The Name of Eternity.

Chapter 652 There is a sky outside the sky
After absorbing the Heavenly Dao Power from this Chaos Dao Seed, Li Hao's figure blurred as he charged towards the Chaos Dao Seed on the west side.

Soon, both Chaos Seeds were dealt with, and Li Hao did not linger, continuing on his way elsewhere.

His divine sense covered three thousand miles, greatly expanding his detection range and increasing his hunting efficiency.

Li Hao conducted a thorough search, sweeping from east to west. Along the way, he detected Luo Ningshuang and Su Wanyi again through his divine sense, but he deliberately avoided them and did not meet or exchange pleasantries with them.

As for the two of them hunting here, he didn't disturb them. It's not easy for a genius to reach the Ninth Heaven Domain. Unless they harbored malice towards him or insulted the human race, he wouldn't take the initiative to interfere. After all, in the future war against the ancient demons, these geniuses today might be allies at that time.

Through continuous hunting, Li Hao accumulated an extremely rich amount of Heavenly Dao Power within his body. Each time he swept from one side of the land to the other, he could hunt down at least a hundred Chaos Dao Seeds.

He felt that he already had enough Heavenly Dao Power to construct his domain, and he needed to save the rest to improve his Chaos Dao Realm.

After the hunt, before heading to the Heavenly Path, Li Hao planned to upgrade the Chaos Dao to another level.

His previous battle with the God King made him realize that his current combat strength was not yet invincible at the Immortal Lord level.

Facing a God-King who possessed numerous ultimate powers, he had to use almost all his strength to defeat him. If he encountered an opponent of the same level again, he did not want to fight to that extent again.

"Senior sister, this is yours."

Li Hao sent two portions of Heavenly Dao Power into the space between heaven and earth and handed them to his senior sister, Di Ling Shu.

Having arrived at the Ninth Heaven Domain, Li Hao, considering the dangers there, worried that something might happen to her, so he stored her in his spatial storage, since she wouldn't have a chance to make a move here anyway.

"Junior brother, you mustn't!"

Di Lingshu was startled and hurriedly declined.

She did nothing here, yet Li Hao still honored the previous agreement and shared the Heavenly Dao Power he had hunted with her. This was the greatest opportunity for a Celestial Lord, related to the Emperor's Path. Countless top geniuses came here to compete for it, scrambling to grab it, but Li Hao just gave it away without hesitation.

As a member of an imperial family, she had obtained countless rare treasures, but even within her own family, there were conditions for acquiring those extremely rare treasures.

Talent, purity of bloodline, the foundation of her parents' lineage... even her parents chose to allocate the most cultivation resources to her among her siblings because she had higher talent and would reap greater rewards if she succeeded in cultivation in the future.

Before she met Li Hao, in the entire world, only her master had nurtured her without expecting anything in return.

The Master doesn't ask for anything in return because if you want to repay your Master, you would at least have to cultivate to the highest realm and become an Immortal Emperor before you would be qualified to talk about repaying.

Aside from his master, there was only the young man before him.

That's precisely why she finds it even more unacceptable.

"We agreed before, so take it if it's yours," Li Hao said.

Di Ling Shu smiled bitterly. Li Hao had previously said he would give her one-tenth of what he had cleaned. One-tenth didn't sound like much, but after cleaning the Eighth Heaven Domain, even just one-tenth would be a terrifying amount.

She was determined not to take back the power of the Heavenly Dao from the Ninth Heavenly Domain.

"Junior brother, you've given me more than enough, really more than enough."

Di Lingshu said repeatedly.

"It was all agreed upon beforehand."

“…Junior brother, please, I’m begging you.”

Di Ling Shu said this with a bitter face, feeling a sense of absurdity in her heart.

Just from listening to the conversation, one would think she had suffered some great injustice; no one would dare to imagine that the other party was forcibly giving her the power of the Heavenly Dao.

"..."

Li Hao was somewhat speechless, but he was unwilling to force Di Ling Shu. He said, "Is Senior Sister worried that she won't be able to repay the favor? It's alright. Now that we're here, we should make this opportunity come to a perfect end."

Di Ling Shu understood Li Hao's intentions and said repeatedly, "It's already perfect enough. The Heavenly Dao Power within me is sufficient."

Besides being unable to bear accepting any more, she genuinely felt that the Heavenly Dao Power within her body was already sufficient. Otherwise, if this amount wasn't enough, then the Heavenly Dao Power that others received would be nothing more than a grain of rice.

Seeing that she insisted on refusing, Li Hao thought for a moment and didn't press her further, saying, "Tell me if it's not enough."

"Ah."

Di Ling Shu nodded, but felt a sense of relief.

She was truly worried that she would find it difficult to repay such a deep favor.

Li Hao retrieved the two portions of Heavenly Dao Power and then continued to sweep forward, hunting down Chaos Dao Seeds.

They encountered a Chaos Dao Seed at the Beast King level, whose combat strength was similar to the four that had ambushed them by the Chaos River earlier, but Li Hao easily killed them.

"Ok?"

Suddenly, Li Hao, who was walking forward, saw a figure walking on the water on a lake.

The figure was dressed in a black robe, with a veiled face, a well-proportioned figure, and an aura of coldness and unapproachability emanating from him.

When Li Hao's divine sense detected the other party, the person seemed to notice Li Hao as well, and actually turned their eyes toward Li Hao's location.

Li Hao was slightly taken aback. The moment the other person turned their gaze towards him, he felt as if their eyes met. At that moment, he was certain that the other person had noticed him.

However, his spiritual sense range is over three thousand miles, so usually he can sense others while they remain completely unaware.

This is the first time that at the same time he noticed the other person, the other person could also notice him!

Li Hao felt a chill run down his spine, and his hair stood on end. He had thought that the God King he had encountered earlier, even if he wasn't the top among these geniuses, was at least one of the best. But the black-robed youth he was facing was clearly an even more terrifying being.

"His spiritual sense is almost the same as mine, or even possibly surpasses mine!"

Li Hao's eyes narrowed slightly. Did this mean that the other party's True God bloodline surpassed his?!

Along the way, Li Hao encountered many powerful enemies, but this was the first time he had met someone of the same realm whose divine sense surpassed his own.

His expression was solemn, and he stopped in place, not moving any further.

They were separated by thousands of miles, gazing at each other from afar.

On the lake, a glint flashed in the eyes of the young man in black robes, his heart filled with surprise.

Is divine sense really that far away?
To reach such a range in this ninth heaven, the opponent is definitely not at the peak of the primordial spirit realm, but has condensed true god blood, and in considerable quantities!
"Celestial Lord Realm, True God Blood, and at least three thousand drops condensed?"

The young man in black robes was somewhat dazed, and for a moment even wondered if it was one of his old friends who had been reincarnated into this world.

"That young man seems to be... the human Haotian who caused such a stir before?"

"Not of our kind, could he be the reincarnation of the human emperor?"

"The legend of 69 stars in one day... seems to have no other possibility except for the awakening of the Great Emperor."

His eyes flickered slightly. If the other party was also a Great Emperor, then it seemed he wouldn't be alone on this journey to the Heavenly Realm. Otherwise, competing with those little guys would be rather boring and tedious.

A slight smile appeared on his lips as he nodded slightly to the other person. The smile in his eyes, along with the nod, revealed a sharp edge of murderous intent, yet it did not lack politeness and magnanimity.

Li Hao was slightly taken aback when he sensed the calm and composed killing intent in the other party's eyes. This feeling was very strange. Although it was killing intent, it was extremely calm and composed. The killing intent did not come from personal grudges or petty hatreds, but rather seemed to be a great righteous feud between races. It had both the calmness of treating the opponent as an opponent and the determination to fight with all one's might.

"Even though the God-King is a quasi-emperor reincarnated, he never gave me this feeling of danger..."

Li Hao's eyes trembled slightly. "Could this person be the reincarnation of some great emperor?"

Although he had heard of the reincarnation of the Great Emperor before, and had even fought against the reincarnation of the Great Emperor in the battles of other prodigies, most of those reincarnations of the Great Emperor were just a wisp of the remnant soul of the Emperor Venerable, and did not even inherit the complete memories of their previous lives. Therefore, although they performed exceptionally well, they were still suppressed and killed by the prodigies of the time.

But the young man in black robes before him seemed different from all of them.

"It seems that those who can come to this Ninth Heaven Domain are indeed not simple."

Li Hao took a deep look, memorized the aura of the black-robed youth, and without lingering, passed him and continued flying forward.

They were about to clash, but the battlefield wasn't here; it was on the path to heaven.

On the lake, the young man in black robes watched Li Hao leave and slowly withdrew his gaze. His previously numb and indifferent heart suddenly became more energetic, as if he had found some fun.

"The road to heaven awaits you."

He whispered, then continued walking slowly forward with his hands behind his back.

Although they walked slowly, each step they took covered hundreds of feet in an instant, and they left the lake in just a few steps, moving at an extremely fast speed.

……

Li Hao continued his hunt and clearing, and along the way he saw some other groups of people, a dozen or so of them, hunting Chaos Seeds. However, their auras were noticeably weaker, and judging from their control over the Chaos Laws, they had not yet refined 23 Chaos Laws.

Therefore, even with a dozen people working together, hunting down Chaos Seeds here is extremely difficult.

Li Hao glanced at it, ignored it, and continued walking.

As he continued to hunt and exterminate, the number of Chaos Seeds in the Ninth Heaven Domain was rapidly decreasing.

Meanwhile, after Li Hao and the God Venerable fought and left, Xue Fei waited for a while. Seeing that the God Venerable had not returned for a long time, she did not wait any longer and left the place to hunt down the Chaos Dao Seed alone.

"Both of these two have unleashed their full potential, making them formidable opponents capable of fighting me. Grandmother was right after all; anyone who can fight alone in the Ninth Heaven Realm possesses extraordinary strength."

Xue Fei's eyes were solemn. Having witnessed the battle between Li Hao and the God Venerable, her original arrogance gradually subsided. She realized that there were always higher realms to conquer, and although she was from the ancient immortal clan, it seemed that she might not be able to sweep through this place.

Compared to the human boy's outstanding performance, her brilliance was overshadowed.

"However, their domain artifacts are damaged, so it seems they are no longer qualified to be enemies on the path to heaven."

Xue Fei shook her head and hurried on her way. She did not wait for the God Venerable, who was just a temporary teammate she had brought along to hunt Chaos Seeds more quickly here.

If we stop now and wait for the other party, we will be putting the cart before the horse.

……

In the blink of an eye, two days passed.

Li Hao had already thoroughly swept through the Ninth Heaven Domain, encountering many other prodigies along the way. However, Li Hao did not try to seize their opportunities; instead, he silently bypassed them and continued hunting other Chaos Seeds.

If they find it, that's their skill; if they don't, Li Hao will gladly accept it all.

"I've heard that the Path to Heaven can appear anywhere in one of the Nine Heavens Domains. I wonder if it has appeared yet?"

"However, I heard that the Path to Heaven only takes three days. There are still eight days left. If I stay for three days, I can go to the Seven Elders' place to watch the chess game for another five days."

Li Hao thought to himself.

Thinking about this, he felt a sense of satisfaction.

He immediately arrived at the depths of the Endless Heavenly Domain, where he released his divine sense and called out, "Seventh Elder, this junior wishes to observe the game for a few more days. I hope you will grant my request."

As he spoke, he bowed deeply to the void.

He believed that with the Seven Elders' strength, even if they said they were not as powerful as the Immortal Emperor, they should still be able to hear him speak anywhere in the Ninth Heaven Domain, even if they were only at the Quasi-Emperor level.

Sure enough, not long after Li Hao finished speaking, the void in front of him began to blur, and a bamboo forest path stretched out.

"Since we are like-minded people, come on in."

The old man's aged voice came with a cheerful laugh.

Li Hao was overjoyed and followed the bamboo path. Soon he saw the thatched hut, the two old men playing chess in front of it, and the big black dog.

When the big black dog saw Li Hao, it stretched its neck and looked at him. Li Hao could clearly see anger and resentment in its eyes.

Li Hao walked over, and the Seven Elders laughed, "You've hunted down quite a few Chaos Dao Seeds these past two days, which has really infuriated this little guy."

Li Hao glanced at the big black dog. The dog was considered the strongest Chaos Dao Seed in the Ninth Heaven Domain. He wondered how much Heavenly Dao Power it contained.
Seeing Li Hao's gaze, the big black dog's eyes suddenly changed from resentment to wariness, staring at Li Hao nervously and angrily, as if to say, "What do you want to do?"
Seeing its nervous appearance, Li Hao abandoned his thoughts. After all, it was the old couple's beloved dog, and he naturally couldn't hunt it down.

"I didn't expect you to have received Dao Yuan's true teachings. Kid, practice hard and try to surpass Dao Yuan."

The eight elders, with their backs to Li Hao and without turning around, suddenly spoke.

Li Hao was stunned. Hearing him refer to Dao Yuan as "that kid" repeatedly, he was speechless. He didn't know how old his master was, but he was at least 100,000 years old. After all, Dao Yuan Immortal Emperor was an Immortal Emperor who survived the ancient demon war 100,000 years ago.

But the other party's tone suggested that they were just a junior, just like how I was perceived, with no difference between us.

Thinking that these two elders were both born from the same source of chaos, Li Hao smiled wryly and said, "What you say is true, senior. I will do my best."

"Humph."

The eight elders snorted coldly and continued playing chess.

Li Hao knew that the battle outside had not been kept from the two elders, so he asked curiously, "Seniors, do you know where the Heavenly Road will appear?"

"That depends on the will of Heaven. If Heaven intends to play tricks, it may set it in the Ninth Heaven."

The Seventh Elder said with a smile.

Li Hao was speechless. If that were true, then most people who came here would probably never see the Heavenly Road, let alone climb it.

"Since you've come to watch the game, then focus on watching. If you have other things on your mind, then leave."

"I said," the elder said calmly.

Upon hearing this, Li Hao immediately refocused his attention and said, "This junior has come to watch the game."

(End of this chapter)