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Chapter 1687 Refining the Spirit to Return to Emptiness, Martial Arts Angel! (Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

Castle in the Sky
The woman's figure crossed the narrow road, looked up at the wall covered with crying faces, and fell into a brief silence.

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Primordial Wilderness
Those clusters of black tree roots, like sharp spikes fixing the puppet in place, pierced He Ao's body, pinning him to the ground.

The dense tree roots extended outwards simultaneously, forming a crisscrossing net-like cage that trapped He Ao within it.

The gun in his hand was knocked away in the sudden attack and rolled to the side.

He raised his head and looked ahead. The ruins of the Colosseum were collapsing and disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And directly above these collapsed ruins was Estella, her hair disheveled and casually draped over her shoulders.

A few tear stains remained on her clear, clean cheeks, but her expression still carried an invisible indifference.

She stared at He Ao, her hoarse voice tinged with anger, "Why can't you just do nothing?"

Shila-

The slender, black roots contracted further inward, like barbed vines piercing flesh, wriggling slowly within it.

He Ao's body, which was already covered in blood, stiffened again, and more blood naturally flowed out from the wound.

He looked down at the area beneath the tree roots, where there was an invisible void from which the dark roots extended.

Near the void, these tree roots show a clear tendency to crystallize, and the further forward you go, the more intact the tree roots become.

These tree roots most likely originated directly from the Twilight Wasteland and are the roots of the World Tree.

The fact that these tree roots can now take hold here likely means that the abnormal forces have begun to recover, and the barriers between different abnormalities are gradually being broken down.

However, the tree roots manipulated by Estella seem to have also been mutated, losing the indestructible abnormality characteristic of true anomalous items, but they are still angel-level items.

Nourishes—

The tree roots continued to pull, with gushing blood and churning flesh.

He Ao's body seemed to be gradually disintegrated and torn apart by the constricting force of the tree roots.

He had exhausted all his strength in the recent battle with Vestann.

With his super memory fully activated and the power he could borrow from the God of War maximized, combined with the abnormal power in his body, his body was effectively torn apart from the inside.

At this point, he could hardly use any of the angelic powers anymore; if a higher power descended, it would instantly tear his body to shreds.

His current fighting ability is that of a pure mortal.

Clearly, Estella understood this as well, so she didn't give Heo any chance to speak at all, and finished him off right there while Heo was still weak enough.

There are just over two seconds left before I break through in martial arts.

But Estella clearly wouldn't give him that chance; in a second at most, he would be completely torn apart by the roots of those dark World Trees.

Above, the trembling mist of the sky eased briefly for a moment because of Estella's departure.

However, it is clear that as the 'unsealing' of the seal is on track, at this moment, even if Estella does not maintain it, the abnormal release will not naturally stop.

However, without Estella's support, the awakening process would obviously be much slower.

From Estella's perspective, she also hoped to eliminate Heo as quickly as possible and then return to push for the awakening and release of the anomaly.

Countless thoughts raced through He Ao's mind. He looked at Estella and then, without hesitation, shouted at a speed that was impossible for an ordinary person to comprehend, "Don't you want to know why you're crying?"

The tree roots wriggling inside He'ao's body paused for a moment, but quickly resumed their pace.

it works!

Heo took a deep breath and continued shouting, "Do you know what your teammates left in the Spear of Vistara?"

The tree root paused slightly again.

'two'--

He Ao quickly opened his palm, revealing the crystal spear tip that had not completely dissipated and still had a trace of it remaining. The scattered light was overflowing from the spear tip, surging into some kind of invisible spring.

“He compressed the wellspring of wisdom from the Twilight Waste into a crystal,” Heo said, looking at Estella. “This crystal contains his knowledge and also a trace of his last moments of inspiration as he was dying.”

The wriggling tree roots paused again.

Heo looked at Estella, at the dried tear stains on her cheeks, and continued to shout, "Do you remember that sigh? It came from that last glimmer of light!"

In that instant, the wriggling tree roots came to a complete stop.

'one'--

Estella looked at Heo calmly, her voice tinged with coldness and sneer, "So, what are you trying to say? Are you saying that what I'm doing now is wrong, that Vistara doesn't like what I'm doing? That he's disappointed? That he feels regret? That I've betrayed my friends? Betrayed our vows? That I'm a two-faced scoundrel?"

Upon hearing this, He Ao paused for a moment.

What he said was indeed true; a wisp of Vistara's spiritual light did remain in the tip of the crystal spear, and the sigh he just uttered was indeed from Vistara.

However, these things were not told to Heo by Vistara. Vistara's last glimmer of inspiration was very weak, leaving only a sigh.

But in that instant, through his long-term contact with the Spear of Vesta, and through the traces of his consciousness left on the spear, Heo briefly achieved 'resonance' with the knowledge and spirit within the spear. This was the foundation for his later ability to absorb the knowledge within the crystal.

Therefore, he did indeed feel the emotions left behind by Vistara's last glimmer of inspiration.

He looked up at Estella and said in a hoarse voice, "He's worried about you."

Estella paused, staring blankly at Heo.

“He regrets it too,” He Ao continued calmly. “He regrets getting you involved in this back then, regrets leaving you here alone for so many years, and regrets pushing you into the abyss with his own hands.”

He paused, then continued in a hoarse voice, "You all knew back then that the person who stayed behind would eventually go mad. You could never truly seal the anomaly; you could only hinder the time it took for him to break through the seal."

He gazed at Estella and continued in a calm but hoarse voice, “Destruction is only a temporary pause, and it will continue indefinitely.”

Estella gazed silently at Ho, clear tears once again sliding down her cheeks, falling into the void, turning into sparkling crystals.

But her expression remained indifferent. She sighed softly, "Your story is interesting, but I'm not crazy."

The tree roots wrapped around He Ao suddenly accelerated.

Heo paused slightly, looked up at Estella, and closed his eyes.

'zero'--

In that instant, some invisible radiance ignited in his pupils beneath his eyelids.

He finally broke through that invisible membrane, and the mysteries of the entire world were reflected in his vision.

Then he paused slightly.

In 'Pete', or rather, in the soul vision opened by his divine sense, he could now see the origin of the world behind that 'membrane', and even touch the very foundation of this world.

But unlike what he had imagined, the radiant origin of the world, though dazzling and incredibly mysterious, was...

But there is a certain disharmoniousness hidden beneath the surface.

It seems that the origin of this world is incomplete.

He Ao 'gazed' at the origin of this world, and a rich vitality faintly emerged and rose within this origin.

In that instant, the mysteries of the entire world seemed to unfold before his eyes.

If he didn't have prior knowledge, his mind would explode in that instant from the sheer volume of information.

However, with the deep knowledge of the world that he 'learned' during his promotion process, he began to understand this information and even transform some of it into something he could learn, master, and absorb.

At that very moment, his 'vision' seemed to be drawn to an infinite height.

The Arctic ice plains are covered in snow and ice, the southern wilderness is covered in lava, and the Storm Sea is teeming with enormous marine life and raging hurricanes.

There are also rolling mountains, plains, and dazzling cities nestled between ice fields, wilderness, and the ocean.

In that instant, He Ao's gaze seemed to sweep across the entire instance world.

As he swept across the scene, some large cities lit up with light, seemingly searching for the source of this 'vision'.

He could not determine the specific identities of these radiant lights, but he also sensed several bright lights near the northern mountains of Minte City.

One of the beams of light even instantly unfolded a mysterious academic style, directly following his gaze to the depths of the world.

He could roughly deduce that those lights were Levi and the angels he had summoned.

Unfortunately, Estella acted too quickly; otherwise, if Levi had led these angels into the northeastern region, the situation wouldn't be so dire now.

However, this sweeping across the entire Federation was only a fleeting moment, and He Ao quickly brought his thoughts back to what was in front of him.

At this moment, he only had three divine senses left in his body, and it seemed that he did not have as many as the more than two hundred divine senses he had prepared.

Without Vistara's knowledge boost, he doubted whether he could successfully comprehend the deeper aspects of the world and achieve a breakthrough.

However, at this moment, as He Ao came into contact with the origin of the world, the three remaining divine consciousnesses within his body were also undergoing a kind of 'transformation'.

He was rapidly losing his 'sensory connection' to these divine senses, but at the same time, a mysterious feeling was rising in his mind.

Those divine senses were like strands of air wrapped in balloons. At this moment, the inner walls of these 'balloons' were thinning and becoming transparent at a visible speed, and then completely 'disappearing'.

He Ao's feeling at that moment was that, in a certain instant, the 'balloon' completely disappeared from his perception.

But the 'air' inside the balloon did not disappear. He could still manipulate this 'air' and influence the surrounding air, and even the whole world, through it.

In the instant when those divine consciousnesses completely dissipated, the entire world seemed to become one with He Ao.

In that instant, he severed the connection with Pete's character card.

He grafted the 'realm' he obtained through Pete's Dao onto 'Loren'.

The whole world trembled for a moment, as if a sense of doubt was spreading throughout the world itself.

He calmed himself down and connected his soul with the world.

The 'bewildering' origin of the world seems to have found its target again, and the resonance between heaven and earth resounds once more.

A terrifying and surging power instantly flowed through He Ao's soul into his body, transforming his bones and muscles, repairing his flesh and blood, and elevating his soul.

Even the world itself seemed to be 'driven' by him.

The grafting was successful.

As an invisible light shone in his soul, all of He Ao's martial arts energy was assimilated by the void formed by divine consciousness.

Everything that is tangible becomes intangible, and everything that is intangible becomes tangible!
Heaven and earth, the universe, and all things are one!

Refine your spirit and return to emptiness!

[He Ao (Loren)]

[Privilege Level: Advanced Player]

Physical fitness: 1761562 (2135976)

[Skills: Talent Sequence 272: Hypermemory (A-level) (Abnormal), Basic Firearms Mastery (Soul Part), Talent Sequence 144: Miracle Scholar (B-level) (Rejection) (Unusable), Mystic Academic Introduction]

Mechanical modification: None

[Martial Arts: Qi Refining to Spirit Transformation (Rank B) (Partial Usability)]

[Character Skill: Refining Spirit and Returning to Emptiness (Rank A), Talent Sequence 189: Planner (Rank B)]

Heo suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Estella in front of him.

Martial Arts Angel!

Estella paused slightly, looked into Heo's eyes, and without hesitation, flew backward.

boom--

In that instant, the roots of the World Tree that were binding He Ao's body snapped off like rotten vines.

Above the misty sky, countless shimmering green lightning bolts streaked across the heavens, carrying beams of green light like lasers, falling from the sky like the sharpest blades towards the direction where the World Tree's roots had once imprisoned.

The terrifying power of this thunderbolt far surpassed that of Vestann's attack just now.

Under the radiance and thunder, countless dark tree roots melted like ice and snow, and the surging light covered the entire area, as if a sun had been planted on the earth.

And in the deepest part of this radiance, a figure slowly emerged from the light.

His body was broad and strong. The crimson color of his entire body quickly faded and dissolved under the green glow, revealing smooth skin and strong muscles that were tied together like a coiled dragon.

He raised his hand, and in the dazzling light, a slender black gun barrel that had been lying on the ground suddenly flew up and landed in his hand.

Over the years, the Spear of Vistara has also been affected by the sealing spell. Some of Vistara's power still remains in the spear, influencing it. When Heo was in sync with him, the spear also resonated with him.

The material used for the gun is the heartwood of the World Tree.

The black gun barrel landed in He'ao's hand. He swung it casually, raised his head, and his figure passed through the lightning and radiance, looking at Estella ahead.