Time passed quickly as the final stages of the purification task in the Earth world of Time-Space Line N38 approached. The Purification Squad P1557 shuttled increasingly frequently between the Divine Spirit Realm and the Dark Chain Plane, executing all operations with meticulous precision. Though Heinrich remained the nominal commander of this purification squad, in reality, he had long delegated operational command to Dream Jia.
Nevertheless, despite Heinrich's step back from direct leadership, his experienced instincts as a Purification Envoy still keenly sensed anomalies during the squad's operations. One such anomaly was their clandestine transportation of a special energy substance into the Earth world of Time-Space Line N38. As the final moments before the purification task approached, the quantity of energy material smuggled into the Earth world continued to increase.
Despite being prepared to flee the Divine Spirit Realm, Heinrich, as a responsible cleric, desired to understand the true nature of Dream Jia's activities conducted behind his back. His goal was not to thwart their plans but rather to avoid becoming entangled in them. Regardless of Dream Jia's conspiracies, Heinrich aimed to distance himself as much as possible to minimize his culpability and lessen any negative impact on his daughter Tonali's life in the higher realms.
However, the discord between Heinrich and Dream Jia, stemming from their differences over Tonali, hindered their cooperation, even after subsequent reconciliations. Dream Jia's group deliberately maintained a distance from Heinrich in their actions, only involving him when absolutely necessary and otherwise keeping their plans secretive. This isolation left Heinrich perpetually curious about their clandestine activities, yet he remained sidelined and unable to obtain answers despite being the nominal commander of Squad P1557.
Nonetheless, Heinrich did not lament his predicament. To him, minimizing involvement in their defection plans increased his chances of portraying himself as a reluctant participant, thereby potentially reducing the consequences from the Divine Spirit Realm, especially concerning his daughter's welfare.
Yet, despite his stance, Heinrich still seized opportunities to interact with Elina. Beyond personal motivations, Heinrich genuinely sought to understand the purpose behind the energy materials smuggled into the Earth world by Dream Jia's group.
Elina, indifferent to the conflicts between Heinrich and Dream Jia, collaborated with Squad P1557 solely to harness more energy from the Deum ore provided by Purification Envoys. Despite repeated warnings from Dream Jia's group not to disclose too many secrets to Heinrich, Elina continued to answer his inquiries without reservation. She disliked Heinrich's persistent inquiries and veiled attempts to gather intelligence from her.
Elina candidly revealed to Heinrich that she had unexpectedly gained unique knowledge while absorbing energy from the Deum ore. Using this newfound knowledge and bolstered by the divine power forcibly retained within her, she subtly altered some of the energies responsible for spatial jumps in the Earth world of Time-Space Line NX, enabling her to conceal residual energies and evade detection by the guardian energies at the boundary lines, thus safely transitioning back into the Divine Spirit Realm in stealth.
Elina's intention to sneak back into the Divine Spirit Realm was to launch an attack, while Dream Jia's group planned to exploit the ensuing chaos during the Earth world's destruction to slip into an undeveloped world within the Pregnant Sea, completely escaping the Divine Spirit Realm's control before their defection was discovered and countered.
Elina had initially believed Heinrich merely sought an excuse to engage her in conversation and dismissed his concerns. Therefore, she provided detailed explanations of her plans to preemptively address all of Heinrich's questions, aiming to quickly dismiss the bothersome cleric. However, Heinrich's emotions unexpectedly spiraled out of control immediately after hearing Elina's responses.
Heinrich loudly demanded Elina and her group immediately halt their operation plans or redirect their objectives. He threatened that if they did not comply, he would willingly return to the Divine Spirit Realm, even at the risk of severe punishment, and report Elina and Dream Jia's conspiracy to attack the Divine Spirit Realm.
Unbeknownst to Elina, Heinrich's intense reaction upon learning her plan was due to discovering that her target for attacking the Divine Spirit Realm was the place where his daughter Tonali lived—the Spirit City, the capital of the 13th sector of the Divine Spirit Realm. According to Elina's plan, she intended not only to sneak back into the Divine Spirit Realm during the final stages of the purification task but also to bring with her a powerful energy she had previously condensed, further complicating the situation.
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Elina only needed to bring that energy into the realm of the gods. Through it, she could create a temporary teleportation bridge connecting to the dark chain dimension within the realm of the gods, thereby bringing some of the dark energy storms from the nurturing sea into the City of Spirits. According to Elina's calculations, even if those dark energy storms couldn't completely destroy the City of Spirits, they would be enough to kill over ninety percent of the holy spirits in a very short time. As a result, Tonali, who lived in the City of Spirits, would inevitably become a high-risk group and could be exposed to calamity at any moment during Elina's attack. Therefore, Heinrich must do everything possible, at any cost, to prevent Elina from launching this devastating and terrifying attack on the City of Spirits.
The mere thought of his daughter possibly being in danger made Heinrich unable to sit still. As a devoted father, his emotions suddenly and uncontrollably surged. With flames engulfing his entire body, Heinrich swiftly pulled down the massive horns from his head and without hesitation swung the transformed fiery greatswords toward Elina.
Elina, upon seeing this, merely smirked coldly. She neither dodged nor panicked but calmly stood in place, awaiting the fiery greatsword to strike her. When the greatsword struck Elina with two resounding blows, two enormous energy halos, accompanied by a sound loud enough to rupture eardrums, instantly scattered and caused the entire base to shake incessantly under their influence. At the same time, two indescribably powerful reactive forces were transmitted along the fiery greatswords back into Heinrich's hands.
The immense strength of these reactive forces exceeded Heinrich's capacity to withstand, causing his hands to instantly release the two greatswords from their grip as the powerful shockwaves hit him. The two greatswords then flew backward from Heinrich's sides. However, they didn't fly too far; they were simultaneously suppressed in mid-air by two energy beams released from Elina, composed of intertwining purple, red, and black light-electricity. Subsequently, one of the greatswords immediately exploded into fragments under the eerie tri-color light-electricity suppression. The other greatsword was forcefully cut into two halves by the electric light and then exploded the remaining half into pieces.
It must be said that Heinrich was indeed a mid-level priest with substantial power. Elina's sudden burst of counteracting force destroyed his exclusive weaponry in an instant, but apart from pushing Heinrich far back, it did not cause him greater harm. However, the immense force transmitted through his hands caused Heinrich's entire body to tremble violently for a moment, gradually clearing his mind and prompting him to abandon the idea of continuing the attack.
Heinrich forcefully anchored one foot into the heavy stone ground, barely stopping his body from continuing to retreat. Then, he looked up at Elina, who stood calmly in place with an indifferent expression. He glanced at the half remaining horn on the ground and couldn't help but feel a wave of shock. At this moment, Heinrich truly experienced Elina's strength and felt he should retract his previous doubts about her. Considering Elina's current displayed strength and her ability to send dark energy storms into the realm of the gods, Heinrich believed that Elina's power was sufficient not only to deal with the main city of the 30th realm of the realm of darkness but also to challenge the entire Sacred Endeavor Department in external expansion.
Hearing this, Haoyun couldn't help but sigh deeply. Because he knew that even though Elina's clandestine alliance with the moldy energy had seriously violated the rules of the realm of the gods and brought extremely negative effects to the realm of darkness under Judge Yan's jurisdiction, Judge Yan still considered her as his daughter from the bottom of his heart and was therefore unwilling to kill Elina. As a result, Elina, who harbored no sentiment, disregarded Judge Yan's efforts and constantly thought about retaliating against Judge Yan and the realm of darkness. What kind of malicious person, with such a venomous heart, would commit such beastly acts?
Of course, while Haoyun cursed Elina for her ingratitude, he also deeply lamented Heinrich's predicament. Who could have imagined that Heinrich's painstaking effort to send his daughter away would make her the primary target of Elina's focused attack? Haoyun really didn't know whether to say that all of this was just too coincidental or to marvel at how quickly the boomerang aimed at Heinrich had returned. Perhaps this was the punishment that Heaven had reserved for Heinrich in its inscrutable ways!
Due to the commotion caused by Heinrich and Elina, Eve and the others had to rush over to assess the situation. It was at this moment that Elsie finally learned where Heinrich had sent his daughter. However, Elsie was not worried that her daughter's life would soon be threatened; instead, she was unusually happy deep inside, just like Eve and the others. For them, this unexpected coincidence was an excellent opportunity to eliminate Tonali. Yes, even though Elsie was Tonali's birth mother, for her, if she couldn't obtain the energy inside her daughter, then she had to destroy her!
Seeing the expression on Elsie and the others after learning the truth, Heinrich couldn't help but feel extremely uneasy. Because his relationship with this group of people was too deep, he immediately sensed a strong murderous intent emanating from them as soon as they learned Tonali's whereabouts. These damned guys, in order to escape from the realm of the gods, were increasingly ruthless in their actions! Heinrich's intuition strongly told him that Elsie and her gang would never let go of his daughter! Moreover, they might even instruct Elina to take special care of his daughter when launching an attack on the main city of the realm of darkness.