial capital long ago.

Yet now, they had revealed themselves.

Was it because this boy was too monstrously talented, leaving them no choice but to eliminate him before he could grow any further?

Feng Lingxiao and Long Jue Shen reached the same bitter conclusion, though they could understand it. After the battle in Liang Province, they had conducted a thorough investigation into the boy’s identity.

The boy was from the Divine General Mansion and had been named by Emperor Yu himself—a well-known figure across the land. Concealing his identity had been impossible.

To achieve such accomplishments by the age of fifteen, and now at barely sixteen, to have cultivated the Supreme Dao Realm to such an exaggerated degree—no one would dare to let such a monster grow unchecked.

Long Jue Shen glanced at Feng Lingxiao with a mocking expression, as if to say, “You hesitated earlier, and now it’s too late to regret it.”

Feng Lingxiao realized this as well, his face turning pale.

“Are they the ones pulling your strings, or are you mere puppets yourselves?”

Li Hao stared coldly at the pair as he asked.

The graceful woman replied indifferently, “The dead don’t need to know too much. You’ve seen us, which means you’re already destined to die!”

As she spoke, the violet markings on her cheeks seemed to come alive, shrinking rapidly into the collar of her neckline. Suddenly, her body lunged forward, exuding a killing intent. Despite the burst of power, no aura could be sensed from her.

Like an instantaneous movement, the woman vanished from where she stood and reappeared just outside Li Hao’s Dao Domain. With a flick of her slender fingers, a burst of silver light erupted, tearing through the Dao Domain.

The sevenfold Dao Domain, a formidable power capable of suppressing a hundred Supreme Dao Realm cultivators like Long Jue Shen, was shredded under her delicate hands as though it were slightly hardened paper, offering little resistance.

Li Hao’s eyes narrowed sharply, the killing intent in his gaze intensifying as he strode forward.

“Sevenfold Dao Domain—truly the peak of the younger generation. But you’ll still die!”

The graceful woman’s hand, sharp like a blade, continued to tear through the Dao Domain. Silver light flared in her palm as she struck directly at Li Hao.

Li Hao didn’t evade. Feeling the resonance of Dao Rhythms, he responded in kind, using Dao Rhythms to counter her. As she neared, he stepped forward again and clenched his hand into a fist, striking out with explosive force.

With a roar, the power of heaven and earth surged. A tyrannical, unparalleled Fist Intent erupted.

The intent was simple, direct, and imbued with the most refined will—an unwavering resolve to forge ahead, a Dao imbued with invincibility!

...

A deafening shockwave exploded in mid-air, akin to two mountains colliding. The resulting crack reverberated across Qingzhou City, sending shockwaves rippling outward.

Within the city, Song Yufeng and the returning Li Xiaoran, along with other cultivators at the Fourth Pillar Realm, were left stunned and pale with fear.

They could sense the terrifying power hidden within the collision, something resembling the strength they sought yet transcending it entirely.

“Who is that? Even Long Jue Shen has been suppressed. Who is battling up there?”

“Is that a Supreme Dao Realm cultivator? I didn’t see her deploy a Dao Domain, yet her strength…”

The crowd was full of doubt and fear.

“That’s Dao Force—the power of someone at the Path-Seeking Realm!”

Among the Li family’s ancestral spirits, many stared in shock. They had recognized the graceful woman’s display of power as belonging to someone who had truly stepped onto the Path of the Dao, beyond what a Dao Domain could withstand.

A Dao Domain could barely touch upon the edges of the Dao through mastery of martial arts and rules, but it wasn’t true entry into the Dao itself.

Yet this woman had already entered the Dao!

Hearing the ancestors’ words, the Li family’s senior members were struck dumb. Their gazes shifted toward the combatants in mid-air, filled with horror.

The Path-Seeking Realm? If their memory served correctly, wasn’t the True Person of Qiandao Palace at the same level?

In that case, this woman was of the same rank as the True Person?

“And who is that boy? He has mastered a sevenfold Dao Domain and can actually hold his own against someone at the Path-Seeking Realm!”

“I’ve heard of someone mastering a threefold Dao Domain, and that’s already considered the pinnacle of cultivation…”

“You seem to know that boy. Who is he? Is he familiar with our Li family?”

The ancestral spirits of the Li family couldn’t help but ask.

Li Hao had once entered the ancestral shrine, but now, with his body reshaped, he no longer bore the aura of the Li family’s bloodline. His appearance had also changed, making it difficult for the spirits to recognize him.

Especially with the lack of bloodline aura, the idea of associating him with their family hadn’t even occurred to them.

Faced with these questions, He Jianlan and others hesitated, unsure how to respond.

“Familiar with the Li family?”

“Once, very familiar. He was even one of us.”

“But now... is he still familiar?”

...

In mid-air, Li Hao and the graceful woman both retreated after a fierce exchange. Fist clashed with palm, and while the woman’s palm technique was sharp and vicious, they were equally matched, forcing each other back.

“Impressive fist technique, but it’s a pity it’s not your original creation. Without your own Martial Dao Essence, it lacks true profundity.”

The graceful woman’s gaze grew colder, her killing intent intensifying. From the terrifying sword qi that had slain tens of thousands of demons earlier, it was evident that this boy had a deep understanding of the way of the sword. Yet now, his mastery of fist techniques was equally astounding.

When factoring in his Dao Domain and cultivation, he was simply a monster.

“It’s sufficient to deal with you,” Li Hao replied.

With that punch, he had gauged the woman’s approximate strength. His aura surged, his gaze flicking toward the two suppressed Demon Kings within his Dao Domain.

“You two are no longer of use.”

Both Long Jue Shen and Feng Lingxiao froze, their expressions shifting drastically. They cried out urgently, “Desolate God, save us!”

The two shouted simultaneously, but before the words fully escaped their lips, Li Hao’s Dao Domain tightened its suppression. This time, he showed no mercy.

With the Desolate God present, there was no longer any need to extract further information from them.

Moreover, he was about to channel his Dao Domain’s full power into combat, leaving no extra energy to maintain their suppression. He might as well kill them.

The graceful woman’s face darkened as she lunged at Li Hao, attempting to tear through the Dao Domain to rescue Long Jue Shen and Feng Lingxiao. After all, they still had potential value.

This time, however, her silver light couldn’t tear through the Dao Domain so easily. If the domain had previously felt like brittle paper, it now resembled sturdy silk, impervious to brute force.

Eightfold Dao Domain!

The graceful woman’s expression shifted to one of astonishment. She hadn’t expected this boy to still have reserves of strength.

In that brief moment of hesitation, the bodies of Long Jue Shen and Feng Lingxiao within the Dao Domain abruptly exploded.

Both had long since exhausted their Reverse Fate Opportunities. Their relentless battles to reach the Supreme Dao Realm had depleted all such power.

“No...”

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