Chapter 261: Mo River Cleared (Adding an extra chapter)

"Hao'er, you, what are you saying?"

Li Xiaoran heard Li Hao's whisper, his entire body shaking, and then he saw the power of the surroundings gathering, frantically squeezing toward Li Hao's body.

That power gathered into a storm, isolating him. Just the might of the gathering power made him feel unable to approach.

And at the center of this power vortex, Li Hao's entire body bloomed with golden light, his hair, which had previously returned to black and moist, turned silver-white again, strand by strand.

From black and moist to snow-white, it seemed as if his vitality was also fading.

Li Xiaoran stared blankly, feeling as if his blood had frozen. He guessed what Li Hao was going to do.

He opened his mouth slightly, wanting to shout to stop him, but when the words reached his lips, he couldn't say a single word.

Was there any other hope? There was none.

He couldn't help but shed tears, never expecting that after working hard for many years, there was no hope, and in the end, it would be a child's turn to fight with his life!

He looked at Li Tianzong, who was stepping forward like a demon god, and said sorrowfully: "Eldest Brother, please wake up, your grandson has come to take you home!!"

Boom! The response was Li Tianzong's suddenly raised fist, like a black meteorite smoking, smashing toward the two of them fiercely.

At the same time, the demons rushed over like a tide. Even though they would be affected by that fist momentum, they still rushed toward them frantically.

Li Xiaoran immediately understood that the situation before them had already been intervened in and influenced by the Mo River. What they were facing now was not demons, nor Li Tianzong, but this Mo River! Under the whistling fist might was a brilliant cyan sword radiance, which forcibly caused that massive fist to pause.

But it was only a slight pause before it smashed down straight again.

Li Hao's entire body's aura circled. His red-gold divine body in the divine power state also cracked continuously at this moment, and the Immortal Transformation had long exceeded the critical line of eighty percent.

And his aura was still climbing, with a feeling of rushing toward the abyss of death.

But Li Hao's expression actually calmed down at this moment. The Xia Qingshuang Sword in his hand whistled with a sharp sound, slashing onto that fist again.

The sword souls within the sword wailed, emitting bursts of roars, finally barely pushing that hand away.

Li Tianzong's body paused, his eyes crimson as blood, roaring low: "All soldiers, follow me to kill, kill our way out!"

He seemed to regard this as the former Longcheng battlefield, regarding the Li Hao before him as a demon, wanting to lead all the soldiers to rush through this difficult death barrier.

Li Hao didn't speak. The Xia Qingshuang Sword dancing in mid-air was like ice cracking, releasing a vast river of sword qi, sweeping the surroundings, guarding Li Xiaoran's body within it, and slashing toward those demons and mutated soldiers.

Perhaps, the real way to clear the Mo River was to assist Longcheng and the demons in fighting to the death during the ten-day defense of the city, and on the premise of ensuring the barrier was not broken, let the soldiers of Longcheng also be consumed until almost none were left, and finally, in this mutation stage, could there be hope to defend it by oneself and solve them all.

This was precious intelligence, but whether it could be brought out was unknown.

The river of sword qi cleared the demons around Li Xiaoran. Li Hao looked at Li Tianzong, who had already expanded his Dao Domain and killed over.

"Fourth Uncle, take care of yourself, try your best to live, let me see if I can fight for a chance of survival for you!"

Li Hao said in a low voice.

This was also to repay the favor of Li Xiaoran's assistance outside the Mo River.

And the chance of survival he wanted to fight for was to defeat Li Tianzong and kill all the demons. In this way, the Mo River would end, and Li Xiaoran would be able to leave.

But to achieve this, he had to reach the Immortal Transformation limit to have a glimmer of hope.

Li Hao himself had no certainty.

Saying this, he soared into the sky, as if condensing and pulling up the momentum of the four directions of heaven and earth, smashing a fist toward Li Tianzong fiercely, wanting to force his body to stop and cut off the battlefield in front, avoiding implicating Li Xiaoran.

Boom!!

Li Tianzong also raised his fist and smashed over whistling, like the collision of heaven and earth. The terrifying vibration wave shook all the demons within a radius of a dozen miles into fainting or death.

Li Hao's entire body was collapsing rapidly, and then rapidly being reborn and healed, bathed in blood, like a blood man.

Li Tianzong's Dao Domain expanded, opening and closing in a single thought, instantly extending to four or five miles, enveloping Li Hao's body, not even giving him a chance to run. This was the expansion speed of a true Taiping Dao Realm Dao Domain.

At this moment, multiple rules appeared within the Dao Domain, not just one. There were rules mastered by other Taiping Dao Realm demon kings, all layered and fused at this moment.

Several rule powers pressed down, and Li Hao's body was like being peeled like a cocoon, collapsing rapidly.

But fortunately, his body reached the strength of a Nine-Cast Divine Weapon, barely able to support for one breath.

Borrowing this brief moment, Li Hao's movement technique shifted, many movement techniques were activated to the extreme, and he withdrew from the range of the Dao Domain like a flash step.

Just after exiting the Dao Domain, the collapse speed on his body slowed down.

Li Tianzong, however, seemed to have targeted Li Hao, chasing over with big strides.

While Li Hao's body retreated, he rose into the sky rapidly, opening the distance, and drawing in more Heaven and Earth power.

His body tore and collapsed again, with a feeling of wanting to dissipate.

When Immortal Transformation exceeded ninety percent, Li Hao's skin and flesh had already dissipated, his flesh and blood exposed, looking like he had crawled out of a blood pool, extremely shrill.

But Li Hao's absorption still did not stop, continuing to push toward that limit.

The power between heaven and earth squeezed even more frantically. At this moment, it could no longer be suppressed, and everything rushed toward that limit that destroyed everything.

Soon, Li Hao's Immortal Transformation reached ninety-nine percent.

His entire body's flesh and blood fell off, and the organs in his chest and abdomen also fell out, like an incomplete shell, his body could no longer carry it.

According to Li Hao's feeling when he was in the Heavenly Human Realm, if he were completely Immortal Transformed, perhaps his consciousness could only be preserved for one instant before it would be annihilated.

That was the most extreme instant.

But now, his physique was enhanced, dozens of times stronger than in the Heavenly Human Realm. Even in an extreme situation, he could barely maintain it for a few breaths.

Boom! Li Hao's body completely merged with heaven and earth, Immortal Transformed to the limit.

His entire body's flesh and blood seemed to disappear, his consciousness seemed to detach from his body, merging into this vast and broad heaven and earth.

At this moment, Li Hao heard the sounds of the whole world go quiet.

The countless roars of Longcheng, the roars of demons, all disappeared.

His hearing seemed to be damaged, his entire body seeming to fall into a huge lake, and then, his consciousness, like a branched spider web, connected with the entire lake.

He himself was heaven and earth!

The three levels of the Grandmaster Realm: seeing oneself, seeing heaven and earth, seeing all living beings.

At this moment, Li Hao seemed to have reached "peering into heaven and earth" in the true sense.

He suddenly realized where his path of seeking the Dao should go.

But at this moment, he was not given the opportunity and time to condense his Dao Heart.

It might even be that there would never be another opportunity.

Unimaginable power connected to his consciousness. At this moment, Li Hao transformed into the master of this heaven and earth.

He felt the vast might filling his whole body, colliding wantonly, and destroying wantonly.

He was unprecedentedly powerful, and also unprecedentedly fragile! His life was about to end.

This was all something that happened and ended in an instant. Li Hao's consciousness transferred from heaven and earth to himself, seeing his body collapsing and dying. In his calm eyes, killing light appeared, and he suddenly triggered the power of non-decay!

In an instant, the original collapsing body actually began to heal and be reborn slowly! A powerful self-healing power like the revival of all things caused new flesh and blood to grow continuously, allowing the body that had previously been like an incomplete empty shell to be filled and satisfied again, flesh and blood returning.

While his body was condensing, it was also collapsing, but it looked like it was still condensing.

The extreme Immortal Transformation's destruction of his body did not stop because of this, it just looked like it had stopped.

In this kind of dozens of collapses and rebirths in the blink of an eye, his flesh and blood were constantly refined, and his physical body was refined to a more extreme level.

However, when the power of non-decay ended, Li Hao's life would also come to an end, completely Immortal Transformed, disappearing into heaven and earth!

And the time for the power of non-decay was only three minutes.

Vast demonic might swept over. Li Tianzong's eyes were crimson, roaring: "You cannot block me!!"

Li Hao looked up, those crimson violent eyes staring fixedly at him, his face ferocious, seemingly filled with extremely deep resentment and killing intent, long since having lost the gentleness from before.

But Li Hao knew that the Li Tianzong before him was not the Li Tianzong he had known before.

He was not angry, his eyes were calm, he just gripped the sword in his hand, feeling his body constantly collapsing and being reborn, as well as the bursts of tearing stinging pain, and said softly: "I will not block you, I am just leading the way for you."

The Xia Qingshuang Sword in his palm seemed to feel its master's state of mind, suddenly erupting with dazzling cyan frost, dividing the sky dyed black by demonic energy into a cyan radiance.

Vast sword intent condensed in Li Hao's palm. This Nine-Cast divine sword actually had cracks appearing on its body at this moment, showing signs of gradually shattering.

Its sword body was poured with vast Heaven and Earth power by Li Hao, actually unable to withstand it.

Li Hao did not retreat again, but rushed toward Li Tianzong head-on.

His body broke into the Dao Domain, but it was as if lotus flowers were born with every step; the rule force field of the Dao Domain was automatically pushed away by Li Hao's body, actually unable to get close!

His blood-covered figure was like an elegant, fallen immortal, stepping across Li Tianzong's Dao Domain, the sword radiance like a rainbow, slashing down lightly.

But this seemingly gentle sword strike carried lightning-like silver-white radiance, easily cutting open the Dao Domain and slashing toward Li Tianzong's body.

Li Tianzong seemed to sense the danger, suddenly raising his head, his crimson eyes glaring at the brilliant sword radiance. He roared, and on his body, several demon heads like condensed demonic energy drilled out one after another, roaring: "Must block it!!"

Roar!!

Li Tianzong roared, raising his hand to summon a long spear from the Heaven and Earth space.

The spear body was like dark black iron, with spiral dragon patterns winding around it. As his hand gripped it, it ignited sky-high divine flames, fiercely killing toward that sword radiance.

With a bang, the sword qi pressed down, and heaven and earth shook.

Power exceeding the Dao Realm tore and poured out, shaking all the buildings and demons within a ten-mile range below into tearing.

Li Tianzong roared at the sky, but the long spear was forced back step by step. His entire body's aura became violent, and those few demons also revealed ferocious expressions, roaring: "It's useless, you cannot escape!"

The power exceeding the Dao Realm tore through and vented, shaking all the buildings and demons within a ten-li radius below until they were torn apart.

The ground of the entire Longcheng shook violently, like a magnitude ten earthquake.

And half of Li Tianzong's body was swept by the sword radiance, blood spraying, actually being severed directly!

From shoulder to thigh, a sword mark was torn.

The demons on his body roared, rapidly urging the demonic energy to gather, pulling the wound to heal.

Li Hao saw it, but his eyes were very calm. At this moment, his power was something only he could experience. He grasped this heaven and earth, as if transformed into a true immortal god! He raised his hand, and endless power surged from all directions, then condensed into countless sword qi, overlapping each other, turning into three silver-white sword radiances, arriving in an instant, killing toward Li Tianzong.

This was all something that happened and condensed in the blink of an eye, and the power that could be squandered was beyond imagination.

An immortal calls the wind and summons the rain, capable of anything.

At this moment, Li Hao grasped the power of heaven and earth, borrowing the might of a heaven and earth, and had such ability.

No matter how strong a Dao Domain was, it could not truly destroy heaven and earth or break the void, so Li Hao could not be surrounded by the Dao Domain and could not be destroyed!

Boom! Three consecutive sword radiances broke the Dao Domain, ignored the rules, and slashed directly onto Li Tianzong's body, severing his arm, splitting his chest, and emitting more demonic energy from within.

In the distance, the Candle Zhu Huoshen and Lady Yin secretly approached, still wanting to give Li Hao a final blow, but at this moment, seeing this horrifying scene, they were both shocked.

Li Tianzong, who had condensed multiple Dao Domains, was actually being beaten by the white-haired Li Hao at this moment! "What did he do? How could it be like this?"

Lady Yin widened her eyes, her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief.

The Candle Zhu Huoshen, however, had his pupils contract, his heart beating wildly. Some distant inherited memory emerged from the bottom of his heart, causing the hair on his entire body to contract.

"That seems to be the power of a Saint..."

He muttered to himself, feeling shocked in his heart, indescribable.

Li Tianzong's huge body retreated continuously, heavily injured by Li Hao's sword qi, spraying blood from his entire body.

But his eyes shot out even more stunning red light, suddenly roaring, and the demon heads on his body still wanted to roar and threaten Li Hao, but suddenly seemed to be extracted by something, all changing color.

"Bastard..."

Before these demon heads could roar, they contracted into Li Tianzong's body, seemingly dragged in by a force.

Afterward, Li Tianzong's entire body's demonic energy became even more intense, and the wounds on his body were also healing rapidly, and the severed limbs grew back again.

"Those who block me die!!"

His eyes were like weeping blood, roaring, and behind him condensed the phantoms of several demons, adding terrifying might. The Dao Domain contracted, condensed on the long spear, and broke through the air.

This spear was like thunder, piercing through the firmament, with the might to tear the sky above Longcheng.

Li Hao also raised his hand, unleashing his strongest sword way, Sword Extreme Reincarnation! Spring, Autumn, Winter, Summer, containing dozens of sword techniques, sword ways, all condensed into the four seasons.

In the end, the four seasons rotated, turning into a pitch-black sword radiance.

This sword radiance was like the dark night, capable of swallowing everything, capable of covering all things.

It contained terrifying destruction extreme meaning, crashing fiercely onto the long spear.

A violent vibration sound rang out, Li Tianzong's flesh and blood tore, his demonic body collapsed, actually burning all his great meridians and soul, erupting with infinite might.

And Li Hao's body was also bleeding, constantly collapsing. Condensing the strongest sword strike caused him to draw in more power, leading to the power of non-decay failing to alleviate it. Originally it could be maintained for three minutes, but at this moment it was shortened by half.

Li Hao knew that his time was running out.

Seeing Li Tianzong rushing over like a madman, he also fought back.

Both sides fought fiercely in the void, fists and feet colliding, vibrating with terrifying impacts.

"Soldiers, kill together!"

Li Tianzong roared again, and all the alienated soldiers in the city turned into black smoke, flying toward his body, wanting to merge into one.

Li Hao saw this, his expression changed drastically. If the opponent really merged, then even he in the Immortal Transformation state might not be able to block it.

Why be so persistent?

Li Hao looked at those crimson violent eyes, but sighed lightly.

He really wanted to look up and see this world again, even if it was fake.

But he knew that he had no time left.

"I will let you go home..."

Li Hao raised his hand, but the Xia Qingshuang Sword shattered. However, he operated his power, solidifying the fragments together, turning them into a broken sword blade, and slashed out the strongest sword intent again.

Three consecutive sword strikes: one slashed toward the demons and soldiers in the city, and the other two slashed onto Li Tianzong's body.

His demonic might was slashed away, his body burst, and his chest split open.

And unleashing such a powerful attack, Li Hao's entire body's flesh and blood were also constantly collapsing and accelerating, and the solidified Xia Qingshuang Sword also shattered into residue. He could only rush up personally, his fists swinging continuously.

Boom, boom, boom! Consecutive fists smashed onto Li Tianzong's massive demonic body, causing holes everywhere, and countless demonic energies vibrated and dissipated from within.

Li Tianzong roared in anger, but his body was completely suppressed by Li Hao.

He also seemed to understand that he had failed.

"I want to go home, I want to take you all home..."

He emitted a sorrowful roar like an injured wild beast, hot blood and tears flowing from his eyes, seemingly returning to the despair when Longcheng was broken.

Boom! Li Hao's final fist swung out, completely crushing the demonic energy on his body. That hundred-foot-like demonic body disappeared, falling straight toward the city.

Li Hao's body at this moment, however, became terrifying, the flesh and blood of his chest and abdomen all falling off, leaving only an incomplete empty shell.

The power of non-decay could not alleviate it, and there was not much left.

Li Hao turned to look at the city, suddenly raising his hand, drawing in all the Heaven and Earth power, and slashed out.

A sword qi like a ripple vibrated out from his side, transmitting rapidly, its destructive power comparable to the extension of a Dao Domain. Wherever it passed, the demons and mutated soldiers were all wiped out, not even having time to scream.

Among them were also some Three Imperishable Realm great demon kings, and even demon kings, all having no power to block.

The Candle Zhu Huoshen wanted to flee, but that power came too fast. He tried to block it with his Dao Domain, roaring, but his body was submerged.

"Hao'er!"

Li Xiaoran's body chased over from the distance, only to see Li Hao's body dissipating like dust.

Li Tianzong climbed up from the deep pit, disheveled, but his body had no demonic energy, no black energy, and the crimson in his eyes had also disappeared.

He looked around, and when he saw Li Hao, whose body was about to dissipate in mid-air, his pupils contracted violently, and he hurriedly rushed over.

"Child!"

He rushed over like a long rainbow, arriving before Li Hao, looking at Li Hao's dissipating and fading body, trembling all over:

"You, how could you do such a stupid thing!"

Li Hao felt his consciousness being pulled by the Heaven and Earth power, about to dissipate. Seeing Li Tianzong, who seemed to have recovered his clarity, he twitched the corner of his mouth and smiled slightly: "Now you should be able to go back..."

Beside him, golden characters emerged, prompting Li Hao that the main quest was complete.

Did this count as clearing the level?

Li Hao wanted to see clearly, but his vision was already blurred. Everything before him seemed to be drifting away, and he himself seemed to be pulled into that vast heaven and earth, completely merging.

"If I clear the level, I should be able to be liberated..."

Li Hao muttered to himself.

His body, like dust, dissipated before Li Tianzong and Li Xiaoran's eyes.

Li Xiaoran, who had chased over, was also covered in the blood of demons. He watched Li Hao dissipate like a wisp of breeze, no longer existing at all, and was completely stunned.

The young man's final, thread-like words fell into his ears, making him unable to stop his tears from bursting.

The Mo River was cleared, and Eldest Brother Li Tianzong could be liberated.

But, Li Hao could not go back!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 262 =====

But, Li Hao can no longer go back!

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