During the 7 days Mo Shen stayed here, he wasn't exactly idle. Since he was planning to use his conquest here to comprehend the Ruler's Dao, he decided to understand it.
The Demon bones and ancient god bloodline contained memories of its past owners, most of which were eventually devoured by them. The past owners were usually genius of their generations from different world, and they had all comprehended Supreme ranked daos. Among them, 4 had comprehended the Ruler's Dao.
Mo Shen went through their memories, searching for information about the dao. He wanted to understand the true nature of the dao before the real comprehension began. And these 7 days were just enough for him to get what he wanted. If he wanted, he could actually comprehend it, but comprehension without experience was just an empty shell.
A loud bell rang out, disturbing his train of thought. The bell signified midnight had come. Normally, no bell was usually rung at this time, but now that midnight signified a change in the structure of the Martial Demon Kingdom, a bell that could ring throughout the kingdom had to be rung.
The moment the bell was rung, Mo Shen stood up and turned. He started taking steps in the air to where Mo Fan and Mo Jingyue were waiting for him. As he took each step, the mourning cloth and tie on him were getting burnt off. When he finally reached where they were, his golden robes were put on full display. At the same time, there were 9-clawed fire dragons on the robe made from the fire that just burnt the mourning robe.
Usually, dragon robes were used to signify a king. To them, Mo Shen having a dragon on his robe signified that he already considered himself king. It was pure arrogance.
But Mo Shen didn't really consider such. As his soul flames was burning off the mourning cloth, he absent-mindedly used it to create a design on his robe.
Together, they all returned to the main palace. The air was stuffed with tension. If an ordinary person was here, he would definitely die immediately. Even a cultivator in the Core Formation realm would definitely have his soul injured. The lowest cultivation among the people that were here was the Void realm.
In a few minutes, they all arrived at the air above the martial arts arena in the palace. The Void realm soldiers ran after them on foot, and arrived not long later.
It seemed like the arena had already been arranged ahead of time. The place was already large, able to fit a million people. It was now divided into 2. At one side, there was a lone chair as the head. At the other side, there were 4 chairs together.
Mo Shen walked to his side and sat down. On the other side, Mo Li, Mo He, Mo Tianluo and Mo Wuli sat on the 4 chairs.
"It seems you guys are joining hands." Mo Shen stated blankly.
The four of them looked at each other with surprise. They initially thought Mo Shen will be panicing, or at the very least be surprised. But he seemed calm like everything was at the tip of his fingers.
"Yes your highness, our 3 factions have decided to join hands against you." Mo Li told him with a confident smile.
"Don't even bother trying to drive a rift between us by asking who among us will take the throne. We have already decided it." Mo Wuli added.
"It doesn't actually matter whether you have decided it or not since you I am going to take the throne." Mo Shen said nonchalantly.
"Hmmm!" Mo Tianluo frowned. "His confidence is concerning. I'm sure his attitude is not a front as he doesn't put us in his eyes."
Mo Wuli turned to look at him. "We have 3 9th stage Immortal Soul realm cultivators with us, and the number of our army is at least 3 times his. What else do we have to fear?"
At that time, Mo He stood up to conduct the contest. "In this fight..."
"Old man sit down." Mo Shen interrupted him. "What right do you have to oversee this fight?"
Mo He looked at him angrily. Mo Shen had repeatedly called him 'old man' without any respect. "What do you mean your highness? I am the grand elder."
"As long as you've taken a side, you have lost your qualification to oversee this fight." Mo Shen said calmly.
"Who said I've taken a side? No matter what I'm still the grand elder, who else can preside over this contest?"
"Just obediently sit down and enjoy your last day of being the grand elder. After this contest, I'm going to kill you."
"You've been openly trying to go against me several times, using your position to fix me on rules. Who do you think you are?" Mo Shen said as he released a little aura on Mo He.
Mo He was pressed down flat on the floor, bleeding from his 7 orifices. "How dare you take action against me Mo Shen, I'm the grand elder. The supreme elder will not spare you."
"In fact there's no need for anyone to supervise this fight. You can die now." The aura suppressing Mo He suddenly doubled and his body exploded.
"If the supreme elder also wants to interfere, I won't hesitate to kill him." Mo Shen said calmly as he turned his head to the side, looking at the void in one spot. "WHO CAN STOP ME?"
The void rippled and an old man came out. "Greetings your highness." Mo Shi, the supreme elder bowed.
"Mo He overstepped his authority and took sides. He's not worthy to be the grand elder, and is supposed to have been executed." Mo Shi said with a flattering smile. "Sorry for troubling your highness to do the dirty work."
The situation finally calmed down. But Mo Tianluo and others felt a lingering fear in their heart. Mo Shen could easily kill the Mo He even with such a distance. Doesn't that mean he can also kill us like that.
"In the past, we normally have a hundred duels and 10 group fights between all parties involved to determine the winner." Mo Shi started. "I wonder what your highness suggests."
"That process is too long and boring. We'll just have a war in an open battlefield." Mo Shen informed. "No matter their numbers, they'll all fight against my army of 10,001 men. If the battle goes on for more than 2 hours without a clear victor, then it can be considered my loss."
Initially, he had considered playing by the rules. But after considering for a while, he felt it wasn't worth the try. It didn't go according to his path of a monarch.
He was comprehending the Ruler's Dao, which meant there was no room for compromise. The Ruler's Dao was the way of the monarch who didn't allow any question to his authority. It ensured absolute authority and power.
This also meant that the ruler has to have absolute strength, and use army to conquer all. His army also needed to be absolutely loyal and powerful.
It seemed like it was just now he started to comprehend the number 1 ranked dao. As his thought process changed, the Dao seed had already taken root in his mind, and he started going through the way of the ruler.
Hearing what Mo Shen said, Mo Tianluo smiled happily. After witnessing Mo Shen's strength, they were completely terrified. But now, Mo Shen said he wasn't going to partake in the fight, which meant they still had a chance.
Mo Tianluo spoke to someone behind him, and the person left the arena for a while. The next moment, their troop of 50,000 men came into the arena.
Seeing this, Mo Jingyue signalled for Mo Shen's army, and they all flew into the arena. But they were quite small in number compared to Mo Tianluo's troops.
This boosted their confidence, and Mo Li proceeded to mock them. "Your highness, are you thinking of admitting defeat?"
"Mhhhm!" Mo Shen turned to look at him. Then one of the soldiers in his troops who had reached the 3rd level of the Immortal Soul realm immediately rushed out and beheaded Mo Li.
Nobody had expected such an attack, so they were definitely not prepared for it. It was when they saw Mo Li's head rolling on the floor that they came to their senses.
"How dare you?" Mo Tianluo roared.
Although he didn't care about Mo Li's life, especially since they were formerly competing for the throne, but Mo Li could now be considered to be with him. So for just a member of Mo Shen's army to kill him was a very big insult to him.
"Attack!" Mo Tianluo ordered. And that marked the start of the war.
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"Can I really reach that stage so fast young lord?" Mo Fan asked.
Mo Shen used his army alone to conquer the whole of the True Martial world in 2 weeks. Then he used the rest of the month to rule the world as the monarch. And after achieving his purpose of comprehending the Ruler's Dao, he left there immediately.
Additionally, he now had an answer to his path after experiencing the life of a ruler. He discovered that there wasn't anything special in being the ruler. You just had more responsibilities to a very large number of people.
Mo Shen was the kind of person who would never bother others if they didn't bother him. That meant that he never cared for the world other than his family. To him, what does the fate of other people have to do with him?
And so his choice was the second path. The path of a carefree dominator who could do whatever he wanted without caring about others opinion or thoughts. He would only be responsible for his family and his actions. This was the path he wanted and felt suited him.
And so after the one month period, he left the True Martial world. Before leaving, he had passed the throne to Mo Jingyue and had given hima tiny bit uf his blood to keep as his trump card.
Mo Tianluo submitted to him, and he made him the commander of the army under Mo Jingyue. Mo Wuli was killed in the war as Mo Shen had ordered, and exactly half of the enemies' troops as he earlier said. He left the True Martial World in ponder contrary to how he came. The whole world knew of his departure and sent him off properly.
Now they were in the void, on their way to the Undying Phoenix world where Mo Shen left Mo Feng.
Mo Shen was telling Mo Fan about entering the dao.
"Of course." Mo Shen said to Mo Fan. "Entering the dao is really an easy process, and this place is the best place to do it."
"The void contains all sort of principles, and the dao aura here is in abundance. You just need to empty your mind, focus and fuse your mind with the void around which represents nature."
This time, Mo Shen and Mo Fan were on the void scroll they used to go to the Undying Phoenix World previously. Mo Shen wanted Mo Fan to seek his enlightenment here in the void. so he didn't immediately take them to the Undying Phoenix world.
As they were on the scroll, the time changed once again. This time, Mo Shen had done it consciously. Ever since he had comprehended the Immeasurable Time Dao which was the number 2 ranked dao in the universe, he was now able to slow down the time around them.In Fact, it couldn't really be said to be slowing down time, it was more like creating a time domain where time flowed different from outside it. It was the same ability that he used unconsciously with his demon bones when they were going to the Undying Phoenix world and he entered the dao.