The night sky at this moment captivated everyone's attention because the stars were gradually brightening, releasing dazzling halos. As the halos expanded faster and faster, the starlight intertwined and formed a bright curtain in the sky. This luminous curtain illuminated the entire city center as bright as day, allowing everyone to see clearly in the night.
"The light pillar is about to appear! Everyone, prepare yourselves! Control your breathing! Don't worry, everything will be fine!" Carl exclaimed loudly.
Just as Carl finished speaking, rolls of thunder accompanied by flashes of white light suddenly spread across the night sky. Haoyun could even feel the stadium beneath him shaking continuously from the tremendous thunder. However, unexpectedly, as soon as the thunder reached the ground, it abruptly ceased, and the raging winds dissipated completely. Following that, a lightning bolt as sharp as a sword pierced through the luminous shield in the sky, absorbing all the white light and precisely striking the top of the lighthouse.
Instead of dissipating after hitting the lighthouse, the lightning formed a column of light that connected heaven and earth. One end stretched into the night sky shrouded by dense clouds, while the other deeply penetrated into the lighthouse. At this moment, the previously paused strong winds resumed their rampage through the city, yet this time, their target was not the streets of Terleh, but rather, as if responding to a call hidden within the lighthouse, they madly surged towards it and flowed into its interior through holes on its surface. Due to the swift influx of wind, a large amount of air was pulled into the lighthouse, causing temporary oxygen depletion in most areas of Terleh.
After the initial shock of witnessing these phenomena, Dream Jia quickly regained her composure. As a priestess accustomed to grand spectacles, such anomalies were not particularly surprising. Nevertheless, even Dream Jia's expression turned grim at this moment.
"Weird, did you all feel that?" Dream Jia asked through the private chat channel of the Mold Spirit Energy Tracking System.
"Yeah, I felt it," Dao Lao responded in a serious tone.
"What's going on? Why does that lightning contain the divine power of the Spirit Realm?" Dream Jia continued with a serious tone. Dao Lao shook his head in puzzlement after a brief silence, indicating he didn't know either.
Seeing Dao Lao and Haoyun not responding to her question, Dream Jia struggled and asked another difficult question, "Why... why does that lightning bolt also contain the power of the Mold Spirit Energy?"
After Dream Jia finished speaking, silence fell over the private chat channel of the Mold Spirit Energy Tracking System. Everyone remained silent, and the atmosphere grew extremely heavy. Even Dream Jia, who had witnessed various grand spectacles, felt palpitations. At this moment, a notification appeared on her main screen: "Attention! Mold Spirit Energy detected ahead! Mold Level reaches six stars!"
Indeed, shortly after the lightning column that swallowed all surrounding light connected heaven and earth, Dream Jia and Dao Lao's Mold Spirit Energy Tracking Systems briefly returned to normalcy and immediately detected Mold Spirit Energy from the lightning column. Almost simultaneously, the two also sensed a powerful divine power from the Spirit Realm within that lightning column.
Dream Jia and Dao Lao were not particularly surprised by the sudden detection of Mold Spirit Energy by the system. One of their suspicions regarding their current situation was that they were trapped in another black hole, similar to their experience in the Fragrant Nebula, and subjected to an attack by some powerful force, with Mold Spirit Energy being the object of their suspicion. Therefore, Dream Jia and Dao Lao were not particularly astonished when the system detected Mold Spirit Energy.
However, the appearance of divine power from the Spirit Realm was a different matter. Because the divine power from the Spirit Realm and Mold Spirit Energy were mutually exclusive forces, Dream Jia and Dao Lao were greatly puzzled by the simultaneous appearance of these two forces within a lightning bolt. What astonished Dream Jia and Dao Lao even more was that the lightning column seemed to be generated under the joint action of these two mutually exclusive forces. This situation was simply inconceivable!
Furthermore, what shocked Dream Jia and Dao Lao even more was their clear perception that the divine power contained within the lightning column was extremely pure, as if it had been directly sent from the Spirit Realm. This realization made them realize the seriousness of the situation amidst their confusion.
"Elina? Could it be that this lightning bolt was emitted by Elina? After all, from what we can see now, only Elina possesses the ability to simultaneously control the divine power of the Spirit Realm and Mold Spirit Energy," Dao Lao said seriously.
"But... the divine power contained in the lightning is so pure? How could Elina possibly utilize the remaining divine power within her to release such a powerful divine force?" Dream Jia asked in puzzlement.
"Perhaps it's because she received help from the Countess? Don't forget, the Countess already has the ability to shield the divine power of the Spirit Realm and has the ability to modify the battle armor of the Dark Spirit Realm. Therefore, she likely has glimpsed how to control the divine power of the Spirit Realm and passed it on to Elina," Dao Lao observed the lightning column standing between heaven and earth seriously and worriedly.
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"So, with the Countess's help, Elina has probably not only mastered how to unleash her divine power more powerfully but also learned how to simultaneously use the divine power of the Spirit Realm and Mold Spirit Energy?" Dream Jia also stared at the column of light with a furrowed brow.
Dao Lao nodded slowly in response, "Yes, based on the current situation, that's very likely. Huh, it seems that the situation here has become far more serious than we imagined. Leaving aside anything else, just based on the ability of Elina to release this column of light, even if our three strengths are not suppressed, we certainly are not her opponents!"
Dream Jia couldn't help but slam the ground with her fist, exclaiming, "Damn it! It must be Countess who's behind this, further enhancing Elina's strength! If only I had known earlier, I would have risked everything, fired a hunting bullet, and blasted Elina on the spot! Haoyun! You useless fool! Knowing Elina would become this powerful, you should have used more Mold Spirit energy and killed her on the spot!"
Realizing the severity of the situation, Dream Jia began to blame Haoyun for being too conservative in using the Mold Spirit energy against Elina, thus allowing her to escape, which was the catalyst for the current serious situation.
But then, why was Haoyun so quiet now? After the lightning column appeared, only Dream Jia and Dao Lao were discussing on the system channel, while Haoyun remained silent, which was unlike his style? Thinking this, Dream Jia withdrew her gaze from the distant column of light and turned to look at Haoyun with a puzzled expression.
Upon closer inspection, Dream Jia discovered that Haoyun had long been unconscious, lying motionless beside her without her noticing when it started. Immediately, she cried out in a low voice, "Hey? Haoyun? Haoyun? What's wrong with you? Wake up!"
"Bad, Brother Yun must have fainted due to lack of oxygen! We need to oxygenate him quickly!" Seeing this, Karl quickly signaled Dream Jia and Dao Lao to move away from Haoyun so that the air around him could flow smoothly. At the same time, he had already taken out a portable life-support device and started supplying oxygen to Haoyun.
Seeing Haoyun unconscious, Dream Jia and Dao Lao were also nervous, but their concerns were completely different from Karl's. Through the Mold Spirit energy tracking system shared by Haoyun, they could see that Haoyun did not faint due to a physical problem. After all, this was the third time Haoyun had fainted since arriving on Earth NX. Considering Haoyun mentioned having very strange dreams during the first two faints, Dream Jia and Dao Lao naturally realized that Haoyun's sudden fainting this time might also be due to entering a strange dream state.
At the same time, Dream Jia and Dao Lao also realized that Haoyun's sudden fainting was not accidental but probably related to the lightning column in front of them. So upon this thought, Dao Lao quickly stepped forward to pretend to check Haoyun's pulse, and said to Karl, "Ah Yun indeed had a shock due to thin air just now. But Ah Yun's pulse is very stable, so he should be fine as long as he rests a bit."
Haoyun naturally had no time to think about how he ended up in this void abyss because at this moment, two powerful forces were simultaneously impacting his divine body, firmly imprisoning his body in place. Haoyun could clearly feel that the two forces acting on him were mutually antagonistic. However, when these two forces were applied to Haoyun, they did not appear to be mutually exclusive. Instead, they interacted in a very strange way.
Although these two forces tightly imprisoned Haoyun, apart from that, they did not make any moves to harm him, allowing him to feel a warm care from the two forces at the same time. However, Haoyun did not relax his vigilance because behind this warmth of belonging, he also sensed a cold danger. Moreover, in addition to the two forces of warmth and cold, Haoyun once again felt the presence of the crimson blood pupil.
Indeed, the crimson blood pupil appeared again! Although Haoyun did not see the single eye this time, he could clearly feel that the single eye was secretly watching his every move. Moreover, the crimson single eye also released a force that Haoyun could not understand, firmly suppressing the two forces that imprisoned Haoyun, allowing them to only play within the area defined by the single eye, unable to make any more extreme moves.
Haoyun repeatedly turned his head to try to capture the position of the single eye, but he found that the single eye seemed to read his thoughts in advance, always reacting before he could turn his head, so that he could avoid Haoyun's gaze smoothly. Therefore, Haoyun even had a feeling—that eye was not able to predict his thoughts in advance, but all his thoughts were formed under its control. So, no matter what attempt Haoyun made, the result was only being led by the nose by the single eye. However, Haoyun was not worried about this. Because he could feel that the crimson single eye did not want to harm him. It was just full of curiosity about him and wanted to tease him. Moreover, Haoyun could also feel that the reason why he came here was precisely because of the summons of the single eye.
After all, Haoyun had entered such a strange dream for the third time, so he was obviously much calmer now than before. This made Haoyun, after quickly grasping his situation, feel a strong curiosity. He really wanted to know why he would enter such a strange dream two or three times? All this seemed not accidental, nor did it have anything to do with the resonance of the Mold Spirit energy fragments in his body with Elina, but was completely intentional by someone else.
Therefore, Haoyun gathered his courage and asked, "Who are you, after all?"
Haoyun's question did not receive any response, and the abyss continued to stir with thunder and lightning. The strong sense of collapse and tearing constantly pulled this space, making Haoyun always stay focused to ensure that his consciousness did not fall into confusion under the chaotic forces.
"Why do you summon me two or three times? Do you need my help?" Seeing no one responding, Haoyun continued to ask relentlessly.
Similarly, the response to Haoyun was still various unsettling rumblings. Seeing this, Haoyun simply relaxed his whole body, relying only on the imprisonment of the two forces hanging in the abyss, quietly waiting for an unknown response. Gradually, Haoyun found himself starting to adapt to the oppressive feeling of the abyss, and the burden pressing on him was also gradually lightened. Then, his consciousness began to awaken more clearly, as if waking up from a dream. However, Haoyun understood that although his consciousness was recovering, he was still in the dream. But Haoyun did not pay too much attention to this because the two forces imprisoning him were showing signs of loosening, allowing his spirit to break out of his body and try to wander in this abyss.