Chapter 866

"That's right."

Shi Miao nodded and said: "Whether it's the Immortal Monarch Realm or the True Immortal Realm, in terms of talent, in terms of the holy land of cultivation, even if the environment is good, the speed of cultivation is not as fast as the Immortal King Realm. Deducing Dao laws through the sentient beings in the boundary domain is completely another level."

"But even so, if the Immortal Monarch Realm is walking ten miles a day, the Immortal King Realm is walking a thousand miles a day, but the time spent to improve one realm in the Immortal King Realm is ten times more than the Immortal Monarch Realm!"

"One must constantly condense the boundary domain and build the boundary domain to have a chance to step into the Quasi-Emperor Realm. Everything accumulated and precipitated in the Immortal King Realm is for the sprint to that supreme ultimate realm!"

Hearing Shi Miao's words, Li Hao was somewhat dazed, but he smiled bitterly in his heart, feeling more and more the terror of this Immortal King Realm, profound like an abyss.

"No wonder one has to go to that Endless Xiao Tianyu."

Li Hao said.

At this moment, he already understood how great the influence of this Heavenly Dao power was on the Immortal King Realm.

Shi Miao said: "Going to the Endless Xiao Tianyu, besides plundering Heavenly Dao power, is mainly to accumulate enough high Heavenly Dao power so that in the future, one might have a chance to prove the Dao of the Heavenly Heart and obtain the recognition of the Heavenly Heart."

Li Hao nodded. The Endless Xiao Tianyu was a hundred times more critical than Chaos Stars; it was a true fork in the road.

"With your Other Shore Boundary Domain, being able to resist ten thousand laws, wouldn't the Immortal Monarch Realm be unable to hurt you at all?"

Li Hao asked Kuqiao.

A strange look flashed across Kuqiao's face, but he still said extremely politely: "That is indeed the case."

The Immortal Monarch Realm itself was difficult to hurt the Immortal King Realm across realms, let alone him. Even an ordinary Immortal King Realm cultivator could not be compared to the Immortal Monarch Realm, not to mention that he was definitely not a weakling in the Immortal King Realm.

"If it's just a boundary domain, the Immortal Monarch Realm cannot affect it. Even if smelting 23 Chaos Laws, one can only destroy an ordinary boundary domain. If one encounters a strong one, it cannot be compared."

Kuqiao added for Li Hao.

In his view, Li Hao would sooner or later be able to smelt 23 Chaos Laws and become one of the top people, but he must never underestimate the Immortal King Realm because of this. After all, those who could cultivate into the Immortal King Realm would not be mediocre people in the Immortal Monarch Realm.

Li Hao nodded. Comparing the Immortal Monarch Realm to the Immortal King Realm across realms was indeed a massive gap.

Smelting 23 Chaos Laws could allow one to dominate ten thousand enemies in the Immortal Monarch Realm. It would not be an exaggeration to say it was a horizontal push, but it was still difficult to kill an Immortal King across realms.

After carefully visiting Kuqiao's boundary domain, Li Hao then contemplated the boundary domains of other Immortal King disciples.

"I have the Unbreakable Boundary Domain. Ten thousand Dao laws, unbreakable is King. Although my boundary domain is insufficient in attack, among peers, no one has been able to affect my boundary domain!"

Another Immortal King Realm disciple said to Li Hao, his face full of confidence.

Being able to display it in front of Li Hao and get the favor of this personal disciple would also be a chance. If the other party mentioned a word or two in front of the Master, perhaps he could get the focus of the Immortal Emperor's cultivation. Even if he wasn't accepted as a personal disciple, it would definitely be better than many others now.

Hearing his words, Kuqiao beside him nodded and said: "Brother Han Ku's Unbreakable Boundary Domain is indeed powerful. We have sparred and compared, and no one has been able to break it. Even the Destruction Boundary Domain, which focuses on space power, is only on par with him."

Hearing this, Li Hao became interested and entered Brother Han Ku's boundary domain to visit.

There was also a sea of life in this boundary domain, with rich and vigorous energy, not inferior to Kuqiao's. Many life forms with different shapes were nurtured and born from it. Some climbed out of the sea of life and walked in the surrounding forests, establishing tribes and groups. Some lived in the wilderness, becoming flying birds and fierce beasts.

There were also some who continued to immerse themselves in the sea of life, constantly nurturing and growing stronger. Before climbing out of the sea of life, their size had already surpassed many lives that had grown mature outside.

Li Hao saw that the laws here were woven together, actually constructing a mysterious and profound array pattern, as if a giant shield, enveloping the sky of the entire boundary domain.

Li Hao stared carefully but found it difficult to comprehend, only feeling that every extension of the laws seemed to be able to evenly distribute the local bearing capacity to the entire boundary domain.

In this way, to break this boundary domain, one would only need unimaginable power. No wonder he dared to claim it was unbreakable!

"How does it look?"

That Brother Han Ku looked at Li Hao, his eyes full of confidence, somewhat proud.

Li Hao nodded repeatedly: "Powerful, powerful."

Shi Miao, however, had a plain expression and said: "Just a lower-grade Dao."

"Lower-grade Dao?"

Hearing Li Hao's words, the smile that had just spread on Brother Han Ku's face froze instantly. He turned to Shi Miao with some anger. Earlier, Shi Miao had infiltrated, and he hadn't deliberately blocked it, but instead, he was looked down upon by this girl because of it.

"Then may I ask what is the superior-grade Dao?"

Brother Han Ku restrained his anger and asked with concentration.

Shi Miao didn't look at him, but her gaze swept lightly around: "It seems solid as a rock, immovable as a mountain, but in fact, there are many ways to destroy it."

Brother Han Ku's expression changed. He endured his anger and clenched his fists: "Many ways? Then can you say one? Just one is enough."

Shi Miao didn't say, but looked at Li Hao, signaling Li Hao to watch carefully. She raised her slender, snow-white wrist and pointed at the sky in the boundary domain. In an instant, an erosive power of the passage of time emerged. In the blink of an eye, that power infiltrated the laws in the sky of the boundary domain. Soon, those laws changed constantly, and the original woven secret array appeared to fluctuate and break in the blink of an eye, and then... actually collapsed, leaving a hole!

The Unbreakable Boundary Domain was broken by Shi Miao with a single finger in the blink of an eye!

Seeing this scene, Brother Han Ku, who was full of anger, was stunned, and then spat out a mouthful of blood, looking at Shi Miao in horror.

"Cannot be learned."

Shi Miao said to Li Hao.

Li Hao was dumbfounded and couldn't help but smile bitterly. Although he admired this Dao, he naturally wouldn't imitate and learn it. After all, if even the boundary domain was imitated, how could one talk about opening up one's own Imperial Path.

"One should look at its merits."

Li Hao said to Shi Miao.

Shi Miao thought for a while, withdrew her finger, and nodded.

If one only picked the merits, then there was still one merit, but only one—at least in her eyes.

As Shi Miao's power withdrew from the collapsed boundary domain hole, it slowly began to heal.

Brother Han Ku's expression changed several times. He had already realized at this moment that this girl following by the personal disciple's side was absolutely not simple, and her strength was terrifying to the extreme.

His boundary domain, which had never been broken when sparring with others in this Dao field, was actually broken by the other party with a single finger. The gap in strength was probably quite wide.

"It was I who offended earlier."

Brother Han Ku said bitterly.

Such a monster evaluated his boundary domain as a lower-grade Dao. Could it really be so?

No wonder the Master looked down on them. Could it be that they were all lower-grade Daos?

His eyes suddenly became eager. He looked at Shi Miao expectantly, cupped his hands, bowed deeply, and his attitude was extremely sincere:

"May I ask the Fairy, what is the superior-grade Dao you speak of?"

Li Hao looked at Shi Miao, and his heart was also somewhat curious.

Seeing Li Hao's eyes, a beautiful smile bloomed on Shi Miao's face. In an instant, the entire boundary domain seemed to become bright, as if ten thousand flowers were in full bloom.

"The superior-grade Dao is unique and competes with the heavens!"

A short eight words, but every word was like thunder, shaking Brother Han Ku's heart.

Unique and competes with the heavens!

Without a doubt, his Unbreakable Boundary Domain could not be counted as unique, and even less so, compete with the heavens!

After all, the core of his path was already wrong. Only seeking to be unbreakable, then how could one stand? How could one compete with the heavens?!

"So that's how it is..."

Brother Han Ku muttered to himself, his eyes dazed, only feeling waves of thoughts surging in his mind.

Hearing Shi Miao's words, Li Hao's eyes also flickered slightly. Compete with the heavens?

To put it carefully, it meant the heart should be equal to the heavens!

This was simple to say, but to truly do it was even more difficult.

"Heart equal to the heavens... but the heavens are so supreme. The moment one looks up, it is already unequal. Then how can the heart be equal to the heavens?"

Li Hao said to himself.

For a long time, he withdrew his thoughts, continued to visit the other party's boundary domain, and then continued to find the next Immortal King Realm disciple.

Just like this, Li Hao continued to contemplate boundary domains one after another in the first-layer Dao field.

There were Nine Sequence origins in these boundary domains, and there were also wild domains. Some had already established large tribes, some had even established dynasties, and strange races were living inside. Some were deliberately created, and what were cultivated were all humans.

In the boundary domain, these Immortal King boundary masters could control time and space freely and could control everything that happened in the boundary domain.

"There are Nine Sequence laws and ten thousand Dao laws in this boundary domain..."

Li Hao only learned after talking to these Immortal Kings that reaching the Immortal King Realm basically meant mastering Nine Sequence laws!

However, they mastered Nine Sequence laws, but not Nine Sequence Immortal Seals!

The difference lay in the fact that to condense a Nine Sequence Immortal Seal, one must be in the True Immortal Realm stage!

Once missed, even if one comprehended Nine Sequence laws, the Immortal Seal would not change.

And these Immortal Kings all perfected the laws during the bottleneck of the Immortal Monarch Realm and then broke through the realm!

To break through the realm to become a King, one must condense Nine Sequence laws to have the power to build the foundation of the boundary domain.

The two were one before and one after. They looked like Nine Sequence laws, but the difference was not big. In fact, when the Immortal Seal turned into a boundary domain, it would become the core soil of the boundary domain. Therefore, the strength of the Immortal Seal would also become the strength of the core of the boundary domain. If the outside of the boundary domain was destroyed, as long as the core was not extinguished, it could be reorganized and condensed.

Looking at many boundary domains, Li Hao could be considered to have feasted his eyes. If it weren't for his special status as a personal disciple and his great fame in the last hundred years, these Immortal King Realm disciples might not necessarily have been willing to display their own boundary domains for Li Hao to watch.

"No wonder the Master said that a boundary domain lies in the boundary, not the domain!"

"Domains are all like this, only the Boundary Heart is different."

"Kuqiao's Other Shore, and Nine Burning's Life and Death boundary domains, all have extraordinary Boundary Hearts, not lower-grade Daos, but in the end, they are not superior-grade Daos either!"

Li Hao thought to himself.

The Other Shore Boundary Domain had the grand ambition of saving the world from the sea of suffering, but the way of saving chose a small path.

Building a bridge to the other side of the sea of suffering.

If it were truly the Great Dao, then it should be filling the sea of suffering, or burning the sea of suffering dry. Why build a bridge oneself? The Heavenly Dao is the bridge!

"So that's what the Master's words meant..."

"Only by first having a Boundary Heart, and the heart reaching that supreme height, is it possible to walk toward that supreme path!"

"If the heart hasn't reached it, then how can one walk it?"

Li Hao fell into deep thought, thanked the various Immortal King Junior Brothers, and followed Shi Miao back to the small courtyard on the top of the mountain.

After that, for several months, Li Hao was contemplating in the courtyard, painting every day, immersed in it.

In the blink of an eye, several years passed.

One day.

A figure came to the small courtyard. Seeing Li Hao painting in the courtyard, he couldn't help but have his eyes flicker and said: "Little Junior Brother is truly in a good mood."

Li Hao looked up and saw it was Second Senior Brother Di Wushe. He couldn't help but show a smile and said: "Second Senior Brother, please sit quickly."

He hurriedly welcomed him into the small courtyard.

Di Wushe was not polite either. In the past hundred years, he had also come to Li Hao's small courtyard several times, but it was always this avatar of his that came here.

"Come, drink tea."

Li Hao tore through the heaven and earth space, took out good tea from inside, and brewed it for his Second Senior Brother.

The washing of the tea was also extremely particular, but these were all included in the cooking Dao, not the separate tea Dao.

"Little Junior Brother's tea is still the best." Di Wushe laughed lightly. After the tea was brewed and he took a sip, he immediately took out a Domain Artifact from his boundary domain.

"The Ancient Demon corpses you wanted are all here."

In over a hundred years, Li Hao had eaten several batches of Ancient Demon corpses, all sent by his Second Senior Brother.

Li Hao took the Domain Artifact, soaked his spiritual sense inside to take a look, and saw a large number of Ancient Demon corpses, among which there were also King-level Ancient Demons, enough to eat for more than a dozen years.

"Second Senior Brother, how is the situation on the Imperial Clan border?"

Li Hao also drank tea and chatted with his Second Senior Brother.

Hearing this, Di Wushe's handsome brows frowned slightly, and he sighed lightly, saying: "These things are stubborn diseases, existing for a long time. It's just that recently, the Ancient Demon Clan seems to have some turmoil. The previously scattered Ancient Demon bloodlines of the Ten Great King Clans now have a trend of uniting among several branches. This is not a good situation."

Li Hao was slightly stunned, and his eyes couldn't help but become solemn.

The Ancient Demon disaster concerned the entire True Realm. This naturally also included the Primordial True Realm!

If the True Realm did not exist, the Primordial True Realm being invaded and destroyed was only a matter of time. They were just like lips and teeth.

"Uniting?"

Li Hao frowned. If they united, the disaster of a hundred thousand years ago might sweep through the True Realm again.

He had a worry in his heart. This might be a signal. He contemplated all Daos in the world and deeply understood that everything in the world was bound to unite after a long division, and bound to divide after a long union.

The Great Dao was like this, the mountains and rivers were like this, and life was also like this.

Dynasties and Immortal Dynasties were all difficult to avoid this Heavenly Dao cycle.

"Little Junior Brother doesn't need to worry too much. It's not as terrifying as you think."

Di Wushe saw the worry in Li Hao's eyes and immediately waved his hand: "These Ancient Demons have been active frequently recently, just related to the upcoming Hundred Clan Mountain contention. That will be a time of turmoil in the True Realm, and the Ancient Demons might take advantage of the situation."

"Hundred Clan contention."

Li Hao was slightly stunned, and his heart moved. He had heard of this matter long ago. The Great Dream Master Meng Wanning was extremely concerned about this matter. The Great Dream Clan had declined ten thousand years ago due to the fall of the Heavenly Calamity Immortal Emperor, and for so many years, they had always wanted to rank among the top hundred clans.

"Although there are Ancient Demons lurking around, the ten thousand clans of the True Realm still have no way to completely avoid fighting. After all, the ten thousand clans living together is really too huge."

Di Wushe shook his head and sighed.

Everything was greed and profit. Even if the outside world was eyeing them covetously, it was difficult to completely suppress it.

Li Hao nodded. Indeed, just a village would fight and quarrel internally, a city would be like this, and a dynasty would be even more intense, not to mention the ten thousand clans of the entire True Realm.

The two chatted for a while longer, and Di Wushe said goodbye and left.

Li Hao saw him off and once again immersed himself in the cultivation and contemplation of the Painting Realm.