Chapter 1043: Chapter 1043

"Do you feel your ignorance and foolishness now?"

The man in the white robe raised his head and looked at He Ao with a slightly puzzled expression, sneering, "The great Divine Being is vast and boundless, how could someone like you fathom it?"

"Then talk to me about it,"

He Ao looked at the man in the white robe and smiled, "When did His Rong Guang grace you all?"

"Why should I tell you?"

The man in the white robe sneered again, he had just been frightened by the young man in front of him and had been seen in an embarrassing state, now that he finally had the upper hand, there was no way he would answer every question.

He Ao glanced at the man whose rhythm and emotions he had completely disrupted. Feeling the thoughts conveyed from the mark placed on the man, he picked up his glass and gently took another sip, "Then let’s talk about something else, like what exactly does ’Rong Guang Society’ want to do?"

The man in the white robe’s complexion changed instantly, his body tensed in an instant, and he looked at He Ao with a face full of vigilance, "Who exactly are you? How do you know about the ’Rong Guang Society’?"

He Ao sorted through the fragmented thoughts coming from the man’s mind, took a sip of wine, and said calmly, "It doesn’t matter who I am, but we might talk in detail,"

He placed the wine glass on the table, smiling at the man in the white robe,

"Sett is dead, and with the Research Institute’s purge of Sett’s original forces, the network of influence you’ve managed here for many years has dwindled.

"In such circumstances, you still struggle here, it seems your colleagues to the east are not willing to ’kindly’ accept you, at least not in the way you’d like.

"Why keep secrets for them then?"

The man in the white robe took a deep breath, trying to maintain his smile as he looked at He Ao, "I must admit, your words are quite provocative,"

His body remained tense, his voice lowered as he continued, "But the great Rong Guang will eventually come, and we will be the masters of the new world, and masters do not need to betray their position, to sit with you slaves who are destined to perish."

"Who granted you the Rong Guang? K?"

He Ao raised an eyebrow.

"You don’t understand, you know nothing,"

The smile on the man’s face turned fierce, "The old world will perish, and we, the devout bathed in the glory of the ’Destroyer K’, will become the rulers of the new world.

"Eternal life, endless power, my descendants will have great power generation after generation, becoming the cornerstone of the new world, while you,"

He gazed at He Ao, "even if you barely survive into the new world, will only crawl beneath our feet."

"It seems this new world is pretty awful,"

He Ao picked up the wine glass from the table, drained the contents in one gulp, and his originally mild eyes gradually turned cold as he looked at the man in the white robe, "Are you sure ’K’ would so-called new world?"

"Who do you think you are?"

The man in the white robe sneered, "Can you speak for ’K’? You know nothing of the Divine Being’s power, the vast power, Divine Being’s will is not something you can speculate on."

The sound of a helicopter propeller slicing through the night sky came from outside; a massive transport helicopter carrying a heavy machine gun was flying through the night sky, heading in the direction above the two men.

The man glanced at the helicopter, slowly stood up, and with tensed muscles filling his white robe. He crushed an alarm device in his palm, looked at He Ao, and said harshly, "Kid, no matter what your intentions are, I give you one chance, move aside, don’t block me from retrieving things."

"I’m actually quite curious."

He Ao set his glass on the table, his voice growing colder.

He slowly stood up, his figure moving through the couch and almost instantly appearing in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, looking out into the night, "You keep saying you follow the ’K’s glory, devoutly believing in ’K’,"

He turned his head, looking at the man in the white robe, "But have any of you ever truly heard the ’voice’ of ’K’?"

Faced with the young man’s cold gaze, feeling his almost ghost-like movement technique, the man in the white robe instinctively shuddered but still tensed his muscles and spoke coldly, "Do you think you can hear ’K’s voice? Don’t talk nonsense, kid, are you going to drink respectfully or suffer the punishment of drinking?"

"Or perhaps, you actually don’t want to hear the voice of ’K’,"

He Ao withdrew his gaze, sighed softly, "You don’t care who ’K’ is, nor do you care if ’K’ is pleased with your actions,"

His figure flickered, and he appeared in front of the tightly closed bedroom door.

He raised his hand, giving a gentle push, and the tightly closed bedroom door swung open, revealing a large safe at the far end of his field of vision.

His calm and icy voice continued to echo in the spacious room,

"You merely wish to exploit the traces ’K’ left in this world, trample on the lives and hopes of the innocent, all to satisfy your greedy ambitions and desires?"

"What do you know, boy?"

The man in the white robe’s expression darkened. He gazed at He Ao standing at the doorway, "I’ll give you one last chance, step aside! I might spare your life!"

He Ao seemed to not hear his words. He walked step by step into the bedroom and up to the safe.

Then, right in front of the man in the white robe, he calmly and naturally entered the man’s well-memorized password and opened the safe.

A portable hard drive, a stack of thick files, and a pin engraved with the city’s emblem appeared in his field of view.

The man in the white robe roared, "Boy, you are really seeking death!"

At that moment, the entire living room and bedroom ceiling suddenly trembled and began to open to either side.

The vast night sky was exposed above the two men’s heads, and the whirring sound of a helicopter resounded across the sky.

He Ao looked up and saw a gigantic helicopter hovering in the air, and on either side of the open ceiling, armed individuals aimed their guns downward.

The man in the white robe twistedly smiled at He Ao, "This building itself is my property, your wish to take my belongings in my own ’home’ is quite delusional.

"But, I admit, you do have some strength,"

He opened his arms, raised his head, and looked toward the sky, "Great Rong Guang, grant me power!"

The silent black night trembled, and soon, a distorted yellow halo mixed with a red flow spread from the darkness, seeping into the man in the white robe’s body.

His body gradually inflated, and his appearance became grim, his pupils covered with a bright red glow.

The writhing, bizarre, yet ’sacred’ radiance began enveloping his body.

At this moment, He Ao had already slowly taken the items out of the safe, his gaze swept over the fully armed individuals holding guns at him from above, finally resting on the man in the white robe, whose body had started to twist.

He gazed at the familiar-seeming radiance spreading into the man in the white robe’s body, a nameless tremor rippling in his heart.

The man in the white robe seemed unable to bear the enormous power. He growled low, the trembling sound waves spreading an invisible force around.

The solid walls immediately trembled, riddled with countless cracks.

His face became more fierce, staring intently at He Ao, "I had originally prepared this power to deal with that He Ao, but since it’s come to this, you will be the first to witness the grand glory of Destroyer K!"

The entire building trembled at that moment.

Outside the hotel building

"How is the evacuation of the hotel’s top-floor guests going?"

Yan Yue looked towards the staff member beside her, asking rapidly.

"The top ten floors of this hotel are executive and presidential suites. Since it’s not the peak tourist season, only a few tourists are staying,"

The staff quickly answered, "These tourists came down shortly after we issued the notice. Only those few listed went up afterward and haven’t come down."

"Good, have everyone ready, we will check floor by floor moving up soon, make sure no one gets away,"

Yan Yue nodded slightly.

Just then, a cry of surprise came from the crowd.

Yan Yue immediately raised her head, looking upward.

Above the sky, a massive transport helicopter had crossed the night and stopped above the top of the building.

"These guys are trying to run from above,"

Yan Yue came to her senses and immediately picked up the walkie-talkie, speaking rapidly, "Is the helicopter team nearby? Come immediately, I repeat, come immediately, the suspect is trying to escape through the sky."

Then she turned back and looked at the staff beside her, "Is the search team ready?"

Just as the staff member was about to respond, Lin Chichi, who had been watching the rooftop next to Yan Yue, suddenly said, "Sister Yan Yue, something’s not right."

"Where’s the problem?"

Yan Yue was slightly startled.

"It feels very dangerous,"

Lin Chichi frowned slightly, "I can’t quite explain it, it’s somewhat similar to the feeling we had during the Blood Sun incident."

Yan Yue was slightly startled.

She knew that Lin Chichi had been involved in the Blood Sun event and had received a suspected ’Grace’ from the Higher Being ’K’, and her body had also undergone some kind of ’transformation’.

This ’contact’ with a Higher Being might have given the young girl a supernatural ’intuition’.

She raised her head to look at the rooftop, "Is it up there?"

Lin Chichi thoughtfully nodded softly, "But it’s a bit strange, not that strong, it seems to be just a spread of some Qi."

"Hold on the operation,"

Yan Yue immediately turned her gaze towards the staff beside her.

Then she took out her phone, "I need to report this to Minister He."

If it involved a Higher Being, the people she had were utterly insufficient, and they might even all be lost here.

And just as she was about to take out her phone, her phone vibrated once, a new message had already come through.

The message was from ’Minister He’.

Lin Chichi seemed to feel Yan Yue’s stupefaction, turned her head to look at Yan Yue.

"Minister He sent a message."

Yan Yue reached out to open the message.

"Did Minister He predict this situation?"

Lin Chichi quickly realized, "What did he say?"

"’Hold the operation and stay away from the rooftop.’"

Yan Yue glanced at the message and displayed the content to Lin Chichi, "Does Minister He mean that someone else will handle this situation? Could it be Mr. Hao Yi?"

Lin Chichi slightly shook her head, she looked up at the rooftop, her body tensing slightly.

At that moment, another shout came from the crowd.

Yan Yue and Lin Chichi both looked up at the night sky.

Above the grand hotel building, above the bustling city lights, the dim night sky seemed to undergo some sort of distortion.

The distorted clouds gathered in the sky, twisting the bewildering brilliance along with the Firmament, forming a huge vortex that dissipated light.

Some sort of invisible pressure transmitted out behind those clouds.

Beneath the roaring helicopter, the white-robed man, whose body had swollen into a small giant, looked at He Ao and the files and items in He Ao’s hands, pulled back the corners of his mouth, and slightly arched his body,

"Kid, this dead end is your own making."

"Is this what you call ’Rong Guang’?"

He Ao calmly watched the faint radiance emanating around the man, sensing the twisted and crazily familiar power within the light.

"Now, it’s too late to be afraid,"

The man lowered his head, his sinister smile almost covered his entire face, "You’re so interested in ’K’, let me show you what it feels like to be killed by the great ’Destroyer K’."

His legs stomped on the ground, shattering the floor in an instant. His body, like a giant toad, leapt high into the air.

Twisted red light converged in his hands as a terrifying and uneasy aura pervaded the night sky.

The ’armed personnel’ on the rooftop also received their orders at this moment. The fierce heavy gunfire, like raindrops, poured down from above.

From inside the howling helicopter, a woman dressed in a hotel uniform also dragged out a heavy machine gun and discharged ammunition downwards.

"In the name of ’K’,"

Amidst the intense gunfire, He Ao calmly watched the mutated man charging at him and sighed softly, "Do you all think ’K’ is blind?"

The flying man faltered slightly.

At that moment, a terrifying oppressive feeling instantly spread across everyone’s heads.

The man subconsciously looked up.

The roaring helicopter blades swept through the air, and above the helicopter, in the night sky hanging over everyone’s heads, a massive twisted vortex had unknowingly appeared.

A dazzling radiance spread within this vortex, like a sharp longsword suspended high above the Firmament.

Gazing at the spreading radiance, some memories surfaced in everyone’s minds.

The man, panicked, lowered his head and looked towards the young man below him, "You are..."

At this moment, the young man had already lifted his feet, his figure passing by him like an Illusion.

As if he never existed there in the first place.

That calm Central Earth young man never considered him as a true enemy.

He Ao bent down to pick up the champagne from the ice bucket that had been knocked over by the vibrations on the ground.

The table that originally held the ice bucket had been shattered by the spreading power, yet this fragile bottle was luckily saved due to the buffer from the table and ice bucket.

He Ao gazed at the wine bottle in his hand, fingers brushing over the droplets on the bottle.

Behind him, a dazzling radiance explosively burst forth from the massive vortex atop the Firmament in an instant.

The sword hanging over everyone’s heads finally fell; the surging radiance pierced through the sky and also through the building.

The huge helicopter couldn’t react in time and was directly penetrated by the light, turning into sparkling flames in the night sky.

The man flying in the air didn’t have time to turn his gaze or cry out in pain before he was enveloped by the surging light. In that powerful light that obliterated everything, he completely returned to nothingness.

Miracle·Light of the Firmament

Meanwhile, outside the hotel’s building, Yan Yue raised her head, staring blankly at the radiance bursting forth from the twisted vortex.

Watching the ray of light penetrate the helicopter in the sky, pierce through the top of the building, then burst out through the side of the building, slicing through buildings in the city, and landing on a vacant square that had been evacuated.

Like an inclined longsword, transcending time and space, it pierced through both the sky and the earth.

The surrounding crowd began trembling, the radiant light seemingly awakening some long-forgotten memories in them—members of the ’gathering’ stooped and trembled, crawling beneath the light.

At last, the light dissipated, the vortex that had weighed upon everyone’s heads gradually faded into the night, leaving only the building pierced by the light and a plaza with only a round crater remaining.

Yan Yue couldn’t shift her gaze from the sky. Trembling, her voice hoarse, she asked.

The light also awakened a memory in her, reminding her of the terrifying radiance that spanned the entire Firmament, penetrating the blood sun, and the majestic figure that blocked the sky and the sun.

Beside her, Lin Chichi slightly opened her mouth and uttered the suspicion in everyone’s heart,