Chapter 728: Four Sublimations

"Enough, enough! Your quota for killing is full! You cannot kill anyone else for a thousand years!"

Zhongjie Daozhu darkened his face and stopped Li Heng's fishing behavior.

"Ah, is it full already? That is truly a pity."

Li Heng shook his head.

Although he said this, his face was full of smiles, and not a trace of regret could be seen, which made the Dao Lord level Zhongjie Daozhu even more annoyed.

"What exactly are you trying to do by fishing here? What can you gain from them? In my observations, you simply killed them without even absorbing their essence, energy, spirit, or Great Dao laws. Does this have any meaning for you?"

"That naturally has meaning."

Li Heng answered calmly.

After this period of harvesting, his Golden Source Points had reached 50 billion; it was time to sublimate once more. After emerging from seclusion and sublimation, his killing quota should recover somewhat, and it would not be too late to come back and harvest then.

"Then what exactly is the meaning? Can you reveal it?"

Zhongjie Daozhu frowned.

"Then can you recognize what this is?"

Li Heng thought for a moment, and a wisp of Source Power rose from his palm.

"What power is this? It does not seem to belong to the Great Void; it seems somewhat strange. Where did you get it?"

Zhongjie Daozhu asked with some confusion.

"Can you see the special nature of this power?"

"It is not special to say it is special. From the surface, I have not discovered the use of this power, but this power is extremely unfamiliar and indeed does not belong to the Great Void. This should be considered special, right?"

"Then never mind."

Li Heng shook his head and withdrew the Source Power. He had thought that with the eyes of a Dao Lord level, one could truly see the special nature of Source Power, which would facilitate his approach to the essence of Source Power. As it turned out, it was just a process of elimination?

However, when all was said and done, this Zhongjie Daozhu still realized a point of peculiarity. Perhaps if a Dao Lord in their prime were allowed to observe it at close range, there might very well be corresponding gains?

He pondered in his heart.

Zhongjie Daozhu frowned and did not speak. He was somewhat surprised: what was wrong with Li Heng? He had only stated his own insights into this power, so why did Li Heng seem to have lost interest? Could it be that his previous answer was inappropriate?

Did this power really have some kind of mysterious aspect?

He pondered for a long time but could never find the answer, so he simply gave up thinking. Forget it; in any case, he was merely a remnant spirit of a Dao Lord. It was normal to have things he did not know and powers he did not recognize; there was no need to be so conflicted.

The more conflicted he was, the more time he wasted.

"Reporting to the Dao Lord, since you have already said so, I will simply go back and seclude myself for a period of time. How about I come out to fish again once my killing quota has recovered?"

After saying this, Li Heng bid farewell to Zhongjie Daozhu and began his seclusion.

"Inexplicable!"

Zhongjie Daozhu evaluated him as such.

As time gradually passed, at the place where Li Heng was in seclusion.

He spent 30 billion Golden Source Points and had now completed his fourth transformation and sublimation, pushing his strength a step further. As the foundation for the Sanqing Tiandi that could support the Daluo Heaven, it became even more solid and profound, and his three transformation bodies—Infinite, Absolute, and Eternal—became even more powerful.

Besides the strengthening of his power, he also felt in the dark that he seemed to see a certain boundary. That boundary was constantly rising; it seemed to be the boundary of the Hongdao Level.

Even if this fourth sublimation did not allow him to break through the Hongdao Level, it had at least allowed him to see where the upper limit of the Hongdao Level was.

However, this upper limit was also constantly rising. It was possible that the creator of that Hongdao Realm was also constantly cultivating and expanding the upper limit of the Hongdao Level. He had to hurry and step up to rise faster than that upper limit; only then could he break through the Hongdao Level and no longer be contained.

Calculating his killing quota, it had now recovered seven or eight-tenths. Li Heng did not delay, stepped out of his place of seclusion, and restarted his killing and fishing in the Zhanchang.

Sensing the movement, Zhongjie Daozhu appeared once again.

He was already somewhat numb at this moment.

This fellow Li Heng, after being in seclusion for a period of time, could not wait to come out and fish. What kind of spirit was this? It was the spirit of perseverance! If he were not afraid that the casualties in the Zhanchang would be so heavy that everyone would die before a Supreme could be screened out, he would not even bother to come forward to stop him.

"Li Heng, you are starting agai..."

Arriving in front of Li Heng, he intended to reprimand him again, but he suddenly paused and looked at Li Heng in surprise.

"This aura, this power, you have broken through again?"

"Otherwise?"

Li Heng casually finished off a King-level expert who had ambushed him, then asked Zhongjie Daozhu back, very nonchalantly.

"That shouldn't be, in such a short time!"

Ultimate Dao Lord tightened his brows and looked at Li Heng, feeling as if he were possessed. Could it be that he was in some kind of dream? Was this mysterious Li Heng before his eyes a manifestation of the hope in his heart?

Otherwise, why would he improve so quickly?

"Wait, you must have obtained something during this fishing process!" Zhongjie Daozhu said decisively.

"If you say so, then so be it."

Li Heng could not be bothered to refute or explain. He was just a heartless Fishing Old Man, and as the saying goes, when the false is taken for the true, the true becomes false; when the true is taken for the false, the false becomes true.

This attitude of his was also a way of advancing by retreating.

However, Zhongjie Daozhu was not so easily fooled.

"Let me think, let me think. Oh, right, back then you seemed to have brought out a strange power that did not belong to the Great Void, asking me to identify what that power was."

"But when I gave the answer, you seemed somewhat disappointed, as if you felt that I had not seen the true essence of this power and did not understand the power of this force."

"Then can I understand it as: you are able to progress so quickly because of that strange power, and the source of that strange power must be related to your current fishing behavior?"

Clap, clap, clap.

Li Heng smiled and nodded, "As expected of Zhongjie Daozhu, this series of deductions is smooth and flowing. Let's just assume what you said is true, and then what? What do you want to do?"

"However, it is not easy for you, Dao Lord, to arrive at this deduction. After all, this means you admit that you misjudged, and admit that I possess factors that you cannot control and that even surpass you."

"I will not do anything. But do not overestimate yourself. Perhaps you really possess factors that I cannot control, but possessing power that surpasses me? You had better stop daydreaming."

Zhongjie Daozhu shook his head.

"Oh, you are that confident? It seems that even you, as a Dao Lord, agree that you are forever invincible, absolutely invincible, even if only this wisp of a remnant spirit remains?"

Li Heng smiled.

"It is not about being so-called invincible, but if you truly possessed the power and factors to surpass me, I would certainly have some feedback on my end. However, the details of this involve the secrets of a Dao Lord; you have not gained my recognition, so I must ask your forgiveness for not being able to disclose these Dao Lord secrets to you."

Zhongjie Daozhu said indifferently.

"Then so be it."

Li Heng replied casually, not caring about the so-called secrets of a Dao Lord, while continuing to harvest Source Power without pause, and at the same time, slightly laying out his pieces to cultivate the currently lacking high-level Emperors...