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Chapter 432 The Figure Left Behind in the Vault [Part Two]

[Real world, 13 stations, bullet comment section]

'I'm guessing that big tree is the final boss.'

'Libra? It feels like that must be some kind of special setting.'

'For Lao Tian to make a special trip, this golden chrysanthemum must be quite extraordinary.'

After reading about what Tiandao experienced last night, the viewers on Station 13, based on the current information, roughly deduced the hidden settings on Changsheng Island.

Meanwhile, Jing Liuli and Caroline in the Star World also understood the cause and effect of the matter after hearing about Tiandao's experience.

Jing Liuli lowered her head and curiously poked the golden chrysanthemum in Tiandao's palm.

The petals of this chrysanthemum are soft and slightly cool, and they also carry a faint fragrance.

But after looking at it for a long time, apart from feeling the surging vitality inside, she didn't sense anything particularly special about it; it was no different from an ordinary flower.

"So, this thing in your hand is the final link in breaking the cycle?"

Faced with this question, Tiandao smiled and said, "Well, alright, whatever the problem is, let's talk about it after midnight."

"After all, if I'm not mistaken, this vault should have existed on the island since the island of immortality appeared."

"In that case, there should be quite a few interesting things left in this vault, such as the memories of some old guys."

They were not present when Rose Knight Wilford spoke with the Heavenly Dao.

As a result, Caroline and Jing Liuli had no idea who the old guy Tiandao was talking about was, and naturally they were unaware that Doctor Dragon and Grandmaster Ennet had been here long ago.

But the viewers in the other dimension, who were in God's-eye view, immediately understood what the Heavenly Dao meant by something interesting.

'The old man's memories?! Could it be President Ennet?'

'It must be him! Wilford mentioned before that the Grand Master had visited Immortal Island!'

'I feel like there's foreshadowing here.'

Based on the existing information, the comments from the viewers on the dimensional screen were scrolling by rapidly.

Many people even captured the moment when Tiandao mentioned the 'old guy' to compare with his previous conversation with the Rose Knight.

After waiting for a while, the time in the anime reached the crucial midnight hour.

[Changsheng County Bank, Underground Vault]

"Dang——dang——"

The midnight bells rang out in the void, as if they came from an old church from a hundred years ago, carrying a profound sense of timelessness.

The next second, the Libra totem on the vault door suddenly burst out with dazzling golden light, and golden patterns spread along the door panel, illuminating the entire underground passage as bright as day, making even the moss on the walls clearly visible.

As the superimposed spatial and temporal phantoms dissipated like the receding tide, the invisible barrier that had previously blocked the gears completely disappeared.

However, Caroline did not rush into action, but instead threw out the first gear used for testing.

boom!
Watching the gear hit the door, bounce half a meter high, and then roll back to the ground, Caroline nodded to the Heavenly Dao, indicating that everything was ready.

In response, Tiandao raised his hand and removed the black eye patch from his face.

The azure-blue Star Eclipse Eye lit up in the darkness, its pupils reflecting the golden light dancing on the vault door before it.

"Caroline, let's proceed according to plan."

"clear."

Caroline understood immediately; her android hand instantly transformed, its silver-white metal joints unfolding, and a pale blue quantum beam condensed in her palm.

"Energy cutter is ready, frequency tuned to match rose pattern."

With a cold voice, Caroline took a step forward, the anti-slip treads of her tactical boots embedding themselves into the ground beneath her feet, firmly supporting the impending energy surge.

The next second, a pale blue quantum beam appeared in her palm and then landed on the vault door.

The moment the quantum beam struck the vault door, the rose pattern on the door panel suddenly lit up, and deep purple energy wrapped around Caroline's quantum beam, emitting a 'buzzing' electrical sound.

This is the gate's defense mechanism, and also a 'death energy' trap set by Libra.

Neither Caroline nor Tiandao paid much attention to this situation.

Because the Heavenly Dao had recently told Caroline the key to unlocking the vault door.

That is, the energy of 'death' and 'life' needs to be balanced.

The gate itself possessed a considerable amount of 'death' energy; what she was doing now was merely consuming it to a certain extent.

After an unknown amount of time, Caroline's forehead was covered in a fine sheen of sweat, and the energy output bar of the intelligent mechanical module was rapidly decreasing.

Finally, when Caroline weakened the purple energy on the vault door to just a thin film, Tiandao stepped forward and revealed the golden chrysanthemum in his palm.

Suddenly, the golden chrysanthemum burst forth with a warm light, transforming into a golden stream of light like a key, embedding itself in the center of the rose pattern.

Click!

With a clear, crisp click, the gears inside the lock cylinder meshed again, and the heavy vault door slowly opened inward.

The moment the vault door opened, a scent mingled with the fragrance of life and the dust of memories rushed out.

Not worried about anything bad inside, Tiandao took the lead and stepped into the vault.

His eyes swept across the surroundings, and the unique azure light of the Star Eclipse Heavenly Eye instantly covered every corner of the vault.

The vault was more spacious than Caroline and Jing Liuli had imagined. In the very center, a semi-transparent golden scale was suspended, with two huge trays hanging on either side of the scale beam.

On those two balancing trays, dozens of glass containers were prominently displayed.

The container on the left contains a viscous, pale green liquid with tiny specks of light floating on its surface. These are concentrated life energy, emitting a fresh scent similar to morning dew.

The container on the right is filled with shimmering golden specks, like fireflies trapped in a bottle—precious 'memory fragments' used to maintain the time loop.

Looking at this sacred yet eerie scene, Jing Liuli pointed to the container on the left, closed her eyes, and asked curiously, "The Heavenly Dao, so those things on the left are the life force used to maintain the daily activities of the 'citizens'?"

The mirror glass is currently in a 'daydream' state, and therefore can clearly capture the 'dreams of living beings' within a certain range.

In her 'dream', she clearly saw a blurry face reflected in every drop of green liquid.

"Ah."

Tiandao nodded, then looked at the silver-white pipes connecting the green jars on the left side of the scale.

These pipes extend along the vault ceiling and deep into the vault, seemingly transporting something.

"These life forces on the scales will be transported to every corner of Changsheng County through these 'blood vessels' to maintain the daily activities of the 'citizens,' just like... a large heart that delivers precious blood to every part of the body."

"This is one of the truths about Changsheng County. As for the other truth, it lies within those memory crystals."

As he spoke, the Heavenly Dao turned to look at the right side of the scale.

In that spot, crystals radiating a special energy were prominently displayed. "The memory crystal on the right is the main energy source for the time cycle of Longevity Island."

"Among them, the clearer the memories within the memory crystal and the stronger the emotions they contain, the more time power it possesses. Libra Palace used this to turn the Island of Immortality into a 'clock' that never stops."

As the Heavenly Dao was speaking, the suspended scales suddenly began to shake violently.

Then, the memory fragments on the right began to stir like a flock of startled birds, releasing countless golden light spots.

A moment later, these points of light converged into a golden beam of light, which crashed down onto the open ground in front of the three people.

As the beam of light dissipated, a figure wearing a black trench coat slowly appeared.

Her short black hair was neatly combed, and her sharp eyes held a faint smile.

At just one glance, Caroline and Jing Liuli recognized his identity.

"President?"

Caroline's body tensed instantly, and her expression turned serious.

As the saying goes, a man's reputation is like the shadow of a tree.

Even though Ennett hasn't been out and about for a long time, a living legend is a legend nonetheless.

Even though what appeared before them was just a transparent phantom formed from memory energy, it was still enough to make her wary.

After all, she couldn't tell whether Ennet was friend or foe in his current state.

Perhaps sensing Caroline's thoughts, Ennet's memory clone slowly spoke.

"Don't be nervous, I'm just a remnant of consciousness, not an enemy."

In his middle age, Ennett's voice was very steady, and it also carried a trace of the elusive energy unique to memory.

After saying this, his gaze lingered on the Heavenly Dao, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

"You must be the Heavenly Dao? This seems to be our second meeting?"

the second time?
Jing Liuli glanced at Tiandao in surprise, but only Caroline reacted immediately.

Clearly, the memory fragment that Ennet was referring to was the one that Tiandao had met with him in the 'Simulation of the Fallen Zone: Quicksand Star'.

However, that simulated Ennet is also a memory, and it's from his younger days.

How do two different and independent memory fragments become familiar with each other?
This discovery quickly put Caroline into deep thought.

Just after Ennet finished speaking, his figure suddenly blurred, turning into a golden afterimage that instantly appeared before the Heavenly Dao.

"careful!"

As soon as Jing Liuli uttered her exclamation, Tiandao, as if he had known in advance, stepped aside to avoid it.

Protected by the vector force field, Ennet's fist grazed the afterimage left by the Heavenly Dao and slammed into the ground.

boom!
The hard cement floor instantly cracked, revealing spiderweb-like patterns. Amidst the flying debris, Tiandao's figure was affected by the aftershocks and flew backward like a meteor, crashing heavily into the vault wall behind him.

This sudden turn of events left Jing Liuli stunned on the spot, while only Caroline reacted immediately.

But she had barely raised her hand when President Ennet casually waved it off: "This place has nothing to do with you for now, take a rest for a while."

As soon as he finished speaking, dozens of golden chains surged from the ground, firmly binding Caroline and Jing Liuli.

These chains are engraved with special and complex patterns, and the moment they touch the two people, they release the power of 'time stop', so that their bodies suddenly freeze, and they can't even blink. Only their consciousness can still function.

Click!

As a fragment of the wall slid down, the Heavenly Dao emerged from the distant smoke and dust.

He dusted himself off his shoulders, looked up at Ennet, and unusually, showed a serious expression.

Because he knew that although the clone in front of him was just a manifestation of Ennet's memories, he absolutely could not let his guard down.

Upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that the so-called dust on Tiandao's shoulders was actually located about one centimeter away from his shoulders.

Clearly, not only the dust, but even the aftershock of Ennett's punch was completely isolated by the Heavenly Dao's 'Vector Control - Myriad Repulsion', leaving it unharmed.

Meanwhile, in the Heavenly Dao's view, in Ennet's memory clone, besides his own consciousness, there were also remnants of the Libra's laws.

This allows him to, to some extent, utilize the 'rules' of this place.

But all of this was just a disguise by that old man Ennet, because if it weren't for that, the old guy wouldn't have any suitable 'reason' to make a move.

Looking at the unharmed Tiandao, Ennet immediately smiled and said, "Tiandao, if there's anything you want to know, wait until you can defeat me."

As if in response to Ennet's words, Tendou tapped his toes, his body transforming into a silver-white afterimage, leaving a shallow footprint on the ground, and rushed towards Ennet's clone.

Enet's clone raised his hand and waved, and golden energy transformed into chains that wrapped around the Heavenly Dao.

These chains carry the power of the law of 'equivalent exchange'; once someone is entangled in them, their life energy will be extracted as the 'price'.

Under the observation of the Star Eclipse Heavenly Eye, the attack trajectories of these chains were completely seen through by the Heavenly Dao.

He sidestepped the first chain and bent down to avoid the second.

Then, Tiandao condensed a large amount of vector force field on his right hand, turned his hand into a blade, and slashed at the connection of the chains.

Ding!
The clanging of metal echoed through the empty vault, and the golden chains snapped, the energy at the break point dissipating like fireworks.

Using the recoil, Tiandao flipped in mid-air, twisted his ankle, and spun around to avoid the subsequent chain attacks, his fingertips aimed at Enite below.

Star Energy Technique: Black Azure!

The black vector light sphere, accompanied by a whooshing sound, hurtled straight toward Ennet's face.

Faced with the astonishingly powerful attack of the Black Azure, Ennett's eyes narrowed, he stomped his feet on the ground, and held his arms horizontally in front of him.

boom!
The moment Hei Cang and Ennett's arms touched, a deafening roar erupted from inside the vault.

Immediately afterwards, his body slid backward a distance, leaving two deep scratches on the ground.

This demonstrates the destructive power of the Dark Azure Heaven.

After all, not just anyone can make Ennet back down.

Even if it's just a memory clone of Ennet.

Once he had regained his footing, Ennet looked up at the Heavenly Dao that had landed, his eyes filled with excitement and approval.

"You are indeed much more interesting than I thought."

Tendou didn't say much in response to Enet's words.

Because he knew very well that the game between the two of them had only just begun.

(End of this chapter)