“Then... what about Silver Moon?” Black Tiger asked hesitantly.

The Dragon master smiled at Thunder Region. “Silver Moon... might not interfere. Li Hao didn’t take the monster spirits with him and may not care what happens to them. I won’t mind executing him if he dares walk out of Thunder Region!

“I will head to New Martial for a look. You guys will set out immediately. Given your lack of worlds, I will have Red Moon follow you to ensure that nothing goes wrong!”

“My liege, why not have Red Moon go with you? There are rumors that New Martial has fully set foot into eighth rank. The Light master is also a veteran eighth rank...” The rest of the chaos beasts were worried.

A concerned Feng Yan showed herself as well. While her presence was unstable, she was indeed a bonafide seventh rank. It was very dangerous for the Dragon master to visit New Martial by himself. Although everyone believed in him and his strength, the New Martial Human King and Ash Emperor could suppress eighth ranks when they were seventh ranks.

Now they were both eighth ranks!

“There might not be a fight, don’t worry!” smiled the Dragon master. “When it comes down to it, we... don’t have much of a feud with New Martial. In fact, we might not have one at all.”

Did they share any grudges?

To be honest, no.

It was Li Hao who had run afoul of him. The New Martial Supreme Zhang was a wise person. Would he choose open hostilities with the Dragon master right this moment?

Possibly not. Hence, the Dragon master was just going for a look.

“Then I shall head over first. It’s best if you guys can take them all. If not, kill as many as you can. Tell Ironeater that I will spare him if he surrenders. If not, there will be nothing but death in store for him!”

With that, the Dragon master vanished.

Black Tiger set its jaw and roared, “It’s time for us to take our revenge!”

Since they couldn’t kill Li Hao, then they would first kill those monster spirits. The chaos beasts wouldn’t have suffered such a loss if not for them as well.

The group of high ranks flew into a rage and darted into the void without further world. They shot for the five monster spirit worlds!

......

The Dragon master continued to travel extremely swiftly, despite the absence of a dao universe. He appeared wherever his dao domain extended to. Something that he’d built completely by himself was the most useful of all.

It took only a moment before he easily crossed the four regions that would’ve taken a long time normally.

In the distance, Light major world.

The Human King furrowed his brows and promptly teleported outside the world. A cat appeared beside him in the blink of an eye. They were soon followed by a solemn Light master and various other seventh ranks.

The Light master looked around them; only the Dragon master appeared in the void. That was a reassuring sight, that an invasion wasn’t imminent. Only the Dragon master was here.

A gleam shone out of the Human King’s eyes and he looked at the Dragon master. “You’ve got quite some charisma, Ole Dragon!” he suddenly chuckled lowly.

The Dragon master likewise sized up the Human King and smiled. “I knew that you weren’t as brash and impetuous as rumors make you out to be when I saw you kill Blazing Sun. But I have one question that remains unanswered—has New Martial ever produced a ninth rank?”

“What do you think?” The Human King grinned.

“I used to think that you must have. You wouldn’t have left a mark on Skyward otherwise. But after seeing Li Hao employ his dao, I realize that I might be wrong. It could have an incredible cultivator who reversed time.

“Granted, the implications of that are equally terrifying!” A curious look entered the Dragon master’s eyes. “What happened to them? Are they dead? Why would the dao come to Li Hao’s hands otherwise?”

The look in the Human King’s eyes remained the same, but he was impressed that the Dragon master had identified the issue! Time could not remain a secret from him.

Instead of answering, the Human King looked at the Dragon master with interest. “How many dao rules do you have?”

“More than six thousand. What about them?” smiled the Dragon master.

The Human King’s eyes widened ever so slightly. More than six thousand!

“How can a chaos beast cultivating chaos dao comprehend so many dao rules?”

“Are we not permitted to have our own geniuses?” laughed the Dragon master. “Not to mention, we actually have the best potential and foundation. We just need to organize the order within chaos dao. Even nine thousand would be easily at hand then, to say nothing of six thousand.”

That was easy to say!

The Human King looked on solemnly. He was an eighth rank, but didn’t feel confident at all going against this opponent. At the same time, there was no need to be worried about much since he had Ash Cat, Light, and Ole Zhang with him.

He simply raised an eyebrow at the distance. “Are you going to take the five monster spirit worlds?”

“Yes,” the Dragon master nodded. “I do not wish for a repeat of past events! I’m actually here to ask a favor.

“How about New Martial temporarily withdraw from the four regions. It doesn’t matter whether Light goes or stays. I would like the four regions to become backyard. In order to prevent it from going up in flames again, you may either leave or... fight!”

“The four regions are human territory,” grumbled a dissatisfied Light master. “You guys came later, including you, Long Zhan!”

You want us to leave? What kind of joke is that??

“How about this, Light. You are situated within your dao universe at present. If you can take three punches from me, then I’ll be the one to leave and take my people from the four regions for now. What do you say?”

Three punches?

The Light master thought rapidly. Long Zhan had been able to kill eighth ranks within three punches only because everyone lacked their dao universes and worlds. The Dragon master always had his with him, not to mention his opponents had been weakened at that time.

But he was in peak condition! Not only that, he held home ground advantage. The Dragon master wouldn’t possibly defeat him with three punches!

Here, he was confident of being able to fight it out with the Dragon master!

“You’re the one who said it,” the Light master said warily. “There are two New Martial eighth ranks here if you renege on your word. You can’t blame us for attacking you in a group then!”

“Don’t worry! Are you ready?”

“Of course...”

The Dragon master vanished and struck with a punch. It came with only the dao domain and no other fanfare. Dao rules shifted and the world seemed to become a cage!

The Light master answered in kind with a divine punch of light! World strength and dao strength swirled over him. A grave Human King and Ash Emperor backed away.

The Light master grunted and the energy over his fist shattered! Shockingly enough, the attack seemed to have reached his dao universe. But he was an eighth rank in his own territory!

“The second punch!” laughed the Dragon master.

Another soundless punch smashed down, whereas the Light master roared in response. His punch was as massive as the sun and illuminated the world.

The two fists met in a grand collision!

BOOM!

The Light master flew backward, bleeding profusely. His body was falling apart and his fist had shattered!

“Can you take a third punch?” chuckled the Dragon master.

“How about I do the others?” The Human King roared with laughter and struck with his blade!

Yin and yang appeared, as well as another invincible surge of strength. The Human King’s eyes turned bloodshot as soon as he attacked. The Dragon master responded with a punch, breaking the weapon and shattering the strength of yin and yang!

The Human King stumbled backward, the peculiar strength shimmering over his body. It suppressed the aftershock of his opponent’s attack, but blood bubbled at the corner of his mouth.

The Dragon master glanced at his fist and the bloody mark that had appeared on it.

“What a pity that your internal world is not yet eighth rank. That places you far beneath me. You would stand a fighting chance if it was eighth rank!”

“Nice, you’re tough enough, I like that!” The Human King leered after wiping away the blood at his mouth. “I like hacking people like you. It’s the best feeling in the world to hit something so hard! I can smack you however I want!

“You’re strong, but you’re not invincible,” he cackled. “I won’t be afraid of you if I join hands with Big Cat!”

“That is precisely why I’m just here for a discussion, nothing else.” The Dragon master inclined his head. If it wasn’t for that, he would’ve shown up and suppressed them all.

“How about this, I’m not an unreasonable person,” the Human King beamed. “I can consider withdrawing from the four regions until Skyward revitalizes. The caveat is, you have to give me three seventh rank worlds. Don’t you still have six or seven of them?”

The Dragon master looked deeply at the irreverent human.

“We won’t leave if you don’t give them to us. We can just go head-to-head then!”

“I can do that!” the Dragon master said slowly after a long while. “But I do not trust the Human King’s words. How about this, we shall sign a dao treaty that you guys will not return before Skyward revitalizes. I will fulfill my word once I get more worlds!”

He sniffed at the dazed Light master and vanished on the spot. The latter was both incredulous and shocked by his defeat.

I have home ground advantage, but he defeated me with two punches?

The Human King’s leer turned into a grimace. He rubbed himself with a grimace. “Damn he’s hard! Stop looking for him, he’s not having that easy of a time either. He just seems more unaffected because his body’s tougher. Six thousand daos, huh...

“You and I are both a far cry from him,” the Human King assessed solemnly. “If that guy works with Red Moon and has those chaos beasts to command, we’ll have to work with Li Hao to have a good chance of taking him down!

“He might not have any seventh rank worlds left at the moment. They... might have been devoured by the chaos beasts! They’ll have more seventh ranks then. The worlds he’s promising us might be the monster spirit ones. He’s certainly confident of taking them...”

“Um...” The Light master struggled for words. Were they really going to retreat? But what about his world?

I can’t take my world with me! The Ash Emperor can, but it’s already got the New Martial world!

“It looks like... Ming Tang might not even have the chance to inherit...” Behind him, Flare Sun muttered with quite the pity.

“......” The Light master cursed to himself. We’re almost out of a home and this is what you’re concerned about?? Also, that’s my son, not your son! With the way you talk, it’s almost like he’s your son!