Star Gate

Chapter 690: Supernaturals Are Trash (III)

Inside the city.

Li Hao threw himself against his confinement again and again, but he was having difficulty breaking through the defenses of five ultimate powerhouses. They had almost completely surrounded him.

“Let me out to kill them!” the young man suddenly transmitted. “If you don’t, do you think six locks is my limit? Can’t you see that I am of the wind and thunder attributes? My locks of the organs are completely fine. As weak as my body is, it can endure the strain of another broken lock. Do you really want to battle to the death with me?”

The five old men looked solemnly at each other.

“Let me out!!” Li Hao transmitted again. “I need to kill these guys for threatening my master! I can leave you old dogs alone, but I have to land a few blows on them!”

The five heavyweights exchanged grave looks. Do they let Li Hao go?

Li Hao had killed so many Arcanus and even Hu Xiao—so long as they kept him trapped, that would keep him from the martial masters outside. Their supernatural locks would fully break sooner or later and some of their organs might explode.

That was the chance that Ying Hongyue and the others had seized upon. If both sides coordinated well, then all of the Silver Moon martial masters might be eliminated today.

“Do you think they’ll share the Breathing Method of the Five Styles with you once they obtain it?” Urgency crept into Li Hao’s cold tones. “I’ll give you three seconds to think. If you don’t let me go, I’ll break the seventh lock and we’ll see who kills who then!”

The five looked at each other again. Moments later, the enormous whetstone in the air relaxed somewhat. Li Hao promptly disappeared from the center of the encirclement. The five old men furrowed their brows, not knowing if this had been a good idea or not. But their decision didn’t seem like it would worsen the situation—they rather hoped that Li Hao and those people would beat each other to the point of being broken and bleeding!

The Silver Moon savages were very hard to bring to heel. Currently, hesitation marked their movements since they were concerned about Li Hao’s safety and needed to endure the risks of their locks fully snapping. Even Yuan Shuo moved with some indecision.

But if Li Hao was free... a different development might appear.

The five still looked around uncertainly and with a complicated mix of emotions. They’d let Li Hao go—who knew if this would give rise to even worse circumstances?

......

Ying Hongyue and the rest smiled as Yuan Shuo responded to them. As they thought! They wouldn’t find much effect if they moved against Yuan Shuo by himself. But now, the old man’s wavering was a very good outcome.

The death of an Arcanus that’d barely managed to ascend didn’t matter to them. Arcanus were hard to come by, but if the Breathing Method of the Five Styles could effectively raise them to another level and consolidate their organs, then the Arcanus level might not mean much in the days to come.

As such thoughts ran through their mind, Ying Hongyue’s face twitched and he looked to their rear.

Li Hao already glimpsed them, but didn’t say anything. He summoned Stellaris and stabbed it into his heart. Heart blood rushed into the sword, an action he hadn’t taken against Hu Xiao. He was incensed beyond words, the peak of wrath!

Stellaris furiously sucked in blood, turning scarlet. Li Hao knew that his upcoming opponents were thornier and stronger than the five old ministers. But... so what?

He was as pale as a ghost with how much blood essence the sword absorbed; his organs felt like they were collapsing. But did he care?

He didn’t!

He was waging war on the nine ministries, but the three great organizations interfered again and again. Do you really think that you’re one family?!

Sky Sword stirred restlessly as his broadsword began shaking. Li Hao shot through the void with a blood-red longsword. Unbounded sword intent emanated from it while blood circulated through the surface.

“Sever!” A harsh shout sounded from the sky. The sword stroke that descended was as if the one that Li Hao had seen that day. He was in a towering rage and stabbed his sword at a target without thought of anything else!

He didn’t aim at the leaders of the three great organizations because he knew they were very strong, he couldn’t necessarily kill them! He aimed at the powerhouses behind them—the Red Moon elders, Steppe Prince, and lord of Buddha Mountain!

These people had just weathered a huge battle. A sword descended with killing intent that pierced through heaven and earth!

Ying Hongyue’s eyes widened as he hesitated, then grabbed Orange and Green Moon before vanishing. Yama cursed under his breath and immediately vanished into the void. Celestial Sword Immortal was faster than them and had already disappeared. Their people were already dead. Since Ying Hongyue would rather save two weaklings instead of his elders, they wouldn’t expend the effort to take Li Hao’s world-shaking sword stroke head-on!

Boom!

The void exploded as the two elders and Steppe Prince gaped with dismay. Golden light sparkled around the lord of Buddha Mountain—a protective golden body! The Steppe Prince roared as something exploded with a rumble. Fire flickered into existence around him. Though he was a martial master, he decisively broke one of his supernatural locks—fully broke one of them—to instantly grow stronger and vanish on the spot.

It was too late for the two elders, however. They were much weaker compared to these people and did not have any foundations to speak of. Despair appeared in their eyes.

Off in the distance, the fleeing Ying Hongyue seemed to be pricked by a guilty conscience. He flung out his fan; it immediately appeared beneath the longsword, but promptly broke with a crunch. The fan that’d held off Sky Sword was completely obliterated!

Ying Hongyue grunted, frowning solemnly. Stellaris had been unsealed by quite a bit...

Crunch!

The void cracked as the longsword swung down. The two elders were reduced to powder and a large fissure opened in the sea. All of the water in its path evaporated, an opening that was swiftly filled by other seawater that raised towering waves!

Li Hao was apparent to the rest by now, his face stark white! He looked coldly at those fleeing. The golden light around the lord of Buddha Mountain had cracked. While he was covered in blood, he was still alive. The livid Steppe King had retreated far away; fire energy wafted from him.

He was a martial master and had suppressed Huang Yu and Hou Xiaochen before this. He was a vaunted powerhouse with nine saturated locks! The full breakage of one of them utterly infuriated him!

“Li Hao!” The Steppe Prince glared at the young man. Since fire energy drifted around him, he no longer had any reservations. “You’ve done well!”

Fully breaking a supernatural lock was an immeasurable loss to a martial master. How could he not be enraged!

“You can speak to me after you break two more!” Li Hao flashed him an arctic look.

The prince remained silent. There was still hope to convert back to being a martial master when only one lock was broken. But a few more... he would be unable to attempt the conversion no matter what enormous price he paid.

The five old men swiftly arrived, followed by some current ministers. The sky over the sea thronged with powerhouses in the blink of an eye. There were those from the three great organizations, several divine mountains, and the representative from the City of Supernaturals in front. They had not retreated.

The old men had brought more Arcanus with them, but they didn’t draw nearer. They were waiting for something, weighing up something. If they joined hands with the other group, they would still be able to eliminate Li Hao’s people. While they’d suffered heavy losses at twelve Arcanus today, Li Hao’s side was still the more dangerous. He didn’t have enough time to repair everyone’s supernatural locks; their only option was to emulate the Steppe Prince’s actions. But if that happened, then the young man would find it highly regretful.

He may have become a supernatural, but he could not extinguish hope for all martial masters.

Li Hao plunged the blood-red sword into his heart without another word. More blood gushed forth and he turned even paler.

“You have not reached the step of forcefully unsealing Stellaris.” Ying Hongyue frowned. “You’ll only consign yourself to death through a depletion of blood qi! Li Hao, we just want the breathing method. It’s not yet for martial masters to meet each other in fights to the death...”

Li Hao said nothing. When he pulled out Stellaris, the hint of an ancient sword intent blossomed from the little sword. The young man swayed, unsteady on his feet. He stared at Ying Hongyue before abruptly smiling, “So you’re Ying Hongyue!”

The man did not respond.

“You’re very strong, you’re ridiculously strong! But... I know why you don’t make a move against me!”

Ying Hongyue still did not respond!

“I know why you leave as soon as you see me!” Li Hao roared with laughter. “Ying Hongyue, how does it feel to be caught in a cocoon of your own making?”

“Don’t force my hand, Li Hao,” Ying Hongyue remarked faintly with a frown. “I may not be able to kill you, but your master and friends will all die!”

“No no no, it’s that you don’t dare to!” Li Hao threw his head back, laughing uproariously. “Ying Hongyue, my Li family is the head of the eight families! You’re so ambitious to swallow seven bloodlines and combine them as one! But your bloodline seems to be afraid of my bloodline! Ying Hongyue, you’re playing with fire!”

“You can try it too.” The man’s brows drew tightly together.

Li Hao continued roaring with laughter! He could see seven threads over Ying Hongyue’s head, which meant that the man might be able to see the same! The threads seemed to have something to do with the diagram of the eight trigrams in Silver City, but they showed some resistance. Some of them even wanted to draw closer to Li Hao!

The young man suddenly understood why Ying Hongyue didn’t go to Silver City or kill him in person! He knew why the man kept sending underlings to kill the last heir of the eight families!

Ying Hongyue was afraid of him!

Or rather, his bloodline resisted him because he’d devoured seven families’ worth!