The Name of Eternity.

Chapter 659 Breaking Through to Become a King
"Quasi-Emperor Realm?"

Upon hearing this, Di Wushe suppressed his astonishment. He was also a quasi-emperor, and seeing that the mysterious old man Li Hao spoke of was of equal strength to him, his sense of awe dissipated.

"Then Master, why don't they switch to cultivating the Emperor's Path?" Gu Mofan asked.

Dao Yuan Immortal Emperor shook his head, "To change one's cultivation is to deny everything in one's past. Although they are only comparable to Quasi-Emperor, in terms of lifespan, they are comparable to Immortal Emperor. Simply put, they are all beings who have achieved immortality. If there is no dispute, there is no need to change one's cultivation."

"If it were me, I would rather start over, as long as I can reach the highest level."

Di Wushe said calmly, his eyes only focused on his unwavering pursuit of the peak.

Hearing his second disciple's words, Dao Yuan Immortal Emperor smiled slightly and said, "You pursue the peak because you have not yet reached it. In the Primordial Chaos Era, they were already at the peak and invincible in the world. At that time, your master and other Immortal Emperors had not yet sprouted and been born. After being an emperor for countless years, there is not much interest in being an emperor again. Moreover, even becoming an Immortal Emperor does not mean that you have reached the peak."

Upon hearing their master's words, both Long Qingge and Lei Jingfeng were taken aback. Long Qingge asked in astonishment, "Master, could it be that there are even higher beings above the Immortal Emperor?"

"That's not true."

Dao Yuan Immortal Emperor shook his head, "But as you all know, my two greatest achievements in this world are firstly opening up the final realm of Dao Yuan Immortal Seal, and secondly creating the Ultimate Dao Method, which can break the shackles of one's foundation and break through the limits!"

"These are two paths to imperial power!"

"Simply put, if you're exceptionally talented enough, you might even be able to create a third, a fourth..."

"Even Immortal Emperors are not immune to this."

Upon hearing their master's words, both of them were shocked and immediately felt that the sea of ​​learning was boundless and had no end.

"If one cultivates to the level of a master, one is as vast as the sun and moon. If one does not care for the common people and only seeks to protect oneself, even if there is an ancient demon calamity and the world is in turmoil, one will not be harmed. Over the long years, one will eventually comprehend more of the Emperor's Path. But... one is invincible, but also boring."

"If one cannot bear the burden of the common people, how can one presume to call oneself an emperor?"

For a fleeting moment, a hint of vicissitude flashed in the eyes of Dao Yuan Immortal Emperor, but he quickly concealed it. He shook his head slightly and said to Li Hao:

"You have cleared out two heavenly realms and obtained more than enough Heavenly Dao power. Have you encountered any powerful enemies on your way to ascend to heaven?"

Li Hao's heart stirred, sensing that his master's words were an attempt to probe the black-robed youth.

Before Li Hao could even speak, Di Ling Shu beside him launched into a rapid-fire explanation of Li Hao's missed opportunity to win the Heavenly Heart.

Shi Miao and Gu Mofan already knew about it on their way here, so they didn't react much. However, Di Wushe and the others were all stunned and stared blankly at Li Hao.

This junior brother actually gave up his chance to become emperor?

Dao Yuan Immortal Emperor didn't react much to Di Ling Shu's words, only glancing at Li Hao with some surprise before a smile appeared on his lips, and he said:

"It seems that having too high aspirations isn't necessarily a good thing, you lad. You're too straightforward."

Li Hao was stunned. He thought his master would scold him, but it turned out to be just a lighthearted remark.

Di Ling Shu hadn't expected her master to react this way, and asked in surprise, "Master, aren't you angry?"

Dao Yuan Immortal Emperor glanced at her indifferently and said, "Attaining the Dao of Heaven's Heart is indeed an unparalleled opportunity, but Heaven's Heart is unpredictable. Gaining it is also losing it. Although it is a pity, if one's own Dao Heart is incompatible, there is no need to force it. Otherwise, even if one becomes an emperor, there will be cracks and flaws."

Di Wushe, Gu Mofan, and Zhan Qinghuang remained silent, lost in thought.

Di Ling Shu looked somewhat bewildered and asked, "Master, do you mean this might not be a bad thing?"

"You have been cultivating with your master for hundreds of years. Although it is not a long time, it is not short either. You have also comprehended the sixth level of the Origin of Time. You are still one step away from the seventh level. This one step away is that you have not yet realized that in the face of the long river of time, all things are uncertain. Today's mountains and rivers are tomorrow's abysses. Today's people praise you, tomorrow's people will despise you. What is good and what is bad?"

Dao Yuan Immortal Emperor quietly looked at Di Ling Shu. His words, each a Daoist pronouncement, stunned Di Ling Shu. In an instant, all the resentment and heartache she felt for Li Hao seemed to be soothed. She was somewhat dazed, as if she saw countless scenes changing before her eyes. At this moment, the sealed realm of the origin of time seemed to show signs of breaking through its bottleneck.

"What are your plans now?"

Dao Yuan Immortal Emperor looked at Li Hao with a calm gaze, as if he could see through all of Li Hao's thoughts.

Li Hao was slightly taken aback, and suddenly felt that nothing could be hidden from this master, as if the other party could see through everything and glimpse the past and the future.

He immediately cupped his hands and truthfully said, "This disciple intends to break through to the next realm and be granted the title of King."

"Ah."

Dao Yuan Immortal Emperor was not surprised and nodded, saying, "With your foundation, you've reached your limit. It's indeed time to take that step. As for Ling Shu..."

He paused for a moment, then said, "You can continue to cultivate here."

Di Ling Shu did not intend to break through to the next realm at the same time as Li Hao. Although she could become a king at any time, she had only refined ten chaotic laws, which was far from twenty-three. Naturally, she wanted to accumulate more foundation.

"Junior Brother, I never expected you to be made a king first," Long Qingge couldn't help but sigh.

The moment he uttered those words, he felt two sharp needles piercing his eyes. Turning around, he met the gaze of his junior sister, Ling Shu, and felt utterly resentful.

Zhan Qinghuang covered her mouth and laughed, "Junior Sister, you'd better work harder, or you'll fall too far behind your Junior Brother."

Di Ling Shu blushed, glared at her angrily, and said, "Isn't he your junior brother? Don't be so complacent. With your junior brother's cultivation speed, he might already be at the Quasi-Emperor Realm, while you're still stuck in the same place!"

Upon hearing this, Zhan Qinghuang's smile vanished, Di Wushe's smile also disappeared, and Gu Mofan suddenly became expressionless.

Di Lingshu shrank her neck slightly, suddenly realizing that she had offended three people with just one sentence.

"If Junior Brother's cultivation speed is really that fast, that's naturally a good thing, but we won't stand still either."

Gu Mofan said indifferently.

Di Wushe said coldly, "I have been searching for this Emperor's Path for tens of thousands of years, and it should be almost time to find it."

"Even if Junior Brother breaks through to the Immortal King realm, the cultivation of the Immortal King realm is not the same as the Immortal Monarch realm. Each step is a new level, and it takes tens of thousands of years to reach the perfection of the Immortal King realm. Do you think we can't step out of the Emperor's Path in ten thousand years?"

Zhan Qinghuang squinted at Di Lingshu.

Di Ling Shu was speechless, but her proud nature as a member of the imperial clan prevented her from admitting defeat. She muttered in a low voice, "Junior Brother's cultivation speed cannot be judged by common sense. Have you ever seen someone comprehend 69 stars in a day? Perhaps in a few thousand years, Junior Brother will reach the Quasi-Emperor Realm."

Upon hearing her words, Di Wushe and Gu Mofan could no longer maintain their stern expressions. With Li Hao's talent, it was indeed possible. After all, comprehending 69 stars in a single day was too exaggerated. Other top geniuses would need tens of thousands of years to cultivate to the peak of the Immortal King Realm. For Li Hao, it might really only take a few thousand years!
"you……"

Zhan Qinghuang still wanted to scare Di Lingshu with a stern face, but at this moment she couldn't help but feel a little helpless. She suddenly felt that that day might really happen. This junior brother was really too monstrous.

"Ling Shu has been surpassed; now it's just the few of you."

At this moment, Dao Yuan Immortal Emperor also spoke, glancing at the group indifferently, and said, "Don't let that day come when the last to enter the sect ends up at the front. Otherwise, all my efforts in cultivating you will have been in vain."

Di Wushe's lips twitched slightly, knowing that his master was deliberately adding insult to injury. However, even knowing this, he still felt a sense of urgency.

As the pride of an imperial clan, he couldn't imagine that while he was still at the Quasi-Emperor realm, his junior brother would one day appear before him, only to also be at the Quasi-Emperor realm. How humiliating!

"Master, this disciple will take his leave now," Di Wushe said, bowing.

He then said to Li Hao, "Junior Brother, when you break through to the King realm, come to my place if you have the chance, and I'll take you to experience the feeling of the Ancient Demon Battlefield."

Li Hao nodded.

Gu Mofan and Zhan Qinghuang could no longer stand still, so they bid farewell to their master and hurriedly left.

Lei Jingfeng and Long Qingge stood aside, looking at each other with bitter expressions. Even their senior brother felt the pressure of being surpassed, let alone the two of them. It was probably only a matter of time before this junior brother caught up with them.

"Go ahead and break through to the Extreme Dao Mountain. No one will be able to affect you. Your master will look after you."

Dao Yuan Immortal Emperor said.

Li Hao nodded, immediately bid farewell to his master, and returned to the courtyard on the mountaintop with Shi Miao.

"Finally, you are about to break through to the realm and become a king."

Shi Miao gazed at Li Hao with joy and emotion in her eyes. From Ying Xiaoxiao's memories, she knew how humble Li Hao's origins were, yet now he was competing with the top geniuses of the Primordial True Realm, the Dragon Python, and had risen to become a king!

Although being conferred the title of King is not the same as becoming an Emperor, it is a crucial step. In any major power, a Celestial King is a general-level existence who can hold down a position and is no longer easily in danger.

"Ah."

Li Hao's mood was also somewhat fluctuating. There are very few people in the world who can cultivate to become an Immortal Emperor, and the vast majority of the most outstanding geniuses only stay at the Immortal King realm throughout their lives.

This is the closest realm to the final state.

Li Hao was not in a hurry. He went to the guqin and played a calming tune for himself.

All the killings and memories of the Endless Heavenly Realm subsided. Several days later, Li Hao had everything prepared and then chose to embed the thirteen stages of the Dao of Painting into the Dao of the Physical Body!

In an instant, as his mindset became embedded and his skill points decreased, a vast and powerful aura suddenly descended, breaking through the void and arriving beside Li Hao.

The sky above the courtyard seemed to be pierced through, with a pillar of light shooting straight into the heavens. The flowers, plants, and trees in the courtyard trembled violently, and the curtains fluttered like battle flags.

This terrifying aura extended downwards, spreading from the small courtyard, across the entire mountaintop, and then down into the temple grounds.

"What's the noise?"

"Someone is going through the tribulation!"

"My God, seven-colored divine light, who is breaking through to a higher realm?"

"This imposing aura, could it be that they're bestowing a title upon a king?"

The mountaintop dojo extends downwards, and the entire Jidao Mountain feels this powerful aura. Countless disciples look up at the mountaintop, only to see the towering seven-colored divine pillar, emanating a terrifying aura of time and space, as if even the slightest entanglement would result in annihilation.

"Little fellow, are you going to graduate in just three hundred years?"

At the foot of the mountain, the quasi-emperor realm giant tortoise, Ancestor Yuanming, carrying the Extreme Dao Mountain on its back, slowly raised its head and looked up at the divine light of the realm. Its eyes shimmered with a dazzling seven-colored light: "A realm of time and space, it can be considered top-tier. Not bad."

His voice was full of approval.

In just three hundred years, he has refined the Chaos Dao to 23 Daos and opened up a spacetime realm. He will continue to be a leader among those in the Immortal King realm.

"Junior Brother has broken through to the King realm."

"Impressive presence, no wonder he's our junior brother."

In the other halls atop the mountain, the avatars of Gu Mofan, Long Qingge, and others were all there, watching Li Hao's process of being crowned king.

The myriad laws condensed, and this conferment of kingship was not only Li Hao's own conferment of kingship, but also Li Hao's selection of the myriad laws to confer kingship, choosing one law to establish himself as king, and making it his own "royal law"!
Without a doubt, Li Hao's choice at this moment is the spacetime fusion of the Nine Orders Supreme.

With the Heart of Reversing Time, Li Hao's current realm is the Realm of Reversing Time!

Outside the courtyard, Shi Miao couldn't get close either. Her hair flew as she gazed at the young man's figure, bathed in divine light.

Her eyes sparkled and shone with the light, radiant with vitality.

As the Great Dao resonated, the moment Li Hao established the King's Domain, his aura rapidly surged, breaking through the bottleneck and shackles, and stepping into the Immortal King Realm!

At that time, the laws of spacetime condensed into spacetime symbols on Li Hao's forehead. The world around him was constantly breaking and reassembling, like the surging of blue waves. In this repeated breaking, the laws, like cracks and blood vessels, permeated the body and were closely connected with Li Hao, giving him a feeling of being closely connected with the world.

He raised his hand and clenched it lightly, and the surrounding world trembled with him, as if he could shake the void and shatter eternity with a mere gesture.

"Is this... a realm?"

Li Hao was shocked. He finally understood why even top geniuses had difficulty competing with ordinary Immortal Kings. If the Dharma was a thread, then the realm was a wall!

No matter how many threads there are, or how strong they are, they will all break when the wall collapses!

Unless one forges and unifies the 24 laws of chaos, one will not have the power to break through the boundary.

At this moment, Li Hao felt the power of the Heavenly Dao he had obtained on the Path of Heaven was stirring within him, as if it wanted to merge into his realm.

But Li Hao suppressed it. He was not in a hurry. Instead, he brought up the panel and integrated the thirteenth level of chess mindset that he had gained the most from the Ninth Heaven Domain into the Imperial Dao.

As the concept of "the way of chess without form" was integrated into Li Hao's mind, the aura that had just subsided suddenly surged forth again.

A magnificent divine light appeared in the sky once again, but unlike the previous seven-colored brilliance, this time it was hazy and exuded an aura of chaos.

"Ah."

"what's the situation?"

"Another person has broken through to the realm and been granted the title of King?"

"There are two of them in one day, and both of them are on the mountaintop. That's a place where only direct disciples live."

Down the mountain, countless people who witnessed this scene were filled with astonishment and curiosity.

Meanwhile, in the several palaces atop the mountain, Gu Mofan, Di Wushe, and the others froze on their feet, their eyes filled with shock as they stared blankly at the small fenced courtyard.

(End of this chapter)