Chapter 732: Return to Skystar (III)

Chapter 732: Return to Skystar (III)

“Commander Li, I recommend creating greater fanfare since our journey is already known.” Deputy Zhou laughed at seeing Li Hao agree. “We should unfurl the tiger flag and let everyone know that Demon Sword is here! Our route will take us past Near River and the three northern provinces. We don’t need to do anything, just simply intimidate the northern provinces!

“Making such a commotion as we travel is also a type of deterrence and builds our reputation. We will let the world know that wherever the tiger flag is, so is Commander Li! Sometimes, the flag can stand-in for an Arcanus when you’re not around!”

Li Hao’s eyes widened from the new thoughts he was receiving and he nodded, approving of the proposed course of action.

“We can exterminate some bandits along the way to improve the troop’s coordination. For now, the Demon Hunters can be in charge of offense and the White Moon Guards of catching stragglers. The two groups need to learn how to operate in accordance with each other. Pitched battle is different from small skirmishes.” Deputy Zhou offered a few more suggestions that Li Hao did not refuse. He nodded to each one.

The flying ship moved swiftly through the air, passing by various cities. Whenever they reached a city, someone would call out that the Skystar governor general was passing through and just borrowing their airspace. The tiger flag, Li Hao, and flying ship was quickly known throughout Silver Moon.

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Near River, the Director General Office.

Fan Chang frowned and someone grit their teeth below him. “That Li Hao is too cocky by far! He’s driving a flying ship across everything in his path—no one is to stop him! Although he approaches Near River, he doesn’t show a single sign of reining himself in!

“Judging from his flight path, he may even pass through our territory. Director General, do we show him a taste of what he deserves?”

“Are you going to fight him?” Fan Chang glanced at the speaker. That was someone who’d killed multiple Arcanus! The kid’s strength was completely different from when they fought over the North Sea.

“City annihilation missiles...”

“Are you bold enough to fire them?” Fan Chang stared the speaker down. The missiles were strong. If they fired a hundred of them at that conceited kid and his ship, he probably wouldn’t be able to dodge and would be done for.

However, half of Near River would be destroyed as well! And what if the kid got away? What good was killing a bunch of mundanes for?!

His subordinate below spoke no further, simply finding their circumstances a bit humiliating. They were a vaunted province! But some brat from Silver Moon flew right through them without the intention of stopping. This was beyond ludicrous! Li Hao was too, too vainglorious!

Fan Chang didn’t say anything. If the heavens wanted to put someone down, they would let that person grow too big for their boots first! Li Hao was indeed being too egotistic—he really thought of himself as an invincible powerhouse just because he led one thousand weaklings!

Outright crossing the land like this was creating more than one disgruntled provincial leader against him, but everyone had to keep it to themselves for now. They could only tolerate the brat and give way. This was someone who dared kill even ministers!

The nine ministries had yet to take Li Hao to task for his offenses, was Near River supposed to pit themselves against him? What a joke!

The North Sea, by the coastline.

A dog was sprawled on the shore, awaiting further development. Waves ebbed and flowed in the sea. Moments later, a large snake head poked out of the water. The head was as big as a whetstone.

“Honored One.” Its mental ripples reached the dog. “Can Master Li really help me transform into a dragon?”

Panther ignored it; the snake wasn’t in a hurry. It was apprehensive. Panther had rushed through the night to visit Kui Mountain because Li Hao had one matter left to attend to. The big snake had helped him before and he’d promised to help it find the method to ascend as a dragon.

Although there wasn’t a transformation method, Li Hao knew how the snake should ascend. He naturally wouldn’t forget the favor owed, so he had Panther notify the snake to wait for him in the North Sea.

“Honored One, the North Sea has monster spirits too. My unexpected presence here will easily give rise to conflict...”

“ROAR!” Panther promptly transformed into the golden dog and flared its presence outward. The big snake cowered on the water surface, silent as could be. That was right, with the noble one here, what was there to be afraid of? Even if there were monster spirits in the North Sea, they would have to bow down to this one!

Panther retracted his presence only after a long moment. This big snake was so annoying!

A massive flying ship swung through the air as they talked. The snake lit up—was he here?

BAM!

The ship landed in the sea, flinging sea spray across the scene. A gigantic snake head rose from the water surface in the astonished eyes of Liu Long and the others.

“This humble snake of Kui Mountain greets the Revered One!”

“You’re much too polite, Snake King!” Li Hao roared with laughter. “I am deeply grateful that the Snake King did not expose me to the Steadfast Duke that day. I visited the ancient city a few days ago and asked about the dragon transformation method. I have some reflections to share, but am unable to travel to Kui Mountain due to my missions at hand. Therefore, I had Panther contact you to wait here. My apologies for keeping you waiting!”

“You’re far too polite, Revered One!” The snake king grew even more humble. This was a major personage who’d made a special trip to the ancient city to inquire about its matters. That was such a demonstration of effort!

The snake’s big eyes swept over the ship, passing the others noncommittally, but nearly widening with fear when it saw the merry Deputy Zhou. The big snake quickly understood. This was to be expected, the revered one was the heir of the ancient civilization.

Deputy Zhou and the others looked back at the monster spirit, so this was the snake king of Kui Mountain? It was very strong and looked to be peak metamorphosis!

Li Hao walked through the air and reached a hand toward the snake’s head. “The seniors in the ancient city say that you are of the snake race, that snakes and dragons are different races. There is no need to doggedly pursue becoming a dragon! Not to mention, you are too weak and so it is much worse to reach beyond your grasp. All you need is to purify your blood. I’ll use the sword of the Lis to purify some for you, it won’t be hard for you to break through to Arcanus then!”