Follow the path of Dao from infancy Chapter 1856 Chapter 494: Creation Carves Fate

Time races by like a weaving shuttle.

Just like that, a decade flew past. Inside the realm, the All Heavens Star Vein gathered from every corner, channeling straight toward Li Hao who dwelled within.

Positioned in lotus pose before him stood a radiant, multicolored Divine Tree. Its limbs and greenery flourished thickly, while Divine Light flowed through the leaves akin to pulsing veins.

The youth's eyes locked intently on the little sculpture clutched in his palm, wielding time like a chisel to etch its traits cut by cut.

Suddenly, a lifelike depiction of an elder formed in his grip. Wrinkles etched his visage, yet his gaze held softness, a subtle grin touched his lips, and a aura of detachment surrounded him. Those eyes gleamed with vitality.

"Feng..."

Li Hao whispered gently.

Centuries had slipped away since their goodbye, but in Li Hao's mind, their looks stayed sharp and intimate.

Right then, he pondered the locations of Feng and Emperor Yu. Within the Li Family, Second Aunt had shown him kindness, and her present whereabouts escaped him.

"Wait for me..."

Li Hao uttered quietly.

A message popped up abruptly in his view.

[Carving Experience Value fully accumulated. Please comprehend your State of Mind as soon as possible.]

Through ten years of sculpting, drawing on the Five Paths Divine Trees for sacred essence, Li Hao at last filled his Carving Arts experience to its utmost.

The sole task left was grasping his State of Mind.

Still, across those ten years, while building carving experience, he had spent ages probing his State of Mind. Yet the thirteenth tier of carving evaded him like drifting haze, unseen and ungraspable.

"Time as a blade, the core of carving is time itself..."

"Where lies the profound path of carving?"

A flicker of puzzlement even showed in Li Hao's gaze.

Yet his Dao heart stood firm, untouched by rush. He quietly steadied his spirit, unwinding the strands like parting silk.

In times of bewilderment, glancing back to the origins can often help. The pursuit held so long might have lingered there all along.

"The essence of carving..."

Li Hao whispered, setting aside the Feng sculpture he held.

Arrayed nearby were sculpted likenesses of known countenances.

Sword Master, Great Dream Master, Emperor Yu, Second Aunt...

Gazing upon them arrayed at his side, Li Hao sensed a soft glow in his core.

He gathered his focus, fetched the Divine Wood once more, and set to carving afresh. Now, each incision drew deep reflection.

In a moment, fifty years had silently drifted by.

For everyday mortals, fifty years span a whole existence.

From a pure youngster to a fervent adolescent, to founding a home after union, then to fading vigor at midspan, slowly nearing the finish of one's road.

Yet for an Immortal King, it amounted to a mere fleeting grain of sand in a flash.

Inside the realm, as Li Hao sank into his musings, a sudden tide of heat swept through his frame, his pores flared wide, and a sense of utter renewal washed over him.

Li Hao jolted from his trance, stunned by the shifts in himself, realizing his cultivation had quietly climbed to the Second Level of the Immortal King Realm.

He had trained in this spot across a full sixty-year turn; though he sought no active realm rise, his Immortal Body naturally soaked up the Immortal Power of heaven and earth, sparking this surge.

Amid the awe, Li Hao felt a swell of feeling stir within.

Word holds that advancing in the Immortal King Realm proves incredibly tough, with immense chasms between tiers. Beyond these bounds, gaining one level over thousands of years counts as fairly quick, demanding vast toil plus heaps of Divine Medicines to achieve.

But within this Great Emperor Dojo, over a brief sixty years, his cultivation soared upward. Verily, it ranks as an Emperor-grade holy site.

"No surprise the gaps in the Immortal King Realm loom so huge... This immortal power has swelled four or five times over!"

Li Hao sensed the shifts in his Immortal Body, abruptly grasping the divides across Immortal King tiers.

At the First Level of the Immortal King Realm, the immortal power inside reaches ten thousandfold that of a flawless Immortal Monarch Realm!

Now elevated to the Second Level, it hits at least fifty to sixty thousand times!

This means the sudden blast of might he could release in a heartbeat would readily smash a First Level of the Immortal King Realm!

Besides, through this realm ascent, Li Hao keenly noted his realm had undergone tempering. Powers of heaven and earth poured inward, firming its structure, while its expanse swelled to triple the prior measure!

"What a stunning leap!"

Li Hao marveled inwardly, abruptly viewing his earlier feat of felling a Fifth Level of the Immortal King Realm from the First Level as rather overblown and odd.

Key to grasp, this sort of growth stacks up. As it mounts into the Third and Fourth Level realms, the divides turn overwhelmingly sharp.

Little wonder those rousing their Ancestor Emperor Power manage challenges only to the Fourth Level of the Immortal King Realm.

"Even bearing Emperor-level legacy, it bridges just three levels' gap."

"Without my True God Blood vastly outshining the rest, paired with my master's Infinite Emperor Skill that triples my base strength, I couldn't wipe out foes across such vast realms."

Li Hao reflected inwardly.

He deepened his respect for his master's strength, that of the Dao Origin Immortal Emperor.

"Now, I ought to target the 60th layer of the Heaven Tower!"

Li Hao pondered to himself.

Though he hadn't tested it, leaning on his past breach of the 53rd layer of the Heaven Tower, he could make a fair guess.

The deeper one delves, the narrower the realm skips grow.

Shi Miao, who dwelled in the King's Domain as a onetime king, at the Fourth Level of the Immortal King Realm, managed to leap just four realms for the Eighth Layer, pushing her utmost.

Keep in mind, Shi Miao from a former existence had climbed to the Quasi-Emperor Realm too, holding sundry Emperor-level Battle Skills and potent arts, barring any restraint on her part.

After the frame's shift halted, Li Hao detected the plentiful vitality in the Sea of Life. The pace of birthing life there had quickened, and the prior drawn Heavenly Dao Power from the realm fused into the Sea of Life as well. The entities springing forth now carried the gift of cultivation.