Chapter 1485: Entering Second Rank (III)
Li Hao had not departed Skyward despite his impending death. Instead, he was prepared to walk the path of life and death while on the major world. Each instance was both danger and opportunity. Most of all, it was a significant consumption of his resources.
For one, he needed a large quantity of energy. For another, he ran the high risk of losing his memories and even being lost in the process, becoming another person. And lastly, each attempt always met with a chaos tribulation.
He could go through this process multiple times if he didn’t care about that. However, Li Hao also knew that drawbacks were certain to develop if he repeated it too many times. He might encounter unforeseen danger. If he could refrain from employing it, he should.
This venture had been quite fruitful for him. He’d killed five exalted emperors, all of whom had stocked reserves. There were a lot of dao crystals and one exalted emperor-level treasure sitting pretty on him now.
Regular exalted emperor-level treasures weren’t that useful, but the defensive item that Skyriver had used last was quite strong. Li Hao hadn’t been able to break through it with one blow.
I owe someone else a favor now!
Li Hao sighed to himself. His debtors were the water sixth rank, the dragon seventh rank, the fire seventh rank, the New Martial Human King, Supreme Zhang, and Number Two...
This was the grand total of his current debts. Four high rank exalted emperors, one sixth rank, and one cat. As for Void... their dealings did not result in a new debt. Each was taking from the other what they needed.
Even if he did come to stand guard over Li Hao, the young man would permit him to observe the dao of life and death. That made it an exchange of great dao and not an incurrence of debt.
Li Hao smiled wryly at himself. Was there any first rank like him who managed to owe so many personal debts to high rank exalted emperors? When the debts grew too much, it was the debtors on the hook, wasn’t it? That looked to be the philosophy that he was practicing these days.
I should refrain from committing more of these actions in the future. This is getting out of hand and exceeding the limits of my abilities. Owing a favor to a sixth rank in order to kill a fourth rank is a very bad deal. These guys are probably still alive, since I can trace their past.
There was once a ninth rank exalted emperor in Skyward! But these guys are perfectly willing to do me a favor. Why would they do that, unless they really needed it?