CHAPTER 667: Not A Trace Left

Finally, the Ninth Realm Mystical Yin Harvester had been reduced to rubble in front of the silent crowd.

After the dust settled, there was nothing to be seen at the site. Han Shuo stood tall on the horizon and continued to observe the surroundings.

"Go over and take a look at the situation there. Considering that it has turned into ruins, I doubt that there are any dangers to be found!" Han Shuo suddenly suggested to his teammates.

After experiencing the trials and tribulations, Donna and her experts were very trusting of Han Shuo. After hearing Han Shuo's suggestion, they thought about it for a moment and started moving towards the wreckage of the Ninth Realm Mystical Yin Harvester.

After a few steps, Li Wei stopped to find Han Shuo motionless. She turned around and asked confusedly, "Aren't you coming?"

"I don't think there's anything interesting left to examine. Besides, with all of you searching the place, there's no need for me to be there," Han Shuo smiled and replied calmly.

Li Wei furrowed her brow and thought for a moment before she chuckled softly and said, "Oh, that makes sense. Well, since Sister Donna is going to investigate the place, I guess it's unnecessary for me to do the same."

After finishing those words, Li Wei walked back and stopped next to Han Shuo. She looked up and down at Han Shuo, her eyes glowing with interest and fascination.

Han Shuo, however, ignored Li Wei and looked at Olde instead. Olde smiled brightly and said frankly, "Thank you for your help earlier. Otherwise, I might have lost my life to them by now!"

During the time they spent watching the collapse, Olde managed to regain some divine energy. His pale cheeks had returned to a healthy blush. Olde must have regained his confidence, Han Shuo thought.

Earlier, using the energy absorbed from the Tree of Life, the elite wood zombie had managed to increase the rejuvenation speed of Han Shuo's severely injured body tenfold. From this experience, he realised that those who cultivated in the Edict of Life could rejuvenate much faster than a cultivator of other energies. For Olde to be able to restore some of his divine energy in such a short time was all within Han Shuo's expectations.

"You're welcome. I believe that if they had launched an attack earlier, everyone would be finished by now!" Han Shuo replied with a grin.

Olde stared into his eyes for a moment and nodded. He praised in a deep voice, "You, young man, are an excellent boy." Olde seemed to be admiring Han Shuo.

"I am flattered," Han Shuo replied with a mischievous smile. At this point, after possessing the Myriad Demon Cauldron, Han Shuo no longer feared Olde as a potential threat. As his confidence grew, his speech became much more relaxed.

Olde suddenly pointed at Kelly and asked Han Shuo for a favour, "Would you mind looking after Kelly for me for a moment? I heard that you were friendly with him in the past."

Han Shuo was stunned. He couldn't understand why Olde would feel so comfortable leaving Kelly in his care with Li Wei still hanging around. The fact was that he was still on the same front with Donna and her experts, and they certainly did not have friendly relations with Olde. In that case, what was the purpose behind it? Was Olde testing him?

A series of thoughts quickly flashed through Han Shuo's mind. Then, under Olde's gaze, Han Shuo put on a bright smile. "No problem!"

Kelly was just a demigod. That kind of strength was nothing in Han Shuo's eyes, let alone Li Wei and the others. To them, Kelly was just a puny little character. His fate would have no effect on the overall situation. Han Shuo did not believe that Li Wei and the others would even be interested in harming Kelly.

"I owe you one!" Olde smiled, nodded at Kelly and took off towards the destroyed Ninth Realm Mystical Yin Harvester.

Donna and her experts were interested in the area, and so was Olde. He certainly would not give up until he fully understood the situation there.

After Olde flew off into the distance, Li Wei, who was standing next to Han Shuo, wore a pensive expression. Her eyes darted back and forth between Han Shuo and Kelly, but she did not utter a word or do anything harmful to Kelly.

"It's been a while!" Han Shuo tried to strike up a conversation with Kelly. His voice was soft and friendly, as if he was unaware of the situation.

However, Kelly did not share the same feeling. Ever since he discovered that Han Shuo was a gangster with that bunch from the Calamity Church, he felt somewhat uncomfortable whenever he saw Han Shuo. He had an awkward expression on his face and did not know how to respond.

When he saw that Kelly couldn't open his heart, Han Shuo sighed softly. He shook his head and stopped trying to talk to Kelly. He understood that it would be very difficult for them to interact as they had in the past.

Han Shuo stopped talking and stared blankly ahead. His Avatar of Destruction within the Cauldron of the Myriad Demon was digesting the catastrophic scene his main body was witnessing. The scene of total annihilation gave his avatar a deeper insight into the Edict of Destruction, causing him to sink into contemplation.

Gu Tian Xie, the Exalted Demonlord who had used everything in this place, had caused this place to self-destruct in a way that was in accordance with a certain natural law.

This avatar, recently cleansed of all impurities, was linked to the consciousness of Han Shuo, who had witnessed the destruction. He seemed to have grasped a certain true essence of destruction from the apocalyptic scene. As he constantly replayed the terrifying scene in his mind, he tried to mimic the state when those mountains were destroyed by using the divine energy in his body.

Han Shuo's consciousness possessed countless miraculous abilities. Even though he could not share most of its miraculous uses with his other two souls, his other two souls could still benefit from his consciousness because they were connected to each other.

Using his consciousness' powerful ability to remember, Han Shuo slowed down the playback of the destructive scene down to the last frame, resolving every crack in the mountains and every piece of falling rock down to the finest detail before transmitting it to his avatar cultivating in Edict of Destruction .

These images would then be projected into the divine soul of his Avatar of Destruction. The divine energy of destruction would then slowly circulate in his body in a specific trajectory that was in harmony with the scene of destruction. In this way, he gradually came to realise a certain essence of the Edict of Destruction.

Han Shuo possessed three souls and they did not interfere with each other. While his avatar contemplated the Edict of Destruction inside the Cauldron of Myriad Demon , Han Shuo's main body could still converse with Olde and function as usual.

As the Avatar continued his contemplation, Han Shuo gazed at the Ninth Realm Mystical Yin Harvester in the distance, now in complete ruin, while talking to Li Wei.

Li Wei's attitude towards him, which had been one of contempt at first, had now changed to one of admiration - a change that took Han Shuo by surprise.

Han Shuo was unwilling to answer or share most of the questions Li Wei had for him. As a result, Han Shuo had unenthusiastically answered her questions with gibberish and nonsense. Since Li Wei regarded Han Shuo as a genius, she took all his incomprehensible explanations as profound words. She spent a long time pondering over Han Shuo's mumbo jumbo every time he answered, leaving Han Shuo between laughter and tears.

Meanwhile, Kelly closed his eyes and remained silent as if he were half asleep. He seemed to be doing his best to keep an appropriate distance from Han Shuo.

The situation continued like this for some time before Olde, who had been the last to leave, returned to them.

Han Shuo, in his half-hearted conversation with Li Wei, immediately turned his attention to Olde. With just one glance, Han Shuo could tell that Olde was very disappointed. He definitely did not find anything of value in this place.

Olde nodded at Han Shuo, thanked him, and said to Kelly, "Let's go."

Kelly was feeling very awkward around Han Shuo. He scurried back to Olde. The two then made their way towards the exit.

They left? Just like that?" Li Wei was astonished and confused.

"What else could he do? He went in to investigate the place but found nothing. There is nothing else for him to do here," Han Shuo said calmly. He understood that this self-destruct mechanism left by Gu Tian Xie, the Exalted Demonlord, must have destroyed all evidence in this place. Even if more people came to investigate, they would not find anything unusual about this place.

From that point on, everything that happened there would remain an unsolved mystery forever. Over time, those gods from the higher material planes who could not find anything unusual about that place would gradually forget or even misinterpret what happened there. They might think that everything that once happened here was just an exaggerated story.

"We all know how extraordinary this place is. How could it give up so easily?" Li Wei still couldn't understand and had a puzzled expression on his face.

Han Shuo smiled and did not answer. He was convinced that no one would ever find anything unique about this place again. With that, everyone would forget this place very quickly.

Soon, Donna, Bolten and the others returned with disappointed faces.

"This is so strange! Apart from the collapsed mountains and the torn earth, there wasn't a single amazing thing to be found. What is going on here?!" Bolten muttered, scratching his head. He had racked his brain and still had no clue.

"Bryan, do you know what's going on in there? Why has everything changed and there are no more unusual signs?"

Han Shuo shook his head and looked perplexed before he sighed and said, "I'm not sure either. Personally, I think that this strangeness was formed by nature, and now these spectacular sights are being destroyed by nature. That's why everything strange about this place no longer exists!"

"That's impossible!" Li Wei shouted, "There are obvious signs that this place has been man-made. There's nothing natural about it!"

If even Li Wei could say that, Donna wouldn't buy his attempt to distort the truth. But since everything here had been destroyed, Han Shuo didn't worry about this suspicion at all. He shrugged, shook his head again and said, "Well, I have no idea!"

"Forget it, I highly doubt that we will discover anything more here. Let's go. We'll get back to the surface and decide what to do next," Donna said. She had a headache, not knowing what to tell her superiors.

Donna and her experts, who under Han Shuo's guidance had discovered basically nothing in the underground world, returned to the surface with puzzled minds.

"Sister Donna, what do we do now?" Li Wei asked as soon as they left the underground world.

Donna sighed and scoffed helplessly, "What else? Report the situation here to our higher ups of course.

"Do we return directly or use an altar?" Bolten asked.

Donna knitted her brows and thought for a moment before answering, "Let's go to the Calamity Church facility here to file our mission reports. Emperor and Eriksson have not yet come out of there. They are probably all dead. I guess that can be considered a small success. Add to that the fact that the enemy's interplanar transportation matrix has been destroyed, and I suppose we are the victors of this confused battle.

"Even though it was rather confusing, one thing was clear - without Bryan, the few of us wouldn't have left the underground world alive!" Bolten said suddenly, smiling.

The group nodded their heads at the same time. Donna turned to the smiling but silent Han Shuo and sternly promised, "Don't worry, I will make sure to include your contributions in my report. In all likelihood, they will hand over this material plane to you!"

"Those from the Church of Light and the Shrine of Ice, are they coming back?" Han Shuo was most concerned about this potential threat.

"Before the higher-ups hand over the material plane to you, they will definitely negotiate with those powerhouses. Actually, you are worrying too much. If the circumstances were anything but ordinary, they wouldn't have done such a thing. Now that the place has been destroyed, those powerhouses will not be interested in such a low-level material plane," Donna said to Han Shuo, trying to calm him down.

Han Shuo regained his composure. The population of the Profound Continent was small, and the power of faith they could provide was limited. Such low-level material planes were plentiful in the limitless universe. Material planes that were far more expansive and valuable than Profound Continent could be found in abundance. There was simply no reason for these powerhouses to waste their time and effort on such a low-level material plane.

"That would be wonderful!" Han Shuo could finally relax. "Well, I won't be going to Calamity Church with the rest of you. There are too many things on this material plane that need my attention!"

"Bryan, there's something I need to tell you, but I don't know if it's appropriate!" Donna suddenly said in a serious tone.

Han Shuo stared blankly for a second before asking, "What is it?"

"The Profound Continent is just a low-level material plane, it's too small for you. Someone as talented as you should live on a much higher material plane. It is only on those material planes that you can become more powerful and gain more energy much faster. Personally, I don't think it's right for you to stay in this world for any length of time! Donna said with deadly seriousness.

""Thank you for reminding me. I know what you mean. My horizons have definitely widened after coming into contact with all of you. I can't say for sure, but perhaps after I've finished my business here, I'll go to your homeworld, Elysium. I'm counting on you to support me until then!"

"Hehe, no problem! It's rare to find people on Elysium who are as calm, steady, and determined as you are. I believe that when you get to the Plane of Gods, you will soar and come to get a piece of Realm!" Donna gladly promised.

"Bryan, when you arrive on Elysium, don't forget to come to our family, where you will be most welcomed by us Brook brothers!" Bolten reminded Han Shuo of his invitation.

"Don't forget me, I invited you as well. Don't forget me when you come to Elysium!" Li Wei said with a smile.

"Don't worry, I will remember!" Han Shuo promised.

Soon after, Donna and her experts left Han Shuo and began their journey to Calamity Church. After a moment's thought, Han Shuo flew off in the direction Valley of Sunshine .