Zhou Wudao knew that he couldn't do it, but he did it with the belief that he would die. This sword, Zhou Wudao didn't want to destroy the god. He knew that he couldn't do it. He just wanted to cut something from the evil soul. His wish was so simple and so small.
And he did it.
The Prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty explained to Dendi the belief of martial arts with the will to die.
"I seem to understand now."
Qin Hao looked at Zhou Wudao falling to the bottom of Sunset Peak. The blood flame burning in his eyes was extinguished, and he slowly closed his eyes.
Belief was a kind of affirmation.
It was a kind of self-awareness, the will of the Way, and the steadfastness of one's aspirations.
It was like the heart of a martial artist when he cultivated. Only when the heart was not extinguished and the will never wavered could one achieve the Great Path.
Perhaps, belief had more than that. It could be some kind of sustenance, the sustenance of a person's beautiful wishes. No matter how stormy the road ahead was, no matter how difficult it was, no matter how many thorns there were, one would never give up.
It could even be said that belief could also be the sustenance between people. After Zhou Wudao's sword, he believed that Qin Hao would understand the true meaning. This was a kind of belief.
However, no matter what method was used to obtain the path of belief, the first thing a martial artist had to do was to affirm himself.
Qin Hao did feel the strong desire that burst from the bottom of Zhou Wudao's heart when he fell. Zhou Wudao wanted him to become a god so that he could end this disaster.
Megrez, Tai Wei, Yun Yi, Daozang, Yao Guang, Xuantian, Kai Yang, the seven peak masters, and even the predecessors of the Divine Palace, they were all Nirvana Realms. These masters were all one in a million martial arts talents. However, in their later years of cultivation, they struggled to find the way to become a god, but they never considered starting from themselves. Stepping into Nirvana, they denied themselves and the power of their will of the Way.
Therefore, in the end, no one could become a god.
But in fact, they all had the capital to become a god.
His mind was clear as a mirror. The Nine Realms light stream that surrounded Qin Hao's body completely disappeared. At this moment, his psyche power spread wildly towards the boundless heaven and earth. Wherever his psyche passed, everything turned into ink. Very quickly, his psyche crossed the ocean and arrived at Western Liang, the Northern Borderline, and the Southern Region.
In the barren Xiliang Land, the wind was howling. In the cold Northern Border, the cold air was sweeping. The warmth of the Southern Region and the abundant Spiritual Qi of the East Continent had never been so clear in Qin Hao's mind. It was as if he had turned into the wind, the snow, and the grass and trees of the Southern Region. He had thrown himself into the rich Spiritual Qi of the East Continent and coexisted with everything.
To have faith, one had to first affirm oneself and be loyal to one's Dao. Then, one would talk about showing kindness to others and showing compassion to all living things.
At this moment, Dendi was getting closer and closer to the evil soul. Rays of evil light pierced through his flesh and dragged his body. It was as if Qin Hao was about to be devoured by the evil soul.
Below, the Dao Ancestors and the people of the Battle Tower were struggling to resist the giant spirit. Bai Di, Mo Hai, Yun Rou, and the generals of the Qin Imperial City were fighting a bloody battle. All the orthodoxies who participated in the war of the Divine Wilderness were fighting to the end. If they lost this war, the four regions and five realms would become the dust of history.
"If the Divine Dao originates from all living things, I am willing to use this broken body to become a brick under Dendi's feet."
"My wish is entrusted to you."
"Buddha said that when the Gate of Hell opens in the human world, the first to be devoured must be the Buddha."
"Pill Emperor, I'm begging you. Quickly end this disaster."
The emperors who were blocking the giant spirit cried out with longing. Their eyes were filled with hope as they looked at the sky.
Mo Hai cried until his face was covered in snot. Gone, everything was gone. His family's thousand-year heritage and the Shuo Clan of the East Sea were all gone.
However, even if they died, they should at least take the evil soul with them.
Countless voices echoed on Sunset Peak. They seemed to be crying to the Heavenly Dao, but they also seemed to be hoping for a miracle to happen on Qin Hao and destroy the evil soul.
Waves of beliefs flew out from the bodies of countless cultivators, like countless streams of light flying into the sky. All of them gathered on the body of the Alchemy Thearch who had his eyes closed. Perhaps none of the Sovereigns knew that at this moment, their beliefs had gathered into a mystical force of the Great Dao. It merged with Qin Hao's will of the Great Dao and was refined by him.
Everything became clearer under the perception of his will. Although Qin Hao had his eyes closed, he could feel everyone's inner emotions, including the warriors who had fallen to the bottom of Sunset Peak. Qin Hao could empathize with that pain.
Countless wills merged and gathered, like the flowers in the mountains and the small fish in the river, jumping and waving at him. Under the stimulation of this force, gradually, the scenes of the past buried deep in Qin Hao's consciousness appeared frequently. The fragmented memories of the past made his expression change. Anger, struggle, pain, regret, until he returned to normal.
Buzz!
The edge of the Divine Wilderness Dao World trembled. At this moment, Dendi opened his eyes. He felt that his psyche power seemed to cover everything in the Divine Wilderness. It might be a little exaggerated, but every person, every living being, down to every grain of sand, all wills were resonating with him. At this moment, he seemed to be one with all life, becoming the Dao of all life.
"So, this is the Heavenly Dao."
Qin Hao said indifferently. His golden eyes flickered, and the evil light that had pierced into his flesh broke and melted away.
At this moment, he stared at the ugly monster in front of him. Although the evil soul was born from the convergence of all evil thoughts, gathered all Dharma into one, and refined the Dao of all life, it was still a part of the Heavenly Dao.
"Buzz."
A force swept out. Qin Hao stood in the sky. His Emperor armor fell off, revealing the damaged flesh on his body. These wounds quickly healed on their own. Faintly, through the faint radiance emitted from his body, one could see an extremely divine wheel slowly rotating in his body.
"You … You …" The evil soul watched as the power of all evil melted on Dendi's body. An extremely strong sense of oppression swept out in front of it. The evil soul, which did not know what life and death was, let out a terrified cry.
"In front of me, you have to respectfully call me … God."
Qin Hao raised his palm and slowly pressed it forward. There was no flickering radiance. This palm was ordinary and mediocre, but as he stretched out his palm, the void elements went berserk. A formless Heavenly Dao power roared towards the sky above the evil soul. A layer of intense ripples appeared on the seal of gods. Through the radiance of the seal, one could faintly see the fourteen supreme gods laughing. It was as though they were welcoming the birth of a new comrade.
"God … How can this be … I'm not willing, I'm not willing."
The evil soul howled hoarsely. Countless evil lights flew out, penetrating the corpses floating in the sky above the Setting Sun Peak. They swept up thousands of corpses and pulled them back, gathering together into an incomparably huge lump of flesh.
Dendi had returned to his divine seat. How could the evil soul, which had painstakingly cultivated for ten thousand years, endure this? It didn't have an evil body, so it forged another one. Since it could gather all Dharma into one, it could also refine ten thousand corpses into a body.
With an evil body, it might not be impossible for it to become a god after Dendi.
The Golden Great Apes, Picchu Giants, the Four Barbarians, the War God Guards, the Phoenix Race, and the other orthodoxies' disciples who had died in battle. Countless bloody corpses were stitched together, wriggling and twisting. Loud cracking sounds of bones being pieced together could be heard. The fragmented evil soul turned into smoke and hid among them, laughing maniacally. Looking from afar, there was a huge python formed from human corpses. Countless human heads had turned into python scales. It was terrifying and miserable.
However, as the Heavenly Dao's might pressed down, the nightmarish maniacal laughter came to a halt. The huge python formed from the corpses collapsed. Pieces of flesh fell to the ground and turned into floating light before dissipating.
Boom!
A shocking sound rang out. When the evil soul disappeared, Uncle Chang knew that the giant spirit in front of everyone had also disappeared. This caught the various monarchs off guard. They were all stunned on the spot.