Star Gate

Chapter 911: Secondary Dimension (I)

Chapter 911: Secondary Dimension (I)

“I...” Director General Wang wanted to say that he hadn’t meant to do so, but he was so worked up that he exhaled a little too quickly. The slight gust of wind that picked up knocked Li Hao’s arm off his body.

The young man wordlessly stooped down and picked up his arm, screwing it back onto his body. Director General Wang immediately jumped as far away as he could!

He stared incredulously at Li Hao. I really didn’t touch you! I admit that I crushed your hand, but I can’t hurt you simply from breathing out!

“It’s fine.” Li Hao smiled after he installed his fragile arm back on his body. Riiip... plop. A patch of skin fell off his face.

It’s fine, really!” The young man laughed dryly. A laughing face without skin was... an even more harrowing sight.

His people frowned at the scene. Why was this happening? Li Hao’s physical body was like a clay doll—it broke apart at the slightest touch.

Li Hao didn’t mind. He’d lost an incredible amount of resources and strength after that battle, but with the formation of his wind and thunder characters, it wasn’t a total loss. The key thing was, he’d successfully entered the secondary dimension.

So it wasn’t the biggest loss in the grand picture of things. There was no helping how frail his body was. He’d already been only a layer of skin before he entered that dimension.

Li Hao turned to Yuan Shuo with a smile. “Thank you for the effort, teacher!”

Skin continued to rain down from his face. Yuan Shuo rolled his eyes. “Fix yourself first, look at how weak you are!”

The young man grinned and summoned a wave of Water of Life. His physical body was swiftly nourished back to health. A trace of blood filled his face and he no longer shed skin with every single movement.

Director General Wang heaved a sigh of relief and quickly stepped forward, but didn’t dare touch the young man again. “Are you alright?” he asked carefully.

“This is just a small matter!”

Is it really now?? The director general quickly followed up with, “Where did you go just now?”

“The secondary dimension.”

“The core origin world?” asked the director general instead. “But core origin has been severed...”

The core origin world had been something similar to a secondary dimension. It was the world in which the core origin dao resided. Every path of dao ultimately manifested in the universe. This was a fact that was beyond the current Li Hao’s comprehension.

Some understanding dawned when he heard the director general’s words and he mused, “The core origin world... so this means that core origin dao has its own world?”

“Of course!” explained Director General Wang. “In the world of core origin, each person is a star. The star falls when the person dies...”

The look in Li Hao’s eyes shifted. How interesting. The cosmos again. He’d seen countless stars when he entered the secondary dimension. Were they part of the same world, or not? All daos would eventually lead to the endless cosmos, so was each dao a universe in itself?

The young man lost himself in thought, drawing strange looks from the rest of the crowd. What was it now?

The two were still very different!

Contrary to what they presented themselves as now, true Apex could fight one hundred six elements at once. Could seven elements fight one hundred six elements at once?

Not at all!

Hong Yitang laughed as the director general’s thoughts ran wild. “All is well if you’re fine. Did you want this mirror? Your sword looks to be inside.”

He handed Li Hao a mirror; it exuded a faint illumination despite its tattered condition. Plainly, it was a very strong treasure.

“This is such a formidable weapon!” Li Hao sighed with appreciation when he received the mirror. This was truly an impressive object that not even Hong Tu had been able to fully utilize. Otherwise, Li Hao felt that the current Stellaris would be less than this mirror, even after swallowing the mallet of the Hongs.

“This is a copy of the Mirror of Wind and Cloud, isn’t it?” Director General Wang nodded appreciatively when he saw the item. “Strictly speaking, this is an emperor weapon!

“Weapons forged by exalted emperors are called emperor weapons,” he explained when Li Hao looked at him. “This should’ve been crafted by one of the Hong emperors. As for which one... that I’m not sure of.

“The notable one of the Hong family forged the Mirror of Wind and Cloud. It was so powerful that it was offered to the Human King. He then forged a copy of the Mirror of Wind and Cloud, and more than one, so the copies are of a slightly lower level.”

They were emperor weapons regardless.

“Strictly speaking, the eight family weapons aren’t much stronger than this mirror,” said the director general after some hesitation. “Not even Stellaris is that strong. They simply carry a lot of importance. Of course, Stellaris is more special than the rest since the Human King specifically made it for the Sword Sovereign. It’s certain to be the stronger weapon when it’s fully unsealed.”

But with the sword sealed, it was less than the copy of the Mirror of Wind and Cloud.

Li Hao nodded. No wonder! He hadn’t thought that Stellaris would be sealed either. He could see it traveling through the mirror, but didn’t know how to take it out.

“Try refining it,” Li Shengzhang whispered when she saw Li Hao stumped for his next move. “Of course, it might be hard for a non-Hong to refine it. Its master is dead now, so you might succeed. You’ll be able to take out Stellaris once you refine it.”

“My target for this trip was this treasure.” Li Hao nodded with a smile. “I just hadn’t thought that Hong Tu would be so strong that he’d almost be the death of me. Ah, yes, where’s that tree?”

The tree was gone. Although there were other trees in the city, Li Hao’s thoughts were on the white tree. It was very big and very strong.

“I ate it.” Director General Wang coughed with embarrassment.

“......” Li Hao’s jaw sagged. You... ate it? What does that mean?

“I expended too much energy just now and ate it. I wouldn’t be able to make up for my expenditure otherwise,” the director general continued coughing. Utilizing the city lord seal was much easier said than done. He would’ve used it early on otherwise. And now, he was a bit too embarrassed to go into details.

Everyone had put forth effort in this battle. Although the white tree was the strongest, Hong Tu wasn’t weak either. He was here to work for Li Hao, but he’d eaten their greatest battle loot. It was... difficult to explain.

He’d thought Li Hao had died earlier, so he hadn’t thought that much in his actions. Li Hao didn’t say anything either. So what if the director general had eaten the tree? He was surprised that the man could kill the plant spirit. That white tree had seemed very strong, but had fallen in the blink of an eye.

Had he... been gone a long time? And what was his teacher doing here? It was only now that Li Hao jerked with a start and looked at his master. “Teacher, what are you doing here?”