Chapter 216: Will of the Heavens and The Unseen Monster in the Fog

The colossal, hundred mile long black and gold halberd, which was already tearing the fabric of space, suddenly stopped.

The raging, murderous demeanor of the Heavenly General vanished as if it had never existed. The terrifying, world ending pressure evaporated in an instant.

Slowly and deliberately, the General pulled his massive halberd back, resting it by his side.

Standing in the courtyard, Yu Liang’s eyes narrowed slightly. With his Heavenly Dao Runes imprinted in his Soul Palace, his perception of the world had reached a to level where he himself can’t discribe it’s limits.

But now, he could clearly see through the illusion of the "General." The fluctuating aura wasn’t the soul of an ancient warrior anymore, it was the pure, unadulterated, level of fluctuations he never seen before.

The aura felt boundless, as though it contained an entire universe within its depths, yet strangely, it also carried a sense of finiteness, as if there were an invisible boundary that could never be crossed.

It was an incredibly contradictory existence, vast yet limited, distant yet seemingly within arm’s reach.

The more he tried to perceive it, the more elusive it became.

At one moment, he felt as though he could reach out and grasp its essence, but the next, it seemed to retreat beyond the limits of his comprehension.

It was like chasing the horizon no matter how many steps one took, it remained just as distant.

It was neither completely tangible nor entirely ethereal. Its very existence.... seemed to defy conventional understanding, as though it operated according to laws that belonged to an entirely different level of existence.

As if to confirm Yu Liang’s doubts, the General looked down at him. When he spoke again, the voice was completely transformed.

"You really are different."

The voice no longer carried the deadly, oppressive, and soul shredding intent from before.

Instead, it sounded profound, warm, and infinitely vast. It was like the spring breeze brushing across the earth, like the gentle rain nourishing all things.

Hearing this voice, the billions of cultivators and mortals across the three continents and the world who were listening in their Sea of Consciousness suddenly felt a strange sensation.

The paralyzing fear in their hearts instantly melted away. A wave of inexplicable, profound happiness and peace bloomed from the deepest part of their beings.

Some cultivators who had been stuck at bottlenecks for decades suddenly felt their spiritual energy loosen, some heart demons that had plagued them for years were instantly purified by this single sentence!

The grave digging cultivators stoped what they were doing, some even came out of their grave as the previous fear was nothing but a fleeting dream.

The entire world was utterly confused.

’Why did he stop? Was that previous arrogance and rage completely fake? Why does his voice make us feel so incredibly happy and enlightened now?’

In the courtyard, Yu Liang’s posture completely relaxed. A bright, genuine smile appeared on his face. He didn’t acted arrogantly like he did before, instead, he cupped his hands and bowed deeply, ut was a bow of filled with genuine respect.

"I knew you would listen to me, Heavenly Dao," Yu Liang said though his voice clear and calm.

BOOM!

If the world’s collective brain hadn’t already short circuited, it completely exploded now.

’Heavenly Dao?! What do you mean HEAVENLY DAO’

’The guy who was just talking to him... the one who just spoke... is the Heavenly Dao itself?!’

An Intense, mind shattering shock spread across all over the world like a viral plague. Every single cultivator, from the lowest rogue cultivator to the highest Peak Master were trembling violently.

In the grand halls of the Top Tier Sects, the discussions and realizations were bordering on madness.

"The Heavenly Dao... can talk?! It can talk??!!" The Vice Sect Master of the Cloudwater Sect was gripping the arms of his chair so hard the spirit wood turned to powder. "I thought it was just an emotionless machine! A set of mindless rules that govern the universe! How can it have consciousness?!"

"It’s not just that it can talk!" An ancient, closed door ancestor of the Sword Continent’s Heavenly Origin Sword Sect transmitted his voice through communication jade but his tone was shaking with extreme agitation. "Did you not realize what it just said?! It praised him! The Heavenly Dao literally praised that guy!"

His words sent a shockwave through the minds of all the elders.

"Do you understand how much of an honor this is?!" the ancestor continued as his voice border on hysterical. "Since the dawn of our cultivation civilization, tens of millions of years, not a single supreme genius, not a single Venerable Sovereign has ever received a single word of praise from the Heavens! The Heavens only test, strike and destroy! But for him... the Heavens manifested a general to test him but when that guy called out heavens, it.. it.... it... it just to talk to him!!! and on top of that then praised him!"

A solemn, terrifying realization settled over the entire cultivation world. A universal decision was made in the hearts of every single living being: ’Never ever, under any circumstances, offend this man. If the Heavens themselves treat him as an equal and praise him, then he is also like the absolute master of this world.’

"Find out who he is!" The Patriarchs of the Top Tier sects roared and such thing happened across all over the world. "Use the sect protecting mirrors! Burn our lifespan if you have to! I want to see the face of this monster!"

Hundreds of supreme clairvoyance artists, divine mirrors, and heaven peeking formations were activated simultaneously. Thousands of Core Formation and Nascent Soul experts burned their blood, projecting their divine sense toward the domain of the tribulation clouds.

But as their divine sense touched the edge of the black clouds, it was instantly blocked.

There was only thick, chaotic, impenetrable fog. The fog was swirling with the purest essence of the Heavenly Dao, completely shielding the center from any outside prying. They couldn’t see his face. They couldn’t see his cultivation. They couldn’t even see anything they were like blind people.

But as the Top Tier experts retracted their divine sense, coughing up mouthfuls of blood from the backlash, a secondary, equally terrifying realization hit them.

Their faces turned pale as ghosts, staring at each other in absolute disbelief and these guys suddenly remebered a crucial peice from this.

"The Heavenly Dao projecting its voice into our Sea of Consciousness... that is understandable. It is the Heavens! It governs the world!" The Vice Sect Master of the Cloudwater Sect whispered but his voice trembled with a fear he had never felt in his life. "But... but how can that guy do it too?!"

That was the most horrifying question of all.

Because when he spoke to the General, his voice had also echoed perfectly, clearly, and simultaneously in the Sea of Consciousness of every single living being across the world!

To project one’s voice into the minds of billions of people across the entire world simultaneously... that was a power that not even the Sect Master of the Heavenly Origin Sword Sect, Sword Venerable Qingyun possessed!

’What kind of cultivator have this kind of heaven defying power?! So what will happen now?!