Chapter 2243: Chapter 2243: The Return of Past Powerhouses to the Mortal World
The World Will’s reaction was too intense; it had always suppressed like this before with great results. But now it’s different, it’s on a global scale, and everyone can see the changes elsewhere.
Then what happened was completely different from what the World Will anticipated.
Because this time, not only did it fail to suppress the masses, it actually inspired a stronger backlash.
When it comes to controlling people’s hearts, the World Will ultimately doesn’t understand it very well, after all, it has always relied on sheer force. The issues of the heart aren’t something any law can explain, there’s only patterns.
Everything outside of the laws that the World Will wants to understand isn’t so easily comprehensible.
As human hearts change, the threat to the World Will becomes more severe. When this situation reached its extreme, the World Will finally realized that it should first deal with the most dangerous guy.
After all, the current events are very likely to come from the same place as that newly emerged threat.
The strength of Du You was known to the World Will, and it surprisingly didn’t have the power to counter him. With no other choice, the World Will had to personally intervene. In the Void, a colorful Light Ball gradually coalesced. The abundant world power within it proved that this thing was the embodiment of the World Will.
Although not the Origin, through this, it can connect to the world’s Origin.
The terrifying pressure directly descended, affecting Du You’s movements somewhat.
"Luckily we chose this place, otherwise, even the pressure alone could destroy countless people," said Lin Yucha. Although they aimed to deal with this world, they never intended to kill the ordinary populace here.
You could even say, as long as the world wasn’t completely destroyed, just taking the Origin wouldn’t directly kill everyone in this world; at least, they’d still have a slim chance to survive, wouldn’t they?
The Light Ball targeted Du You and suddenly emitted a colorful beam of light. The terrifying power smashed Du You’s Yuan Power Shield, and the enormous impact nearly knocked him into the sea before it finally stopped.
"Such powerful force, it’s completely on a different level from ours."
Du You could clearly feel that the opponent’s power essence was stronger than his own; it wasn’t on the ninth tier; it was on the tenth tier.
It’s just a pity, the World Will itself has flaws. The stronger the world, the poorer the World Will’s control over itself becomes, and the proportion of usable power diminishes.
Although the World Will is tenth tier, the power it can wield is too weak to demonstrate the combat power of a tenth-tier being. Otherwise, just now, even a single strike would have been enough to kill a ninth-tier peak person.
Du You himself is ninth-tier peak, having reached the limit with no room for advancement, and is very adept at combat. In every aspect, among ninth-tier peak powerhouses, he’s definitely outstanding.
But even facing the World Will of this world, Du You still felt very powerless. He could withstand the opponent’s attack but couldn’t do so for long. At this rate, he would surely lose his life.
But Du You smiled because being able to resist meant things were within his control.
Suddenly, the Light Ball trembled, and countless phantoms appeared around it. Then the phantoms coalesced, and powerful auras emerged one after another. "Trying to use numbers to deal with us? What a whimsical idea."
"No, Master, look quickly, isn’t that the guy we killed before?"
Du You looked up, and indeed, it was, the guy who suddenly broke through to the ninth tier just before his end. But that guy had been burned to ashes by his flames and has now reappeared.
Not just ninth tier, there were eighth tier, seventh tier, numerous figures appearing in the sky. Some of these people Du You didn’t recognize, but some he did, after all, they were strong ones. Plenty had died by his hands, and now they appeared with expressionless faces, looking truly bizarre.
Not only Du You but people in other parts of the world also witnessed this.
"Oh my God, isn’t that the old city lord? But wasn’t he dead? How is he appearing again?"
"Ancestor, you’re alive, that’s wonderful, why aren’t you responding to me?"
People realized that former strongmen who had died were reappearing. No matter the era in which they died, as long as they reached the seventh tier, they appeared in this place, and the pressure in the air grew stronger and stronger.
"Indeed, they’ve all become puppets; they’re not spared even in death?" Some people became more certain that the contents of previous speeches were all true. If they weren’t controlled by the World Will to become puppets, how could they appear after death? That’s because their Origins are under the control of the World Will.
Du You had long known that originally, those above the seventh tier could be resurrected by various means as long as their Origins weren’t destroyed after death.
But the strong ones in this world, once dead, were dead; their Origins were under the control of the World Will, and the World Will didn’t want them resurrected. However, with Origins in hand, just by infusing power, they could be instantly brought back to life.
The resurrected person was no longer themselves but a puppet under control.
Even ninth tier couldn’t escape, let alone them. At this moment, Du You noticed that some of his subordinates also suddenly had issues. Their expressions began to disappear, and their entire beings became ominously strange.
"Even they were controlled? Just as I thought."
Many had been wiped out by Du You before; it was unexpected for them to reappear in this manner.
Those who surrendered later were directly placed under numerous restrictions by Du You, who sensed their transformation and immediately activated the restrictions. These people were instantly suppressed, unable to release any power.
Unless the World Will gave special attention, they couldn’t be helped. It was a dual-layered control; the World Will controlled their Origins and souls, while Du You controlled their bodies and the power within.
In the intense power clash, many instinctively manifested expressions of pain.
The ongoing internal power struggle brought a kind of pain that was beyond ordinary endurance.
If they still had any semblance of thought, this pain alone could drive them mad. As the World Will’s power continued to infuse, more and more silhouettes appeared.
With so many figures, the power Du You left in his home world wasn’t a match for them.
And with so many ninth-tier powerhouses, under the empowerment of the World Will’s power, they were enough to influence Du You. With so many charging together, it wasn’t something Du You could easily handle.
