Xin Juesheng watched carefully as the process unfolded.
Inside the distorted cube, Yu Xuan’s figure began to break apart.
His body was not truly shattering, but rather dissolving into fragnts of thought and will.
Those fragnts scattered, vanished, and reassembled again and again.
Each mont he seed to disappear.
Only to reform in a slightly different state.
A strange aura gradually spread from Yu Xuan’s body.
Above the cube, sothing invisible began to gather.
It was his raw potential.
It condensed slowly, like mist thickening into substance.
Then the unseen mass darkened.
Within that darkness, a faint light appeared.
A small spark.
It drifted downward and fused into Yu Xuan’s body.
Monts later, another spark ford.
Then another.
Each ti the process repeated, the light rged with Yu Xuan, strengthening the invisible foundation of his will.
Xin Juesheng narrowed his eyes.
"How strange..."
He focused more closely on the phenonon.
"Normally, a Supre Will manifests according to the cultivator’s personality, but this..."
He paused.
"It feels more like a representation."
The Human Emperor frowned slightly.
"How odd..."
Then suddenly.
The entire cube turned pitch black from the outside.
Within the darkness, Yu Xuan’s body began to glow.
A brilliant light radiated outward from him.
Cracks ford across the surface of the cube.
CRACK.
In the next mont.
The cube shattered.
An overwhelming Supre Aura burst outward.
It pressed down on the surroundings, attempting to dominate even the natural laws governing this sealed realm.
For an instant, the atmosphere itself seed to tremble.
Then Yu Xuan’s body dropped to the ground.
He groaned weakly as he tried to move.
"This will take so ti to recover from," Xin Juesheng said calmly.
He stepped forward, lifted Yu Xuan slightly, and fed him a pill to stabilize his condition.
As Yu Xuan’s breathing slowly steadied, the Human Emperor studied him with a strange expression.
Normally, the awakening of a Supre Will was not a quiet event.
When it happened, Heaven and Earth themselves reacted.
Vast phenona appeared across the skies, announcing the birth of a powerful will.
But in this sealed domain, those visions could not manifest.
Even so.
Sothing still felt unusual.
Yu Xuan’s awakening had been different.
Too different.
Even now, Yu Xuan still carried that immature, sowhat bratty temperant typical of soone his age.
Yet the Supre Will that had just manifested felt...
Ancient.
As if it had existed long before this mont.
Xin Juesheng’s eyes narrowed slightly.
’It almost feels as if he already possessed a Supre Will and what I just witnessed was rely him recovering it.’
The thought lingered in his mind.
anwhile, Yu Xuan slowly regained consciousness as ti passed.
***
Yu Xuan frowned slightly.
’...Why don’t I rember anything?’ he thought.
A vague suspicion ford in his mind.
It felt as if many things had happened during the awakening, things that were now hidden from him.
His body still felt extrely heavy.
Even lifting his arm required effort.
Nearly an hour passed before he could move normally again.
Nearby, Xin Juesheng watched him silently.
When Yu Xuan finally steadied himself, the Human Emperor spoke.
"Try to control it."
Yu Xuan followed the instruction.
He concentrated.
Slowly, a hazy black aura began to emanate from his hand.
But the process was far from easy.
It required intense focus just to maintain that faint manifestation.
"So this is the Supre Will..." Yu Xuan muttered.
He stared at the aura in amazent.
"I feel like I could destroy worlds with this."
Xin Juesheng imdiately frowned.
"Don’t have such destructive fantasies, that feeling is rely your imagination reacting to the sudden strength of your will."
He paused.
"You still need to learn how to control it properly."
Yu Xuan nodded.
’Wouldn’t it have been better if this happened during the Future Blessing Ceremony?’ he complained internally.
Now he had even more things to train.
Not only did he need to master his existing abilities, but he also had to integrate this Supre Will into them.
Still.
For so reason, Yu Xuan felt confident that this integration would not be too difficult.
"Co," Xin Juesheng said, clapping his hands once.
"I have obtained several prisoners from Lord Hundun and they are currently mindless creatures but you must kill them quickly, otherwise, they will beco dangerous for you."
The mont he finished speaking.
Space shifted.
Yu Xuan suddenly found himself standing in a vast all-white domain.
In front of him stood a cage.
Inside it was a grotesque creature.
The mont Yu Xuan saw it, the thing began producing disturbing noises.
WHAY YAW HWAW—!
The sounds twisted through the air like ntal needles, attempting to invade the mind of anyone who heard them.
For a brief mont, Yu Xuan felt an intrusive sensation.
As if sothing was trying to force its way into his consciousness.
But the feeling quickly vanished.
His traits [ntal Resistance] and [Adaptive Mind] reacted instantly, neutralizing the influence.
Even Yu Xuan himself did not fully understand how they worked so quickly.
’Did I cross so kind of threshold without realizing it?’ he wondered.
Before he could think further.
Xin Juesheng spoke again.
"Your task is simple, I will release this creature and you kill it before it gains strength and wisdom."
The cage suddenly disappeared.
At the sa mont.
Xin Juesheng vanished as well.
Leaving Yu Xuan alone with the creature.
The monster did not hesitate.
The instant it was freed.
It lunged straight toward him.
***
Within Yu Xuan’s mind...
Old Yu sat upon a throne.
Golden chains bound his body, stretching outward into the endless darkness like anchors locking him in place.
Despite that, his expression remained calm.
In his hand, he casually rotated a small cube, turning it over and over as if it were nothing more than a toy.
He was the one who had interfered with the awakening of the Supre Will.
Although the current Yu Xuan had technically succeeded in condensing it, the result was not entirely genuine.
Not yet.
"We can’t allow that to happen now," Old Yu muttered quietly to himself.
"Otherwise this entire rebirth would lose its aning..."
His gaze lowered slightly toward the cube in his hand.
After all, the last thing he wanted was for his current self to forcibly achieve Pseudo-Immortality before the proper ti had arrived.
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