The desire to kill someone wasn’t easily concealed. Han Wu saw it in Hei Qi’s eyes. Faced with the threat, Han Wu didn’t hesitate and struck first. His Divine Ring appeared behind him, Death Energy rose, and he channeled his killing intent outward. The power he radiated reached even to the distant Wisdom God King and College Alliance’s chairman.

A student had reached a level of strength neither of them had attained. The realization was genuinely alarming. At that moment, Luo Yun made up his mind. He would find a way to build a good relationship with Han Wu. It was likely that Han Wu would become the next God King of Death.

With the Death Ring, Han Wu grasped the essence of death. He raised one finger, aimed it at Hei Qi within the nameless blob of flesh, and said, “Die.”

A single word instantly exhausted half the Death Energy from the ring behind him and the Dead Microcosm.

Hei Qi took the fatal blow, and black blood poured from his mouth.

This was Proclamation of Death, the technique Han Wu had mastered. His words became law, focused entirely on killing. It struck more directly than any blade or axe and killed Hei Qi.

Hei Qi’s aura was extinguished, and not a trace of life remained. With the source of its power gone, the nameless entity withered, then collapsed and dissolved into formless energy that slowly dispersed across the Divine Weapon Civilization.

The disaster that had threatened the entire civilization was over. Yet Han Wu felt uneasy for some reason. He couldn’t identify the cause.

He scanned the withered tentacles, the rotting blackened flesh, and Hei Qi’s corpse on the battlefield. Nothing appeared out of place, yet his instincts told him that the corpse needed to be destroyed.

Hei Qi was an enemy that deserved to be reduced to nothing. If necessary, even the ashes had to be fed to his locusts, digested to dust, expelled, and then thrown into molten rock to be burned to cinders. Only then would he have peace of mind.

Just as he was about to act, a figure rushed in and stood between Han Wu and the corpse. It was Gan Xiangyu. He had watched Hei Qi die, and the pain on his face was still visible.

In everyone else’s eyes, the Hei Qi here had been nothing more than a clone formed from 10 Divine Essence. However, Gan Xiangyu knew the truth. Hei Qi had used the Evil God Contract to transfer his soul into this clone. What Han Wu had destroyed was not a clone but the real Hei Qi. Han Wu had killed him and now wanted to destroy the corpse as well.

Gan Xiangyu wouldn’t allow it. “Hei Qi brought everything upon himself, but he is dead now. Let the grudges end here. Please leave him an intact corpse.”

Han Wu frowned. He remembered Gan Xiangyu, a man who, when forced to choose between loyalty and righteousness, had chosen death. Han Wu respected him, but that didn’t change his decision.

“Move,” Han Wu said coldly.

Han Wu’s World pressure descended, and it took everything Gan Xiangyu had to keep his head up. Even so, he continued to shield the corpse. “Even a man of great strength has no right to desecrate a corpse. Show the dead some respect and leave him his last shred of dignity.”

Han Wu smiled coldly. Gan Xiangyu was lecturing him about a dead man’s dignity while he himself was using skeletons in battle? That was a joke. The dead did not deserve dignity; it belonged to the strong.

“I’ll say it once more. Move.” Han Wu’s pressure surged like a hurricane. Since Gan Xiangyu refused to step aside, Han Wu blasted him away with pure force. Hei Qi’s corpse had to be destroyed today, no matter the cost.

At that moment, a war hammer fell from the sky, followed by a figure radiating power. It was the Butcher!

No one knew how he had done it, but the Butcher had torn through the Will of the Divine Weapon Civilization’s defenses and forced his way in uninvited. He was as arrogant as ever, even while he was facing a World life form like Han Wu.

“Not only have you killed him, but you also want to desecrate his corpse? You don’t seem to have much respect for me,” the Butcher growled.

A wall of killing intent followed his words. Han Wu felt as if a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood had materialized before his eyes, with countless soldiers locked in combat across a battlefield.

Han Wu had fought in more battles than most, but compared to the Butcher, his experience was still lacking. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Even so, with his World strength, Han Wu was willing to test it. He switched his Divine Ring to the Great Dragon Ring and activated the True Black Dragon King Transformation. The terrifying Dragon Fear, amplified by the Great Dragon Ring, carried an invisible pressure capable of splitting the heavens and forcing all beings to their knees.

However, his opponent was a battle god who had survived a billion wars. The Butcher stared him down. “A mere World life form dares to act arrogant in front of me?”

His divine realm opened, and Heavenrender Wargods stepped out, assembling into formation. Their combined bloodlust rose like a tidal wave and pushed back against Han Wu’s Dragon Fear. Behind them, more units carried battle instruments forged from the bones of World life forms, their pressure adding to the Butcher’s overwhelming formation. Before a billion-strong army, even gods and demons had to yield. Han Wu’s incomplete true body was forced back half a step.

Xu Hai stepped forward, blocked the Butcher’s pressure with his Wisdom Jurisdiction, and demanded, “Butcher. You came here without cause. Are you trying to start a divine war?”

The Butcher’s reply was pure arrogance. “I kill anyone who gets in my way. Even Gods.”

Xu Hai was furious. The Butcher had provoked and suppressed him long before Xu Hai was even a God King. Now that he had reached that level, Xu Hai would stand his ground, for his own sake and for Han Wu’s.

The Wisdom Jurisdiction roared to life as the Great Enlightenment Ring appeared behind Xu Hai. The Microcosm opened wide, and countless Epistians in magnificent robes stepped out from the divine realm, each wielding an elemental staff.

It was time for war! They would fight for the Wisdom God King!

Under the Epistian armies’ control, an elemental storm condensed into billions of meteors that slammed into the Butcher's formation.

The formation did not break as they retaliated with the battle instruments forged from the World bones.

The Butcher, a Major God, showed no fear as he stood against God King Xu Hai. Once a battle started, the whole world shook. The entire Divine Weapon Civilization was about to become their battlefield.

The Will of the Divine Weapon Civilization had enough. It had called upon the Divine Civilization’s Gods to help, and now these two were using its territory as their personal battleground. Both sides had weapons capable of mass destruction. If they continued, the Divine Weapon Civilization’s natives would be caught in a war they had done nothing to deserve.

Enraged, the Will expended a massive amount of energy to eject both Xu Hai and the Butcher from its domain. Others who failed to react in time, including Luo Yun and Qin Shuang, were ejected as well. Only Han Wu remained. He had resolved the crisis that threatened the entire civilization. The Will had to reward him.

Under Han Wu’s puzzled gaze, the Will split off a portion of itself and sent it into his original Microcosm. Then, without waiting for his reaction, it sent him back to the Divine Civilization as well.

Han Wu returned to the Divine Civilization and entered his Microcosm to examine what had been left behind. One look was enough for him to realize that the Will had been exceedingly generous.