Follow the path of Dao from infancy Chapter 1857 - 494: Creation Carving Destiny (2)

To Li Hao, the Life Sea resembled a tiny pond where tadpole-shaped creatures kept surfacing nonstop, each displaying unique forms that looked like bizarre small bugs.

These tiny bugs even possessed their own minds, which Li Hao managed to sense. A handful among them, boasting greater power, exhibited the most vibrant thoughts. He detected their eagerness to venture forth and their fascination with the outer world, yet they remained trapped, unable to surmount the ridges Li Hao had fashioned to contain them.

"Their development moves at such a sluggish pace. Were it any other Immortal King Realm expert, they could nurture the beings within their domains, employing them as pieces to refine personal Cultivation Techniques and the Dao... yet I lack the patience to linger for them."

Li Hao gazed upon these entities emerging from the Life Sea and let out a quiet sigh.

For these beings to evolve into effective fighting forces, they must engage in ongoing Cultivation and breeding, slowly advancing from this primitive Barbaric Wilds era.

Li Hao pulled his focus away from these minor lives and resumed delving into his Carving Arts.

"The core of Carving..."

"All things hold the potential to be carved..."

"He started as mere timber, and through my hands, I shaped him into a human or an animal."

"Time itself inscribes lines upon the features of existence, a form of carving that bestows..."

"Bestows... vitality?"

Li Hao sank deeply into the realization, his gaze sparkling with constant flashes, oblivious to all disturbances beyond.

In the span of a mere instant, three decades slipped away.

Within the domain, a youth remained seated in meditation, clutching a wooden sculpture in his grasp.

The sculpture depicted a Little White Fox, endearingly innocent, its elongated and captivating fox eyes radiating an innate charm.

Just like that boy from long ago, beneath the starry night sky, sharing solitude only with the Little White Fox as his sole ally.

"Imbuing time to add creases, to infuse might, these stand as powers inherent to carving."

"Yet at its root... it revolves around reshaping its very Creation!"

The youth whispered softly to himself.

That Little White Fox had crossed paths with him, evolving from a battered wild cub to residing in the famed Divine General Mansion, embracing opulence ever since.

The endless passage of years inflicts boundless transformations upon living things.

While temporal shifts prove beyond control, the alterations wrought by carving... deliver Creation!

"Life Carving Blade, Creation Realm!"

Li Hao’s eyes snapped open, as though myriad starlights converged and danced within them, the glow of Dao enlightenment in his mindset shining forth, his Divine Soul utterly lucid now, as if brushing against the primal source of heaven and earth.

[You have grasped the thirteen-stage Carving State of Mind, Creation Life Carving!]

With the panel’s alert came a torrent of understandings surging into Li Hao’s consciousness.

In that instant, visions of endless carving methods unfolded before him, traversing eras, amid the vast array of life, wielding the intangible Time Blade to etch all existence, to shape every creature, to form flora and foliage, to mold fowl and fauna.

All stands etched, all receives endowment, a true Creation!

"So it unfolds..."

Li Hao whispered, a surge of insight and awakening lighting his eyes; this captures the true heart of carving.

Bestowing upon all what they inherently lack, for the shaped, it equates to Creation!

"One slash births a realm; one etch forges a soul; carved traces as rules, turning all into mere effigies!"

At this juncture, Li Hao had at last unlocked the primal truth of carving.

Yet shortly after, a notion stirred within him: having pierced the essence via the thirteen-stage carving, what mysteries lay in the fourteen-stage Carving Arts?

Beyond mere endowment of Creation, delving even further... into Carving Arts?

Confusion clouded Li Hao’s gaze, like tumbling into an abyss of boundless depth, profoundly remote and beyond conception, evoking dread to approach or envision.

After an indeterminate stretch, Li Hao regained his composure, sensing chill perspiration drenching his robes.

Having only just attained the thirteenth-stage mindset breakthrough, contemplating the fourteenth path felt akin to drowning in vast seas.

The fourteenth stage, in Li Hao’s view, likely aligned with the Immortal Emperor Realm.

Did it perhaps mark an Emperor Road?

"Now, the Physical Body Dao, Control Dao, Sword Dao—all embedded; only the Body Path and Fist Skill await."

"Prioritize elevating the Body Path!"

To Li Hao, boosting the Fist Skill held little weight, since it pertained to offensive techniques overlapping with Sword Dao.

Yet advancing the Body Path promised immense gains, enabling swift mastery of countless supreme Immortal King techniques.

"Once embedded, reversal proves impossible; I must venture into the Heaven Tower time and again until securing all four Realm Hearts, granting a moment’s respite."

Solemnity deepened in Li Hao’s expression.

For the prior three Realm Hearts, he had poured forth exhaustive labors, and presently, no solid ideas surfaced regarding harmonizing four Realm Hearts.

Should he adapt the stabilization of three into a framework for four, forming a stable quadrilateral—might that hold firm?

Li Hao mulled over it, drifting into contemplation.

As he sank into these reflections, abruptly, a gentle voice drifted to his ears:

"Those who can hear my voice may stop what they’re doing, I shall preach the Tao Collection for three years, and you shall comprehend as much as you can, which is also nurturing for you."

Li Hao identified it as the Star Empress’s voice, and upon opening his eyes to survey, he noted surrounding domains fading away, exposing figures within, all turning toward the Heaven Tower’s direction with expressions of astonishment and delight.

"Tao Collection?"

Li Hao recalled one of the elite resources he had traded for earlier, the Tao Collection.

As a foundational gem of the Dao Clan, though incomplete, its mastery permitted grasping and refining the countless Daos of the All Heavens up to Ten Layers of Perfection!

The value of such an artifact speaks for itself.

"An Immortal Emperor lecturing? It’s the Tao Collection!"

"This is the sacred canon of the Dao Clan; even the Star Empress possesses it?"

"No surprise there—an Immortal Emperor commands universal knowledge, though the innermost secrets might elude her, or binding pacts could bar free sharing even if known."