Legendary Person: I brought my skills back to reality!

His vision was completely filled with pure white light, followed by a dizzying sense of weightlessness, as if he had been thrown into a wildly spinning washing machine drum. Space around him twisted and folded, and countless bizarre fragments of light flashed by like a carousel, only to shatter in an instant.

He could feel a powerful tearing force acting on him from all directions, as if it wanted to break his body and even his soul down into the most basic particles.

Is this the spacetime turbulence? Xu Hao gritted his teeth, his muscles tensed, and his consciousness desperately held onto the last bit of clarity.

He knew that using a dungeon escape ticket in this chaotic environment was tantamount to suicidal gambling. The destination was completely random, and the greater chance was being swept into a dimensional rift or simply torn to pieces by the violent spatial energy.

But it's better than giving the middle finger to a nuclear bomb and then heroically sacrificing yourself, right?

Faced with a choice between certain death and a slim chance of survival, he gambled on the latter.

The intense dizziness and tearing sensation lasted for an unknown amount of time—perhaps a moment, perhaps eternity. Just as Xu Hao felt his consciousness was about to dissipate, all the chaos abruptly ceased.

As if suddenly thrown from a high-speed spin, he crashed heavily onto the hard, cold ground, feeling as if his bones were about to shatter. The blinding white light faded, replaced by a familiar dimness, with only flickering orange-yellow flames flashing at the edges of his vision.

"Cough...cough cough..." Xu Hao coughed violently, choking on the dusty, damp, musty air. He propped himself up, his body aching, and looked around. Towering walls, built of huge gray-white stone blocks, stretched upwards, disappearing into the darkness. On the walls, ancient metal torches burned, casting flickering, distorted shadows. Beneath his feet was a badly worn stone floor.

This eerie, ancient, and oppressive atmosphere...

Xu Hao's pupils suddenly contracted, and his heart, after a period of intense pounding, now pounded wildly with another emotion—unbelievable relief.

This is...? An unknown dark palace!?

He actually came back! He wasn't teleported to the Desolate Lands, nor was he torn apart by the temporal turbulence; instead, he returned to the place where he and his companions had escaped not long ago!

The desperate madness of just now, the resolute decision to detonate the nuclear bomb and perish together with the giant eye, and the near-death experience when tearing open the scroll, have all turned into a feeling of exhaustion after surviving a catastrophe and an indescribable sense of relief.

Although his strength was still depleted and his body was still exhausted, compared to being blown to ashes or lost in the endless void, being able to stand on this familiar land, which, although dangerous, at least had a pattern to follow, was already an immense stroke of luck.

It's good to be alive...

He took a deep breath of the cold, stagnant air, trying to calm his violently heaving chest, and his tense nerves finally relaxed a little.

Xu Hao had just steadied himself and hadn't even had time to catch his breath when the entire Unknown Dark Palace began to shake violently.

Stones fell with a rustling sound, and the ancient walls groaned painfully, like an old man on his deathbed enduring his final agony.

Space began to distort, and a suffocating sense of oppression filled the air—a harbinger of dimensional collapse.

Suddenly, a huge crack tore open in the void in front of Xu Hao, like an eye opening in the darkness, emitting a chilling eerie light.

Immediately afterwards, a huge vertical pupil, filled with endless rage and sorrow, slowly emerged from the crack.

That was Oboro!

If Oboro had a heart, it would probably be bleeding right now!

Everything is ruined!

Faced with that terrifying power, even the giant tree seemed so fragile. The explosion destroyed the giant tree, obliterated the cocoon of light, and devoured everything it had painstakingly built.

Even with their power exponentially increased, the individual explosions of those three 'Red Star-VI' nuclear bombs might not be enough to completely erase beings like Oboro and the Giant Tree, let alone their vast domain filled with strange energy.

However, the Land of Long Sleep is itself a huge energy aggregate, the foundation for countless years of accumulation and the maintenance of countless cocoons of light in slumber. Its interior has long accumulated unimaginable, massive energy on the verge of collapse, like a volcano that has been forcibly suppressed for hundreds of millions of years.

This space is inherently fragile, with an extremely unstable energy structure, maintaining a delicate and dangerous balance.

The simultaneous detonation of three nuclear bombs was not merely an external physical destruction; the high-energy radiation, shock waves, and extreme temperatures they released were like three crystal nuclei precisely dropped into a supersaturated solution, or, in other words, the final detonators that ignited a massive powder keg.

The energy of the nuclear explosion instantly tore apart the original energy cycle and spatial structure of the slumbering land, shattering its fragile balance. It released light and heat far exceeding its own limits. Immediately afterwards, this uncontrolled energy spread like a plague, luring one light cocoon after another to explode, forming a terrifying chain of energy explosions.

The immense life energy and nuclear energy mixed, surged, and amplified each other, ultimately impacting the giant tree that served as the core of the entire realm. The vast energy flow flowing within the giant tree, sustaining the entire space, was completely disrupted and overloaded by this out-of-control torrent.

Thus, this chain reaction reached its climax—the enormous energy accumulated in the Land of Long Rest, far exceeding the power of a nuclear bomb, was completely ignited, triggering a true dimensional explosion. Its intensity was enough to tear apart space, annihilate existence, and create that world-destroying final scene.

With her powerful spiritual strength, Long managed to preserve a remnant of her soul, but at a terrible cost—her connection with the giant tree was completely severed, and her slumbering place was utterly destroyed.

Long could only watch helplessly as the revival plan he had created vanished into nothingness.

"Xu Hao!!" Long's roar echoed like thunder in the dark hall, every syllable filled with deep-seated hatred!

Its enormous eyes were bloodshot, and its once cold, vertical pupils were now burning with raging flames, as if it wanted to incinerate Xu Hao. "You actually...you actually destroyed my people! You destroyed the hope of the revival of the Fama civilization! I...I will never let you go!!"

With its roar, an invisible mental shock swept towards Xu Hao like a tsunami, more violent and destructive than ever before.

Xu Hao felt a sharp pain in his brain, as if it were being torn to pieces, and his body felt like a small boat in a storm, swaying precariously.

But Long's anger wasn't just directed at Xu Hao. It also hated itself.

"I...I was so stupid!" Oboro's voice was filled with deep self-reproach and regret, a stark contrast to her previous rage.

"How could I have believed you, you lowly human! How could I have been deceived by your sweet words! I... I am truly a sinner against the Fama civilization! I have failed those of my people who slumbered for the sake of revival!!"

Its consciousness was as if it had fallen into an endless abyss of pain, struggling and howling. The once high and mighty representative of the Fama civilization was now like a lost lamb, howling in despair.

It cannot forgive Xu Hao, and it cannot forgive itself.

Xu Hao's appearance completely overturned its plans, rendering all its efforts futile. It had originally thought it could control everything, but in the end, it was manipulated by an ant it had never taken seriously. This enormous disparity nearly drove it to collapse.

"I'm going to kill you! Xu Hao! I'll make you pay for the sacrifice of my people!!"

Oboro's roar rang out again, filled with endless madness and despair.

Its massive body began to tremble violently, distorting the surrounding space and accelerating the collapse of the entire unknown dark palace. It was determined to use its last strength to utterly destroy Xu Hao and avenge its fallen kin.