Name, status, and power intrigue—all ultimately boil down to the need for strength to defeat one's opponents.
Throughout history, it has only ever been through armed forces that empires were unified, never through benevolence. Benevolence is used to govern an already established domain, not to conquer it.
For Jiang Li to have reached today, to sit on the throne of the Emperor due to his mastery of power. As for other means and schemes, those are secondary.
"The Heavenly Monarch borrows my power to break through the Realm, using this to assail my mind and add pressure, yet he doesn't know the joy in my heart."
Jiang Li looked towards the Heavenly Monarch, Taiji revolving in his eyes, Eight Trigrams deduced, light flickering, "The more you do so, the more it shows how important the upcoming battle is to you, so important that you're willing to cut off your retreat and break through again with such radical tactics. Heavenly Monarch, this time, I will kill you."
