Chapter 705: The Heart of the Dao

There was no dazzling Yuan power, no fancy movements!

All there was, was an unadorned sword strike!

All there was, was sword intent condensed to the extreme!

The heavy spear in Zhao Chengqian's hand was a mid-grade Xuan-level weapon, supposedly indestructible.

Yet the moment Ye Yuan struck, it was split in two directly from the spearhead!

"Puchi!"

Where Zhao Chengqian stood, there was no longer any trace of him.

At the spot he had occupied, a massive spatial rift was torn open!

This spatial rift was fully a hundred zhang long!

Naturally, it was Ye Yuan's sword strike from earlier that had caused this spatial rift.

And Zhao Chengqian's entire person had been annihilated by Ye Yuan's sword intent!

This massive spatial rift seemed like a gash torn in the air, filled with violent spatial turbulence.

Zhao Chengqian's spear was directly devoured by the spatial turbulence.

That violent spatial turbulence seemed to want to devour everything around, pulling nearby things into endless darkness.

Ye Yuan was no more than ten zhang away from the spatial rift, but no matter how strong the pull of the spatial turbulence, he stood as firm as a pine!

The space's ability to repair itself was very powerful; soon, the massive hundred-zhang gash was healing at a visible rate.

After several dozen breaths, the spatial rift was completely repaired.

Everything returned to calm!

And in this world, there was no longer a person named Zhao Chengqian.

The entire royal city seemed like an empty city at this moment; there had been no sound at all since just now.

This sword strike brought them a shock of unparalleled intensity.

So much so that after everything had dissipated, none of them had yet come back to their senses.

This sword strike brought them endless afterthoughts.

This kind of sword intent that transcended the small world was not something everyone had the chance to see!

After this, who knew how many martial artists in the Gale World would attain enlightenment and greatly increase their strength.

"Wind... Wind Emperor!"

No one knew how long had passed before someone finally came to his senses. And his first reaction was to bow down to Ye Yuan.

With one person taking the lead, soon others followed suit.

They knelt down one after another, actually wanting Ye Yuan to become their Wind Emperor!

Ye Yuan sheathed his sword and stood upright, overlooking the masses. He did not do it deliberately, yet he exuded the bearing of a king.

"I will not become your Wind Emperor, nor do you need a Wind Emperor! Martial artists who believe in others will never become strong. The faith of a martial artist can only be his own heart—the heart of the Dao!"

"Tear down the central royal city... This royal city is the cage of you martial artists of the Gale World. Break it, and you will discover another world!"

"The living conditions of the Gale World are indeed not comparable to the Boundless World, but those raging gale winds are actually an excellent place for martial artists to cultivate!"

"As long as your heart of the Dao is firm, one day you will be able to shatter the void and ascend to the Divine Realm!"

Ye Yuan's faint words echoed throughout the royal city, deafening and enlightening!

Ye Yuan's statement was a completely new concept for the martial artists of the Gale World.

They had long since grown accustomed to being ruled by the Wind Emperor, though no one could recall exactly when it began.

When the old Wind Emperor died, a new one naturally had to succeed him.

Zhao Chengqian had become a Boundless Realm expert. Though he was unpopular, if not for Ye Yuan's existence, they would still have accepted him as their king and gone on living.

Ye Yuan had killed Zhao Tianyin and his son; he was the strongest in the Hurricane Realm, so it was only fitting that he become the next Wind Emperor.

In today's battle, Ye Yuan's character was evident to all.

A man like him was more than suitable to be Wind Emperor.

Yet now, Ye Yuan had pointed out an entirely new path for them.

In truth, ever since the Wind Emperor's rule, very few in the Hurricane Realm had managed to ascend.

Over the past few millennia, only Li Daoheng had succeeded, and even he had broken through by way of alchemy.

With the Wind Emperor looming like a great mountain before them, their minds were filled more with submission than with thoughts of ascension.

"Well, I've said all I have to say. Take care, everyone!"

With that, Ye Yuan vanished before their eyes.

…

In the main hall of Qixia Mountain, Ye Yuan sat at the head, while Xingyuan and his disciples occupied the seats below.

"Little junior brother, you…"

Second Senior Brother Tang Zhi was used to calling him little junior brother and couldn't change the habit. As soon as the words left his mouth, he realized something was off and immediately stopped.

The pressure Ye Yuan now exerted on them was immense.

Hearing this, Ye Yuan smiled and said, "Senior brothers, there's no need to be so formal! You were my senior brothers before, and you will remain my senior brothers in the future! Please, just call me little junior brother as before."

"Ha, I told you, little junior brother isn't like that! But none of you would listen! By the way, little junior brother, that last sword strike of yours was absolutely terrifying! Even now, thinking back, my heart still races. That strike must have far surpassed True Intent, right?"

Tang Zhi looked shaken, clearly still frightened.

Ye Yuan nodded with a smile. "Beyond True Intent lies Supreme True Intent. That strike was indeed delivered with Supreme True Intent."

For a long time, though Ye Yuan had been using Blazing True Intent and the Coiling Dragon Heaven-Shattering Palm, he had never once set aside his comprehension of sword intent.

His Azure Firmament Falling Petals Sword Intent had nearly reached great perfection, making further progress increasingly slow.

Nevertheless, after breaking through to the Spirit Travel realm, Ye Yuan had comprehended his most powerful technique to date—Breaking the Vast Sky!

However, this move required a long time to execute, and with Zhao Tianyin using Ye Hang and his wife as hostages, Ye Yuan had no chance to use it.

In truth, even before coming, Ye Yuan hadn't expected to need this move.

It was his true trump card, one he would never use unless absolutely necessary.

But no one had anticipated that Zhao Chengqian would be so powerful now.

With that final spear strike, even if Ye Yuan had used the Spirit-grade Coiling Dragon Heaven-Shattering Palm, he wouldn't have been able to defeat him.

As for the term 'Supreme True Intent,' it was the first time any of them had heard it, and they were naturally curious, pressing Ye Yuan for details.

Ye Yuan felt close to these fellow disciples and held nothing back from them.

When they understood how difficult it was to comprehend Supreme True Intent, their gazes toward Ye Yuan turned extremely strange.

Ye Yuan was long accustomed to such looks and merely smiled, unbothered.

After Ye Yuan finished with his fellow disciples, Xingyuan dismissed them, leaving only the two of them in the hall.

There were some things that couldn't be said in their presence.

"Xingyuan, it seems your recent cultivation has borne fruit, and you've broken through to late-stage Pill King," Ye Yuan said to Xingyuan with a smile.

Xingyuan felt a bit embarrassed. He had only advanced one minor realm, while Ye Yuan had leaped across several major realms and even killed Zhao Chengqian, a Boundless Realm expert, with a single sword strike.

All of this still felt like a dream to him.