The moment Runar stepped into the broken battlefield, something inside him that had always been restrained finally broke free.
It was not a chain snapping, nor was it a seal shattering in the dramatic way cultivators often described in ancient records. It was more like a door that had always existed at the deepest part of his being quietly opening on its own, revealing a room he had never been allowed to enter until now. His Heaven-Defying Comprehension, which had first stirred at the edge of the battlefield, suddenly expanded outward with a force that surprised even him, because it was no longer responding to his will alone. It was responding to the truth that surrounded him.
