Follow the path of Dao from infancy

Chapter 1570: Chapter 400: Immortal Essence of Purple Osmanthus

As his Heavenly Immortal body reached Great Accomplishment, Li Hao felt that even if he stood still and allowed attacks at the same realm, he could easily withstand them.

Now his Immortal Body transformation was perfect, but his own realm was too low, and his immortal power was weak. As his realm improved, the capacity of his immortal power would increase, and the power of the Immortal Body would again surge.

Li Hao estimated that with his current Immortal Body, he could easily fend off attacks from the Seventh and Eighth Layers of the Immortal Monarch Realm.

If he were to encounter the Emperor Ji Ming from the Emperor Clan again, there would be no need to draw his sword; his Immortal Body alone could contend with him evenly.

Coming from the Southern Domain nearly six years ago, Li Hao had already passed a century of soul life, now at 102 years. Compared to the prodigies with soul lives of 400 or 500 years, he was still exceedingly youthful.

Apart from the Heavenly Immortal body, these five years he had been cooking the Ancient Demon Corpse, and his Primordial Spirit Golden Bone had increased by 300 more!

Adding the previous Primordial Spirit Golden Bone, he had over 800 bones!

Yet this was still not enough to cover his whole body. Li Hao estimated that to cultivate the Primordial Spirit Golden Bone to perfection, reaching a body full of golden bones, would require about 1200 bones.

By then, he could cross the final step and refine the Primordial Spirit True Blood!

Once reaching the level of True Blood, his Primordial Spirit would undergo a complete transformation, approaching the last hurdle of the Final Realm, and his Primordial Spirit Power would rise dramatically, potentially comparable to an Immortal King Realm existence!

Over these five years, these changes and improvements were not intentionally sought by Li Hao. His thoughts were all on skills, as skill improvement brought the most significant changes and was the fastest way to progress.

After five years of relentless play and deep thought, he finally barely touched upon the breakthrough Spirit Light of Chess Tao, only a small step away.

Moreover, his Cooking Dao also reached a State of Mind, advancing to the Eleventh Stage.

And with the Cooking State of Mind at the Eleventh Stage, Li Hao applied it to his Fist Skill, so now his movement technique, Fist Skill, Swordsmanship, and Controlling Skill had all reached the Eleventh Stage!

The Physical Body Dao and Artistic Path were at the Twelfth Stage.

Among the seven skills, only Musical Rhythm and Poetry and Books remained at the Sixth Stage, with all others at the Eleventh Stage.

Li Hao really had no time to delve into Musical Rhythm and Poetry and Books. Even if he advanced them to the Eleventh Stage, to him, it would just mean cultivating two more Taos, with no significant impact on combat power.

To kill an enemy, just one move is needed.

On the chessboard, one piece determines victory.

If Chess Tao and several skills like Fishing at the Eleventh Stage could break through to the Twelfth Stage, his Sword Dao and Form Dao would also improve. By then, combined with the Physical Body Dao, the enhancement brought by these three Taos would be the greatest, allowing him to ascend to the top in the Immortal Monarch Realm, with combat power equal to an Immortal Monarch at Perfection!

Plink!

Adding a piece to the chessboard, Li Hao lowered his eyebrows, eyes deep in thought.

His mind was entirely on the chessboard, completely unconcerned with the servants and Nanny Wu passing by in the courtyard.

Suddenly, two wind noises whooshed in from afar, landing in the Immortal Courtyard.

As soon as they landed, the two elegant figures saw the pondering youth outside the hall. Su Wanqing flickered, coming to the chessboard with a smile, and said:

"Playing chess again? Have you seen my sister recently?"

"No."

Li Hao returned from his thoughts and, seeing it was her, knew that today he might see Ying Xiaoxiao’s face again, though he could not help but sigh in his heart.

Though they spoke of a century of companionship, over these five years, he had few chances to see Su Muqing, mostly seeing her only when Su Wanqing came.

For this reason, he taught Su Wanqing the Artistic Path attentively, hoping she would come here often.

But in total, he had seen her fewer than sixty times, averaging once a month.

"Are you really planning to wait like this for a century?"

Su Wanqing felt a bit helpless hearing Li Hao’s words.

Beside her, another woman, Su Wanxue, walked over slowly.

Over the past five years, Su Wanxue had also visited a few times. Seeing Li Hao’s seriousness and dedication towards Su Muqing, she could only sigh without much comment.

She knew her sister’s nature, impervious to both coercion and persuasion, and would not be easily moved.

Someone once pursued Su Muqing, nearly falling in a dangerous place to retrieve a treasure and present it before Su Muqing, only to have it discarded like trash.

The Su Family lacked neither exotic treasures nor Su Muqing’s status, so gifting immortal soldiers and rare medicines hardly impressed her.

Others tried different approaches, attempting to use true feelings to move Su Muqing, kneeling outside the Su Mansion for long periods. When Su Muqing encountered them on her way out and they tried to entangle her, she knocked them out with a palm strike, even damaging their cultivation.

Afterward, the person did not resent, instead proclaiming everywhere that Su Muqing only hurt them out of care.

Su Wanxue and others were speechless at this, thinking the hearts of these young men were somewhat obsessed and incomprehensible.

In that period, suitors surrounded the Su Family, causing endless trouble, only ceasing when the Emperor’s Son returned from cultivating and announced his relationship with Su Muqing.

No one dared to contest that Lin Family’s True Dragon, all retreating in self-deprecation.

Now, the youth before her relied on a marriage contract to challenge the Emperor’s Son of the Lin Family, which Su Wanxue thought was delusional.

This sort of sacrificial devotion, in Su Wanxue’s eyes, only wasted oneself, entirely meaningless.

"You’re really not listening to advice. Ah, forget it. Next time, I’ll get you a Chess Saint to mentor you."

Seeing Li Hao’s stubbornness, Su Wanqing did not bother arguing further, having tried to persuade him many times over the past five years, now having given up.

"A Chess Saint isn’t qualified to play against me."

Li Hao shook his head.

A Chess Saint, at most, had the Nine-dan Chess level, playing with him would only be a waste of time.