The rain of blood had passed. Only wreckage and silence remained atop Imperial Court Mountain, where Li Yun sat quietly in the Forbidden Land as time slipped by.
Four months passed in the blink of an eye.
During that time, he never left Imperial Court Mountain. Only twice did he spare a moment between cultivation sessions to visit the Beast-Grazing Land.
There, he gathered more Myriad Wonders Points to fuel the growth of his Heaven's Will.
His cultivation in the Forbidden Land progressed even faster.
He immersed himself in merging with the will of heaven and earth, refining the essence he had captured when he forcibly supplanted the World Will and drawing it bit by bit into his own Heaven's Will.
With every trace he absorbed, his Heaven's Will grew denser and stronger. His Martial God cultivation climbed steadily, as did the steps beneath his feet on the Martial Dao Ladder.
The ninety-fourth step...
The ninety-fifth step...
The ninety-ninth step...
At last, four months later, Li Yun's aura surged. His pitch-black Heaven's Will formed a tangible halo around him as he stepped onto the highest point of the Purple Moon Continent's Martial Dao Ladder—
The hundredth step of the Martial Dao Ladder. He had reached the summit!
The Extreme Martial God Realm was truly his!
His Martial God power was flawless, and he could wield his Heaven's Will at will. Every gesture could stir the laws of heaven and earth. He stood at the very peak of the Martial God Realm, with no bottleneck or shackle left to hold him back.
Yet when he pushed his Heaven's Will to its limit and tried to touch the hazy Heavenly Gate above the ladder, he remained a hair's breadth short. No matter how hard he tried, he could not reach it. An