Chapter 891: Chapter 891

In a sense, from the very beginning of the battle, the Elderly had been "feeding" He Ao moves, demonstrating those skills for him to see.

Of course, if he hadn’t learned those skills, or if his strength wasn’t enough, he also believed the Elderly wouldn’t hesitate to kill him.

During the entire battle, the Elderly actually held nothing back. A moment’s distraction from He Ao would have been met with immediate death.

He was treated specially, but not entirely so.

If he learned, that was He Ao’s own skill. If he didn’t, then the next capable person would take his place.

However, this Elderly had long been dead; what stood before him was nothing more than a metamorphosed Evil Spirit created by the Relic of the Bygone Days.

The "duty" he adhered to was also completely "metamorphosed and distorted."

He Ao extended his hand and grasped the hilt of the Broad Sword.

His gaze swept over the patterns on the hilt. Although this sword was not an Extraordinary Item, its craftsmanship was very refined and meticulous, not looking like something mass-produced.

Perhaps this ’Elderly’ in front of him had some sort of ’connection’ with the corpse in the Underground Palace that had left behind this black Broad Sword.

The moment he gripped the hilt, He Ao also noticed the strands of transparent radiance spilling out from the Elderly’s body.

These strands of light, first numerous then dwindling, flew out at a visible speed and gradually converged into a transparent orb of light in midair.

He Ao watched this orb of light, feeling the familiar Qi emanating from it, along with a faint sense of ’contamination.’

After a brief hesitation, he reached out and carefully touched the orb of light.

The moment the light sphere came into contact with the tip of his finger, twisted ravings surged into He Ao’s brain, followed by a hazy vision that appeared in his mind.

It was a vague, semi-transparent ’apparition.’

The apparition first channeled an invisible Strength from the mind, weaving it down to both arms, eventually centering in the chest, and then returning to the mind.

Then, this Strength flowed down to the navel, spread out and passed through both feet, and once again gathered at the navel, moving through the chest and back to the mind.

After that, as if the body’s energy was increasing, the apparition took the energy produced by the previous two methods, and after passing it through the mind, split it into three, dispersing it to the brain, chest, and navel, with an invisible thread connecting the abilities of these three areas.

At this point, the apparition completely dissipated.

He Ao quietly assimilated the content in his mind.

Divine Sense traversed the upper body, which was the content of the eighth page of the Super Memory, and what He Ao was currently practicing, while the content for the ninth page was missing. To split the Divine Sense into three was the content of the tenth page.

This meant that the cultivation of the lower body was the missing content of the ninth page of Super Memory.

Was this ’vision’ the method of advancing from C-level to B-level?

During this time, He Ao noticed that the orb of light had not completely disappeared. He plunged his Divine Sense into it, and with each twisted image that flashed through his mind, He Ao felt the true essence of the orb of light.

The purest Qi of Heaven and Earth.

He Ao recalled a term previously used by the system, ’Martial Arts Infusion.’

He Ao looked at the decaying body of the Elderly.

It seemed that this was what the Elderly, without compromising his ’distorted’ ’duty,’ had left behind for his ’descendant.’

It was just that the Elderly’s body was, in fact, created by the shadowy being behind the scenes. Even though he gathered the body’s strength into the power of infusion, this power was also filled with the contamination of the shadowy existence.

The contamination that would need to be endured to absorb this light orb was far greater than from just that light touch.

To accept these ’legacies’ would mean accepting the consequences of being contaminated by the influence of the shadowy existence behind the scenes.

In a sense, this was also a special contingency by the existence behind the scenes.

Even if the "Evil Spirit" he created went out of control, he could prevent the leakage of his own strength.

If the intruder dared not to accept this "gift," then his strength would naturally be preserved, but if the intruder was bold enough to accept this "gift," then he would seamlessly contaminate the intruder, and might even acquire a new "servant."

This was a "poison wrapped in candy."

Then He Ao reached out, grabbed the light sphere, and tossed it into his mouth as if he were chewing on a sugar bean.

Accompanied by the rich inflow of the Qi of Heaven and Earth into his body, the distorted ravings carrying illusions of the past also instantly rushed into his physique.

The Qi of Heaven and Earth was quickly absorbed by his body, while the twisted, contaminated ravings followed He Ao’s consciousness upward, entering into He Ao’s sea of Divine Sense.

Then, under the contaminated "gaze" of the Eye of Truth and the Blood-Moistening Jade Pendant, these ravings shrank into a corner.

He Ao reached out his hand and pulled out the black Broad Sword.

He just happened to have a bit of resistance to this kind of "contaminated poison."

He lifted his head and glanced in the direction where the Elderly’s fragmented Soul Spirit was dissipating, and nodded slightly in gratitude.

Indeed, he had learned and obtained a lot from this "senior."

Feeling the surging Qi of Heaven and Earth rapidly flowing through his body, then being purified, compressed, and transformed into new Divine Sense, He Ao stowed away the black lance and, slinging the Broad Sword back on, lifted his head to look toward the end of the bubbling lava.

A splendid complex built along the cliff now stood in the blazing inferno.

He Ao leaped up, stepping on the rocks in the flames, and strode forward, moving towards the buildings.

Strictly speaking, the battle between He Ao’s main body and the Elderly didn’t last long, probably only a minute or two. This brief duration of battle was also about the same time it took for the clone to flee the collapsing summit and reach the platform rock, witnessing the volcanic eruption.

At that moment, the intense lava gushed out like a spring from the volcano’s mouth, several kilometers in diameter, and the grouping of fiery magma illuminated the entire night sky.

The towering columns of volcanic ashes spreading upward carried drifting lava sparks and filled the sky, obscuring the stars.

The dazzling lightning flickered at the interface of the erupting volcanic lava and ashes, the release of electrical charges formed by the friction of volatile gases vented from the volcano with the air.

The flowing lava in an extremely short time span splattered, covering tens of kilometers of the sky, then fell like sudden showers of flame on the edges of the volcano, merging with the streams of flame cascading down from the bubbling crater.

The green trees blazed fiercely amidst the flowing flames, the climbing "Illusions" shattered at this moment, and the towering volcano sparkled with a scorching luster in the night like a firework.

A giant rock propelled by the volcanic eruption flew towards the people standing on the protruding platform.

Li Cheng, standing next to He Ao, raised his hand. A flashing bolt of lightning burst forth from the void, shattering the giant rock.

As falling fire rain scattered around them, Li Cheng turned his head toward ’Hao Yi’ next to him, as if about to ask.

However, before he could speak, a violent roar echoed, and once again, surging flames were spewed from the distant crater,

Immediately after, an enormous hand covered in fierce fire suddenly extended from the rolling lava, grasped the crater, and then one after another, more giant hands emerged from the boiling lava.

A titanic "Giant," hundreds of meters in length and resembling an ancient deity, burst forth from the boiling flames, bathing in the searing fire and molten rock.

His body was human-like but not entirely so; he had arms and legs, yet they seemed unstable, constantly twisting and changing as time passed.

Numerous arms covered with bright red eyes kept sprouting from his trunk, then quickly retracted back, "merging" into his frame, as the bright red eyes continuously disappeared and reemerged.

At the same time, he had no facial features; his face was filled with a giant red vertical eye, and atop his bald head, flames burned fiercely.

The moment they laid eyes on this creature, a terrifying and intense desire to kill instantly surfaced in everyone’s minds.

Feeling the urge to kill, reveling in it, seeking it out.

In that instant, Li Cheng felt a slight stir in his long-dormant emotions, but quickly grasping the lightning-covered spear in his hand, the flickering light flashed, and his gaze cleared.

At this time, the white-haired girl beside him clutched her magic wand, still looking up at the creature in the sky, her hands tightly clenched as if lost in thought, with strands of red light spreading around her.

Killing, twisting, destroying, annihilating...

Numerous scattered ravings echoed in her mind.

And then, a hand blocked her field of view, cutting off her sight.

"Don’t look at him directly."

His low whisper exploded in her ear like a clap of thunder.

In an instant, the white-haired girl seemed to awaken from a dream; a pure white glow momentarily covered her entire body, dispelling the scattered red light, and a trickle of sweat seeped from her brow. She looked up at the young man with a gentle face beside her, swallowed, and nodded slightly.

A few disheveled white hairs wafted in the searing air.

At that moment, Li Cheng turned his head to look at ’Hao Yi,’ "What is that?"

He Ao withdrew his hand, gazed at the creature in the sky, and spoke softly, "The evil spirit of a Regicide Angel."

The state of this monster was much as he had surmised, contaminated, yet the corruption wasn’t strong.

Li Cheng, who had long possessed an Angelic Tier weapon, could naturally withstand these corruptions; B-level Goya, without direct gaze, was also able to resist the corruption to some extent.

After all, this was merely an ’evil spirit’ created by the entity behind the scenes of the Relic of the Bygone Days, unlike Incident 009-1 of the Underground Palace, which had the support of an Angel-level Position item from the get-go.

He Ao watched the creature in the sky, bathing in flames, hundreds of meters tall, exuding an oppressive aura, with the soul of the main body briefly making its Advent.

Under the field of view granted by Super Memory, the creature’s ’incomplete soul’ in the sky was not substantial; in fact, it was even less than those Metamorphosed Transcendents’ evil spirits He Ao had previously encountered.

The souls of Angel-level entities seemed far easier to attract than those of ordinary Transcendents.

Could just these feeble soul fragments truly sustain such powerful forces and corruption?

If these evil spirits had some other ’underlying’ support, from where did that support originate?

However, it was clear the creature in the sky didn’t intend to give He Ao time to think; as He Ao and the others set their sight on him, those giant vertical eyes also fixed on He Ao and his companions.

At this moment, the platform where He Ao and the others stood was a relatively high ’protrusion’ with few plants; the burning lava streams were flowing down the sides of the platform, and the flames from the forest temporarily couldn’t reach the three of them.

But looking around from the position of the three, the whole world appeared as if it were a hell engulfed in flames.

And the ’giant’ standing in the sky was like a demon bathed in these hellish flames, directing its gaze of destruction toward the three on the platform.

A scorching red glow rapidly converged in the giant’s vertical eye, accompanied by a terrifying heat wave that shot through the fire-lit sky, aiming at the people below.

Li Cheng swiftly lifted his spear, and dazzling lightning flew towards the sky, confronting the red glow descending from above.

Lightning and glow collided.

Almost simultaneously, the three under the thunder leaped back, landing on the hot ground between the streams of molten lava some seventy to eighty meters away, then continued to retreat swiftly.

And the red glow, temporarily halted by the thunder, finally pierced through, striking where the trio had just been standing on the platform.

Accompanied by a fierce rumbling, fiery red magma and broken rocks spewed out together, bringing up a massive cloud of dust and ash.

He Ao, who had fallen to the rear, casually split a boulder over a meter in diameter that flew towards him and looked down at the dusty area.

In the spot where they had just stood, which was also the target of the crimson radiance, a ’giant pit’ about several hundred meters in diameter had appeared before them.

The still-hot magma was currently flowing into the pit, carrying a dark red sheen with it.

He Ao lifted his head and glanced at Li Cheng, who was standing on the opposite side of the giant pit’s edge.

At that moment, Li Cheng also turned his head to look at him.

Li Cheng slowly opened his mouth and swiftly spoke.

The "very strong" Li Cheng referred to was likely his way of saying that even using Andaville’s Spear, he would struggle to deal with it, with no good chances of winning.

He Ao immediately responded.

The two men exchanged a glance and simultaneously nodded.

Then Li Cheng raised the long spear in his hand—an instant eruption of brilliant thunder reverberated around him, and a fierce wind was born under his feet, lifting his body, now covered in thunderbolts, into the sky.

He Ao, meanwhile, looked back at Goya, who wasn’t far from his side.

The situation had been urgent just now, and when the three of them dodged, they scattered in different directions. Nonetheless, it seemed Goya had deliberately chosen to stay closer to He Ao and was standing near him.

In such close proximity, she could clearly hear the conversation He Ao had just had with Li Cheng. She nodded gently at He Ao and, facing the direction of the sky monster, lifted the magic wand in her hand.

The pure white orb at the top of the wand suddenly burst forth a bright light against the dim sky, and in an instant, numerous green vines sprouted from the ground, not yet covered by the lava.

These vines swiftly traversed the fiercely burning trees and stretched towards the Regicide Evil Spirit in the sky.

Goya did not look directly at the Regicide Evil Spirit, as the direct contamination was somewhat hard to bear, but by catching a glimpse of the contamination from parts of the Regicide Evil Spirit’s body with the corner of her eye, she managed to withstand it, thus able to pinpoint the Regicide Evil Spirit’s exact location.

While keeping an eye on those green vines, He Ao leaped up and stepped onto one of them. Along with the spreading vines, he charged towards the Regicide Evil Spirit in the sky.

At that moment, an invisible connection linked to his body, and a rich life force began to heal his injuries.

This was Goya initiating ’healing’.

Around this time, the monster in the sky seemed to have noticed their intention too.

Blood-red eyes opened on several of the monster’s arms, each looking in different directions.

Streams of finer crimson light burst forth from these eyes, forming a ’crimson fence’ that stretched across the sky, flying towards He Ao and Li Cheng who were rushing through the air.

He Ao, jumping mid-air, moved like a fluttering butterfly, avoiding the shimmering red lights. He stepped onto another vine that had fortuitously extended his way, quickly approaching the sky monster along with the vine’s stretch.

Behind him, Li Cheng, suspended in the air, raised his long spear. The gales carried his body, now full of thunderbolts, weaving through the dense red lights.

He Ao lifted his head, staring at the evil spirit in the sky—its soul had long departed, but with his Divine Sense, he too had glimpsed ’a look’ at the evil spirit.

This evil spirit was not a truly abstract existence; like other evil spirits, it too had an energy convergence point.

That means, it can be killed!

On the wrist of the young man who kept attacking as he stepped on the vine, a green jade bracelet emitted a flicker of light.