This power was the opposite of the resentment emanating from the countless wronged souls outside, yet it also seemed somewhat similar.
That similarity was, in truth, the power of the "lowly lives" overlooked by those above.
No one cared whether they lived or died, but when their numbers grew large enough, when someone could gather their wills together and fight for their right to speak, true terror would be born!
Faces of countless people flickered across the Deca Epochal Divine Swords like fleeting lights and shadows.
The same was true within Li Tianming's sword.
Even on Yinghuo's feathers, Miaomiao's lightning, Lanhuang's dragon scales, Xianxian's leaves, and Silver Dust's insect bodies, faces belonging to the sun's people emerged from their will!
These were all the powers of their will.
Empress Ying suddenly understood!
It was as though she wasn't being besieged by Li Tianming, his lifebound beasts, and consciousness gods.
She was being besieged by every living soul on the entire sun!
"No matter how many casualties your Skywolf Star suffered, the fact remains that your ten-billion-strong army invaded us, seeking to slaughter the sun's people and seize the stellar source passed down through our generations!"
As long as that fact remained, Empress Ying deserved neither sympathy nor pity.
"And now, all of us are telling you together: dreaming of burning, killing, humiliating, plundering, and wiping out our race's inheritance is nothing but a fool's delusion!"
This will was no different from that of the Sun Emperor.
The only difference was how far the retaliation would go.
At that moment, this intense, explosive will of the masses all gathered within Li Tianming's power, making him feel as though he were about to burst apart once more.
He had no way to probe further. The only righteous path, the kingly path, was