During the time he studied under Bi Lingkong, Pan Long had once asked her what the Confucian School's "Follow Your Heart's Desire" technique actually was.
Was it a martial art? A spell? A mental cultivation method? Or a knack for controlling power? Perhaps it explained a predecessor's philosophy, showing later generations the path that had once led to eternity?
Bi Lingkong's answer was: none of those. Strictly speaking, it was only a tool.
How to use that tool was up to its wielder.
To Bi Lingkong, the First Demon God of the Nine Provinces, "Follow Your Heart's Desire" was an all-purpose tool she could put to full use in both battle and daily life. To Pan Long, though, the greatest value of this supreme art was that it helped him fight.
In defense, it made his movements and evasions smoother and more ingenious. In attack, it let him marshal the Heaven and Earth Essence and control power beyond his limits, so he would not wipe out his allies before he could blast his enemies apart.
That was no joke. During his training with Bi Lingkong, he had once thrown a palm strike in a sparring match that unleashed the Heaven and Earth Essence like a mountain flood, sweeping across dozens of yards in an instant.
If a few weaker teammates had been nearby, there was no telling whether the enemy would have died—but those teammates certainly would have...
Only after bringing "Follow Your Heart's Desire" to minor mastery had Pan Long removed that danger and gained the freedom to strike with all his might.
Just as he did now.
He threw a punch, but its power did not erupt at once. It first spread in every direction, only to be reined in before it could fully burst forth, its force