Follow the path of Dao from infancy

Chapter 1764: Chapter 452: Tai Cang Ancestor Skill, Descending the Mountain to Reap

"Indeed."

Li Hao nodded, saying with deep agreement.

Upon reaching the Final Realm of cultivation, no one could threaten him anymore. It was enough for self-preservation, and that would suffice.

Seeing Li Hao’s expression, a hint of surprise surfaced in Elder Qi’s eyes. In his twilight years, he had no fighting spirit left. Those young ones who claimed to be kings and emperors couldn’t stand listening to such words, let alone the young prodigies who were just in their rising period. They were in a time of hot-bloodedness and brave advances, dismissing such ideas with contempt. Even if they outwardly agreed out of pressure, they didn’t actually believe it.

Having lived for endless years, he learned to see people clearly. He saw a teenager in front of him with a calm demeanor of the fall after prosperity.

"You’ve come here for the Heavenly Dao Power, right? Do you need me to have him take you hunting?"

With a turn in his voice, Elder Qi placed his hand on the black dog beside him.

The black dog turned towards Li Hao warily. After all, it was a Chaos Dao Seed and was reluctant to see outsiders slaughtering wantonly here.

But feeling the slight caress on its head, it understood the old man’s intention, and the vigilance in its eyes quickly subsided.

"No need, I can handle it myself."

Li Hao shook his head but felt he might have been too confident and asked, "Senior, how do the strongest Chaos Dao Seeds here compare to him?"

Elder Qi saw Li Hao’s cautious demeanor and smiled, "The strongest? He is the strongest."

"Him?"

Li Hao looked at the black dog, which suddenly lifted its head at his words, looking at Li Hao with a touch of pride in its eyes.

Li Hao felt relieved inside; this black dog was indeed powerful. It hadn’t been killed instantly by him earlier and had instead managed to escape here, showing it was stronger than the four he had ambushed by the Chaos River.

"Then I can be at ease."

Li Hao said, but he had no intentions of leaving immediately. He still wanted to observe the chess game between the two elders, feeling that merely watching the game could bestow him with endless Chess Tao experience.

As for hunting outside...he wasn’t in a rush. There were plenty of Chaos Dao Seeds here, and even if everyone came, they couldn’t hunt many.

Moreover, he had already cleared the Eighth Layer Heavenly Domain and gained extremely rich Heavenly Dao Power.

"Senior, the Tai Cang Cultivation System you mentioned, how is it practiced?"

Li Hao asked curiously.

Before the Emperor Dao System emerged, the world was in a primordial state. It was hard for Li Hao to imagine what the cultivation system back then would have been like.

Elder Qi smiled and said, "You want to learn it? But you’ve already cultivated the Emperor Dao System. It’s tough to reach the Final Realm if you practice the Tai Cang Ancestor Skill as well, unless after endless years..."

Saying this, he seemed to think of something interesting and pointed to the bamboo grove nearby, saying:

"Cut some bamboo, and I’ll teach you."

"Cut bamboo?"

Li Hao was a bit stunned. He planned just to inquire and did not expect the other party to be willing to teach, but Elder Qi was more generous than he imagined.

"Can the two systems be compatible?" Li Hao asked.

Elder Qi’s lips curled into a mischievous smile, "That would be up to you."

Li Hao was speechless, realizing that the other party seemed to use him as a test subject.

"Then, I’ll give it a try."

Li Hao didn’t refuse. After all, he had a leisurely soul life of several hundred years. Venturing into this world, he was quite curious and intrigued by matters from endless years ago.

He went to the bamboo grove, raised his hand, and condensed a Sword Qi, slashing towards the grove.

Initially thinking he could sweep away a patch effortlessly, but when the Sword Qi touched the foremost bamboo, it was unexpectedly stuck and dissipated into nothing.

Li Hao was dumbfounded, his eyes widening in disbelief. His power hadn’t damaged the bamboo at all?

At this moment, he suddenly understood that cutting bamboo wasn’t a trivial task at all, but rather a real trial.

Yet the bamboo before him seemed extremely ordinary... Li Hao examined it carefully, tapping it and feeling a robust Chaos aura within the bamboo, but nothing else seemed special.

Elder Qi glanced over, smiled without speaking, and continued playing chess.

Li Hao didn’t bother asking about everything, instead pondering it by himself.

He gathered his Destiny Sword Kill and struck the bamboo, only to discover, astonishingly, that it left no marks, not even a scratch!

"Could it be...even Domain Artifacts aren’t like this?" Li Hao couldn’t help but be shocked. Was this bamboo grove made up of Domain Artifact-level sacred objects?

He promptly concentrated many Chaos Laws, fusing 24 Chaos Laws into one, transforming them into the Decay Law and the Time Law, all applying to the bamboo, yet all proved ineffective.

Li Hao attempted continuously, and half an hour later, he finally discovered something terrifying—the bamboo wasn’t hard, but seemed to be immune to all Law Powers!

Thinking of Elder Qi’s mention of cultivation systems, Li Hao immediately understood that using all the power he currently mastered might not be able to harm the bamboo at all. The bamboo likely contained the same power that Elder Qi and the others cultivated.

"Since immortal power and laws are unusable, let’s try breaking it by hand and foot!"

Li Hao thought to himself.

He immediately unleashed brute force, his blood and energy raging like dragons, his hands gripping the bamboo, starting to exert force.

Surprisingly, the previously invulnerable bamboo creaked under Li Hao’s strength, seemingly about to break!

Seeing hope, Li Hao’s eyes sparkled with joy. He used all his strength in his physical body, soon bending a piece of bamboo, yet the bamboo was so incredibly resilient, it refused to break.

"I can’t do it. My physical body has already reached the Final Realm, now at the Immortal Monarch Realm’s Final Realm body. My strength has peaked, and it’s impossible to surpass. If I can’t break it now, I can’t break it at all, unless I wear it down slowly until it starts cracking!"