Bonus Chapter-Waiting for an Old Friend!

"Protect my true spirit from perish..." Ji Ning stared blankly at Zhou Hao.

In my memory.

The last time my elder brother said something like that was in Eight Dragon Cloud City.

At the time, it was to reassure him to fight against the Wujian Gate.

Brother Zhou Hao said he was protecting himself from being attacked and killed by powerful figures from the Wujian Gate.

After that, he escaped unharmed from the trap set by the Wujian Gate and even managed to rescue his senior sister.

Now, my elder brother says this again...

"Big brother." Ji Ning felt a strange mix of emotions.

Unbeknownst to anyone, she had already secretly regarded Zhou Hao as a goal to surpass on her path of cultivation.

The reason why he was so eager to merge with the Dao was not only because the ' Dao-Merging Fire Cloud Flower ' had a time limit, but also because he wanted to become the Ultimate Emperor as soon as possible and catch up with Zhou Hao.

In the end, however, it was still Zhou Hao who had to step in to save himself.

He knew that Brother Zhou Hao had not yet achieved Dao because he had other plans. Now, he was doing it for him, which moved Ji Ning, but also filled him with guilt.

Zhou Hao sensed Ji Ning's complex emotions and smiled, "It's not just for you. In the future, many people in our Three Realms will need to merge with the Dao. My merging with the Dao is also for the sake of those who come after me."

Not to mention others, his own daughter Xi Yue and his master Sanqing have both reached the Four-Step Dao Lord realm, not far from the Dao Integration realm.

Other friends include Houyi, Rulai, and Suiren-shi, as well as Liu Yu, Yun Yuchan, and their son Zhou Yu, who will eventually attain Dao.

Moreover, throughout the entire Cultivator Civilization, countless prodigies have perished at the life-or-death tribulation of the Dao Integration stage.

The more gifted and monstrous a prodigy is, the greater the chance of their demise. It can be said that all living beings have long suffered from the Dao Lord's life-or-death struggle, and it is time for a change.

"Uncle, my father doesn't have to die?" Ji Mingyue asked in surprise.

"Hmm." Zhou Hao smiled and nodded. "Not only your father, but all the immortals and demons who have merged with the Dao in the Three Realms will not die in the future. And after some time, even the Dao Lord of the entire Chaos Universe who fail to merge with the Dao will not die."

"Disciple, are you confident?" Sanqing, somewhat incredulous.

After all, since the beginning of cultivation, the Dao Lord realm has been the biggest obstacle on the path of cultivation.

Moreover, the Sanqing Ones themselves have read countless treasured books in the Dao Alliance over the years and know very well how difficult it is for a Dao Lord to successfully merge with the Dao and attain eternity.

Because Dao Lord's ascension to the Dao cannot be flawed in the slightest, once a mistake is made, there is no chance to start over. This results in only one Eternal Emperor emerging out of approximately every 100,000 Dao Lord.

These are often Dao Lord choose the ordinary 'path'. The chances of failure to merge with the Heavenly Dao are far greater for top Dao Lord who choose a stronger path to cultivate, as well as for those who have mastered at least one of the strongest paths, or even merged several of the strongest paths.

Otherwise, the entire Flame Dragon Domain would not have only had Three Great Sovereigns throughout countless ages.

If all Dao Lord could survive after failing to merge with the Dao and would have another chance to merge with the Dao, then the number of Eternal Emperor would inevitably explode, and even more people would become Dominator, making the entire Cultivator Civilization more prosperous and powerful.

"Don't worry, Master, I'm confident." Zhou Hao nodded.

The essence of the Dao Lord's union with the Dao, to put it simply, is to use the Dao that the Dao Lord himself embodies to resonate with the eternal Dao of the Origin of Chaos Universe.

Because the Origin of Chaos Universe is constructed from all the Eternal Ultimate Dao, no matter which 'path' the Dao Lord comprehend, it is all encompassed within each and every Eternal Ultimate Dao.

The reason why the Dao Lord they comprehended was flawed. When they tried to align with the eternal Dao of the universe's origin, they could not withstand the eternal Dao's power and were thus crushed by it.

Being crushed by the eternal way will naturally lead to the collapse of the soul and true spirit, ultimately returning to the Origin of Chaos Universe, becoming a perfect cycle of reincarnation.

Although he could not ensure that all Dao Lord' comprehensions of the Dao were correct, if he refined the Origin of Chaos Universe and became the controller of this Chaos Universe, he could control the origin of the universe, ordering it to stop absorbing the true spirit fragments of Dao Lord who failed to merge with the Dao, and even return the true spirit fragments that had already been absorbed.

In this way, the death calamity of the collapse of the true spirit can be averted.

When the true spirit no longer collapses and the soul of Dao Lord is restored to its complete state, he can reunite with the Dao, and even attempt to reunite with the Dao multiple times, thus achieving eternity.

As for whether Ji Ning can hold out until Zhou Hao breaks through to the Ultimate Supreme realm, Zhou Hao also has a way.

If a breakthrough cannot be achieved for a long time, Ji Ning will be taken into his own Small Universe, thus isolating him from the Cultivator Universe's origin.

In any case, he has complete control over his own Small Universe, and whether or not to absorb fragments of true spirit is merely a matter of his own whim.

"Since Changsheng says so, then it must be a sure thing. This is great news, we should celebrate!" Suiren-shi laughed heartily.

" With Changsheng, Beiming no longer needs to worry about the annihilation of his true spirit. He will have the opportunity to enjoy eternity in the future, which is something to celebrate," Rulai nodded.

"I'll prepare the banquet," Yu Wei said excitedly.

soon.

Long tables were set up on Mingyue Island, and everyone sat down casually, enjoying the fine wine and delicacies on the tables, chatting and laughing.

The conversation naturally revolved around Ji Ning and Zhou Hao, who had both attained enlightenment.

Ji Ning, having achieved perfect Dao heart, set aside other emotions and shared his journey of merging with the Dao with everyone with a smile, eliciting repeated exclamations of amazement from the Sanqing, Rulai, Hou Houyi, and the others.

This is the experience of the first Dao Ultimate Dao Lord Integration stage. For immortals and demons who will eventually experience Dao Integration, it is even more precious than most top-tier methods.

As for Zhou Hao, who successfully achieved Dao integration... he was a freak and couldn't be measured by normal standards.

He could even achieve the Ultimate Dao integration in just a few breaths; his experience was something that not just anyone could learn.

Sun Wukong asked out of curiosity, but the reply he received was--

"Nothing more than the accumulation of too much knowledge and experience," Zhou Hao said with a smile.

After all, he had personally witnessed even the Eternal Ultimate Dao that constituted the Origin of Chaos Universe.

For him, mastering and understanding a ' Ultimate Taiji Dao ' was naturally a piece of cake.

While the immortals and demons of the Three Realms were feasting and drinking on Mingyue Island.

The cultivators reside in the Endless Space beyond the Chaos Universe.

call.

Iyer traversed numerous obstacles in time and space, finally returning to the suspended boulder.

"Hmm?" As soon as Iyer arrived, he saw that in addition to his master's wooden fenced courtyard, three more small wooden houses had appeared on the boulder.

squeak.

The door of one of the cabins was pushed open from the inside, and a man in a black robe stepped out.

Immediately afterwards, two more figures emerged from the other two wooden houses.

They were a man in a red robe and a beautiful woman in a silver-white robe.

These three Sith Clan Lord Master, whose auras were all quite powerful and far surpassed those of ordinary Sith Lords, did not immediately kneel down and pay their respects to Iyer as they would to other Sith Clan Lord Master, addressing him as 'Great Iyer '.

But Iyer showed no displeasure; instead, she smiled and said, "So it's the three of you."

The three people in front of them were all Source Walker Lord Master under their master's command, and were subordinates whom their master valued highly.

The fact that the three of them were here was because their master had promised to send them to help him in his campaigns, so Iyer would not be dissatisfied with such empty formalities.

Even someone as proud as him, in order to achieve his goal, did not hesitate to treat the three Source Walker Lord Master with courtesy and took the initiative to show goodwill.

"Iyer." Upon seeing Iyer take the initiative to greet them, the three bowed slightly in respect.

At that moment, the Holy Lord's gentle voice came from inside the small courtyard with its wooden fence.

"Iyer is back?"

"Yes, Master," Iyer replied respectfully. "Your disciple has lived up to your expectations and successfully captured the Nine-Headed Supreme- level lifeforms."

"Nine-Headed?" The Holy Lord was somewhat surprised. "Come in."

Iyer nodded slightly to the three Source Walker Lord Master and quickly walked into the courtyard.

"Master." Iyer bowed respectfully, but his gaze remained fixed on the three small dolls placed in front of the Holy Lord.

These three little dolls, each only the size of an adult's fist, were pitch black and made of some unknown material. They had noses and eyes and looked quite cute.

Even without using his divine sense to observe, he could tell from his level of cultivation that the crafting of the three small dolls was extremely profound, and the subtle yet powerful fluctuations surprised even Iyer.

"Master's crafting skills are indeed amazing. Although I am also Ultimate Supreme, there is still a big gap between me and Master when it comes to crafting treasures."

Iyer knew that the mystery of these three seemingly cute little dolls lay in the two trump cards he had prepared.

He felt even greater awe for his unfathomable master.

Wow~~~

A translucent golden crystal sphere, seemingly formed from countless rays of light, appeared in Iyer's hand.

Inside the golden crystal sphere, three Strange Lifeform, each only the size of a thumb, can be clearly seen floating and drifting within the sphere's interior space.

"Master." Iyer held up the golden crystal ball with both hands and respectfully presented it to the Holy Lord.

"Hmm." The Holy Lord nodded gently, took the golden crystal ball, played with it for a while, and then put it away with satisfaction. He then pointed to the three dolls in front of him.

"These are the three War Beast I promised to craft for you. To use them, you need to activate them with the full power of the flesh and spirit of a Supreme- level Strange Lifeform."

The Holy Lord cautioned, "However, it's important to note that even if the War Beast absorbs all the power of Supreme- level life form under extreme conditions, it will likely only be able to sustain itself for half an hour. Do not use it lightly unless absolutely necessary."

"Yes," Iyer replied.

At their level, a life-or-death battle is but a fleeting moment; half an hour is more than enough.

"After nearly fifty chaotic eras of delay, we can finally begin the final battle against the Cultivator Civilization!" Iyer picked up the three black dolls, and even with his Dao heart, he couldn't help but feel a little excited.

"Go," the Holy Lord waved his hand and said.

Iyer immediately bowed respectfully again in gratitude, then put away the three black dolls and turned to walk out of the courtyard.

"Remember to come back alive."

The voice of his master coming from behind made Iyer pause in his steps.

"Master, rest assured, I will surely succeed!"

After saying that, Iyer walked out of the courtyard without looking back, took the three Source Walker Lord Master into his personal cave, and then traveled through time and space away from the boulder.

Within the Blazing Sun Domain.

"Rumble~~~"

The distant, blazing stars roared and exploded repeatedly, sending out countless meteorites.

In the void beside them, there was a blue flying boat.

Four figures stood at the bow of the flying boat, each using their own methods, some gathering immortal power into a large hand, others activating magical treasures, to grab the meteorites flying everywhere in the void.

"Haha, it's rare to find even a single ' Gold-Platinum Star Stone ' weighing a million pounds. To find an entire star like this is truly unheard of. Blazing Sun Domain is indeed one of the Eight Domains, a treasure land!" Suiren-shi chuckled as he looked at the five meteorite fragments he had just collected.

However, the fist-sized, pale gold metal blocks were extremely heavy, each weighing over ten million kilograms.

It should be known that this ' Gold-Platinum Star Stone ' is an excellent material for refining Eternal Divine Weapon; a piece the size of a fingernail is worth ten thousand cubic units of Chaos Spirit Liquid.

The five Gold-Platinum Star Stone in his hand would be worth at least tens of millions of cubic meters of Chaos Spirit Liquid at the Dao Alliance's auction, which is equivalent to the entire fortune of most Dao Lord.

"Although the Blazing Sun Domain is a treasure land, it's not easy to find treasures there. We've been so lucky along the way; we have Changsheng to thank for it."

The Rulai also acted swiftly, his golden hands growing to tens of millions of feet long, and with a scoop in the void, he collected six or seven Gold-Platinum Star Stone.

"Good to know." The Sanqing Ones were faintly surging with black and white energy, forming a huge Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram above their heads. As it spun around, it absorbed and pulled back the flying star fragments.

"Grandmaster, Human Emperor, Buddha, if you remember the good my father did for you, please let me have some." Standing next to the Sanqing was a pretty young girl.

She wore a strange, moon-white robe, adorned with Osmanthus Tree leaves, though the leaves were pale blue and exuded a chilling aura.

Before the pretty young girl, a Mystic Moon Phantom floated, shooting out countless icy moonlight beams that enveloped the flying star fragments. However, the special environment of the Blazing Sun Domain greatly restrained her, and her collection speed was far slower than that of Suiren-shi, Rulai, and the Sanqing.

"I hate these kinds of fire-type strange realms the most. My father insisted that I leave Yu Star Sea and come to the Blazing Sun Domain." The pretty girl frowned and said, "Even if I'm going to come to the Eight Domains for training, he should have sent me to the Ice Sea Domain."

"Xi Yue, as the saying goes, 'A solitary yang cannot produce life, nor can a solitary yin grow.' The reason I sent you to the Blazing Sun Domain is to let you comprehend the profound mystery of the Great Dao of 'yin and yang being mutually dependent and mutually diminishing.'"

The Sanqing Ones looked at their young disciple and beloved daughter with a smile.

"Among the younger generation of the Three Realms, you have made the fastest progress in cultivation, and your realm has even surpassed that of us old folks. But in the path of cultivation, the harmony of Yin and Yang is the true way; do not let your father's painstaking efforts go to waste."

Upon hearing her master's teachings, Zhou Xiyue quickly and respectfully responded.

The principle is true, but to truly understand it is not something that can be achieved in just a few words.

soon.

With a deafening roar, the blazing star in the distance completely disintegrated.

A man in black robes slowly emerged from the dust of countless stars, holding a large, round gold stone in his hand.

A terrifying gravitational force emanated from the golden stone, causing the void around the black-robed man to involuntarily collapse inward.

"Father, is this the core of the star?" Zhou Xiyue asked curiously.

A colossal star whose surface is entirely composed of Gold-Platinum Star Stone, yet its core is this seemingly ordinary piece of gold and stone.

If it weren't for that terrifying primordial magnetic attraction, such a piece of gold would simply be considered an ordinary chaotic gold, and no one would pay it any attention.

"Well, I'm lucky this time. With this piece of ' Star Magnetite Essence Gold,' I have enough materials to refine my Dharma Body," Zhou Hao said with a smile.

His previous two Dharma Body, while his main body and Second Primordial Spirit were both comprehending the origin of the universe, were not distracted and continued to be nurtured. The trace of his soul left in them had long since been annihilated.

Furthermore, after achieving the Dao, the Dao one comprehends is the complete Eternal Ultimate Taiji Dao. To perfectly unleash its combat power, the materials used to refine the Dharma Body are naturally extremely demanding.

After all, the avatar to be forged is a Supreme- level combat Dharma Body, which requires extremely rare materials.

The ' Star Magnetite Essence Gold ' is the core material that can support the body of a ' Supreme Dharma Body '.

"This is destiny," the Sanqing exclaimed.

"Since you successfully merged with the Dao and we left the Three Realms, we've encountered all sorts of rare and precious treasures just by wandering around. In the Blazing Sun Domain, if we wanted to find a star to rest on, we would find entire planets formed from rare and precious materials."

"It was quite satisfying." Zhou Hao was also extremely satisfied with the 'good at handling things' of the Origin Will.

This is actually quite normal.

Zhou Hao is the only one in the entire Chaos Universe who has the potential to become the Ultimate Supreme. In particular, he has remained unmoved by the repeated temptations of the Origin Will, and has not even attempted to merge with the Dao.

Now that he has finally 'yielded,' the Origin Will is naturally overjoyed and bestows endless fortune upon Zhou Hao.

Although no amount of luck can create an Ultimate Supreme, it can allow Zhou Hao to progress faster on his cultivation path, at least freeing him from worrying about external things.

Before leaving the Three Realms, he was thinking about collecting materials to refine a Dharma Body to fight in the Sith Clan's territory. As a result, various rare materials needed to refine the Dharma Body appeared one by one.

Incidentally, his master's daughter and others who were traveling with him also made a windfall.

"Where do we go next?" Suiren-shi asked cheerfully.

The other three also looked at Zhou Hao.

"We're not going anywhere." Zhou Hao looked into the distance. "We're waiting for someone here."

"Waiting for someone?" Zhou Xiyue asked. "Is it your friend, Father?"

"They are old friends of your grandmaster and the others," Zhou Hao said with a smile.

"Our old friend?" Suiren-shi, the Sanqing, Rulai looked at each other, all somewhat puzzled.

All their acquaintances are in the Flame Dragon Domain; they haven't heard of anyone in the Blazing Sun Domain.

Still an old friend...

Suddenly, the image of a woman appeared in Sanqing's mind.

"Could it be her?"