“Alright, this is just a dream I have,” Li Hao suddenly smiled. “I had a great idea just now, one for a very interesting way of cultivation. It’s a way that can peer into other people’s privacy and your own as well!

“You can hide someone’s deepest, darkest memories within the depths of memory. The deepest part of time actually holds a massive brain of shared memories!” A merry Li Hao described the river of memories. “This is a river that collects everyone’s memories and revitalizes them through the person’s presence.

“If we’re to speak of its uses apart from invading privacy, then it helps one perfect dao! It peers into memories to help us observe dao, which makes it a sharing of resources...”

“Is it good to invade someone’s privacy like this?” frowned Yuan Shuo.

“It depends on how you use it!” Li Hao grinned. “If you use it well, then it is a good path. If not... there will naturally be a backlash.

“These are just some nascent thoughts of mine, I haven’t really done anything with them. This river will also function as communications, transportation, and enveloping the myriad of worlds. Ultimately, it will return to its most basic roots and collect all functions as one. It will be a complete river of time!

“All worlds will be one and the chaos will be one then!” Li Hao grew more agitated the more he spoke. “Of course, I mean that in the context of my minor worlds, not the real chaos! With the world as support for dao, the river and circulation of the strength from a myriad dao will complete a grand cycle! The worlds will be wholly self sufficient...”

The more he spoke, the more stunned the audience was. This was a frightful concept if it succeeded!

The so-called river of time would connect all worlds and be able to transport items, ferry people, cultivate, trace time, reverse time, flow into the future, peer into life and death, and grasp all daos...

What a stunning proposition that was!

Could it be done?

So fifth rank Li Hao had come up with such a notion. He was modeling it on his own minor worlds for now, but if there came a day in which he deployed it in the chaos? That would be... utterly astonishing and terrifying.

All worlds and the entire chaos would be at his feat!

“It would be very hard for me to complete this alone.” Li Hao looked animatedly around him. “Is there anyone willing to walk the river of memories with me and peer into this rat’s past? You will pose as this chaos beast and hold down the fort in this world!”

Everyone looked at each other before someone mumbled, “Thunderleg’s a good candidate. He even looks like a rat with those shifting eyes. Northern Fist will do too, but his dao is a bit at odds with that rat so... he might not be able to comprehend it. Thunderleg is a better fit!”

“Do you want to be beaten up again, Little He?” Northern Fist looked at He Yong. That was the only person who would voice such judgment.

“This rat beast is skilled at hiding, fleeing, and ambushing. Both Thunderleg and Martial Uncle Northern Fist are not a good match.” Li Hao smiled and looked around the group. There were many exalted emperors these days, which meant he had a large pool to choose from. This was good. “This is a new base of operations for us, so you go, Director General Zhao!”

What do you mean by that??

The director general looked at Li Hao wordlessly. So I... seem like a rat to you?? What can I say to that??

“This is a pivotal location, a passageway to entering Skyward Region,” chuckled the young man. “There might be a lot of people that pass through here, with even eighth ranks such as Red Moon, Skycloud, Light, and Blazing Sun potentially traveling through it.

“I’d be worried that anyone else stationed here might be exposed. Only someone like Director General Zhao who’s avoided the rest of the world for hundreds of years is my heart at ease. You are the member of the older guard who fulfills my needs!”

Is that... a compliment? Director General Zhao didn’t know what to say. Why do I feel so weird about it?

“The river of time is just a theory for now,” Li Hao smiled further. “I still need to complete it. I am so reassured when someone as experienced and dependable as Director General Zhao is the first candidate!”

Nurturing a world with a world, covering the real world with the intangible world, and commanding Silver Moon exalted emperors to pose as chaos exalted emperors...

Li Hao spoke the truth. All of these were major techniques that required a mature and prudent person at the helm. Someone as brash and hot-tempered as He Yong was not a good candidate at all. They would be so easily exposed if he was chosen!

Li Hao had a complete plan at this moment. I’m going to take over Dragon Region! I’ll craft a large net formed by hundreds of worlds and capture the region in one fell swoop!

It was an exceedingly bold, crazy, massive, and even death-courting notion! It was insane!

And if the Dragon master left the region with his world to fight New Martial... then Li Hao would be utterly delighted. That would immensely increase the odds of his plan succeeding!

Of course, things could be taken one step at a time if the Dragon master didn’t leave.

The young man was different from the Human King. The Human King only gave more thought to a matter when it was staring him in the face. Meanwhile, Li Hao liked to form a plan beforehand and perfect it according to his ultimate goal. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

“Let’s get to work, folks!” The young man laughed at himself. “We have a lot of exalted emperors, but also not that many. The bare-bones of my plan involves taking over hundreds of worlds, so we have too few exalted emperors for that!

“I hope that Silver Moon can set foot into sixth rank over the course of this process and produce a few more exalted emperors. If some people can’t wait for that, they can walk the dao of the chaos! They can walk the dao of the minor worlds.

“Don’t be afraid. Can you not live without a dao universe?” His sonorous voice traveled through Silver Moon at this time. “If there is no dao universe to pull from, then establish one yourself! If you cannot do that, then establish a dao domain!

“I will even support a portion of exalted emperor to walk out of Silver Moon! You can borrow the world’s strength for now, then return it when you have money!

“Silver Moon’s dao should not be your final destination. We need to leave some chances and opportunities to later generations. When you think you can independently set up shop in the chaos or find it an appropriate timing, you can walk out of Silver Moon!

“We are the vanguard—if we do not dare set foot off our world, dare we expect that later generations will eclipse us? We must be bolder! Seniors such as the Sword Sovereign and Li Zhu have walked out of the world by themselves. I hope that Silver Moon can measure up to New Martial!”

Li Hao’s voice rang loudly; he was encouraging some folks to venture off the world after verifying their dao.

It was much easier to journey through a dao universe prior to verifying one’s dao. But after doing so, the world master and master of dao would restrict their movement. If good timing presented itself, why not leave the world?

Various Silver Moon martial masters were tempted, but no one made a sound. They lacked sufficient foundation and great dao comprehension, so this was not the right moment to leave. However, Li Hao’s words left an impression in their minds.

We... can try exploring outside in the future!

“The river of time might be the only thing that connects us in the future!” Li Hao continued. “There are many limitations to dao universes and its range is limited. Time is limitless!

“We of Silver Moon should spread our branches and walk toward the chaos! We should maintain our connections through the river of time. The name of Silver Moon will ring throughout the chaos in the future!”

Was that a dream or flights of fancy?

Who knew?

Perhaps dreams could become real.

We of Silver Moon may not need to always stay together. Everyone is unique. So long as we can communicate with each other, we can journey through the entire chaos!

......

Building a river that connected to a fake world and could be used to trace memories... This was both a hard, yet not so difficult endeavor for the current Li Hao.

The star of time materialized in Li Hao’s river of dao, as did various minor worlds. The Sword Sovereign’s three spirit entities surfaced as well. They had become permanent residents in the river.

They had not verified their dao, yet strangely enough, they had melded into Li Hao’s river all the same, despite not being exalted emperors. They did not ascend in Li Hao’s river, but had imitated Zhang An and temporarily stored their dao in the river.

In this way, they were not exalted emperors, but their great dao was exceedingly pure and they were closely tied to the river. It was also highly interesting that they had not shown their faces when the Sword Sovereign arrived. Nor did they mention wanting to leave with the Sword Sovereign.

Neither did the Sword Sovereign raise the issue. Perhaps he’d forgotten about it, or maybe he thought that there was no need to bring the three with him since they were so weak. They might be in greater danger in New Martial.

Li Hao didn’t pay attention to their state of affairs. He was prepared to use his own river of dao and coalesce a true river of time. The star of time would be the core of this river.

He would then find each corresponding minor world’s dao within the combination of daos and connect it to his own world.

Accomplishing all of this in one go was too hard, so Li Hao was just preparing the river for now. He would summon a minor world’s dao from the river and connect it to the rat’s dao. That would conceal his own dao.

The star of time quickly surfaced, as did Number Two. It looked at the star, then at Li Hao.

“Are you going to split out the daos within?”

“Not yet, I’m just looking for the corresponding dao and connecting to it,” Li Hao nodded. “I’m basically creating a connector to the star of time so that it can connect with the minor world.”

The cat understood, but didn’t say anything. It simply looked at the star and said, “Will you be able to find the corresponding dao?”

“I should be, with the precursor that it exists in the star of time. If it doesn’t... then I can only go for a similar dao. The rat’s dao is not that unique and the dao cultivated by chaos beasts reside within chaos dao. Anyone who studies chaos dao should be able to sense it.”

It wasn’t a unique dao, such as the one Hu Qingfeng cultivated. That one was so special that the star of time might not have it. Since it was only an elementary dao, Li Hao felt that it should exist within the star of time.

The difficult part was summoning it bit by bit. It would be a bit of a hassle as Li Hao hadn’t fully studied the star of time now either. This wasn’t a hard task either, but he could search for the answers himself.

However, another thought occurred to him at this time and Li Hao reached out a hand, yanking someone out. It was none other than a very surprised Yuan Shuo.