Having absorbed the Hell Will from ten Yellow Springs Storms, Ye Chen's Netherworld Sacred Eye had reached its limit. If he did not consolidate it properly, the Hell Will would burst him apart. Within his Soul Sea, the Destruction Sword Soul and Immortality Sword Soul were also striving to establish a new balance. They had once divided the realm between them; now, it stood tripartite.
Ye Chen discovered that after this brush with death, both his Destruction Sword Intent and Undying Sword Intent had improved by leaps and bounds, breaking through to the peak of the seventh stage, only one step away from the eighth. Eighth-stage Destruction Sword Intent and Undying Sword Intent were equivalent to ninth-stage ordinary Sword Intent, the very limit of ordinary Sword Intent, enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with an ordinary Supreme.
Legend had it that when a Sword Domain reached the peak of the Nine Layers, it possessed a trace of a Sword God's power. Likewise, it was said that Sword Intent at the peak of the ninth stage also possessed a trace of a Sword God's power. He did not know whether this referred to ordinary Sword Intent or attribute Sword Intent. Still, no matter what, even ordinary Sword Intent at the peak of the ninth stage possessed divine might beyond ordinary imagination. Yet so far, no Supreme had managed to push their will and domain to the absolute limit. The power of gods was not so easily obtained.
A chill flickered in Ye Chen's eyes. He saw Five-Lustre Grand Ancestor leave the tower and head farther away.
Naturally, Ye Chen would not let him go. The other man still held his four friends, but with Ye Chen's strength, even with the Netherworld Sacred Eye, defeating him was nearly impossible. If a quasi-Supreme