This is the resistance of a world.
It is like a dying person instinctively wanting to survive.
And that is why Daniel has been granted this protection, allowing him to grow to such an extent in such a short time.
He has even gained the power to strike directly at them, wiping out their arrangements that have been in place for thousands of years.
Now, because of Daniel, they have no choice but to hide, taking refuge here.
This alone proves a few things.
Faced with the world’s desperate counterattack, even they, the few of them, dared not face Daniel alone.
After all, their plans had been laid out for thousands of years, and they could not afford to fail at this final moment.
“At the moment, we can confirm that this person called Daniel has the world’s protection. Therefore, if we want to deal with him, we must first reduce the extent of this protection to the smallest possible level,” one of them said.
“Once that is done, with the divine artifacts we hold, we will be able to kill him.”
The world’s consciousness had long since fallen into slumber, and their millennia-long arrangements had reduced the world to something as fragile as a candle flame in the wind. A slight push would be enough to destroy it.
They had been waiting for this final step for a long time.
They could not accept failing now.
Thus, when facing Daniel, the last counterattack of the world, they were particularly cautious.
“I say, what if he can’t find us?” one of them asked.
“Even if he can’t find us, we can find him. Daniel must be eliminated, or else… our thousand years of plans will be entirely ruined.”
“Indeed. We only have a thousand years left. I don’t want to just give up now.”
“Yeah, we’ve made it this far. Who would want to give up now?”
There was only a thousand years left. If they could just survive this period, the entire world would be theirs to harvest. But at this critical moment, Daniel appeared.
This made them suspect… Was someone secretly plotting against them? Otherwise, why would the world suddenly retaliate now?
“By the way, Daniel should have no way of finding us by now, right?”
“Rest assured. Whether when I left the Element Temple or headed for Karea Academy, I erased all traces of myself. He won’t be able to track us here.”
The lord of the Element Temple spoke with certainty.
“Same here.”
The chief of Dragonscale Bank agreed, confirming that both of them had taken great care to cover their tracks when leaving their respective powers.
“Even so, there’s one place where I feel he might be able to trace us!”
“What?”
“Didn’t you forget? Voidland—the giant serpent there.”
Upon hearing this, the others fell into silence.
Indeed.
As the woman had said, they had left many arrangements in Voidland.
Those were extremely crucial arrangements, and they couldn’t possibly erase all traces of themselves there.
“But we don’t need to worry about that. You know that Voidland is not a place where we can go with our true forms. The most he can do is discover the traces we left behind.”
They couldn’t go to Voidland with their true bodies. They had only been able to enter in soul form before.
“Even so, there’s still a possibility that he might find us through those traces.”
The leader of the group smiled grimly. They had to make sure everything was flawless.
“That’s not possible. We’ve always entered Voidland in soul form. It’s impossible for Daniel to find us there.”
What they didn’t know was that Daniel had not only been to Voidland several times but had also visited with his true form, and even encountered their soul forms there.
Voidland.
Daniel had arrived.
This was his third time entering Voidland.
The first time, he had come with Reed; the second time was to investigate the mystery surrounding his father’s death.
And now, the third time… those five elusive figures were about to be exposed!
Upon entering Voidland, Daniel saw the Sacred Time River that he had previously destroyed slowly starting to repair itself. It seemed that his recent efforts, planting trees, had made some progress.
Originally, under such circumstances, it would have taken a long time to repair the Sacred Time River, but Daniel only glanced at it, for he had more important matters to attend to.
He quickly arrived at the location of the giant serpent.
The last time he had been here, he hadn’t investigated the giant serpent carefully because he wasn’t sure of its nature. But now, he had a great opportunity.
Daniel stretched out his hand and reached for the serpent’s head.
At that moment, several bursts of power surged around him.
These were magic arrays that had been set up in advance.
Their purpose was to prevent anyone from directly contacting the serpent.
The magic arrays contained powerful Five Elements Rules.
The Five Elements were in opposition to one another.
The reverse rules of the Five Elements were fully manifested, sending a forceful and destructive attack toward Daniel.
“Nice try, but too bad. This is just a magic array,” Daniel said, looking at the array calmly.
Without lifting a finger, the powerful, destructive force vanished before his eyes.
Then, the giant magic array was directly rewritten by Daniel, gradually fading away.
“Indeed… it’s those five,” Daniel chuckled.
From the magic array, he sensed a familiar aura.
It was unmistakably from those five individuals.
Last time, when Daniel had simply used his mind power to touch it, the five of them had arrived at the scene immediately.
This time, with such a loud disturbance, they still hadn’t shown up?
In that case, Daniel decided to continue.
He extended his mind power deeper into the giant serpent’s body.
Soon, he detected numerous magic arrays, and these arrays were not just simple ones—they even extended into the main world.
The rules involved were all from the God Realm.
The Five Elements thrived endlessly, drawing from the original essence of the world with maximum power.
After probing these arrays inside the serpent, Daniel looked at the creature once more.
Was the serpent itself the manifestation of the Will of the World and the original essence?
No wonder these five had set up such a complex array, constantly drawing energy from the serpent.
Originally, the serpent’s body had already been corrupted by the residual power of gods and devils.
Now, with the Five Elements magic array further draining its strength, it was in even worse shape.
The world was truly in dire straits.
Daniel focused his thoughts.
Instantly, the magic arrays inside the serpent’s body shattered, and as they collapsed, he felt the burden on the serpent’s body lift slightly.
Next, Daniel tried to awaken the consciousness inside the serpent.
Not long after, Daniel could clearly sense a massive gaze fixating on him. It was a warm and kind gaze.
“You are…” the serpent’s voice echoed.
“No, you shouldn’t be here… But… are you here to kill me?”
The ancient and slow voice echoed in Daniel’s ears.
Hearing this, Daniel sighed inwardly.
It seemed that the consciousness of this world had been through so much hardship. First, it had been invaded by gods and devils, then it had been drained of its power…
Now, upon seeing Daniel, it thought he was here to destroy it.
This was understandable.
“No, I am here to save you. You should be able to sense it, right? The Tree of Origin is continuously improving the world’s condition, and the power inside you is also awakening,” Daniel reassured.
Upon hearing this, the serpent paused, as if contemplating.
“And those magic arrays inside you—I’ve already destroyed them,” Daniel added.
The serpent remained silent for a moment, then spoke with a trembling voice.
“Thank you… Thank you, child.”
“Soon, there may be a great battle here. Those individuals should notice that their arrangements have been undone by me,” Daniel said gravely.
“Sigh…” The serpent let out a long sigh.
“Their eyes have long been blinded…”