Buzz!
An utterly stubborn will, one that would never relent before death, rose from Li Qingyue.
Although she had no understanding of the Mountain-Embracing Seal, the Human King Seal, or the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.
She had sensed a little of that fist intent that charged ever forward and stopped only at death, that will proclaiming sole supremacy throughout heaven and earth.
Now she forcibly recreated and imitated it.
"What is mine is mine. No one can take it away!"
"No one can control it!"
"It belongs to me alone!"
Boom...
As that will manifested, an aura of sole supremacy throughout heaven and earth abruptly rose from Li Qingyue.
It was as though a will that asked nothing of heaven, earth, or anyone else had taken form.
"Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, Five Elements Mountain, Mountain-Embracing Seal, Human King Seal... shatter for me!"
Rumble!
Bearing that will, Li Qingyue slammed fiercely into the first vortex.
"My will is Kunpeng, capable of swallowing heaven and earth. Why would I fear you?"
Thud!
With a muffled impact, the first vortex in her Dantian suddenly trembled.
The phantom of the Five Elements World seemed to have been struck by the fist intent of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, along with the might of the Human King Seal and the Mountain-Embracing Seal.
It actually began shaking violently.
After all, it was not true divine power. In fact, most of it had manifested from her true qi.
It was power she had refined through her devouring ability.
She held absolute control over it.
"Again!"
Once Li Qingyue's stubborn temper flared, almost nothing could stop her.
After transmigrating, she had once stubbornly refused to utter a single word or smile even once for eight years.
That stubborn streak had long since sunk into her bones and soul.
Rumble...
As Li Qingyue slammed into it, the character for "one" within the vortex shook violently.
Even Li Qingyue's body began trembling slightly, as though it might shatter at any moment.
"Shatter for me!"
With a trace of ruthlessness joining that bone-deep stubbornness, she struck again.
Crack, crack, crack...
The bones in her body seemed on the verge of breaking apart.
Even her flesh began to crack.
Even without manifesting through divine power, a Great Emperor's Emperor Script possessed terrifying might.
Fortunately, she had manifested it herself.
Otherwise, she likely could not have shaken it at all.
"I refuse to believe it!"
With ruthlessness and stubbornness, Li Qingyue frantically devoured the essence outside her body, continuously converting it into true qi.
The other eight vortices were like separate incarnations of her will.
They continuously generated terrifying force.
This was the fundamental cultivation art that belonged to her alone, one she had comprehended through remembered scenes and knowledge from her previous life.
It was the manifestation of her will.
Boom!
Li Qingyue continued her assault. Her entire body shook violently as streaks of Divine Splendor manifested.
Her hair broke free of the ribbon binding it and danced through the air.
Her aura increasingly carried a hint of sole supremacy throughout heaven and earth.
Powerful though the Emperor Script was, at this moment it was like a whetstone honing Li Qingyue's will.
Each collision, each confrontation with the Great Emperor's Emperor Script, tempered her will further.
Even her spirit grew increasingly crystalline.
Even that imitated will of sole supremacy throughout heaven and earth began to transform.
It actually manifested a humanoid phantom, like a primordial spirit.
"What is this?"
Yang Wuzheng and Yan Wushuang stared at Li Qingyue, their expressions stunned and incredulous.
"She's tempering her will and spirit?"
"How is that possible? What is she using to temper them?"
The two exchanged a glance, each seeing disbelief in the other's eyes.
"Wait... why does this will resemble the fist intent of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist?"
"It also contains the Mountain-Embracing Seal, the Human King Seal, and even a trace of the Heaven-Overturning Seal's essence?"
"Where did she comprehend them?"
"Could it be?"
Yan Wushuang's expression abruptly changed. Remembering the clash at noon, he grew even more shocked.
What kind of comprehension was this?
He had used them only once, yet Li Qingyue had actually grasped a little of them.
Although her understanding was only a semblance of the real thing, it also seemed to transcend the fist intent of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist and the wills of the Mountain-Embracing Seal and the Human King Seal.
Unbound by anything, it soared through heaven and earth.
"No! Precisely because she doesn't understand, she might be able to comprehend it!"
Yang Wuzheng spoke softly. "That's not quite right either. She's merely imitating them to strengthen her convictions, but as her will is tempered, it transforms again and again, forming a fist intent that belongs to her alone."
"Who is she fighting?"
Endless questions suddenly rose in their minds.
Even if they racked their brains until their heads split, they probably could not have imagined it.
A mere mortal was actually confronting the Emperor Script left behind by a Great Emperor.
Never mind them—even a being in the Dragon Transformation Realm would be mercilessly defeated and killed if they challenged a Great Emperor's Emperor Script.
Yet precisely because Li Qingyue could not open her Bitter Sea or cultivate divine power.
And because she had personally manifested and inscribed it, a sliver of possibility had emerged.
Buzz!
Li Qingyue's body shook violently, yet endless Divine Splendor seemed to manifest between her brows.
Dimly, the two seemed to glimpse a peerlessly magnificent empress seated between her brows, looking down upon the world with an aura of sole supremacy throughout heaven and earth.
All living beings would have to submit.
Even a Great Emperor would have to bow.
This was a transformation of spirit and will born from countless rounds of tempering.
It had arisen from endless trials.
Bearing stubbornness and ruthlessness, it could not be stopped or bound even by heaven and earth.
It was like a terrifying colossal beast soaring between heaven and earth.
An unknown amount of time passed.
The Emperor Script character in Li Qingyue's Dantian abruptly shattered.
"My will is Kunpeng, devouring heaven and earth, supreme throughout all creation!"
"Devour it!"
Buzz!
Within the first vortex in Li Qingyue's Dantian, a Kunpeng seemed to manifest.
It swallowed continuously, as though everything in heaven and earth would shatter beneath its devouring pull.
The shattered Emperor Script was actually devoured bit by bit, merging into that Kunpeng-like will.
A will of sole supremacy throughout heaven and earth.
A will that would never admit defeat, unbound by heaven and earth.
And a brilliant figure sat between that Kunpeng's brows.
It was the result of countless confrontations.
It had been tempered little by little from a stubbornness and ruthlessness rooted deep in her bones.
Rumble...
As time passed, the Emperor Script within the first vortex dissipated, and a brilliant figure sat within it.
Her will took the form of Kunpeng, her spirit radiant.
Gradually, a peculiar character condensed.
A character shaped like a Kunpeng.
That character possessed the transformations of the five elements, as well as a will of sole supremacy throughout heaven and earth.
Although it resembled the character for "one" she had first condensed, its will was entirely different.
Born from Emperor Script, it carried a might that could devour heaven and earth.
It was the manifestation of Li Qingyue's will.
Buzz!
As the character manifested, a vast devouring force arose. The essence of the source stones around her and the essence of heaven and earth surged into her.
The character actually formed the phantom of a vast ocean, within which an enormous Kunpeng rose and fell.
With each gulp and breath of that Kunpeng, countless phantoms of five-colored worlds manifested.
Each phantom world was a tiny vortex.
They influenced one another, ultimately forming an immense vortex of true qi.
It was as though countless five-colored worlds rose and fell within it.
At the center of that vortex sat a peerlessly magnificent figure resembling an empress, as though she held the Myriad Realms of the Heavens in suppression, eternal and imperishable.
Hiss, hiss...
The true qi within her body also began transforming rapidly. Her originally azure life essence turned directly into five colors.
Five-colored radiance flowed, continuously merging into her body.
It made even her body shine with five-colored Divine Splendor.
Her strength kept soaring.
"It worked... power that belongs to me alone!"
"Having devoured Emperor Script and embraced the five elements, it should be able to devour the five elements of heaven and earth!"
Li Qingyue slowly opened her eyes, five-colored Divine Splendor flowing within them. What greeted her was a vast expanse of source stone powder.
The twenty-eight or twenty-nine thousand jin of source stones had been completely exhausted.
And she had finally taken the first step toward cultivating with a waste body.
Just then, two voices, carrying a trace of worry, sounded in unison from her left and right.
"Qingyue, are you all right?"
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