The giant skeleton gazed at He Ao, raising its hand, and some kind of invisible purple light glowed on it.

In the deepest void, a fierce howling sound pierced through the sky.

A twisted oppressive force spread over He Ao’s body.

This giant skeleton exuded an angelic tier of oppressive force.

He Ao stared at the skeleton with purple light covering his pupils, and on the skeleton’s body, there were phantasmal shadows.

Those were soul fragments pieced together.

These soul fragments were intricately connected through a mystical ritual, like a sewn cloth that formed into a soul cloak, draped over the giant skeleton.

This soul cloak served as both consumption and support, sustaining the high positional grade pressure of the skeleton.

This skeleton itself was not an angel, but its creator, using a series of exquisite techniques and perhaps some extraordinary items, crafted it into a powerful undead with angel designation.

The power of Super Memory pierced the void, stabbing into the shadows behind the skeleton, but yielded no result.

The memories and consciousness of those souls have been completely erased, leaving only the ’surface,’ stitched into the gigantic soul cloak of the skeleton.

What surprised He Ao was that even after memory and consciousness were removed, the core structure of these souls was undamaged, linked together by seemingly insignificant mystical connections.

Like cutting a lotus into three segments and removing almost the entire middle segment, but the remaining slender lotus threads still hold the entire structure together, maintaining the overall form.

This operation is extremely delicate, requiring a high level of mastery in soul-related mysticism.

If it were He Ao, he wouldn’t be able to achieve this.

Even if he could erase most of the consciousness and memory, the structure of these souls wouldn’t be so complete and natural.

This terrifying operation even seems to have an element of divine craftsmanship.

In this extraordinary world where knowledge equals power, it only shows that the angel who created this skeleton is immensely strong.

As He Ao watched the skeleton, the skeleton, in turn, made its next move.

A subtle phantasmal pull gathered in the skeleton’s palm, then it gently pulled.

It seemed as though an invisible wind blew through the void.

He Ao felt as if his soul was grasped by a gigantic hand, almost pulled out of his body in an instant.

While controlling the copy world characters, He Ao’s weakest point was that his soul’s integration with the body of the copy world characters wasn’t perfect.

This was also a major flaw of his soul.

Perhaps coincidentally, the skeleton immediately targeted his flaw.

As the force surged, purple light fully ignited in He Ao’s pupils, covering the original golden-brown irises.

Powerful angelic tier energy intertwined with Divine Sense, instantly spreading from soul to body, enhancing the connection between soul and body.

Strictly speaking, although He Ao’s soul and copy world character’s integration wasn’t perfect, it wasn’t that bad either.

The skeleton’s soul-pulling force was incredibly strong; if it were ordinary puppet control, it would have been torn apart immediately, but He Ao’s state was different.

Compared to puppet control of souls or forcibly refined clones, his soul-body integration was more like it was inherently His Ao’s body, soul and body matching perfectly.

However, He Ao’s soul was excessively large, causing the body and soul to fit completely, but could only integrate part of the soul.

Like two building blocks, He Ao’s soul block is very large, while ’Hawke’ body block is only a bit, even if the block representing body can perfectly fit into the soul, yet there are still force points where they can be separated.

After realizing that soul pulling was ineffective, the skeleton looked at He Ao and raised another hand.

A phantasmal skeleton suddenly emerged behind He Ao, then directly approached him.

He Ao immediately raised his hand to grab this phantasmal skeleton.

But in the instant his hand extended, the skeleton turned into a light stream, directly blending into his palm.

This radiance clung to his body like a bone-eating maggot, trying to seize control of his body, vying with his soul for body control.

A massive surge of soul power immediately erupted from He Ao’s body, enveloping and tearing apart the glow.

At that moment, multiple phantasmal skeletons appeared again, rushing toward He Ao’s body, densely covering him like bone-stick maggots.

At that moment, He Ao felt his body stiffened for a moment.

If the earlier wind tearing soul was an attempt from the soul aspect to tear He Ao, then the glow transformed by the phantasmal skeleton was pulling He Ao from the body aspect.

That twisted force exerted bilaterally, attempting to completely tear apart He Ao’s entire being.

The purple light in He Ao’s pupils fully illuminated, quietly gazing at all this, powerful energy instantly pulling soul and body together again, entwined and stabilizing soul and body.

At the same time, he raised his head, gazing at the giant Skull Giant.

Boom—

Raging flames ignited on his body, instantly enveloping him, dissolving his flesh into a blazing fiery form.

Immediately after, the flames seemed to follow the blowing wind in the phantasmal realm, igniting the withered leaves beneath his feet, rapidly spreading with the wind to ignite surrounding trees.

Whoosh—

The fierce storm blowing from the sky instantly fanned the flames, spreading rapidly to surrounding peaks.

And spreading to beneath the Skull Giant.

Yet under this scorching inferno, the Skull Giant’s body showed no change; the huge bones remained untouched by fire.

The Skull Giant lowered its head, gazing at He Ao before it.

A faint purple glow covered its body, two purple flames ignited in its phantasmal eye sockets.

It seemed to be carefully ’examining’ He Ao.

Then it raised its hand, bringing its hands together.

The force tearing at He Ao’s soul and body grew stronger, with endless skeletal forms emerging from the void, entering He Ao’s body.

At that moment, a purple flame spread from the palm of the Skull Giant, cascading down an invisible line in the void.

This purple flame landed on the ground, instantly converging with the fierce forest flames around.

Yet these two flames showed no conflict or tearing.

The surging purple flame mingled with the surrounding blaze, like a drop of ink in clear water, dyeing the surrounding flames purple.

Immediately afterwards, amidst the gusts of wind sweeping beneath the sky, the purple flames, like dandelion seeds, suddenly dyed all surrounding fire with a purple hue.

The surging flames blazed fiercely, and that purple glow had already spread toward He Ao’s body.

Yet at this moment, He Ao did not show any panic; he merely quietly gazed ahead at the enormous skeleton, observing the flames beneath it.

As those flames were about to touch the skeleton, some invisible purple barrier would spread out, encasing the skeleton’s body and blocking the surrounding flames.

And those flames could not penetrate the purple barrier.

The fierce flames from the ’Hell Manager’ could not burn this gigantic undead skeleton.

But if one looked closely, it could be seen that the barrier’s structure was very intricate; it was not some kind of power but rather a trigger of the energy within the skeleton’s body.

Triggered through some special position, through the suppression of invisible force, it blocked He Ao’s fierce flames from advancing.

And those purple flames were of the same nature.

These flames were the embodiment of another positional trigger, forcibly controlling He Ao’s fierce flames and making them instead burn back toward He Ao.

In the domain of souls, these special positional controls seemed to convert more into powerful force than at the physical level.

A faint gray arc of light enveloped He Ao’s purple pupils.

Dimly, He Ao felt that some secrets between the souls that he once perceived vaguely were gradually unfolding before him.

At this moment, the purple flames had already spread in front of him, completely controlling that mountain of fierce flames, wrapping toward his body.

He raised his hand and gently sliced in front of him.

The surging purple flames instantly met some invisible wall, thoroughly isolated, unable to break through.

The fierce flames suddenly burned violently, expanding within an instant several tens of meters high, but only forming a wall of fire, standing before He Ao, never able to break through the invisible barrier.

It was as if these flames were stopping themselves.

Immediately thereafter, He Ao gazed at the surging wall of fire, raised his hand, and gently pushed forward.

The wall of fire collapsed backward like an avalanche.

The scattered flames changed direction within an instant like flowing water, rushing toward the gigantic skeleton.

He Ao glanced down at his palm, and the skeletal palm covered in fierce flames began to fill with fine cracks.

The talent sequence of the twin angels, even with only a fraction of its super memory power activated, and merely a trace of the secret wizard’s power involved, caused damage to this body far more severe than before.

In front of He Ao, the surging purple flames concentrated on the skull giant in an instant, further transforming into dispersed radiance, still blocked by the invisible purple barrier.

He Ao raised his hand, attempting to enhance the angel’s power once more.

Yet, after a brief pause, he suddenly recalled something; an illusion badge fell into his palm.

Immediately thereafter, he raised his hand, and a flame whip suddenly leaped across the sky, swinging out like a beam of light, striking the skeleton giant’s bones.

Upon impact, the invisible purple barrier trembled slightly; it neither shattered nor resisted but seemed to encounter a kin.

Like a trembling water surface, allowing the whip to pass through the barrier.

Pa—

The whip struck the skeleton giant’s leg bone, and at this instant, the fierce flames suddenly spread across the skeleton giant’s body.

The skeleton giant turned its gaze, watching the flames spreading over its body, seemingly caught in brief confusion.

Then it turned its gaze, watching He Ao, suddenly pulling apart its clasped hands.

Dong—

A certain urgent heartbeat sound resonated in He Ao’s ears.

Then, in that instant, He Ao felt his ’heart’ — or rather, the ’heart’ in his consciousness — being tightly gripped by some invisible power.

His soul, his power, his body were all seized in that instant by this terrifying force, like having the heart clutched, causing all his bodily supplies and sustenance to stop in that instant.

Intense suffocating and dizziness feeling surged through his consciousness.

Simultaneously, his skeletal body covered by flames began to show signs of grime and decay.

His mind and thoughts, his soul too seemed to be aging rapidly.

Some invisible summoning ignited deep in his consciousness, calling forth his soul.

At that instant, He Ao realized what the force gripping his ’heart’ was.

It was ’Death’.

Surging purple radiance suddenly ignited in his pupils, pulling him a little out of this inescapable ’suffocation’, stabilizing his consciousness.

He raised his head, looking forward.

At this moment, his own surging fires also enveloped the giant skeleton’s body.

And amid the burning flames, an illusion badge hovered in the chest area of the skeleton giant, faintly revealing itself.

The illusion badge was identical in shape to the one in He Ao’s hand but several times larger; the overall structure was closer to an illusionary state, and its flicker frequency was significantly slower than the badge in He Ao’s hand.

That seemed to be the core of the skeleton giant.

He Ao raised his hand, the illusory flame whip generated once more from the void, this time, a faint purple radiance with transparent power spread to his palm, also winding around the whip.

Then he raised his hand, once again swinging towards the skeleton giant engulfed in flames.

The skeleton giant immediately raised its hand, trying to catch the whip.

But the whip instantly bypassed the skeleton giant’s palm, rushing toward its chest, weaving through the ribs wrapped in flames, striking the illusion badge.

Purple radiance surged out instantaneously, enveloping the badge.

Bang—

With a subtle, low sound across the world’s foundation, the illusion badge shattered instantly, the fierce flames igniting completely on the skeleton giant’s body.

The skeleton giant collapsed with a roar, gigantic white bones enveloped in flames landing to the ground piece by piece.

Transforming into a surging pyre.

Flames withdrew from He Ao’s body, his flesh covered in blood.

He gazed at the pile of white bones ahead, which seemed to be a colossal skeleton throne.