Star Gate

Chapter 397: Known Throughout the Lands (I)

Chapter 397: Known Throughout the Lands (I)

Zheng Ping and the others swallowed hard, only one thought on their minds. If this guy didn’t die here tonight, he would be even more of a problem than Yuan Shuo in the future. He was more brutal, so an injured Li Hao was their perfect opportunity to kill him!

“Kill!” They didn’t shrink back. As Solars, they understood that attempting to flee would be their death sentence. Everyone had seen what happened to Seduction!

To run was to die. If a martial master caught up to them in close quarters, they wouldn’t be able to bring their full strength to bear. Their defenses would be easily punctured and... that would make them sitting ducks.

They needed to kick a dog when it was down and finish the deed!

Thoughts of taking the young man alive were no longer on their mind. This person needed to die; everyone had underestimated him. He was behind tonight’s setup as he was ready to kill some Solars.

......

Li Hao had one knee on the ground. He breathed heavily, the beating of his heart still visible to others. Three Solars swiftly approached him—metal, water, and fire. The young man was very injured! And though the three Solars were yet to reach him, they’d already sent surges of mysterious power toward him.

There was no thought of fleeing on his mind. Why would he flee? He was here to kill them all so that he could grow stronger! A surge of water ripples burst forward!

The Nine Forged Force!

Boom!

He punched the air and detonated the mysterious power coming for him ahead of the Solars. Li Hao pushed off the ground and soared into the sky, landing with a sword stroke that shook nine provinces!

Solars converged upon him from different directions! The metal attribute was the strongest, the water the weakest. Li Hao ignored the weakest and focused on the metal supernatural. He swung his sword around and ripped through metal mysterious power again. Zheng Ping stumbled in the air while the two continued forward without pause.

No one said a word, there was no need for words. It was a fight to the death. A surge of water energy detonated around him and encased him in a water bubble. Li Hao stabbed at it with his sword and broke through to be faced with a sky of fiery sparks!

These Solars that worked extremely well together could deal greater harm and trouble than the ones from earlier.

Li Hao was in peak battle condition, having called upon the Incantation of the Blade of Blood. And yet, these three Solars still suppressed him to the point where advance was impossible. They also didn’t let him land on the ground. He wanted to readjust his position a few times, but they flung him into the air again.

Zheng Ping and the others were extremely solemn. How was this guy still so domineering when he was this injured? It would truly be hard for them to stand against him if he hadn’t been injured earlier.

“Hoo...” Panting sounded from all four of them. This kind of high intensity battle was difficult to keep up.

Blood flowed freely from Li Hao; he’d yet to fully digest the power from the scarlet shadow. He’d only absorbed part of it, leaving the rest in his body. It obstructed the operation of his internal force as it’d been a Solar level scarlet shadow, not one of the initial Solar level.

Battle erupted in the distance. The Sunflares of the three great organizations had followed their Solars, but were obstructed by the Demon Hunters. Pitched battle had broken out. Whether it was the three great organizations or Demon Hunters, they fought in silence apart from the explosions of mysterious power or secret arts cutting through the void. Only when they faced death did cries of pain sound.

They were all elites!

Li Hao ignored his team and put Stellaris away. As sharp as the little sword was, it was too short and didn’t feel that good in the hand. Other than being sharp, its only useful attribute was sword energy. Thus, it was actually in his way at this time.

When he stowed Stellaris, he balled his fists up for a punch! The tiger style! The tiger roared and snarled; the young man changed his breathing method halfway through deploying his fist. The Nine Forged Force!

Eruption!

Boom!

This punch was much stronger than before. Li Hao broke the water bubble with a punch and jumped out of it. When the water supernatural wanted to trap the young man again, he roared imperiously. A ferocious tiger emerged from its cage!

Overlaid with a tiger form, Li Hao transformed into a tiger and leapt into the air, going higher with each jump!

“He wants to get away!” Zheng Ping shouted. “After him!”

The young man wanted to run!

Run?

How would he ever? He stomped down like Mount Tai coming to rest, crushing mysterious power beneath his foot. The water supernatural’s energy was blasted straight out of existence! He was a mid Solar and vomited blood as Li Hao annihilated his energy. Shock filled his face. How was this possible?!

It felt like the young man was the mountain as he ground to a rest with loud rumbles. The three Solars were immensely concerned and made their moves. They were about to bring defenses to bear against the descending mountain when Li Hao’s foot abruptly exploded, sending metal energy in all directions. It was like a bird’s beak—sharp without parallel—as it pierced through the water supernatural’s defenses. With his foot like a sword, Li Hao caved in the other’s shoulders!

The young man struck while the iron was hot and kicked in a circle with both legs, opening his arms to imitate a bird. He hovered in the sky and oversaw all directions!

Bam bam bam!

A series of explosions echoed, as did the sound of metallic objects. Li Hao was as if a vicious beast that didn’t know the meaning of fatigue. He kicked the weakest fire supernatural away and landed on the ground, breaking the earth apart beneath his feet. Blood continued to flow from him and dyed the area red. Li Hao’s leather boots had disintegrated and revealed the bones of his feet.

“Pfftt!” The young man spat out a mouthful of blood as he panted heavily. The three Solars closed in on him again; everyone bore some injuries.

Li Hao, however, was growing tired. He’d yet to make any progress with the Nine Forged Force and while the books blithely spoke of breaking through in battle... Most battles didn’t give one that much time to think and advance. The young man was stumped—he’d wanted to use this opportunity to make a breakthrough and coalesce the water aura. Once his three auras were fused together, it would be easy to kill a few Solars!

But now... reality proved otherwise.

Li Hao spat out more blood and chuckled. Forget it, he wouldn’t force the issue. Since he wouldn’t progress in the heat of battle, then he would try to assimilate the metal aura to create the metal sword aura!

The metal sword aura was very strong; he’d wanted to strengthen his lungs more before making the attempt, but that was no longer a consideration at this point. If worst came to worst, he’d just cough for a bit like Hou Xiaochen and the others. He’d recover when his organs were in balance and could accommodate the metal sword aura.

A surge of metal strength exploded in his lungs. The supernatural lock rang with sounds of impact and deep grooves were etched on it—it nearly broke! Li Hao didn’t care because there happened to be scarlet shadow energy lingering within his body. It rushed into his lungs to strengthen the supernatural lock. He’d been debating what to do with the energy he’d yet to digest!

The marks on the supernatural lock were swiftly erased. Metal power flared from Li Hao, prompting the other Solars to widen their eyes.

“Hurry and kill him!” Zheng Ping roared. The young man seemed to be undergoing a special change.

Li Hao had suffered quite some impact to his lungs and blood sprayed in every direction. He coughed violently.

“Cough cough cough...” Blood trickled out of the corner of his mouth. Melding the metal sword aura was the hardest. It also meant that the metal sword aura represented the extremity of spontaneous eruption. If he was able to turn it into his other auras, Li Hao’s strength would increase greatly.

Stellaris appeared once more to give all of its sword energy to Li Hao. His injuries swiftly healed and ceased worsening. The damage to his organs recovered as well. He ran like a deer, footsteps light and nimble. The young man disappeared beneath Zheng Ping’s sword. The hair rose on the back of the latter’s neck in the next moment!

Li Hao’s mind intent manifested as he thought back to his forefather’s sword stroke!

The aura of three swords!

The metal dot vanished into the tiger’s head—a ferocious tiger emerging from its cage!

Hummm!

The air exploded when Li Hao stabbed his sword forward. Sword qi broke through the void and the ground ruptured. The young man was exceedingly fast. Zheng Ping wanted to evade the sword and was on the verge of succeeding when Li Hao stomped his foot and sent his opponent back in place with a small quake!

Pfft!

The sword pierced through Zheng Ping’s back, but Li Hao also suffered attacks from fire and water at the same time. The other two supernaturals didn’t care if those of their side fell within their line of fire. They decided to just attack!

Boom!

Explosions rang out. Zheng Ping’s eyes widened as flames covered him and water arrows ran him through. He looked in Li Hao’s direcion with difficulty. The young man had stabbed his short sword into the man’s heart! Flames had scoured his face and body to the point of being unrecognizable.

However, Zheng Ping broke out in a grin. He didn’t mind that his companions had included him in their attacks. If it was him in their shoes, he would have done the same. He grinned because Li Hao had underestimated the supernatural!

Although the kid had abruptly grown strong enough to the point where he could vanish and reappear behind Zheng Ping, thus stabbing the man through the heart, he was also suffering on his end. Attacks from Solars were not so easily weathered. In his drive to kill Zheng Ping, Li Hao was also gravely injured!

But this was when Zheng Ping jerked with shock!

A unique energy bloomed in Li Hao’s body as he took a deep breath. Light flashed across his deeply burned body and while his wounds didn’t immediately fully heal, they didn’t worsen. There was even new flesh and blood burgeoning in his body.

Sword energy!

Li Hao looked coldly at his target and punched Zheng Ping’s head to smithereens.

And what are you looking at? What are you laughing at?? I may not know what you’re laughing about, but do you think I can’t do anything after just because I’m injured?

The remaining two Solars left without a word when they saw the development. If the gravely wounded Li Hao could instantly recover, then what were they fighting for?

Run!

They didn’t run before because the young man was heavily injured. But they’d seen with their own eyes that Li Hao could fully repair his wounds with just a single breath. How were they supposed to fight this?

Li Hao changed his breathing method with another deep breath in, exhaling a breath of sword qi! The Ghost Shadow Sword!

The sword qi was the extremity of speed and pierced through the void. The water supernatural that’d just taken to the air was run through from behind, stumbled down, and fell to the ground with his mysterious power dispersing.

The initial fire Solar was already in the air and looking to soar to safety. Li Hao unsheathed his sword, the three swords as one!

A cough sounded, as if the signal of death. “Break!” rang out a solemn cry.

I will break your life!

Humm!