Chapter 1915 - 1914: In Hand

Void Space

In the storm of turbulent emotions, He Ao lowered his head, gazing at the scene ahead.

The surrounding void quaked with incomprehensible illusions, and right at the center of this illusion, a peculiar object was condensing.

It seemed to be a purple octahedral crystal, floating in the air, but when He Ao looked closely, his gaze passed through the crystal, as if nothing existed there.

The crystal seemed to be in a mystical state, hovering between reality and illusion.

He Ao painstakingly moved his body, cautiously approaching, finally reaching the crystal.

This crystal appeared more illusion than reality; if He Ao tilted his head slightly, it would vanish from before him.

He reached out his hand, trying to touch the crystal, but his fingers naturally passed through it, as if the crystal wasn’t tangible.

"Kid, are you alright? The power I left here is running low." At this moment, a crisp voice exploded in He Ao’s mind, "Be careful, don’t let the Witch of Desire find you, or no one can save you."

"I found the thing, but I can’t touch it," He Ao rasped quickly.

"Try using the ’Dreamer’ to touch it," the voice said urgently, "You have the Dreamer’s attribute within you, once you activate it, you should be able to touch this Talent Sequences."

Upon hearing this, He Ao paused slightly, raising his hand, preparing to activate the Dreamer attribute within him.

The voice seemed to pause, waiting for He Ao’s action.

Just then, He Ao suddenly stopped and asked in a low voice, "Who are you?"

"Who am I? What a foolish question," the voice hesitated for a moment, "You should know who I am, shouldn’t you?"

Hearing this, He Ao immediately withdrew the radiance from his hand, suppressing the Dreamer trait.

The voice near his ear also vanished completely as if it had never existed.

The emotional storm around was still violently roaring and shaking, blowing against He Ao’s face, tossing his solitary body wildly in the dim space.

He Ao wasn’t sure what that voice was, but it certainly didn’t come from the ’Holy Master’, but rather some kind of auditory hallucination.

It might have been a twisted echo within the emotional storm or perhaps a mutation caused by his own polluted soul.

But its suggestion was probably not a good one.

This space, though unsure of its whereabouts, was definitely the core domain of the Witch of Desire. If He Ao activated the Dreamer trait, not even the Holy Master’s power could hide him, and the Witch of Desire would instantly react.

Then he would be doomed.

He Ao’s gaze fell upon the purple crystal in front of him.

But without activating the Dreamer trait, how could he touch the crystal?

While pondering, He Ao raised his hand, slightly activated some of the Memory Inheritor’s power, and reached out to touch the crystal.

Ding——

Accompanied by a faint sound, his hand touched the crystal, but soon his fingers passed through it.

The crystal seemed to revert to a state of illusion, but it wasn’t entirely illusory.

Some mottled light dots spilled from the crystal, but they were not clearly visible.

With a thoughtful head tilt, He Ao, who previously couldn’t see the crystal at such an angle, now found a magnificent starry sky reflected in his view.

He reached out, trying to touch the starry sky, but again his palm passed through it.

It seemed the starry sky was also untouchable.

In contemplation, He Ao once again shifted his gaze to another side.

The starry sky reverted to the appearance of the crystal.

At this point, He Ao could vaguely sense that the power in this space was suppressing the crystal.

Thus, the crystal’s illusion was not due to some special structure but rather resisting and hiding from the pressure of this space.

In his thoughts, He Ao moved again, changing his perspective.

This time, the brilliant starry sky appeared once more in his field of view.

Yet, this starry sky differed from before, showing certain ’changes’.

While thinking, He Ao slowly moved again, watching the starry sky.

With his movement, the starry sky transformed at a visible speed.

After circling nearly half of the starry sky, he stopped.

Now, the starry sky in his view completely ceased its change.

He Ao gazed at the starry sky, now overlapping with the starry sky of the Dreamer’s ruins he had once seen.

Then, He Ao reached out, his fingertips still passed through the starry sky, but he did not stop directly this time.

Instead, he explored downward towards the place where he had stood when he first saw the starry sky of the Dreamer’s ruins.

The starry sky was not large, fully unfurled it spanned just over ten meters, so He Ao quickly reached his intended position.

He stretched his hand, reaching into that empty space.

Though nothing was there at first, when he grasped into the darkness below, a faint purple glow started to gather.

A somewhat solid, seemingly crystalline object appeared in He Ao’s hand.

Was it a success?

So that starry sky was not only the Dreamer’s ruins but also some kind of code?

He Ao held the crystal, his hand slowly pulling backward.

The expansive brilliant starry sky instantly trembled.

As He Ao slowly lifted the crystal, the brilliant stars swiftly converged into his hand like water swirling into a vortex.

In an extremely short time, the brilliant starry sky gathered into He Ao’s hand.

He Ao lowered his head, opened his palm, and there appeared a brilliant purple octahedral crystal.

This time, the crystal was no longer an illusion but had solidified into reality.

Bang bang bang——

In that instant, streaks of purple thunder suddenly burst from the surrounding void, striking the purple crystal before He Ao could react.

Crack crack——

Enwrapped by the thunder, fine cracks swiftly appeared on the crystal.

Simultaneously, the surrounding waves churned fiercely, as if the space’s owner realized the ’theft’ and was rapidly gathering power.

The sky-filled purple thunder instantaneously connected the heavens and earth.

Seeing this, He Ao unhesitatingly clenched the already cracked, about-to-shatter purple crystal in his hand.

The owner of this space seemed to possess immense hatred for the purple crystal, pouring a massive amount of power onto it the moment it appeared.

The invisible connection in the illusion suddenly tightened, like a string, drawing He Ao’s body towards the source of the void’s power.

In this moment, the endless space-time compressed within He Ao’s field of view.

A surge of powerful force caught hold of He Ao, pulling him in the direction from which he had come.

Bang—

At the same moment, this silent space erupted into a fierce uproar as a terrifying force descended from Heaven.

The compressed space-time in He Ao’s eyes began to expand at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his pace slowed down rapidly.

The once-open space-time channel was now collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At this moment, He Ao did not hesitate, lifted his head, and shouted into the sky, "Holy Master!"

He knew the Holy Master would perceive this place.

As soon as the words fell, a brilliant gray radiance suddenly spread from his body.

On the other side of the passage, a terrifying and grand power surged from the passage, supporting the vast force that would crush the passage.

He Ao’s body, following the pull of this purple cloud, fell rapidly to the other side of time-space.

The complex time-space in his field of view was once again compressed and distorted.

His body, following the purple radiance, escaped from the quaking space.

All around, the space-time channel was riddled with cracks, strands of gray radiance arduously held within the channel, mending the dense cracks.

Bang—

A soft sound echoed from the depths of the void space as the complete channel was torn open.

Brilliant starlight shone in from outside the channel.

He Ao could finally see clearly the full scope of the region behind the channel he had just entered.

It was a vast cluster of purple clouds.

The swirling mist converged like stars, forming a massive cluster of purple clouds in the dark depths of the universe.

The cloud cluster was so enormous that while He Ao was inside it, his whole body as a spiritual body had no concept of space-time, unable to feel the size of the cloud.

But viewed from the outside, the scale of the cloud was so vast that even though He Ao had crossed much space-time, he still could not see its boundaries from his position.

Moreover, the cloud seemed to be moving at an extremely fast speed at this moment, the dazzling stars at the edge of the starry sky appeared as small points of light, quickly swallowed by the cloud.

If not for the cloud’s diffuse glow hiding the specific stars, He Ao would think it was a vast star nebula.

Or perhaps, it was originally a star nebula.

And as He Ao gazed at this purple cloud, it seemed aware of his gaze.

Fierce pollution instantly filled He Ao’s mind, nearly tearing apart his fragile soul.

Dense purple thunders followed the rupture in the channel, flooding downward like a tidal wave into the channel.

The gray radiance enveloping the channel also exploded with brilliance at this moment, resisting the purple thunder.

The surrounding space-time compressed rapidly, and He Ao’s body swiftly traversed space-time.

The last scene he saw of the purple cloud was that it seemed filled with dense purple thunderbolts, like chains or gauze, wrapped around it.

The gray radiance shone with surging light, mending the channel opening, instantly compressing the surrounding space-time.

Countless shadows and stars flashed through his field of view.

He couldn’t tell if it was an illusion, but he felt the return trip seemed shorter than the outbound journey.

Soon, the compressed space-time rapidly unfolded.

He Ao saw the dazzling starry sky formed by the Dreamer’s remnant, saw the graceful purple figure, and saw the gray figure fighting against the graceful purple figure.

He returned to this narrow space.

The purple crystal covered in cracks was held in his hand, with some residual purple thunder still wrapped around it, trying to completely destroy it.

And from the space-time transit, the graceful purple figure also turned its gaze towards his direction.

Then, in an instant, a purple arm shattered the space-time channel, reaching out to grab his body.

A gray radiance extended from the other side, helping He Ao fend off the purple arm.

Meanwhile, the Holy Master’s voice also rang in He Ao’s ear, "Return to your body first, I will break off the channels between this space and the Winding Hill, and then conceal the space to isolate the Witch of Desire’s perception."

Pausing slightly, He emphasized again, "Did you get the object?"

"Yes, I got it." He Ao calmly responded, showcasing the purple crystal in his hand subtly.

"Good, do not reveal it, it will provoke the Witch of Desire, you should leave first." The Holy Master immediately said.

At this moment, the graceful purple figure seemed to sense something and started attacking more fiercely.

The gray radiance hurried to block the purple radiance.

Seizing this opportunity, He Ao hurriedly descended, quickly approaching the outlined ’body’ below.

Just as he was about to touch the body, a purple radiance suddenly extended from the side, transforming into a slender palm, slapping towards his soul.

This force seemed sent by the Witch of Desire long ago, only acting at this moment.

He Ao immediately raised his hand, using the crystal in his hand to block the attack.

Pa—

Along with a crisp sound, the crystal in He Ao’s hand shattered violently, turning into countless scattered fragments.

A purple radiance also emerged from the crystal.

The crystal wasn’t the ’Dreamer’ Talent Sequence, but a ’box’ containing the Talent Sequence.

At this moment, the emerging purple radiance was the Dreamer’s Talent Sequence.

As the radiance appeared, the purple palm immediately gave up on He Ao, reaching for the purple radiance.

At the same moment, a gray palm reached out from the side, almost simultaneously grasping for the purple radiance.

But both palms came up empty.

The purple radiance arced through the air and fell into He Ao’s embrace.

He Ao looked at the two palms, his mouth curving into a smile, for just now, he had activated the mystical contact wrapped around him from the Dreamer’s remains, directly attracting the Talent Sequence.

"Quickly go back," the Holy Master’s voice instantly echoed in He Ao’s ear, and the gray palm blocked the purple palm, "I will stop the Witch of Desire for you!"

But He Ao just glanced down at the body enveloped by dense arrays below, those arrays given to him by the Holy Master.

He extended his hand and grasped the radiance that fell into his embrace.

Then he turned his gaze to the content in his field of view, smiling as he said, "It’s not necessary."

In the next moment, his soul disappeared from its original place.

The arrays entwining He Ao’s body suddenly unfolded like a cage, capturing the position of He Ao’s soul, but capturing nothing.

Gray and purple radiance froze simultaneously, then in the next moment, purple radiance opened a channel in an instant, rushing into it.