Chapter 611: Cooking a True Immortal (120,000 update, seeking votes)

Bang! As the Primordial Spirit was slashed, Li Hao swiftly pursued the victory, tearing its Primordial Spirit completely to shreds.

During this process, other Third-Rank Ancient Demons wanted to come and reinforce, but were killed by Li Hao manipulating the residual blade, forcing them to stop.

When the Primordial Spirit was torn to shreds, the physical body of this Second-Rank Ancient Demon also decayed, losing its life aura, falling to the ground, and dying on the spot.

Without this Second-Rank Ancient Demon holding him back, Li Hao swiftly killed his way toward the other Third-Rank Ancient Demons.

Seeing Li Hao actually kill the leader, the other Third-Rank Ancient Demons were all horrified, fleeing in terror. They had never seen such a ferocious human; clearly only Sage-level, yet able to kill their leader. In that vast war back then, this was an existence that would have been eye-catching!

But their escape speed wasn't as fast as Li Hao's object manipulation. The residual blade slashed out rapidly, and the Primordial Spirit followed closely to kill.

Li Hao manipulated on two lines, chasing and killing several Third-Rank Ancient Demons, revealing an extremely strong aura.

Soon, the ten Third-Rank Ancient Demons led by the Second-Rank Ancient Demon all lost their lives at Li Hao's hands.

Li Hao looked at the middle-aged soldier's battlefield. The other was fighting with the Ancient Demon named Zheng, and other Ancient Demons had already gone to assist, but looking at the situation, the other was handling it with ease, seemingly in no danger for the time being.

Li Hao didn't rush to support or hold back. Triggering the lethal attribute just now was an accident. There were still three Second-Rank Ancient Demons left. If two came to kill him at the same time, he might not be able to rely on the uncertain power of the lethal attribute.

He flew the residual blade toward the physical body of the Second-Rank Ancient Demon. This physical body had already been annihilated, but Li Hao's residual blade flew out rapidly, exploring its physical body.

The dead corpse didn't dodge, waiting quietly for Li Hao to dissect it. He was also becoming more and more familiar with the physical body of this Ancient Demon.

Soon, feeling he had seven or eight parts of certainty, Li Hao swiftly reinforced the middle-aged soldier's side.

At this time, many Ancient Demons had already gathered at that battlefield, forming a Demon Array. Within the bursts of black mist, scarlet light radiated, and that strong evil intent affected Li Hao's mind, causing a sense of restlessness and urgency.

He manipulated the residual blade to kill out rapidly.

Whoosh! As the crescent-like arc swept past, at the outermost edge, three Ancient Demon physical bodies were killed immediately. As their Primordial Spirits were stripped away, Li Hao's Primordial Spirit slashed out rapidly like sword light.

Three Ancient Demons perished in just one breath.

The three Second-Rank Ancient Demons besieging the middle-aged soldier noticed this situation and were somewhat shocked. Only then did they realize that the companion who had left them earlier to deal with Li Hao was actually dead!

How is this possible?! The three Second-Rank Ancient Demons were all horrified. They could see that Li Hao's aura was only Sage-level, very weak, with a faint Immortal power on his body—a young Immortal. But their Ancient Demon race was born formidable; under the same realm, even True Immortals had to bow their heads, let alone being defeated by the weak.

Accompanied by roars, the three Second-Rank Ancient Demons looked at each other. The leader needed their assistance; that True Immortal was too formidable, and they couldn't all split off.

Soon, after a brief consultation, a Second-Rank Ancient Demon broke away from the Demon Array, this time leading thirty Ancient Demons to kill Li Hao.

Those thirty Ancient Demons formed an array with their Sage Domains, revealing terrifying power.

Li Hao's expression was solemn, unfolding the residual blade to kill out.

Just as the residual blade rushed into their Sage Domain, Li Hao felt great obstruction, but compared to what he had imagined, it was still a bit weaker, or rather, the sharpness of the residual blade itself reduced his pressure.

Whoosh! The residual blade drew an arc, killing toward an Ancient Demon.

Under the Sage Domain, the arc was somewhat sluggish. That Ancient Demon detected the danger and dodged swiftly, but its body was cut open, yet it didn't die directly.

"Not fast enough."

Li Hao took a deep breath, the golden meridians on his Primordial Spirit erupted, and the arc of the residual blade increased again.

Bang! Sweeping through the Sage Domain, piercing through the body of an Ancient Demon, slashing rapidly, killing its physical body.

Afterwards, the Primordial Spirit, far away, unfolded a sword momentum.

The Primordial Spirit itself didn't rush into the other's Sage Domain; otherwise, with the Sage Domains of thirty-plus Ancient Demons overlapping, his Primordial Spirit would also be heavily damaged.

At this moment, slashing from the air, the sword momentum vibrated, acting on the other's Primordial Spirit, splitting its Primordial Spirit open.

But the other's Primordial Spirit healed quickly. Li Hao didn't have time to slash a second sword. His face changed slightly, seeing the leading Second-Rank Ancient Demon diving down to kill, and he swiftly turned and fled.

That Second-Rank Ancient Demon's movement technique was extremely fast, catching up in the blink of an eye. In terms of movement techniques, Li Hao had long lacked other artistic skills and states of mind to improve. Although he had enough artistic skill points, he was stuck at the sixth stage. His cultivation time was truly too short, and many things were too late to settle.

Bang! Li Hao slashed backhanded, the Myriad Heavens Star Meridian erupting, this sword exhausting all his strength.

A sword with majestic momentum, like an Immortal's finger, made the Second-Rank Ancient Demon's figure pause slightly, shaken by the momentum of this sword.

But afterwards, it realized that this sword couldn't inflict a fatal wound on it and accelerated to chase again.

Li Hao seized this opportunity, fleeing at full speed toward the bronze chariot.

The strategy he and the middle-aged soldier had earlier was to weaken the Ancient Demon's forces, not to crush it in one go.

When approaching the bronze chariot, the Ancient Demon behind caught up again. Li Hao slashed with all his might, every sword a peak strike. Although he couldn't kill this Second-Rank Ancient Demon, he could barely delay its chasing speed.

"Roar!"

This Second-Rank Ancient Demon let out a roar. Seeing that bronze chariot, it became somewhat anxious, knowing that the Immortal Array on the bronze chariot was extremely powerful and not something it could break in a moment.

If it let this human escape inside, it would be difficult to kill him. It couldn't keep guarding here either; after all, the situation on the leader's side wasn't optimistic. It wanted to kill Li Hao quickly and then return to reinforce the leader.

Whoosh! Accompanied by the Second-Rank Ancient Demon accelerating, Li Hao suddenly stopped before the bronze chariot.

Afterwards, he turned around suddenly, seeing the Second-Rank Ancient Demon approaching rapidly, a cold smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

"You're out of sync!"

Tseng! The residual blade was suddenly sacrificed, slashing out an arc like moonlight rapidly. With a squelch, the Second-Rank Ancient Demon's physical body split open, but it didn't die directly.

Li Hao's eyes moved slightly; the place he had explored earlier was still missing a piece.

He didn't stop. Seeing the thirty Ancient Demons behind forming an array and approaching, he swiftly slashed out a second arc.

Squelch! Just as this Second-Rank Ancient Demon was about to attack Li Hao, it suddenly widened its eyes, a trace of panic appearing in its ferocious eyes.

Two short blades actually killed its physical body! If it weren't for the Primordial Spirit, or if that residual blade had the power to attack the Primordial Spirit, this second blade would have killed it directly! It suddenly thought of the death of its companion earlier; so that was it.

While it was shocked, Li Hao's Primordial Spirit didn't stop, having long been ready to go, rushing out directly and fighting the other's Primordial Spirit.

Seeing Li Hao's Primordial Spirit kill over, this Second-Rank Ancient Demon let out a grumpy roar. Actually using the Primordial Spirit to kill it, this was simply seeking its own death!

It immediately displayed its innate ability, blood-red light permeating its Primordial Spirit, wanting to swallow Li Hao's Primordial Spirit.

But Li Hao's Primordial Spirit turned into sword light, the golden meridians erupting, the momentum suddenly increasing violently.

Bang! Slashing out with one sword, the Second-Rank Ancient Demon's Primordial Spirit was torn apart.

Afterwards, in less than a blink of an eye, the Primordial Spirit swung hundreds of sword lights, annihilating the other's Primordial Spirit!

As the Primordial Spirit was extinguished, the other's physical body also lost its power, falling from mid-air.

All this happened in the blink of an eye. The thirty Third-Rank Ancient Demons rushed over, seeing this scene, were all stunned, looking at Li Hao in horror.

Li Hao breathed a sigh of relief. It was easy to handle once this Second-Rank Ancient Demon was solved.

He looked at the thirty Ancient Demons, not stopping, as if tireless, the residual blade killing into their Sage Domain. At the same time, Gongming fell into his hand, constantly slashing out with all his might.

Behind him appeared the Heaven and Earth Dharma Image, surrounded by the Myriad Heavens Stars, majestic power surging over. Under the attack of exhausting all his strength, terrifying sword lights slashed out, bombarding their Sage Domain.

This sword light was like a big club smashing down, constantly shaking their Sage Domain.

The thirty Ancient Demons were all somewhat shocked, simultaneously erupting with such terrifying power, and there was no feeling of exhaustion at all. This was simply a freak.

With the fluctuations vibrated out by the sword light, Li Hao seized the opportunity, killing an Ancient Demon's physical body, and then the Primordial Spirit erupted to kill.

Squelch! As an Ancient Demon fell, the power of the overlapping Sage Domains also weakened by a point.

And Li Hao himself was still at his peak. The Myriad Heavens Star Meridian made his power like an abyss, inexhaustible.

Bang! Bang! With Li Hao's mad attacks, soon more Ancient Demons fell.

The second, the third... more and more! Li Hao stood before the bronze chariot, silver hair flying, relying on the three-foot sword edge in his hand, fighting thirty Ancient Demons alone, shaking half the sky.

As the number of Ancient Demons decreased, the power of the Sage Domain also lowered, but Li Hao's killing speed became faster and faster.

These Ancient Demons were terrified, letting out roars, their Sage Domains enveloping Li Hao.

Li Hao swiftly hid on the bronze chariot, borrowing the protection of the light array on the chariot to fight them.

After all, these Ancient Demons were equivalent to the combined attack of thirty Sages. Under the overlapping Sage Domains, even the Eternal Dao Domain would disintegrate in an instant.

With the harvesting of the residual blade, the number of Ancient Demons decreased rapidly, leaving only twenty in the blink of an eye.

Not long after, only fifteen were left.

Li Hao's killing speed was increasing, but the remaining Ancient Demons were somewhat terrified. The light array of the bronze chariot was difficult for them to break with their power, only serving as a consumption.

But their lives couldn't afford the consumption here.

As only ten Ancient Demons were left, they all turned and fled in unison.

Seeing this, Li Hao jumped out of the bronze chariot, urging the residual blade to chase and kill.

Seeing Li Hao chasing over, these Ancient Demons were furious and aggrieved. Clearly, they had the numerical advantage, yet they were chased and fled everywhere by a Sage-level. In that war, such a combination of theirs belonged to a battalion, enough to give even True Immortals a headache.

Li Hao chased and killed these Ancient Demons, having the flying-segment attribute, his object manipulation distance doubled. These Ancient Demons didn't realize at all that it was impossible to escape before him; fighting hard would have allowed them to live a little longer.

Soon, as one Ancient Demon after another fell, Li Hao chased and killed back, killing the last Ancient Demon. The thirty Ancient Demons that had come to hunt him earlier had all lost their lives, including that Second-Rank Ancient Demon.

Li Hao looked at the middle-aged soldier's battlefield. There, black clouds were pressing down, surrounded by hundreds of Ancient Demons, two Second-Rank Ancient Demons commanding from the side. Bursts of vibrating sounds came from the black mist, but the middle-aged soldier's figure and that Ancient Demon leader were nowhere to be seen.

Li Hao's expression was solemn, continuing to manipulate the residual blade, ambushing the Ancient Demons at the outer edge.

As several Ancient Demons were killed rapidly, the two Second-Rank Ancient Demons detected the movement, looking at Li Hao in shock.

Still not dead?!

Soon, they discovered the aura of their companions earlier, which had actually disappeared, and there were many corpses on the ground.

This scene made them somewhat doubt their demon lives. With such a formation, they had all perished? Could it be that this human was playing the pig to eat the tiger, and was actually a True Immortal?

These two Second-Rank Ancient Demons felt a chill in their hearts, feeling a trace of horror, and immediately sent a message to the leader.

"Hmm? Actually ignoring me?"

Li Hao was ambushing the Ancient Demons, but saw that the other Ancient Demons only looked at him furiously and didn't attack him, seemingly not daring to break away from the great array rashly.

Seeing this, Li Hao was no longer polite, killing even faster.

"Roar!"

Suddenly, a roar erupted from the black mist. Hearing this roar, Li Hao felt it was as harsh as a sonic boom, a stinging pain in his mind, as if his soul were buzzing.

His face was somewhat pale. That First-Rank Ancient Demon was too strong; just a roar made him feel dizzy and nauseous, ripples of fluctuations stirring on his Primordial Spirit. If it were at close range, he would inevitably be heavily damaged.

"Run quickly, there are two leaders!"

Suddenly, the middle-aged soldier's voice rang out urgently in Li Hao's mind.

Li Hao was stunned, his pupils shrinking slightly. He hurriedly wanted to transmit his voice, but the other's figure was enveloped by the black mist, and he couldn't lock onto the other's position.

Two, how could there be two?

Was it an accident? Li Hao's face was ugly, staring at the boiling and surging black mist, then without looking back, he flew toward the bronze chariot.

While fleeing, he also manipulated the corpses of those Ancient Demons on the ground, collecting them and quickly throwing them into the Heaven and Earth Space.

Soon, when Li Hao fled to the bronze chariot, he turned to look. The black mist in the distance was still surging, but the range seemed to have expanded.

Li Hao arrived at the chariot, not wanting to hold the other back, but now it seemed the other clearly hadn't broken free yet.

Li Hao's eyes flickered, biting his lip slightly, driving the bronze chariot, and rushed into that Ancient Demon territory again.

With the jolting and crushing of the chariot's tracks, galloping all the way, Li Hao returned to the battlefield. He only saw sword lights flickering in and out in the black mist, clearly the middle-aged soldier's attacks.

The other seemed to be breaking out, but was surrounded by the black mist.

Li Hao saw the hundreds of Ancient Demons around. These Ancient Demons were all emitting scarlet light and black mist, seemingly forming a single entity, all motionless in mid-air.

"Die!"

Li Hao's eyes revealed angry killing intent, the residual blade killing out at full speed.

His Primordial Spirit also soared into the air, the golden meridians like burning, blooming with intense light. Afterwards, one of the meridians burned into flames, enveloping the entire Primordial Spirit, and the Primordial Spirit's aura also became even more terrifying.

Kill!

The residual blade's object manipulation speed suddenly increased violently. Li Hao vaguely felt a certain mysterious Dao of Object Manipulation. In just a blink, the residual blade pierced through and killed the physical bodies of ten Ancient Demons.

And his Primordial Spirit also killed out at the same time, turning into a sword glow burning with divine flames.

In just one breath, ten Ancient Demons fell, and the black mist emitted from their bodies was also interrupted and dissipated.

Li Hao didn't stop, his eyes like ink stars, the residual blade rapidly killing toward the second batch.

Squelch, squelch, squelch! One Ancient Demon body after another burst, falling from mid-air.

Their Primordial Spirits had just reacted when they were slashed and extinguished by the sword glow burning with golden flames.

Li Hao attacked like a madman. One golden meridian finished burning, followed immediately by the second golden meridian burning.

In just a few breaths, hundreds of Ancient Demon corpses actually fell from mid-air.

Li Hao's gaze looked at the two Second-Rank Ancient Demons. Those two Second-Rank Ancient Demons also noticed Li Hao's actions, horror appearing in their eyes.

The residual blade killed out. These two Second-Rank Ancient Demons could see the situation in the black mist, and it was also a critical moment, but compared to that, their own lives were more important.

When the residual blade killed over, the black mist on their bodies also broke, and they had to stop to deal with it.

But the residual blade was incomparably sharp. They had just parried when it pierced through their Sage Domain, killing their physical bodies.

Afterwards, Li Hao's Primordial Spirit followed closely to kill, the elegant sword intent condensed on the Primordial Spirit, as if raising an autumn wind, directly slashing and extinguishing the Primordial Spirit of a Second-Rank Ancient Demon.

The other Second-Rank Ancient Demon felt as if it had seen a ghost, taking the opportunity to merge its Primordial Spirit into its body. Just as it resurrected its physical body, it plunged into the black mist. Rather than dying at Li Hao's hands, it was better to personally assist the two leaders and fight that True Immortal. Perhaps under the leader's care, it could still have a way to live.

Seeing that Second-Rank Ancient Demon flee into the black mist, Li Hao didn't dare to chase in. The residual blade turned, continuing to harvest the lives of other Third-Rank Ancient Demons.

Some of these Third-Rank Ancient Demons were still maintaining the array, while others had fled in panic.

Under continuous slaughter, Li Hao was already too familiar with the bodies of these Third-Rank Ancient Demons, all killed with one strike, the Primordial Spirit following to kill, not giving them any time to react at all.

Clearly of the same realm, yet Li Hao had a feeling of harvesting wheat. Mainly, the residual blade was too sharp, and coupled with the improvement of his Primordial Spirit, he could crush these Ancient Demons like this.

Soon, the number of Ancient Demons in the air had plummeted to only about a hundred left.

For Li Hao, it was only a matter of a few breaths.

With his slaughter, the black mist weakened significantly, and the sword lights flickering in and out inside became clearer and clearer.

"Die!"

Suddenly, a roar from the middle-aged soldier came out.

Immediately after, Li Hao saw the black mist surging, and a huge figure fell out from inside, exactly that First-Rank Ancient Demon from earlier.

The middle-aged soldier also rushed out of the black mist, chasing and killing it.

And behind him, another Ancient Demon of equal size was roaring, chasing the middle-aged soldier, wanting to block him.

"Bastard!"

The Zheng Demon let out a roar. It scanned mid-air, only to see that its Ancient Demon army had only about a hundred left, and the minor leaders were all dead.

Having received news from its subordinates earlier, that young Immortal was suspected to be a True Immortal playing the pig to eat the tiger. Coupled with its perception that the number of its army had decreased, and knowing that the Man Demon was definitely watching from the side and hadn't left, even if it really killed that True Immortal, it would pay a painful price, and the other might take advantage of its weakness.

It simply sent a message, inviting the other to kill the enemy together, and also agreed to the dismemberment conditions the other had proposed earlier.

As a result, it didn't expect this True Immortal to be even more terrifying than it had imagined. Having fought it many times in the past, the other had actually been hiding its strength all along.

In a two-on-one situation, they actually hadn't been able to suppress the other quickly, instead letting it suffer heavy injuries.

Whoosh! The middle-aged soldier's figure dived out, slashing the Zheng Demon with one sword, tearing open a deep wound that reached the bone.

This wound couldn't heal. The Zheng Demon let out a furious roar. It suddenly turned, rushing toward Li Hao's side, wanting to use this to hold the other back.

Seeing that Ancient Demon leader rushing over, Li Hao's face changed drastically, swiftly drilling toward the bronze chariot below.

"Hide in the chariot, don't come out. Today I'm going to slaughter them both!"

The middle-aged soldier's voice came at this moment, emitting cold killing intent.

He had originally intended to take Li Hao and reduce this Zheng Demon time and time again, and when it reached a certain degree, kill it. He didn't expect Li Hao's performance to exceed his imagination.

Without his help, he had actually slaughtered two or three hundred Ancient Demons alone and also killed the Second-Rank Ancient Demons.

Now, under this Zheng Demon, only a hundred Third-Rank Ancient Demons remained, and the Second-Rank Ancient Demons had all perished. This was already better than the reduction effect he had planned earlier.

It was just that the appearance of that other Man Demon here had spoiled things.

But precisely because of this, he knew that if he couldn't solve them all this time, it would inevitably let these Ancient Demons detect the anomaly here, which would be disadvantageous to them.

"Take care of yourself."

Li Hao hurriedly transmitted his voice.

The Zheng Demon rushed before the bronze chariot, its sharp claws slapping down violently. The bronze chariot trembled violently, the light array on it flickering but not shattering.

This chariot had once been the mount of an Immortal King. After countless years of consumption, it could still withstand the attacks of a True Immortal.

However, Li Hao could feel that the Immortal Array on this bronze chariot was already at the end of its rope, perhaps less than one-thousandth of its peak period.

At this moment, enduring this Zheng Demon's strike, the light dimmed significantly. Li Hao estimated that it could withstand at most twenty or thirty more strikes before shattering.

The middle-aged soldier also understood this point, killing over at full speed, sword qi slashing, the void as if slashed apart, time appearing to have a brief stagnation. The Zheng Demon wanted to dodge but was still struck by the sword light, adding another terrifying wound to its body.

"Man, are you waiting for me to die before you exert your strength?!"

The Zheng Demon couldn't help but roar furiously.

"He's too strong, not an ordinary True Immortal."

The Man Demon's expression was extremely solemn. Although it held back a little strength, it didn't hold back much, having already seen that this middle-aged soldier was definitely not an existence that they, as leaders, could kill alone. The other had been hiding his strength all along.

What was ridiculous was that this Zheng Demon was too stupid, having fought the other for many years yet failing to see through this point, wanting to swallow the other alone was wishful thinking.

As the Man Demon approached, they joined forces, fighting with the middle-aged soldier again.

Seeing this, Li Hao drove the bronze chariot, sailing away from their side to avoid being affected.

Seeing the two Ancient Demon leaders had no intention of caring about him, Li Hao manipulated the residual blade, continuing to kill toward those Third-Rank Ancient Demons.

With the residual blade and Primordial Spirit slashing out, one Third-Rank Ancient Demon after another fell.

Li Hao hid in the bronze chariot, quite safe himself.

"Bastard!"

The Zheng Demon felt the aura of its subordinates in the territory constantly decreasing, so angry its eye sockets turned red. After this battle ended, even if it killed these two humans, it would have suffered heavy losses.

But it couldn't spare the distraction anymore. The middle-aged soldier ignored the Man Demon, staring at it and attacking with all his might. It was about to be unable to parry.

Whoosh! The residual blade swept past. An Ancient Demon wanted to flee but couldn't escape the speed of the residual blade, its physical body killed, and then the Primordial Spirit killed simultaneously.

In just a short moment, the hundreds of Ancient Demons were left with only a few scattered ones, all scared and fleeing in all directions.

"Flying Segment!"

Li Hao's object manipulation range doubled. The residual blade chased and killed rapidly, killing the two defecting Ancient Demons as well.

In the blink of an eye, in this Ancient Demon territory, the white human skeletons everywhere were piled full of Ancient Demon corpses.

In the void, only the middle-aged soldier and the two Ancient Demon leaders were fighting.

Li Hao drove the bronze chariot to the vicinity, staring closely at the exchange between the two sides. That Zheng Demon was covered in wounds, its aura withered. If it weren't for the other Ancient Demon leader, it would have been slashed to death by the middle-aged soldier by now.

In this way, they had joined forces to wipe out this Zheng Demon's territory in one go! This was much faster than they had planned, but the price was also great. The golden meridians on Li Hao's Primordial Spirit burned one after another, now only one remained.

However, with so many Ancient Demon corpses, Li Hao felt he would soon be able to eat them back, and it would improve even more. Whoosh! Seeing the Zheng Demon injured and revealing a flaw, Li Hao suddenly manipulated the residual blade to kill out.

The blade edge swept past. The Zheng Demon detected the chill and glanced over, anger appearing in the depths of its eyes.

But it was too late to parry. The residual blade slashed at its wound, but didn't pierce through its body, only tearing the wound even more severely.

But the part torn by the residual blade healed quickly.

"Such a hard physical body."

Li Hao's face changed slightly. The residual blade encountered obstruction for the first time. He felt he actually couldn't pierce through its flesh directly, especially when slashing at the bone, it was like slashing at divine iron, having a rebounding impact.

Squelch! The middle-aged soldier suddenly arrived in an instant, approaching the Zheng Demon, and slashed its head off with one sword.

Afterwards, a vertical eye split open on the middle-aged soldier's forehead, shooting out a divine fire, enveloping the Zheng Demon's physical body, making its physical body unable to heal itself.

At the same time, the Primordial Spirit above his head was sacrificed, and a sword also appeared in the Primordial Spirit's hand, slashing out rapidly.

"Save me!"

The Zheng Demon roared in terror.

The Man Demon's eyes were extremely ugly, erupting with full strength, wanting to stop it, but it was a step too late.

The Zheng Demon's Primordial Spirit was annihilated, and the Immortal Seal was also pierced, dying on the spot.

The middle-aged soldier didn't stop, turning to look at the Man Demon, his gaze extremely dangerous, swiftly killing toward it.

The Man Demon felt aggrieved, turning and fleeing, gnashing its teeth: "You wait, this time I definitely won't let you live!"

It spread its wings, fleeing into the distance at full speed.

It disappeared from Li Hao's eyes in the blink of an eye.

And the middle-aged soldier's figure also followed and disappeared.

Li Hao stood on the bronze chariot, looking far away. In just a breath's time, their auras disappeared from this Zheng Demon's territory.

Li Hao's eyes revealed worry, not knowing if the middle-aged soldier could intercept and kill it; otherwise, letting that Ancient Demon spread the news would inevitably bring about a huge killing intent.

Li Hao withdrew his gaze, looking down. The ground was full of Ancient Demon corpses. He swiftly took them all in, receiving them into the Heaven and Earth Space.

When his gaze fell on the Zheng Demon's wound-covered physical body, Li Hao saw that the divine fire on its physical body had extinguished, and the physical body damage was relatively tragic.

Li Hao took its physical body back as well. If this True Immortal-level physical body were cooked, he didn't know what kind of delicacy it would be.

Moreover, while cooking, he could also become familiar with the other's body structure. In the future, if there were an opportunity, perhaps he could also kill its physical body with one strike.

After the battlefield was cleaned up, Li Hao sat on the bronze chariot, waiting for the middle-aged soldier to return.

He stared into the distance, his brows tightly furrowed, worry in his eyes.

A long, long time.

Just as Li Hao was thinking about whether he should drive the chariot to chase and see, he suddenly saw a black shadow appear on the horizon, flying over at full speed.

Immediately after, the black shadow magnified. Li Hao looked closely and discovered it was the middle-aged soldier.

The other returned through the air, carrying a huge physical body in his hand, exactly the Man Demon that had fled earlier.

Li Hao was stunned for a moment, unable to help but feel some joy. The other had actually killed that Man Demon.

Killing two First-Rank Ancient Demons in succession, the other's strength was somewhat terrifying.

Whoosh! The middle-aged soldier soon traveled through the void, arriving before the bronze chariot, throwing the Man Demon that had already lost its life aura before Li Hao. His expression was somewhat weary, but his eyes revealed excitement and a smile.

"Fortunately, before it could flee back to its territory, I finally killed it!"

"So, you didn't alert other Ancient Demons?"

Li Hao said with joy.

The middle-aged soldier nodded, "It should be so."

He looked at Li Hao and smiled: "Thanks to the Ancient Demon meat you made a few days ago, my Primordial Spirit has improved, and my strength has recovered a lot; otherwise, in today's unexpected bitter battle, both of us might have been buried here."

"It seems that next time we hunt, we must explore first to avoid such accidents."

Li Hao said with a trace of seriousness on his face.

The middle-aged soldier nodded slightly, saying: "This Ancient Demon leader was mostly here for a temporary visit. I don't know what they were chatting about. In short, this accident was our negligence. Next time, I'll kill my way in first. If there's no other situation, we'll see... However, now that there are so many Ancient Demon corpses, we'll have a full meal, and next time we strike, it should be even easier!"

Li Hao looked at the Ancient Demon leader's corpse in his hand, suddenly feeling his mouth water: "That's true."

The two tidied up and didn't return to the canyon exit from earlier, but instead camped and settled in this Zheng Demon's territory.

If other Ancient Demons came here, they could also silence them in time; otherwise, if other Ancient Demons detected the situation here, they would inevitably sound an alarm, and at that time, other Ancient Demons would also know that the Zheng Demon was dead.

"This Ancient Demon was killed. The Ancient Demons in its territory should soon notice something, right?"

Li Hao asked.

The middle-aged soldier nodded slightly, saying: "Short as a few days, long as a few years. We should also rest as soon as possible. Now, this Man Demon's territory only has Second-Rank and Third-Rank Ancient Demons. Even if they know the news and come to visit, we can take advantage of the situation and kill them."

"Hmm."

Li Hao nodded. Second-Rank Ancient Demons, he could now kill them one-on-one, let alone the middle-aged soldier personally taking action, which was estimated to be one sword per kid.

"You rest first, I'll do the cooking."

Li Hao said. He had the Myriad Heavens Star Meridian. Besides feeling somewhat tired mentally, his body still had abundant power.

Hearing this, the middle-aged soldier licked his lips, nodded with a smile, and sat down to the side.

Li Hao didn't cook the Ancient Demon leader first, but took out a Second-Rank Ancient Demon to whet his appetite.

The Ancient Demon leader's physical body was too hard, and it would take some time to process.

While Li Hao was cooking, the middle-aged soldier found the Zheng Demon's cave dwelling and soon found some things inside.

"Good luck. There's actually a broken Immortal Artifact. It feels a bit better than the residual blade in your hand. Take a look."

The middle-aged soldier threw a broken sword to Li Hao, without a hilt, just the front half of the sword edge.

Only then did Li Hao think of the spoils of war. His eyes had only been fixed on the Ancient Demon's physical body, forgetting these instead.

"Are there no intact Immortal Artifacts?"

Li Hao asked.

This wasn't doubting the middle-aged soldier of hiding things, but feeling strange. That battle should have been won by the Ancient Demon side. Their cave dwelling actually hadn't collected those Immortal Artifacts from the battlefield.

The middle-aged soldier shook his head slightly, his expression somewhat heavy, saying: "You didn't notice that these Ancient Demons aren't wearing any Immortal Artifacts? When the Ancient Demons were first discovered, and before preparing for that great battle, the various Immortal Emperors of the True Realm ordered the rectification of Immortal Artifacts to avoid them falling into the hands of the Ancient Demons and becoming their weapons."

"After thousands of years of rectification, the Ancient Demons couldn't use the rectified Immortal Artifacts at all, so when the Ancient Demons killed us and got our weapons or Immortal treasures, they would destroy them and wouldn't leave them for us either."

Only then did Li Hao think that these Ancient Demons were bald all over, relying on their own power to fight wildly, with no Immortal Artifacts at all.

"This Ancient Demon cave dwelling is full of destroyed Immortal Artifacts. Only this one, although destroyed, the sword body is still preserved and hasn't decayed. It's good luck."

The middle-aged soldier said.

Li Hao sighed in his heart. If it hadn't been destroyed, the harvest from killing the Ancient Demons this time would have been huge.

However, before him was an Immortal Artifact broken sword, even more powerful than the residual blade in his hand. Li Hao asked:

"Can I manipulate it?"

"If it were an intact Immortal Artifact, you might not be able to manipulate it, but now, you can just manipulate it like the residual blade in your hand. Anyway, for you, you just need it to be sharp enough."

The middle-aged soldier said.

Li Hao breathed a sigh of relief, taking the broken sword. Thinking of something, he took out the Zheng Demon's corpse and slashed with it.

The sword edge cut into the other's physical body, clearly much smoother than the residual blade, but when slashing at the bone, there was still some obstruction, unable to slash through directly.

However, if used to kill Second-Rank Ancient Demons, the speed should be faster! Li Hao immediately replaced the residual blade with the broken sword. If the situation were critical, he could also erupt simultaneously; dual-line manipulation wasn't difficult for him.

Facing Third-Rank Ancient Demons, it was even more than enough, and the killing speed could be increased by more than double! After playing with the broken sword, Li Hao began cooking earnestly again.

Not long after, half of the Second-Rank Ancient Demon's body was turned into a delicacy by Li Hao.

Smelling this rich fragrance, the middle-aged soldier felt intoxicated, smiling brightly: "After eating all these Ancient Demons, I feel that not only can I recover to my peak, but I can even go a step further!"

Li Hao was also quite expectant. After eating them all, he didn't know to what extent his Primordial Spirit would improve.

As the two enjoyed it, the flesh of this Second-Rank Ancient Demon filled their stomachs. On Li Hao's Primordial Spirit, another golden meridian appeared.

Time flew by.

In the following days, Li Hao and the middle-aged soldier guarded the Zheng Demon's territory, cooking the Ancient Demon corpses.

Half a month passed. An Ancient Demon came to visit and was detected by the middle-aged soldier, who killed it directly.

This was a Second-Rank Ancient Demon, coming here to inquire about the news of its leader.

"If it doesn't return for a long time, other Ancient Demons will inevitably detect that the situation is different. We should also strike."

The middle-aged soldier threw the Ancient Demon corpse to Li Hao and said calmly.

Li Hao nodded.

For half a month, they had three meals a day, their appetites growing larger and larger, eating two Ancient Demons every day, their Primordial Spirits receiving great improvement.

The golden meridians on Li Hao's Primordial Spirit increased to eleven, his Primordial Spirit power twice that of before.

"Before setting off, let's taste the flavor of this Ancient Demon leader."

Li Hao said.

For this half month, they had only eaten Second-Rank and Third-Rank Ancient Demons. Li Hao had taken the True Immortal-level First-Rank Ancient Demon to explore and cultivate, mastering its body structure, which was why he had delayed taking action.

Moreover, facing this True Immortal-level ingredient, Li Hao had a sense of piety in his heart, wanting to handle and cook it when he was in his best state and had the most certainty.

"Are you sure?"

Hearing this, the middle-aged soldier's eyes brightened slightly. He had long been craving the dishes of these two Ancient Demon leaders.

Li Hao smiled slightly, taking out the Zheng Demon's corpse, and the broken sword. His expression became serious. These days, he had dissected the other's physical body every day, and now he was quite familiar with every part.

As the Chaos Divine Fire gathered, Li Hao began to process the Ancient Demon's physical body, separating different parts to cook.

Cooking wasn't just making raw food cooked; Li Hao also had to disintegrate the Great Dao within its physical body so that it would be suitable for digestion.

And besides the Great Dao power, there was also Immortal power within this Ancient Demon's body.

Li Hao had to enter the state of Ultimate Immortal Transformation to barely be able to dismantle and cook it.

As Li Hao focused intently on cooking and making it, his spirit was highly concentrated. Unknowingly, Li Hao didn't even notice that his time in the Ultimate Immortal Transformation state had extended during the cooking.

Or rather, the time he could maintain the Ultimate Immortal Transformation state was extending.

A long time later, as a faint fragrance that transcended the secular world drifted out, the middle-aged soldier was stunned. He felt the pores all over his body seem to unfold, a feeling as if his soul had flown out of his shell.

"Please taste."

Li Hao also came back to his senses, suddenly feeling a strong sense of fatigue, but at the same time, his spirit had a kind of indescribable excitement.

He smiled slightly at the middle-aged soldier, inviting him to dine.

Afterwards, he also picked up a portion to enjoy.

An indescribable, wonderful taste bloomed on his taste buds. Beyond that, Li Hao felt bursts of ethereal yet majestic power constantly surging into his body—that was Immortal power!

This power occupied his body, flowing between his divine blood and Dao bones.

Li Hao wasn't an Immortal or God, so he couldn't control it, but this power didn't dissipate from his body, instead quietly nourishing his divine blood and Dao bones, letting them transform toward the realm of Immortals.

Li Hao felt that if he ate enough, perhaps he could eat his way to becoming an Immortal or God! This idea was very exaggerated and incredible, but Li Hao felt it was truly feasible.

"Really, too delicious!"

The middle-aged soldier couldn't help but let out a comfortable cheer in the gaps of eating.

The longer he stayed with Li Hao, the more relaxed his emotions became, no longer as stiff and cold as before.

Li Hao smiled, looking at the dishes before him. This was a True Immortal-level existence, yet it had been made into dishes by him and eaten.

If the people in the Land of the Sages knew, they would probably be shocked.

The Immortals and Gods they had been chasing after were now before his eyes, becoming a sumptuous delicacy.

As he ate more and more, the Immortal power Li Hao absorbed also became more and more. Beyond that, his Primordial Spirit improvement was also huge. The soul power in this Ancient Demon flesh gave Li Hao's Primordial Spirit a strong sense of dry heat, golden meridians emerging.

He and the middle-aged soldier each ate half. Just half a body added five golden meridians to Li Hao's Primordial Spirit.

And the middle-aged soldier also received great improvement. Li Hao could feel his aura becoming more thick and terrifying.

For this, Li Hao was also happy for him. The stronger the other was, the more chance they had to slaughter their way out of the ancient road.

After eating and drinking his fill, the next day, Li Hao and the middle-aged soldier killed their way into the Man Demon's territory.

With the lessons from before, this time the middle-aged soldier sneaked in to explore first, confirming there were no other Ancient Demon leaders, and then immediately began a great slaughter with Li Hao.

Li Hao naturally wasn't willing to be lonely, and with his hands itching, he slaughtered with him.

However, in the Immortal Transformation state, Li Hao discovered that the Immortal power he had accumulated in his body could actually be vaguely mobilized.

However, the Immortal power he could call upon, when released, turned into more thick Heaven and Earth power, rather than Immortal power.

But despite this, the power Li Hao could release in the Immortal Transformation state could actually directly suppress Second-Rank Ancient Demons! With the two cooperating, this Man Demon's territory was wiped out, and the ground was full of Ancient Demon corpses.

"This time, we can rest well. These Ancient Demons don't visit each other that frequently on weekdays. Perhaps they don't see each other for hundreds of years. After all, one retreat might be hundreds of years."

After the battle ended, the middle-aged soldier said to Li Hao with a beaming smile.

Li Hao also smiled, knowing what this meant.

They could have sufficient time to rest and improve their strength.

The two settled in the Man Demon's territory and continued to start their daily eating, drinking, and resting.

Li Hao's tenth-stage cooking experience soon filled up, reaching a bottleneck.

To continue improving, he needed to comprehend the Culinary Immortal Dao.

The Immortal Dao was ethereal, and Li Hao had no clue, but Li Hao also knew that this kind of thing couldn't be rushed. Perhaps an occasional cooking session, having some comprehension, would lead to a sudden enlightenment.

Besides cooking, Li Hao painted in his spare time, and his painting experience also filled up.

Compared to these two, Li Hao now wanted to improve his fishing and chess skills. If he could also improve them to the tenth stage, Li Hao's strength would usher in a leap in improvement.

His sword Dao and movement technique could both sacrifice to the Dao.

But here, there was no opponent for chess, and the middle-aged soldier wasn't proficient in this Dao. Li Hao could only choose carving, which he could practice himself. In his spare time, he would carve some Ancient Demons and the figures of old friends.

The middle-aged soldier no longer entered the state of divine blood receding to preserve his strength. Besides eating and drinking, he taught Li Hao his own Immortal Dao techniques every day.

Sword techniques, movement techniques, and Immortal Army battle tactics.

Li Hao didn't refuse either, recording all of these into the panel.

Besides Immortal Pointing the Way, the sword technique the middle-aged soldier taught Li Hao was also an Immortal Dao sword technique of a Great Immortal Sect, named Absolute Cliff No-Dao Sword.

This sword had three levels, but when the middle-aged soldier participated in the war back then, his strength was ordinary, and he only learned the first level: Myriad Sword Cliff.

This sword's power was extremely terrifying, but it covered a very wide range. However, in the middle-aged soldier's life-and-death trials time and time again, he had improved it, constantly simplifying and refining it, from Myriad Sword Cliff to Lone Sword Cliff.

From the original one sword out, ten thousand swords rise, to now one sword out, one sword extinguished!

Li Hao felt that this Lone Sword Cliff, although it had no follow-up, the exquisiteness of this one sword move would mostly not be inferior to the initial moves of those top Immortal Dao sword techniques.

Compared to the Immortal Pointing the Way he had mastered, it was sharper and more terrifying! After all, this was honed in the baptism of blood and fire over countless years, already having a feeling of touching the origin of chaos.

Besides sword techniques, the movement technique the middle-aged soldier taught was also extremely powerful, but unfortunately, Li Hao's movement Dao comprehension was only at the sixth stage. Although he was fast and proficient, it couldn't be called mastery.

And the middle-aged soldier also saw that Li Hao seemed to have great sword Dao talent, able to display the artistic conception after looking at the Lone Sword Cliff he taught once, but he had no comprehension in terms of movement techniques, displaying them somewhat clumsily.

For this, he felt in his heart that the youth before him was much more real.

After all, his soul age was less than sixty years, yet he was already so terrifying. Compared to those brilliant monsters he had once seen, he was not inferior at all, simply a perfect genius.

Now it seemed that the other finally had flaws.

That Immortal Army battle tactic was a powerful fighting method taught in the Immortal Army back then, and it was also very suitable for Li Hao. Although his physical body was strong, he hadn't had many opportunities to cultivate and improve his close-quarters fighting ability. Now that he had obtained the Immortal Army battle tactic, although he hadn't been able to comprehend it proficiently, his combat power had already improved.

As time passed, the Ancient Demons hunted earlier decreased one by one.

Li Hao and the middle-aged soldier's Primordial Spirits were both improving rapidly, becoming more and more terrifying.

The middle-aged soldier's eyes were also becoming brighter and brighter, feeling that the hope of rushing out of the ancient road was becoming greater and greater. He even suspected that if he could slaughter and eat all the Ancient Demons on this ancient road, he might break through the bottleneck and become a True Monarch!

Time flew by.

One year later.

The Ancient Demon corpses hunted earlier had reached the bottom.

Over this past year, it had been very quiet in the Man Demon's territory, and no other Ancient Demons had detected the movement here.

As the last Ancient Demon was eaten, Li Hao looked at the middle-aged soldier, knowing it was time to hunt.

"With your current strength, if you return to that pseudo-realm, no one should be able to do anything to you, right?"

The middle-aged soldier said to Li Hao.

Li Hao nodded slightly. Seven or eight hundred Ancient Demons had been eaten by them. On Li Hao's Primordial Spirit, more than three hundred golden meridians had condensed. Just the Primordial Spirit had extremely terrifying power. If he encountered Source Ancestor and God King and the others again, even if they joined forces and had the power of the God Realm, Li Hao could rely on his Primordial Spirit to suppress them.

This was suppression at the soul level; human sea tactics were useless.

The middle-aged soldier stared at Li Hao for a moment, not saying anything else, just silently remembering this favor of Li Hao's.

Li Hao already had the ability to return, but now he still chose to accompany him to continue fighting on the ancient road.

"Let's go. Wait until this ancient road is cleared, then I'll go back."

Li Hao smiled.

"Hmm."

The middle-aged soldier nodded, his eyes filled with longing and yearning for what the True Realm looked like now after that battle back then. He wanted to see what the True Realm had become now that the battle had ended.

The two tidied up and lurked toward an Ancient Demon territory.

This time, it was still the middle-aged soldier who sneaked in secretly first.

He discovered that in this Ancient Demon territory, there was only that Ancient Demon leader and hundreds of Ancient Demons.

Once confirmed there were no other accidents, the middle-aged soldier and Li Hao struck simultaneously.

One was responsible for the leader, the other for harvesting the remaining Ancient Demons.

Li Hao manipulated the residual sword to kill out. The Primordial Spirit followed closely. Earlier, while cooking the Ancient Demons, Li Hao had already detected that his current object manipulation speed was terrifyingly fast.

From his ambush to success, it was only one breath. More than a dozen Third-Rank Ancient Demons gathered together had their physical bodies killed by the residual sword.

Afterwards, the Primordial Spirit whistled out. Before these Ancient Demons' Primordial Spirits could react, they hurriedly released black mist. Li Hao's Primordial Spirit didn't dodge, killing directly into the black mist, smashing the Primordial Spirits of these Ancient Demons to pieces, presenting a crushing momentum!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 612 =====