Inside the Demon Cave, Blade Light and lightning intertwined, and waves of force surged in every direction.
Li Yun's battle with the Demon People Leader had lasted a quarter of an hour.
The surrounding Weird Beasts had long since been killed or wounded. Those that remained had fled far away, not daring to approach.
The Martial Artists had retreated even farther, watching the earth-shaking battle with tense faces.
They could not follow the fight. All they saw was five-colored Blade Light colliding again and again with black lightning, each impact shaking the entire Demon Cave.
But they could sense one thing—Chief Lin seemed to have the upper hand.
Li Yun did have the upper hand.
Though his Nascent Heaven's Will had yet to reach Spirit Transformation, it possessed an innate power to suppress the will of the Demon People.
Each time their blades met, Heaven's Will silently seeped across, eating away at the Demon People Leader's will bit by bit.
The Demon People Leader grew increasingly frenzied.
It could not understand why it always felt suppressed when its strength was no weaker than its opponent's. It was as though something invisible was gnawing at its will, leaving it weaker and weaker.
Almost there.
Li Yun made his assessment.
With a thought, he intensified Heaven's Will.
That unfathomable will no longer merely seeped forward. It surged like a tide toward the Demon People Leader's sea of consciousness.
It sought to enter, to make contact, to...
Take control!
The Demon People Leader shuddered, and the bloody light in its eyes fluctuated violently.
It felt a will above its own forcing its way into its sea of consciousness.
That will did not mean to destroy it. It meant to... control it!
"No—!"
The Demon People Leader roared, desperately driving its will to resist.