In the valley, the dust gradually settled.
Martial King Cangjiu stood where he was, his face ashen, his right arm still trembling slightly.
He stared at Li Yun, disbelief filling his eyes.
He was a Martial King at the twenty-fifth step of the Heavenly Ladder. How had a young man barely in his twenties broken his full-force killing blow with a single slash?
Worse still, the will contained in that slash had sent a chill through his heart.
He could not fathom what kind of will it was.
Li Yun sheathed his blade, loosened his limbs, and smiled faintly.
He had gained far more from this battle than he had expected.
In the fight, the five hundred strands of the Purple Moon Continent's will of heaven and earth had fully fused with Heaven's Will and become his own.
More importantly, he had gained a new insight into blade arts—the Heaven's Will Blade.
It was not the Five Elements Absolute Prison, nor any other technique. It was the act of infusing Heaven's Will into every slash, making his blade art an embodiment of Heaven and Earth Judgment.
But for now, it was only a direction, far from complete. He needed to hone it and temper it through more battles.
"Want to keep fighting?"
He looked at Martial King Cangjiu and spoke calmly.
Martial King Cangjiu flushed red, caught between shame and fury.
He wanted to fight, but he knew he could not go on.
If he did, he would lose the last shred of face he had left.
He gritted his teeth and snorted. "Let's go!"
The Martial Kings turned and left.
They had arrived in a storm of aggression and departed in utter disarray.
They did not even dare look back.
The Redfire Martial King flew in from afar just