Follow the path of Dao from infancy

Yu Wei couldn’t care less about the tea he’d sprayed onto the snack dish, pointed to where Li Hao had disappeared, his eyes nearly bulging out as he stuttered, attempting to speak.

“The person, the person is gone?!”

Du Qiuyue also stood up alarm, wide-eyed in shock, “Where did he go?”

Beside her, Ren Qianqian froze, her gaze rapidly sweeping in all directions, extremely meticulously, yet she saw no trace of Li Hao, not even a footprint.

In the blink of an eye, right under their eyelids, he had just vanished.

Obviously, unless it was some kind of obscuring technique she had never heard of before, it was Li Hao’s movement technique speed that was too fast, beyond her visual capture.

If he used such speed to attack her… Her pupils slightly contracted, the fingers gripping her sword hilt tightening considerably.

“He, he, this, this…”

Yu Wei turned his head to look at Li Yuanzhao, waving his hands and feet with great unease.

“Yuan Zhao, your brother Hao, what cultivation level is he?” Du Qiuyue managed to recover a bit, unable to help looking at Li Yuanzhao and asking.

Li Yuanzhao was just as dumbfounded. In his day-to-day interactions with Brother Hao, he’d never seen him show such a move.

What cultivation level? Wasn’t Brother Hao following the Path of Body Refinement? Mother said that the limit of Body Refinement was low, that reaching Zhou Tian Realm was the max, and that getting to Soul Succession Realm was difficult.

Could it be, Brother Hao succeeded in Soul Succession?!

Li Yuanzhao’s heart trembled. He wasn’t completely ignorant; stepping into Soul Succession Realm meant that Brother Hao could attract the energy of heaven and earth, indicating that his meridians were open!

Brother Hao could cultivate!!

Thinking of this possibility, Li Yuanzhao’s hands, resting on the table, trembled slightly with excitement.

Meanwhile, at another location, fifteen li away.

The Black Jiao, shocked beyond measure, couldn’t help doubting if she had seen incorrectly. While in her state of shock and suspicion, she saw Li Hao step out from the little tea shop, immediately streaking towards her like a bolt of golden lightning.

So fast!

And, he was moving with his body controlled!

The complexion of the Black Jiao beauty changed drastically, filled with unspeakable horror. This was the symbol of the Fifteen Li Realm, this son of the criminal military marquis, was at the Fifteen Li Realm?!!

How old was he?!

Her brain experienced a momentary blankness. What she thought was a straightforward decapitation from fifteen li away turned into an unbelievably bizarre situation.

A powerful sense of impending death shrouded her in an instant, and the Black Jiao beauty immediately came to her senses. Without another thought, she turned to flee, wanting to reunite with her husband first.

A flash of dark light, and she soared into the air, aiming for the distance.

But before she could get a few hundred meters away from the treetops, a golden light suddenly descended from the sky. A fair and slender palm extended from the light, pressing down on top of the Black Jiao beauty’s head, and then pushed her straight down into the ground dozens of meters below.

With a thud, the ground cratered massively.

On the ground, the head of the Black Jiao beauty was pressed into the pit by Li Hao’s palm, her expression disheveled.

The Black Jiao beautiy was petrified with terror, feeling as if that palm on her head was made of steel, like a thousand mountains pressing down on her, rendering her unable to move.

How could this possibly be the strength of the Fifteen Li Realm?!

She let out a piercing roar, like the bellow of a bull, like thunder, her body emanating black demon aura, and she reverted to her true form.

A massive and fierce dragon head broke through the fog, turning to bite, but in the next moment, a boot with intricately embroidered patterns stepped ruthlessly on the dragon’s head from within the demon fog. With a thud, this massive dragon head was pressed into the ground.

The thick dragon tail swept from behind.

Li Hao didn’t even look back, casually swinging his fist behind him.

Accompanied by a deep thud, a force of more than a million pounds hit the dragon tail, instantly causing the scales to dent and fall off, and the tail to violently rebound onto the ground.

Painful screams like bestial roars rose from beneath his feet, but it seemed the mouth couldn’t fully open, making the sound extremely muffled.

A gentle breeze rolled through, dispersing the surrounding demon fog, with Li Hao standing with one foot on the indented head of the dragon, his other hand propped on his knee, closely examining the demon beneath his feet.

“Ambush me? You’re not simply out to kill, who sent you?”

Li Hao narrowed his eyes, asking in a soft voice.

There was no anger in his voice, but the mother Black Jiao felt a chill run through her.

“Who… who exactly are you?”

She managed to ask, her mouth barely opening, filled with fear.

In just a single encounter, she had been completely suppressed. Was the other party in the Heavenly Human Realm?!

At this moment, she suspected that the assassination attempt must already have been known to the Divine General Mansion; this was a decoy, a counterplot.

“With so many people at the tea stall, why did you target me right away? Don’t you know who I am?”

Li Hao let out a slight cold laugh, believing that aside from his appearance, there should be nothing else about him that stood out more than anyone else.

If it was targeted at the Divine General Mansion, they certainly came prepared.

“Are you really the son of Marquis Xingwu? How is that possible? Age cannot be faked. Marquis Xingwu’s son is only how old this year? Fourteen at most, and you are in the Fifteen Li Realm!”

The Black Jiao mother said with surprise and suspicion, her voice even tinged with a mix of anger and grievance as she spoke.

Fourteen years old, in the Fifteen Li Realm?

Even for a top-notch demon of the ninth-grade war physique, reaching the Divine Travel Realm at this age would already be terrifying!

“You know my father?”

Li Hao raised his eyebrows and suddenly thought of the assassination attempt he encountered at the age of seven, his eyes narrowing, “You couldn’t possibly be sent by the demons from Northern Yan, could you?”

He could have counter-killed this demon back at the tea stand, but the reason he personally gave chase was to understand the motive behind it.

“Are you really his son?!”

Upon hearing Li Hao’s words, the Black Jiao mother was so shocked that she widened her eyes, looking up with all her might, wanting to take another look at the young man’s face.

Li Hao exerted a slight force under his feet and said coldly, “Let’s hear it, what’s the situation on Northern Yan’s side, why has it been stalemated for so many years? Are your demon kin unaware of the strength of the Great Yu Dynasty? Even without the Li Family, if you truly manage to tear open a gap, other Divine General Mansions would send reinforcements, and there is also the Dayu Army, led by the Dayu Royal Family, ready to dispatch at any moment. Are your demons that starved?”

“Don’t talk as if your Human Race is all united. Conquering Northern Yan is just the first step.”

The Black Jiao mother sneered, but then realized she had misspoken and immediately turned to anger, saying, “With such talent, you could have entered a famous mountain for training and become renowned under the heavens. Why hide your strength and pretend to be worthless?!”

The first step? Li Hao frowned. It seemed that the demon force attacking Northern Yan was incredibly large, wanting to swallow the entire Dayu?

How could that be possible? How many demons would need to band together to achieve that?

He looked at the Black Jiao mother under his feet and said, “Hide my strength? I simply had no opportunity to show it usually. When I fished for jiao at twelve, you didn’t see it, could you blame me? If you cooperate and act sensibly, I might consider sparing your life.”

“Fished for jiao at twelve?” The Black Jiao mother was taken aback, an icy chill suddenly filling her heart, so astonished that she could not speak.

“Have you decided? Cultivation is not easy; don’t give up so readily,” Li Hao said.

Regaining her senses, the Black Jiao mother was filled with fear. At that moment, she had only one thought: she must survive and bring out this terrifying intelligence.

If Monarch Bai found out about this child’s talent, even without the matter of the Northern Yan battlefield, he would spare no expense to have him killed, as he would become a major threat in the future.

Initially thinking it was overkill to send her and her husband, not wanting to give the other side any chance, turned out to be a vast underestimation.

It wasn’t an underestimation of the protection of the Divine General Mansion, but an underestimation of the prey itself!

Seeing that the Black Jiao did not respond, Li Hao muttered to himself, “Well then, do you wish to die? It’s been a long time since I had jiao meat, and today I shall make use of your jiao liver. I wonder if it’s fattened and delicious.”

The pupils of the Black Jiao mother constricted, as if a demon was whispering above her head.

It was only demons eating humans; this young man actually wanted to eat a demon, and not for its inner core, but for the taste of its liver?

“Husband, save me!”

Just as Li Hao was about to make his move, the Black Jiao mother desperately shouted.

“Hm?” Li Hao paused, another one?

His heart grew wary, and his Divine Soul flew out from the top of his head, scanning the surroundings. Soon, he spotted a fierce battle erupting on a hill thirty li away.

A massive and brawny Black Jiao was fighting against two people.

Li Hao had noticed the two people fighting the Black Jiao a long time ago as they followed him on the road. One of them was Fu.

But he didn’t recognize the other one, who wasn’t from the Divine General Mansion. He guessed it must be someone sent by Ren Qianqian.

At the moment, their battle was terribly dangerous. Fu was already injured and could only assist from the side.

“I’ll borrow your scale.”

A killing intent flashed in Li Hao’s eyes as he bent down to pluck a scale from the top of the Black Jiao mother’s head, suddenly flinging it and transforming it into a streak of black light that instantly vanished into the sky.

The Black Jiao mother watched in shock and then panicked with terror, “What, what are you doing?!”

Thirty li away.

The two engaged in battle were being pushed back. Li Fu’s face was pale as he did not expect to encounter a Great Demon of the Fifteen Li Realm here. With only the Divine Travel Realm cultivation level, it was hard for him to escape, but luckily, someone of the Fifteen Li Realm was helping him.

However, the situation looked very grim. The distress signal he had sent out earlier had been consumed by the Great Demon, leaving them looking for another way out.

“Die!”

The Black Jiao roared ferociously, ready to swoop down and tear apart the burly man it had smacked down the hilltop when suddenly, a sound of piercing through the air approached.

“Hm?”

The Black Jiao turned with a start, its pupils catching sight of a black scale that rapidly grew larger.

With a pop, it pierced the eyeball with a terrifying speed that was impossible to avoid, then stirred rapidly within the skull, destroying all brain tissue!

The Black Jiao violently spat out blood, disbelief apparent in its other eye— it recognized the black light as its sister’s scale, but how…

With a rumble, the Black Jiao crashed to the ground, its life force quickly fading.

A single scale had slain a jiao thirty li away.