The Skull Giant immediately retreated, gazing at He Ao, further widening the distance, "Impossible, the Shepherd Spirit Emperor cannot accomplish this."

At this moment, he had already left the city center by several kilometers, arriving amidst a cluster of towering buildings.

He lifted his head, glancing around, "It’s some kind of domain ability targeting the undead."

He glanced around, immediately raised his hand, placing it on a nearby skyscraper, coldly said, "You say you don’t want to be a hero,"

He looked at He Ao, "Stop your erosion immediately, or I’ll kill everyone in this building."

He Ao ignored him, stepped forward, once again arriving in front of him.

Surging soul power continuously flowed along the connection between him and the Skull Giant, pouring into the body of the Skull Giant, eroding the Skull Giant’s soul.

At this moment, the edges of the purple flames flickering in the eye sockets of the Skull Giant faintly emitted traces of gray light.

Feeling all this, the Skull Giant didn’t hesitate, his palm touching the building slightly trembled, and after a subtle shake, the towering skyscraper collapsed with a boom, turning into ruins in an instant.

"Remember, these people were killed by you!" he lifted his head, gazing at He Ao, and sneered coldly.

Meanwhile, his hand started to touch another skyscraper.

At this moment, his hand suddenly paused, and he raised his bewildered gaze towards He Ao, "No, there are no people in these buildings."

He raised his eyes, gazing around at the silent city flickering with lights, "This isn’t Ains, where is this place?!"

He raised his head, only to see a phantom city hanging inverted in the bright and clear night sky.

"This is a battlefield I specifically crafted for you," a serene voice echoed in his ear, He Ao’s glowing body lifted its head, gazing at the Skull Giant in front, "Do you like it?"

This was precisely the Dream Phantom’s ability called Daytime City Building, which created the Dream City.

Long ago, on the foundation of the original Ains, he constructed an illusory Ains, overlapping it on top of Ains.

Of course, the position of the Bone Throne was still the original Ains, connected to the New Netherworld, the place the Skull Giant could perceive most acutely.

As long as the Skull Giant maintained the connection with the Netherworld, He Ao didn’t dare replace Ains with this fantasy city.

So he had to force the Skull Giant to leave the Bone Throne, once he left that area, he would completely enter He Ao’s fantasy city.

"Your ability far surpasses my understanding," the Skull Giant lifted his head, gazing at He Ao, "Hawke could not possess such ability..."

He raised his head, seemingly realizing something, the purple flames within his eye sockets burned fervently, "It’s ’K’! You’re not Hawke! You are ’K’, you eroded his soul, controlled his body, manipulated him as a puppet to deal with me! But why are you doing this—"

He ’gazed at’ He Ao, "It’s a ritual, you are completing a ritual, you want to become a god! You are not a real divine being yet! That’s why my master wants to consume you!"

He seemed to have discovered a shocking secret, he raised his hand, "You’ve come, if my master knew you were here, He would be delighted!"

However, faced with his somewhat manic reaction, He Ao’s expression remained exceptionally calm, he merely gazed at the Skeleton Monarch before him, serenely said, "You’ve gone mad."

Upon hearing this, the Skull Giant’s expression suddenly froze, his eyes filled with purple flames gazed at He Ao, "Yes, how could it be, how could it be, your fury, your reluctance, even the tricks I played on your soul didn’t change, how could you be ’K’."

"No, not right," he shook his head violently, "You’re bluffing! You’re bluffing! Hawke can’t possibly possess such strong power; how could his divine being behind him bestow him with such grace! No! No! There’s only one possibility in such a situation."

He lifted his head, gazing at He Ao, "You are ’K’! You are ’K’!"

He Ao calmly gazed at the Skull Giant before him, gazed at the flickering and uncertain purple flames in his eyes.

He knew, the Skull Giant could not confirm his thoughts, everything at this moment was merely bluffing, stalling for time.

"It’s over." He Ao approached the Skull Giant, raising the crimson blade in his hand.

"Impossible!" the Skull Giant gazed at He Ao, "I will not die here!"

He lifted his hand and slammed it down fiercely onto the ground.

Boom—

Along with the intense roar, the ground was lifted like a lawn, and the towering buildings collapsed like a series of toppled dominoes.

Long arms extended from the deep beneath the collapsed ruins, snow-white bones climbed out from the depths of the earth.

These bones rapidly gathered like a tide, swiftly surging from the earth, covering the ground, covering the entire city.

Then they quickly turned their gaze, surging towards He Ao.

Their speed was faster than the previous bones, almost instantly climbing onto He Ao’s body, covering his body, covering his cheeks, enveloping him entirely.

Meanwhile, He Ao lowered his head, letting those bones crawl over him, tearing at his body, trying to dismantle his entire form.

Those bones came wave after wave, in an instant, they piled into a high mountain, burying He Ao within it.

Each of them carried a trace of an angel’s position, capable of harming He Ao, each of their attacks was minimal, but together, they resembled a massive meat grinder, devouring He Ao’s body.

In a moment, He Ao’s body was shaved off a layer.

"Did you really think all those words I said to you just now were just pure chat?" seeing He Ao wrapped in those bones, the Skull Giant finally breathed a sigh of relief, the purple flames in his eyes flickering quickly, revealing excitement.

However, the gray glow enveloping the purple flames grew increasingly intense at this moment, even adding an additional layer of purple glow at the edge of the gray glow.

Bang—

At this moment, his excitement did not last long, a blood-colored blade suddenly extended from that mountainous pile of bones, piercing the bones.

Bang bang bang—

Following this, the mountainous pile of bones, as if losing control, rapidly collapsed, shedding from the purple figure.

"How can this be?" the Skull Giant gazed at this scene, rapidly retreating.

Meanwhile, he waved his hand, the bones around him that had not yet surged like a tide, further rushed towards He Ao.

"Haven’t you realized yet?" He Ao gazed at him calmly, stepping forward.

Those bones rushing towards He Ao, at the moment they were about to reach him, suddenly changed direction, instead charging at the Skull Giant.

"What?" the flames in the Skull Giant’s eyes flickered violently, he wanted to retreat, but as soon as he took a step, his ankle was slashed by the tide-like bones.

His body fell backward as those dense bones swarmed over, rapidly covering his body.

"You manipulated my magic!" the Skull Giant gazed at He Ao, mouth open, angrily roared.

And at the moment he opened his mouth, some bones fell into his mouth, starting to disrupt his bones.

He Ao stood before the Skull Giant, lowered his head, gazing at the Skull Giant, shaking his head, "It’s improvement."

The ability of the Shepherd Spirit Emperor had a penchant for emotional enhancement, He Ao used reverse research on the Skull Giant’s magic, slightly modifying this magic.

Under intense emotions like fear or excitement, the ’assimilation’ progress would accelerate.

So He Ao just lured the Skull Giant to speak, essentially was strengthening his emotion, enhancing the reverse erosion of the Skull Giant’s soul.

Of course, even so, He Ao could not directly control the Skull Giant’s bone puppets, he could only temporarily seize the control to let these bone puppets go out of control.

But under the coverage of the Ideal Country, once these puppets went out of control, the control instantly returned to He Ao’s grasp.

Now, as the progress of erosion deepens, the impact of this emotional enhancement has weakened significantly.

Next, the method to accelerate assimilation is...

He Ao stood before the massive Skull Giant, raising the crimson blade in his hand. The dazzling red light filled the eye sockets of the Crimson Giant.

"The Divine Being won’t spare you!" The Skull Giant opened its mouth, letting out an angry, hissing roar, "Sooner or later, you’ll join me!"

But this time, He Ao did not respond, only pressing down the crimson blade.

Boom——

At that moment, a violent rumble exploded across the firmament above.

The indistinct sky was directly torn apart by the surging power, as a beam of purple light descended, landing on the body of the Skull Giant.

The earth roared at this moment, and the entire city became riddled with dense cracks, with signs of collapse appearing at the city’s distant edges.

Just with one strike, this Dream City was quickly heading towards collapse.

And beneath He Ao, enveloped in the surging purple glow, the Skull Giant grasped He Ao’s downward blade, slowly straightening its body.

It gazed at He Ao, and shouted excitedly, "The Divine Being still hasn’t given up on me! Hawke! Your end is near!"

The soul that had been eroded by He Ao surged up at that moment, counter-eroding towards He Ao.

A suffocating sense of oppression surged from the Skull Giant’s body, suppressing He Ao.

And above the firmament, the source of the brilliance that pierced Dream City, a gigantic Skull Throne flickered with blinding light.

Soon, the scene above the firmament spun violently and overlapped with the scene on the ground.

Skyscrapers appeared all around once more, each building enveloped in brilliance appeared.

As Dream City crumbled, the true Ains was re-emerging.

Yet He Ao calmly watched the purple brilliance, watching the Skull Giant enveloped by the light.

This power originated from the ’New Netherworld,’ or more precisely, from the Grim Reaper.

However, the connection between the New Netherworld and the true Netherworld hadn’t been restored, and ’Nell’ remained standing in the Inwiter Grand Canyon, gazing at that Netherworld connection.

This power was power the Grim Reaper had hidden in the New Netherworld from the start, the contingency He had left behind for a turnaround.

He couldn’t allow He Ao to swallow the Skull Giant.

Amid the crazed and excited laughter of the Skull Giant, He Ao clenched the crimson blade in his hand.

The finale, was opening.

——

New Netherworld

In a world of white mist, the blurry projection of the Elderly man raised his head, looking at the purple brilliance piercing the heavens and the earth ahead.

A young figure appeared beside the Elderly man, whose appearance was blurred by the brilliance, vaguely similar in form to the Elderly by seven or eight parts.

He glanced at the Elderly man, then at the fiery purple brilliance in the sky.

He raised his hand, pointing forward in a direction.

He Ao quietly gazed at him for a moment, then lowered his head, taking a step in the direction he pointed.

In an instant, the distance between him and that purple brilliance shortened significantly.

And as he stepped forward, a new, blurred figure appeared before him.

This figure clearly appeared much older. He gazed at He Ao, raising his hand to point in a direction.

He Ao continued forward in the direction he pointed, and with each step He Ao took, figure after figure emerged from the brilliance.

Among these figures were the young, the elderly, children, men, and women alike.

They stood densely within this hazy brilliance, raising their hands to guide He Ao.

He Ao carried a bag in his hand, gazing at each figure, slowly moving forward in the direction they pointed.

They were the lives sacrificed by the Church of the Grim Reaper to establish this space.

Soon, He Ao passed through the path formed by the crowd, arriving before a hazy, white brilliance.

A faint purple brilliance shimmered within this white glow.

Here, it was near the place where the Grim Reaper’s power was hidden.

Of course, the true hiding place was deeper, an area these sacrificed souls couldn’t reach.

But this was already enough.

He Ao gazed at the wisps of purple in the white brilliance and opened his bag.

He took out a textbook, notebook, fountain pen, briefcase, ink bottle, human skull fragments, and finger bones from it.

Then, he arranged these items clockwise and raised his hands, which gradually turned into smoke, forming the shape of a Septagram.

At this moment, the pervasive purple brilliance finally realized something, and the surging brilliance gathered towards He Ao’s body.

But by then, He Ao had already raised his head.

He turned around and glanced behind him.

The young, blurred figure stood not far away, quietly watching him.

He gazed at that young, blurry figure, the corner of his mouth slightly curved into a smile.

"I have seen it,"

The Septagram Magic Array lit up with brilliant radiance, as an invisible wind swept through the white-misted space.

"All things shall wither away,"

The void trembled at this moment, the world distorted.

"Only the Truth is infinite!"

Endless purple brilliance engulfed the virtual body of He Ao.

And at that moment, a brilliant gray light, as if a long-prepared sword, pierced through the firmament, through the endless white space, and descended here.

And the direction from which the gray radiance originated was,

The Eternal Divine Nation.