Five Hundred Years

"Damn it, this is hard!"

Inside the All Heavens Tower, Li Hao swiftly slew several Ancient Demons, then began trying to control the five World Hearts rampaging within him.

Before, he had always taken time to prepare and chosen when to challenge the tower. Now he was being driven onto the stage like a duck.

"Five World Hearts. With three corners as the frame and one as the string... But with five World Hearts, I can't just pull on two strings..."

His brief search for an answer yielded nothing. Seeing that the five World Hearts were about to merge again, Li Hao could only make himself explode and leave the All Heavens Tower. If they truly merged, leaving the tower afterward would be useless.

And so Li Hao entered and left the All Heavens Tower again and again, with no chance to rest.

Each time he entered, he had only the span of one incense stick to think.

He blew himself up repeatedly as time passed. Had his Dao Heart not been firm, surpassing Eternity and already possessing half an Emperor Heart, it would have collapsed long ago.

Months passed. A year. Ten years.

In those ten short years, Li Hao blew himself up inside the All Heavens Tower more times than even he could count.

"Five World Hearts, five Daos..."

"Metal, wood, water, fire, earth... How do they balance and restrain one another?"

Li Hao tried to arrange the five World Hearts into a circle, but each pressed toward the center. He could not control them at all.

"The five Daos can balance because they generate and restrain one another..."

"But making five World Hearts coexist is harder than balancing five Daos. Otherwise, after all these years, those Immortal Emperors would have opened this Emperor Path."

"The Five Elements...