Chapter 1204: Chapter 258: Sword Dao Eleven, Drawing the Sword to the Azure Sky (Part 3)

He slowly put down the wine gourd, and in his calm and steady eyes, a faint light flickered.

At this moment, the clouds still drifted apart, and the sea of clouds remained tranquil.

Li Hao’s body became even more serene, as if melding into the world around him.

This wasn’t the ultimate melding of transforming to immortal, but another kind of integration of the state of mind.

Everything can be fished, and everything can become a fishing line…

Suddenly, the clouds surged, and next, something huge seemed to tremble and roll inside!

All of a sudden, the clouds dispersed, and that trembling thing leapt out, but it wasn’t a dragon or any other demons, it was a towering giant tower.

The tower emerged from the clouds, as if pulled out by something.

If someone else were here, they would be shocked to find that the tower looked identical to the Heart Inquiry Tower standing in the square!

However, this tower was complete, the top sharp like a treasured sword!

Suddenly, the tower quaked violently, as if destroyed by something, divine light scattered like flowing colors and iron flowers, splattering everywhere.

The Emperor’s Might on the tower also dimmed amidst the shaking.

Beside, Old Han, who was smoking heavily, stared blankly at this scene.

His eyes reflected the dazzling tower, as if countless lights flowed within his eyes, those were the echoes of past time.

He didn’t expect that Li Hao fished out a wisp of time from the clouds before him, and it turned out to be that period of time.

At this moment, Li Hao also opened his eyes, watching the tower of broken divine light fading away, becoming unreal again until it dissipated like smoke and dust, he felt somewhat dazed.

This tower was not real, but a time projection he fished out.

But he recognized that tower as the Heart Inquiry Tower.

He fished out the time when the Heart Inquiry Tower was destroyed.

At this moment, a panel prompt appeared in his mind.

[You have comprehended the Origin State of Mind in Fishing]

[Fishing level increased to Eleventh Rank]

[You gained 38282 fishing experience…]

Successive prompts rang, but Li Hao was still savoring the realization he just had.

Time, the years, he actually felt them.

Among the Nine Orders, time is the hardest to grasp, Elder Wang went seeking Ying Xiaoxiao, who is likely the reincarnation of Shi Miao, and she was born mastering the Time Origin Path.

Now, he unexpectedly had the fortune to touch it too.

“Fishing, to actually allow me to comprehend the Time Dao…”

Li Hao’s heart shook, increasingly feeling that the artistic skill he mastered seemed to have some deep meaning.

At this moment, much information surged into his mind, including Fishing, including the Time Origin Path.

Li Hao slowly felt, digested, and absorbed.

Old Han felt the change in Li Hao’s aura, sitting quietly aside, silently smoking, with smoke enveloping his face, obscuring his expression.

For a long, long time.

After Li Hao had absorbed all the information, he opened his eyes slightly weary, then looked at Old Han beside him.

Seeing the other seemed lost in thought, he slowly stood up, bowed solemnly with respect:

“Thank you, elder, for your guidance!”

Li Hao vaguely felt that his insight seemed to be somewhat related to Old Han before him, not just a simple word of advice.

Old Han snapped back, seeing Li Hao’s solemn demeanor, a rare softness glinting in his eyes, an expression Li Hao had only occasionally seen when offering him roast meat over the past half year.

“You’re very clever; I merely guided a little, and you can comprehend, that’s rare indeed.”

Old Han, who seldom praised anyone, complimented.

Hearing this, Li Hao felt he hadn’t chosen the wrong guide, he sat down and asked:

“Old Han, you must be quite a powerful master, right?”

Old Han neither confirmed nor denied, casually said: “Not that powerful, otherwise I wouldn’t be stuck here, unable even to seek vengeance.”

Saying this, a trace of self-mockery appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Li Hao naturally wouldn’t believe this, even if the other was telling the truth, but the feeling Old Han gave him did not lose to Elder Wang at all.

“You have enemies?”

“In life, who doesn’t have enemies?”

Old Han found Li Hao’s words endearingly naive, couldn’t help but smile gently, but then returned to his usual indifferent demeanor, though his eyes revealed a bit of the vicissitudes, looking at the sea of clouds, he said:

“What do you feel when you saw what you just fished out?”

“You mean the Heart Inquiry Tower?”

Thinking of the time projection he just fished out, and recalling that giant palm descending from the sky he saw at the Heart Inquiry Tower, Li Hao lamented: “The existence capable of destroying the Heart Inquiry Tower must be at the Immortal Emperor level, right?”

Old Han didn’t deny, slowly said: “Futu City has guarded the Abyss Sea for many years, and long ago, the Heart Inquiry Tower was already an Emperor Artifact, but during the catastrophe a hundred thousand years ago, it charged at the forefront, was suppressed, the Emperor Artifact dimmed, and so did the Emperor Soul…”

He chuckled softly to himself, saying: “Heart Inquiry, the Heart Inquiry Tower inquires the true hearts of the world, yet itself lost the Emperor Heart, leaving only half…”

Li Hao had heard Elder Wang say before, Emperor Artifacts have Emperor Souls, Emperor Souls have Emperor Hearts, if the Emperor Heart falls and fragments, the cultivation will also fall and fragment.

“With half left, there is still hope in the future.”

Li Hao said.

Old Han looked at Li Hao: “Hope?”

“Even if the Emperor Heart is completely shattered, it can be reformed; perhaps it can even surpass the past. Destruction is not necessarily a bad thing, and eternal non-destruction is not necessarily a good thing, for eternity also implies stagnation…”

Li Hao said with a smile.

Old Han’s eyes seemed to deepen slightly, he murmured: “Reform anew… surpass the past…”

After a while, he suddenly chuckled lightly, then burst into laughter.

“Marvelous, marvelous, what a notion that eternity is not a good thing, to grasp this level of state of mind, no wonder your Dao Heart has reached the eternal pinnacle…”