Willpower Struggle

The icy dark-gold patterns slithered like living venomous snakes, instantly crawling across Fang Gang's neck and spreading madly toward his head!

A torrent far colder and more chaotic than before, carrying endless greed and supreme will, surged through the imprint on his left arm, ignoring the defenses of his gravely wounded, dying body and crashing brutally into his sea of consciousness!

"Perfect vessel... tempered through trials... finally mature..."

The higher will within the Broken Horn proclaimed in wild ecstasy. Like a demonic voice from the deepest abyss, it exploded directly within Fang Gang's soul. "Resistance... futile... return... and gain... eternity!"

Fang Gang felt as though his consciousness had been thrown into an abyss of ten-thousand-year black ice!

The bone-piercing chaotic will was like billions of steel needles, madly tearing apart and eroding what little reason he had left!

The mind mirror of Heart Like Glazed Glass shook violently. Spiderweb-like cracks instantly covered its surface, and it let out an overwhelmed groan, on the verge of shattering completely at any moment!

Within his sea of consciousness, the core sphere of light representing Fang Gang's self-will was frantically wrapped up and crushed by icy darkness!

Countless chaotic whispers and fragmented images flooded in madly:

Mountains of corpses and seas of blood... stars collapsing... enormous twisted, writhing shadows... and a cold perspective that overlooked all life and regarded everything with indifference...

Possession! The real possession had begun!

The being within this Broken Horn had been waiting for the moment when he was gravely wounded, near death, and at his weakest in will!

"Get... out...!" Fang Gang's remaining will let out an earthshaking roar from the depths of his sea of consciousness, like the final roar of a dying beast!

He frantically activated the Clear Mirror Still Water Heart Sutra, trying to stabilize the mind mirror that was about to shatter. But that faint, cool, resilient power was like a firefly before the moon in the face of the higher will's torrent, instantly swallowed up!

More and more cracks appeared across the mind mirror, and its light rapidly dimmed!

The sphere of light representing his self grew smaller and weaker beneath the darkness's erosion... The dark-gold patterns had already spread to his jaw, their icy touch pressing straight toward his temples!

Warning! Contamination level: 16%! Mental barrier on the verge of collapse!

Higher will erosion intensity: Fatal!

Heart Like Glazed Glass status: About to disintegrate!

Host self-will: Rapidly weakening!... 10%... 8%... 5%...

The system's blood-red warnings flashed madly like death warrants, foretelling his final descent!

Just as Fang Gang's self-awareness was about to be completely devoured and assimilated by that icy darkness!

Hum—!!!

An indescribably vast, seemingly boundless cool torrent suddenly erupted from the deepest part of his consciousness!

This power was pure and resilient, carrying a will that embraced all things yet could not be destroyed. It instantly swept through his sea of consciousness, which stood at the brink of collapse!

It was the system!

Detected that the host's will is about to be annihilated! Activating the highest emergency protocol!

Consume all potential reserves! Infusion: Will Tempering!

Mental power: 400 → 4000! Tenfold amplification! Solidified!

Boom!!!

The Heart Like Glazed Glass mind mirror, which had been on the verge of shattering, instantly erupted with unprecedented brilliance under the infusion of that vast mental torrent!

All the cracks healed in an instant! The mind mirror expanded by more than tenfold, its entire surface flowing with pure, flawless glazed radiance, tougher than diamond!

The thick, icy torrent of dark will crashed against the tenfold-expanded glazed mind mirror like raging waves striking a towering reef!

"Hum—!!!"

A tremendous sound perceptible only to the soul exploded within his sea of consciousness!

The dark torrent was forcibly blocked and shattered! Countless chaotic whispers and corrosive wills made sizzling sounds as they dissolved beneath the glazed radiance, like ice and snow beneath the sun!

"What?!" The higher will within the Broken Horn released a soul-piercing shriek filled with shock and disbelief. "An ant... how could it possess... such will?!"

Tenfold mental amplification!

Fang Gang's fading sphere of self-awareness expanded instantly like a star injected with endless fuel, erupting with countless rays of golden-red light!

An unyielding, violent, ferocious will shot skyward, instantly seizing the initiative. It brutally suppressed the dark torrent that had invaded his sea of consciousness and forced it back!

"My body! Only I get to call the shots!" Fang Gang's consciousness unleashed a deafening roar in his sea of consciousness, filled with the savagery and fury of surviving a disaster!

With ten times his mental power, his will had never been clearer or stronger!

The realm of Heart Like Glazed Glass stood firm as a mountain. Not only did it completely block the higher will's erosion, it even began to counterattack!

"You want to possess me? Then become my fuel!" A crazed, vicious gleam flashed through Fang Gang's eyes!

He no longer merely defended passively. Instead, he actively drove his surging, ocean-like mental power, coordinating with the furnace at his heart that had been reignited by Nine Yang Qi and Blood, and viciously pounced on the icy contaminating energy that had invaded his body!

Within his sea of consciousness, the vast glazed radiance transformed into an invisible mental millstone that viciously ground down the fragments of dark will forced back toward it!

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At his heart, the golden-red Qi and Blood Furnace blazed fiercely. Under the precise guidance of tenfold mental power, the supreme yang true fire acted like the sharpest scalpel, precisely cutting, enveloping, and refining the madly pulsating dark-gold contamination core!

A pincer attack from within and without! Dual refinement of will and flesh!

Sizzle—!!!

Pain a hundred times more intense than before instantly swept through Fang Gang's entire body!

It was as if both his soul and flesh had been thrown into an infernal furnace at once!

His body convulsed violently. Veins bulged across his bald head like dragons, his teeth ground with creaks, and blood slowly seeped from his seven orifices. He looked as miserable and terrifying as an evil ghost!

But he held on with all his might!

Warning! Active refinement intensity has sharply increased! Contaminating energy is violently rebounding!

Detected annihilation of higher will fragments... Pure energy extracted...

Mental power guiding refinement... Absorption efficiency increased!

Constitution +100! Strength +100! Mental resilience permanently increased slightly!

Nine Yang Divine Skill operating beyond capacity... Dragon Elephant Particles accelerating their condensation...

System notifications flooded past madly, with pain and gains existing side by side!

"Roar—!!!" The higher will within the Broken Horn released an angry, unwilling soul roar. It had sensed a genuine threat!

Under the dual refinement from within and without, the dark-gold contamination core was like cold iron thrown into a furnace. Its radiance visibly dimmed, and the power of its pulsations rapidly weakened!

The dark-gold patterns spreading across his body were like blood vessels drained dry. They quickly turned gray and shriveled!

"No... how could I... be refined... by an ant..." The chaotic will was filled with incredulous fury as it attempted one final struggle, gathering its remaining power for a counterattack!

But Fang Gang's mental will had greatly strengthened, the realm of Heart Like Glazed Glass was impregnable, and under his mental guidance, Nine Yang Qi and Blood moved as easily as his own limbs!

The instant the counterattacking power gathered, it was crushed and refined by the golden-red Qi and Blood Furnace and the vast mental millstone!

The refinement grew faster and faster! The dark-gold contamination core rapidly shrank!

Strands of incomparably pure origin energy containing fragments of strange laws were forcibly tempered out and merged into Fang Gang's qi and blood and mental power!

The terrifying glazed cracks across both his arms began to close and heal at a visible rate under the nourishment of that pure energy!

His waning aura soared rapidly as though riding a rocket!

The barrier of the early Marrow Cleansing Realm suddenly loosened under this extreme refinement and nourishment!

Warning! Contamination core about to collapse! Possibility of remaining higher will fragments escaping!

Detected energy-level transition... Opportunity for realm breakthrough...

The system notifications lit up again!

High above in the sky, after a long period of silent analysis, the icy data streams within the dark-blue geometric structure finally stabilized again and issued new instructions:

"Target... abnormal will... energy-level transition... threat reassessment: SS-Class!"

"Contamination source fluctuations... greatly weakened... suspected... suppression..."

"Coordinates... leaked... execute... highest-priority... extermination order!"

"Activate... full-area strike... coordinates: east longitude XXX, north latitude XXX..."

The dark-blue data structure abruptly disintegrated, transforming into countless tiny streams of data light that shot in every direction like a meteor shower, vanishing over the horizon in an instant!

It had abandoned its individual attack and instead transmitted Fang Gang's location to every Nightmare Holy Cult force capable of receiving the signal!

The true siege was about to begin!

At the bottom of the deep pit.

Fang Gang abruptly opened his eyes!

Golden-red light burst from his eyes like tangible flames, instantly piercing the surrounding gloom!

An aura far more powerful and condensed than his previous early Marrow Cleansing Realm burst forth from his body!

Mid Marrow Cleansing Realm! Breakthrough!

"Trying to run?" He sensed that deep within the contamination core on the verge of collapse, an extremely tiny icy speck of light containing the purest chaotic will was trying to detach from the core and escape along the flow of his qi and blood!

"Stay the hell here!" A ferocious gleam exploded from Fang Gang's eyes. His surging mental power became an invisible giant hand, which clenched viciously together with the Qi and Blood Furnace!

"Aah—!!!"

A soul-piercing shriek filled with utmost venom and unwillingness rang out from within his body, then abruptly stopped!

That speck of icy will was completely crushed and refined! The final trace of pure energy merged into his body!

At his heart, the pulsating dark-gold core vanished without a trace, leaving behind only slightly heated skin that seemed to have been tempered. The dark-gold patterns spreading across his body completely disappeared.

The pitch-black Broken Horn in his hand lost all its luster and became like ordinary charcoal. Then, with a crack, it shattered into countless black fragments of powder that sifted down through the gaps between his fingers.