Star Gate

The north, at the end of Great Li.

A fragment of a shadow appeared. The god of Initial Martial decided to be very brusque.

"Li Hao, you must understand that I am only deciding not to intervene, it's not that Icannotintervene! Cease trying to extend everything you are given. Great Li is an insignificant plot of land, why must you take it?

"This seat has no opinions if you insist, but I have slept in the divine temple area for many years. I won't be bothered by you so long as you do not disturb this seat!"

"The senior has misunderstood!" Li Hao laughed. "I quite like the senior. I will not trouble you if you do not trouble me. I have no desire to disturb and even less of an urge to recruit the senior to my side. It is enough for the senior to maintain the status quo.

"Do not misunderstand me, I am not here to oppress Great Li or enlist the senior for my cause."

"Then what are you here for?" The god of Initial Martial blinked.

"One reason is that the senior is too strong, the second is that the blade beneath the Tranquil Star ruins is also too strong. The eight main cities absorb the energy of the world and all ambient strength to nurture the blade and nourish the cat..."

"Are you threatening me?"

"Why does the senior say that?" Li Hao raised an eyebrow. "Why should I threaten the senior? Please let me finish. Why does the senior always like to come to his own conclusions?"

"You..." The Initial Martial god grew irritated.

"I have an idea, but I need the senior's cooperation for it," Li Hao said softly.

"Hmph!"

"I hope that the senior can suppress the blade for a short period of time," continued the young man instead of becoming annoyed himself. "That includes the eight main cities. You won't be doing so to help me, but to ensure that I do not sabotage the senior's plan. And also to confirm that the senior will not inadvertently ruin mine."

"Plan?" The god was confused. "You want me to suppress the blade... how? Come out with whatever you want to say, I can't be bothered to guess or judge. That takes too much effort. Just say it and be more decisive. Stop dragging your heels!"

"Then I'll be frank!" Li Hao smiled. "I have an idea of setting up a gargantuan formation that will envelop all of Silver Moon! But there are some powerful beings that I likely can't enclose. It's fine if they're contained, but those who aren't... might break my grand formation!"

"Your grand formation?" snorted the god. "Are you joking? Do you think you're the Exalted Blood Emperor? Do you want to imitate him and set up an Eight Trigrams Suppression Formation? One of his formations could entrap an exalted emperor for one hundred thousand years. If you have the same ability, then you should just conquer the world. Why go to all this trouble?"

Was Li Hao playing around? What a ludicrous little fellow!

"Senior, fortune favors the brave!" Li Hao said softly. "Apart from the senior, the strongest person who can walk around in this world... may be me!"

"What kind of formation do you want to set up? Do you even know how?" The god was confused.

"I do, formations are very easy. They're just a combination of parts and also a battle technique. I've studiedThe Accounts of Evenround—the battle techniques left by the younger sister of the Human King.

"The key within them is the combination technique that the War Sovereign once taught to the entire world..." Li Hao raised his head to the sky and said softly, "I'd like to lift one hundred stars into the sky over the next couple of days and cover the world with them! I'll tell everyone that I'm summoning the dao universe to meld into Silver Moon world..."

"You're going to summon the dao universe?" The god blinked. The kid was crazy, wasn't he?

"Why not? Not to mention, this is just my cover story. How would I know if it succeeds or not? But I'm going to isolate the senior and the blade from what I'm doing, as well as the cat that might be reviving. I will also isolate the exalted emperor's seal, Galewind, and the moon in the sky!

"My current idea is to envelop places without powerhouses and accelerate the evolution of the great dao..."

"Wait, you used the term cover story." The god raised an eyebrow. "So this means that you're not going to just summon the dao universe?"

"The senior is wise!" Li Hao smiled.

No shit! You're the one who used that term.

"My real intentions are to lure other people into attacking my dao universe. I will then detonate my dao meridians, damage the great dao, and once more use the world to suppress them!"

"......" The god's expression flickered oddly. "You don't have a chance of containing a half step emperor! They won't be suppressed like the Saints were. Their only concern right now is that the world may not be able to withstand the pressure from so many powerhouses, causing the seal to break and setting the exalted emperor free! Do you really think that this minor world can easily crush a half step emperor?"

You think too much! ...this kid never has anything good up his sleeves!

"I don't care about that, senior," Li Hao chuckled. "I'm meeting the senior now for one point, and one point only, that I hope the senior can stay away from my formation in order to prevent certain misunderstandings and trouble. What does the senior think?"

The god sank into deep contemplation before saying, "That is acceptable, I can't be bothered with extraneous business. The only point of note is that if you destroy the core of the eight cities and interfere with the blade's operations... you'll feel my wrath then!"

He had no other requests apart from this. As for what Li Hao wanted to do, he couldn't be bothered to care or even ask.

Whatever! Do what you want, just don't bother me.

"Very well, thank you for your understanding, senior!" Li Hao grinned radiantly. "Once this plan succeeds, I think we'll see each other more in the future..."

The young man floated away, leaving the Initial Martial god staring silently in his wake with a faint furrow to his brows. Summoning the dao universe to meld into the world?

What a bunch of bullshit!

What did this brat want to do now?

It wouldn't be anything good, there was no question about that!

......

Just as the Initial Martial god struggled with his suspicion, certain people received orders from Li Hao. Whether it was Lin Hongyu in Skystar City, Gan Wuliang out on missions, or Zhao Shuguang busy overseeing the world... even some New Martial Saints received a transmission from Li Hao.

Set up a formation!

No one knew what kind of formation. This was the only order he gave.

Zhao Shuguang, Wang Ye, and the Ninth Division leader would hold down the fort at the end of the western reaches.

Gan Wuliang, Hong Yitang, and Capsize Sea would be in place at the north.

The redwood, Lin Hongyu, and old turtle would be in residence in the south.

The spurge tree, General Pagoda, and Dao Sword were assigned to the east.

All of the Fused Dao cultivators under Li Hao's banner were deployed. They didn't know what he wanted to do, but it was more than a deployment of personnel as the five cities hovering in the dao universe also set out.

Boundless, Thunderblast, Martial Alliance, and Steadfast Sky were respectively assigned to the four cardinal directions. Battle Heaven hovered over the central continent, in the airspace over Skystar City. There were dozens of plant spirits in place.

......

Confusion stirred in the world.

The sight of four cities flying through the air, a dozen Saints commanding the cities and the accompaniment of one hundred thousand soldiers quickly raised attention. It was a massive disturbance that didn't end there.

Battle Heaven was also in the sky and Li Hao personally in residence. He'd collected all of the non-Fused Dao cultivators in Silver Moon and an army of several hundred thousand soldiers. Battle Heaven descended from the sky and didn't stop until it was one hundred thousand meters off the ground, looming over all of Skystar City.

Such a great uproar made even Zhang An and the rest pay attention. What was the young man plotting now?

......

Countless powerhouses on all sides watched Li Hao. He didn't seem inclined to hide anything; the sky canopies whirred to life the next day.

Sky canopies dotted the entire Hao Cosmos Continent in a dense array. The young man had been absent from the public eye for a few months, but now appeared in the skies overhead.

"Everyone, I am Li Hao!" It was his usual greeting.

The world quieted and innumerable people lifted their heads or looked at the closest screen. Passersby stopped walking, cultivators paused training.

Li Hao was as genteel and peaceful as always. "There are several billion cultivators in the world now. There has never been such a quick explosion of cultivators in history, not since time immemorial!

"There are approximately ten billion people in the world and Silver Moon is our home! It is but a minor world, however, and unable to support ten billion cultivators!

"A shortage of energy and resources results in insufficient opportunities. Although everyone can train, the world cannot support us at this pace. If we continue, how long will it take to enter Mountain and Sea or Sun and Moon?

"I wish to strengthen martial dao so that everyone may become a dragon. I've given it immense thought and perhaps there is only one way! I will open the great dao of the world to assimilate it!

"The dao universe is vast and unbounded, and the strength of great dao is infinite!" Li Hao said slowly. "Some people might know that the dao they cultivate is a new dao that I have named the Hao Cosmos Dao. There is a new dao universe to go along with the new dao, a universe of great dao!

"I'd like to share this with everyone. The dao universe should not be the cultivation sacred land for just me or a select few. It should facilitate ten billion citizens to clear acupoints with only a very little amount of power!

"And so I'd like to summon the dao universe in Silver City, my hometown. I will bring the dao universe to us and make it part of this world. Even if I do not fully integrate it, I will summon the strength of great dao into this world and strengthen it, so that we are never short on energy again!

"Fused Dao cultivators are in place in the cardinal directions and the eight main cities are the foundation. Battle Heaven is the core through which I'd like to forever retain the great dao in Silver Moon. I would like everyone to enjoy the fruits of this sacred land as I have!

"This will require help from everyone. Only when we work in conjunction and summon the great dao, bringing it to me for my instructions do we have a chance of incorporating it with the world! Not only will this benefit us, but it will also benefit our children and descendants. It will ensure that generations to come will not need to kill each other for resources..."

All was quiet in the world. Those who did not understand looked around blankly, but those who did reeled with shock!

The heck? Summoning the dao universe to make it part of Silver Moon?

What kind of joke was that? How was that possible?

Well, it might be impossible if it came to certain people, but when it was Li Hao... Those with wider networks of information already knew that the young man had voluntarily opened up the dao universe to some people.

So he was no longer content with just doing that!

......

The powerhouses in place at the various ancient cities were also stunned.

What?

Summoning the dao universe to integrate it into Silver Moon? What... did that mean?