Li Hao, hearing the other’s words, did not hold back; his Dao Domain spread out immediately.
Intimidation!
The laws of the Dao Domain enveloped Jiang Lichen in an instant.
The pressure of intimidation made one unable to release any power from within.
However, at that moment, Jiang Lichen’s eyes burst with an excited and fiery intent to battle, and streams of power spewed out from the cavities within his body. Like Sword Qi, these powers shot out, condensing the power he had ingested into myriad Sword Qi, embedding them in the major meridians of his body.
Li Hao harbored a breath of Immortal Qi in his belly, while Jiang Lichen harbored myriad Sword Qi in his heart. Even under the laws of the Dao Domain, he exploded with formidable power, resisting the erosion of the laws and suddenly wielding his sword.
Whoosh!
The brilliance burst like a silver moon, seemingly embodying some Dao Intent, and instantly cut across.
Li Hao was taken aback but immediately noticed that his Dao Domain was torn by an extremely sharp power, directly broken!
He immediately thought about overlaying a second layer of Dao Domain, but gave up as soon as the thought occurred.
A sense of battle rose in his heart too, he likewise flicked the dead branch in his hand, cutting out a Sword Qi under entwined power.
Boom! The Reincarnation Sword Light collided with Jiang Lichen’s Sword Qi, and under the enhancement of the Dao Domain laws, they actually ended in a draw.
“Your sword is not pure enough!”
Jiang Lichen’s eyes bulged in fury as he howled, “Is this your strongest swordsmanship? Not enough!”
As he spoke, he slashed out a second sword, which again broke through the Dao Domain. The sword light, refined to perfection, was like a polar light cast from beyond the heavens, arriving in an instant.
Li Hao also raised his dry branch and chopped down sharply.
Sword light annihilated, neither gaining any advantage.
But the dry branch in Li Hao’s hand broke.
And Li Hao knew that without the enhancement of Dao Domain laws, purely in terms of swordsmanship, he had already lost.
“Your Sword Dao is merely at half the level of a Sword Saint.”
Jiang Lichen released his aura all over his body, miraculously standing unharmed in the Dao Domain. His gaze was cold, tinged with regret, “But for your age, it is quite good. Perhaps in ten years, you may be able to contend with me again.”
Li Hao nodded slightly, not denying it.
His comprehension of the Sixth Stage of the Sword Dao was insufficient, failing to enter the Spirit-Entering stage, and his swordsmanship had not transcended the ordinary. The opponent’s understanding of the Sword Dao, however, must be at the Seventh or Eighth Stage.
With pure Sword Dao breaking through the Dao Domain, his sword had approached the threshold of Entering Dao.
“Is this your full power, or do you have other methods to show? Let me see your true power, to see if it can sharpen my sword further!”
Jiang Lichen’s eyes were fixed on Li Hao.
Seeing the determination in his eyes, Li Hao nodded, “Alright.”
As he spoke, he let go of the remaining half of the dry branch he held, letting it fall below.
But at the same moment, four layers of the Dao Domain suddenly covered everything.
The sudden terrifying force made Jiang Lichen’s previously fierce eyes suddenly shrink, a hint of horror appeared, but the next moment he burst out into a more dazzling light, excitedly laughing,
“Good!”
He burst out with soaring sword light from his body, his spine becoming clear and brilliant, like a sword.
He soared into the sky, his whole body emanating a vast aura, concentrated in one sword, attempting to chop.
But the next moment, another layer of the Dao Domain covered him.
Six-layer Dao Domain enveloped instantly, with a boom, like a pair of huge hands, gripped the light from Jiang Lichen’s entire body, snuffing it out, pushing it all back into his body, and then as if petrified, he could not move within the Dao Domain.
Li Hao did not fully unleash the rules of the Dao Domain; otherwise, it would have torn him apart instantly.
“You…”
Jiang Lichen’s eyeballs struggled to move, shocked and incredulous.
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Li Hao slowly dissipated his power, recalling the Dao Domain.
Jiang Lichen’s body light surged out instantaneously, but his posture holding the sword paused in mid-air, simply staring blankly at Li Hao.
After a long time, he suddenly rushed up to Li Hao and said, “Six-layer Dao Domain? Is this your limit?”
Li Hao shook his head slightly.
Jiang Lichen seemed a bit dazed, but soon burst out laughing again, saying:
“Very good, I thought my sword was sharp enough, but it seems it’s still far from enough!”
“Whenever I can break through your Dao Domain, that will be my time of Enlightenment!”
Li Hao’s mind stirred, asking, “Prince, are you familiar with the Tao Comprehension Realm?”
“Not exactly familiar, you whippersnapper, are you trying to find out?”
Jiang Lichen saw through Li Hao’s intentions, chuckled a couple of times, and didn’t hide it, saying, “Even if you are from the background of the Divine General Mansion, unless the ancestor of the Li Family personally tells you, such true secrets will not be recorded in books; some old fellows are just like that, rather taking some secrets to the grave than letting them out.”
Adding this, he then drew back to the topic, saying:
“The Tao Comprehension Realm also varies at different levels, the First Realm is the True Man Realm, the Second Realm is the Dao Law Realm!”
“That True Person from the Gan Tao Palace is at the True Man Realm, needing to break the Dao Domain laws, touching the true Great Dao, eliminating the false and preserving the true, entering Dao from techniques, which defines the Enlightened Truth Realm!”
He continued, “The Dao Law Realm is even more mysterious and powerful, with Daoist Domain laws, command following speech, calling for wind and summoning rain, peering into the Heavenly Dao, no longer bounded by techniques, but by laws!”
“Techniques are the appearance, Dao is the bone, laws are the flesh!”
Jiang Lichen glanced at Li Hao and said, “All cultivation skill manuals, supreme skills included, still linger in appearance; even the supreme ones barely touch a bit of the true essence, but still stand outside the threshold of the Dao.”
“Only when you cross the threshold can you truly enter the Dao, then leverage laws with Dao, expending little effort but exerting full power!”