Blood rained down on the summit of Imperial Court Mountain as the lingering force of the Martial God's fall gradually faded.
The tremors between heaven and earth slowly subsided, and the terrifying pressure that had enveloped the entire continent finally receded.
Li Yun stood with his blade in hand. The pitch-black Heaven's Will surrounding him flowed back into his body like a tide. The instant the World Will cast him out, an indescribable weakness swept through him, and his face turned pale as paper.
Even breathing felt labored. Forcing himself to replace part of the World Will had still taken an enormous toll on him.
One misstep, and the vast World Will would have struck back or even absorbed him completely, destroying both body and Divine Soul.
Even so, he could not suppress the smile at the corners of his mouth. His eyes shone with relief and joy: the clarity of a major breakthrough on the Martial Dao path, the exhilaration of his own will finally reaching perfection.
From his first steps into the Martial Dao and his first glimpse of its mysteries to comprehending Heaven's Will and ascending to the Martial God realm, he had pursued the principle "my will is Heaven's Will." Only in that moment had he completed its final piece and truly proven its meaning.
Before, his Heaven's Will had merely been a Martial Dao will born from his understanding of heaven and earth and his alignment with its rules. At most, it could suppress and control the wills of other Martial Artists.
But in that battle, he had made himself the foundation and forcibly replaced part of the Purple Moon Continent's World Will. He had borrowed the Rule Power of the entire continent to slay a Martial God from a higher plane. Only then had