Follow the path of Dao from infancy Chapter 1840 Chapter 486: Challenging the Limit (Part 3)
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Bang!
By simply lifting his hand, the six Ancient Demons who had earlier driven the Emperor Clan's expert to withdraw were eradicated in a flash, vanishing like specks in the emptiness!
It was even simpler than crushing six insects, turning the dire crisis around right away and conquering the trial!
"Looks like there's a truly formidable one among these True Kings."
Satisfaction gleamed in the Star Empress's gaze.
The Immortal Emperor gave a subtle nod upon witnessing this. The True Kings they sought ought to conquer at least a hundred levels of the Heaven Tower. That would bring them close to the minimal might of the Quasi-Emperor Realm. Should members of the Ancient Demon Race at the Quasi-Emperor Realm launch a surprise attack on the battlefield, these True Kings might not hold them off, but they'd have ways to endure until reinforcements from their own Quasi-Emperor Realm experts arrived, avoiding instant death!
After all, if a True King Commander fell too easily to an enemy Quasi-Emperor Realm, the role would lose its purpose.
"Hmm?"
Abruptly, the Immortal Emperor's eyes flickered with mild astonishment.
"Immortal King Realm First Level, with two supreme Realms?"
Hearing this, the Star Empress spotted it too—at the base of the Heaven Tower, on the thirteenth level, a youthful silhouette was locked in combat.
...
"Reverse Time Realm!"
As the Realm activated, the twelve charging Ancient Demons froze rigidly in the void, movement impossible.
Li Hao kept weaving the Formless Realm seamlessly, his command of it now smooth and instinctive.
So, he shifted to the Reverse Time Realm.
As another supreme Realm, the Reverse Time Realm wielded potent control over time. Even at the Immortal King Realm, it enabled techniques like time speedup, stasis, reversal, and more from the Time Dao.
Being a Time Dao Realm, its abilities were limited in number, yet each proved straightforward and devastating, utterly fearsome.
Whether stasis, time acceleration, or reversal, they could be detected but not shattered!
Right then, during the time stasis, Li Hao held back from striking, instead probing how long he could sustain the hold.
Moments ticked by, and after thirty minutes, the Ancient Demons before him started to resist, their gazes and forms gradually twitching into motion.
"This must be the boundary in standard conditions; Immortal King Realm Second Level packs real power."
Li Hao mused inwardly.
Without delay, he unleashed the Chaos Infinite Sword Dao, slicing through the twelve Ancient Demons with precision.
Afterward, he pressed on to the following level.
Challenging each level with his Realms, Li Hao swiftly climbed to the nineteenth floor.
There, the six Ancient Demons wielded hazardous Immortal Techniques, including some that boosted their own strength.
Li Hao managed to halt them for just half a breath.
Yet for him, that sufficed to cut them down.
Stepping into the twentieth floor, the freeze duration halved once more, barely two instants long.
While holding them still, Li Hao sped up his own time flow, and the Chaos Infinite Sword Dao stayed razor-sharp and lethal, slicing past in a blur.
Li Hao didn't waver, opting straight for the 21st floor.
"Immortal King Realm Third Level..."
Li Hao's expression grew grave. Back on the eleventh floor, he'd felt a stark shift in the Ancient Demons' prowess. Though only one realm apart, their fighting power had surged almost tenfold!
This Third Level would prove even fiercer.
"A supreme genius who battles across two levels in the Immortal King Realm—that's already the absolute peak. The floors from 21 to 29 should force me to unleash my full potential."
Li Hao reflected silently.
Light and shadows danced around him, depositing him on the 21st floor.
Ahead stretched a barren, expansive terrain, with scant immortal energy in the air and harsh surroundings that would demand greater expenditure for casting multiple Immortal Techniques.
Li Hao waited for the Ancient Demons to emerge.
In a flash, three Ancient Demons materialized, each radiating the aura of Immortal King Realm Third Level.
Their mere presence unleashed a shadowy surge like a tidal wave, tousling Li Hao's hair and pressing down with intense pressure.
Immortal King Realm Third Level... Li Hao's eyes glinted, and he abruptly pondered if his lifespan-forged cultivation could recover once the trial concluded.
If that held true, his true ceiling might far exceed the Immortal King Realm Third Level.
Still, the moment hadn't arrived yet.
Powers from various Extreme Realms surged forth, Ultimate Realm strength also awakened, while the All Heavens Star Vein and Heaven and Earth Law Manifestation both loomed behind Li Hao.
The three thousand one hundred drops of True God Blood inside him stirred now, as a horrifying Control Force whirled, sustaining the Reverse Time Realm.
Boom!
The void trembled as if bursting, and the three Ancient Demon forms lunged with savage intent.
Their Realm might had skyrocketed, and at Immortal King Realm Third Level, the Life Sea in their Realms had solidified immensely, birthing countless lives that amplified the Realm's power.
"Freeze!"
Li Hao activated it without pause, vast immortal energy pulled from the All Heavens Star Vein by the Realm, though infinite immortal power still streamed from the All Heavens Stars—yet it poured like a stream into an ocean, failing to replenish fully.
Dreadful Time Dao forces disrupted the void, rippling across heaven and earth, where every motion in existence seemed ensnared by an invisible grip, locked in stasis.
The three oncoming Ancient Demons halted abruptly too, though the pause endured less than an instant before their bellowing shapes accelerated onward. Lacking supreme Realms, they were still Immortal King Realm Third Level entities, surpassing Li Hao's Realm density and thus channeling and unleashing immortal power with greater speed and force.
In that split second, Li Hao sensed his Reverse Time Realm under assault.
Throughout the entire trial, this marked Li Hao's initial brush with Realm intrusion, bringing a sensation of cracking.
Even a lone supreme Realm faced such hurdles when spanning two full realm gaps.
"Immortal King Realm Third Level..."
Li Hao at last grasped the grueling challenge of clashing realms as an Immortal King—a trial rivaling an Immortal Monarch Realm First Level facing Immortal King Realm peak!
Yet he had no intention of invoking Formless Power just yet, preferring to probe the boundaries of one supreme Realm alone!
"True God Blood!"
Li Hao's eyes ignited into golden infernos, the True God soul manifesting behind him, as the 3100 drops of True God Blood within that soul erupted in blazing fury.