They won the Holy Grail War, but this turned out to be the Virtual Tree Universe.

Chapter 480 Onfaros, whose situation suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse

After Dan Lei relayed the message to Ruan Mei through Yi Zhi, Ruan Mei immediately frowned.

Ruan Mei felt that given Dan Lei's personality, he wouldn't joke about ascension.

To be precise, given Danlei's personality, if there were truly no profit to be made here, he should have left long ago, unless the problems here were so great that he couldn't escape them even if he ran away.

Therefore, Nguyen Mai simply stared at Dan Lei and did not actually forcibly pull Dan Lei away from Ongfaros.

Seeing Ruan Mei's reaction from a distance, Black Tower guessed that Dan Lei had at least temporarily appeased Ruan Mei.

So Black Tower directly shouted...
"Hey you two over there, if you're done whispering, come over and discuss the situation."

Upon hearing Black Tower's call, Nguyen May decided to observe Onfaros's condition for the time being, so she went over.

Seeing this, Dan Lei naturally followed along eagerly.

Upon seeing Dan Lei and Ruan Mei approach, Hei Ta immediately switched to serious mode and asked...
"Danlei, now please share all the information you have with us in detail."

Also, you two in bed, stop pretending to be asleep. As natives of Onfaros, join the discussion!

Upon hearing Black Tower's words, Aglaia and Feng Jin, unaware of Black Tower's true strength, did not immediately stop pretending to be asleep, lest they be tricked into revealing themselves.

Seeing this, Dan Lei had no choice but to summon Xi Lian and say to her...
“Ariel, go and wake the two ladies up. Their condition can’t be hidden from anyone here.”

When Xi Lian appeared, Hei Ta first looked at her curiously, and then immediately noticed her special qualities.

Then Heita walked to Dan Lei's side, took his arm, pressed his body against him, and used his memory-based mental communication to ask...
"Dan Lei, what's going on with this little girl? Is she a newly acquired soul?"

Her energy response is almost identical to your memory trajectory.

Don't tell me you only just awakened your memory spirit after entering this world, and she is your memory spirit.

Dan Lei knew about Xi Lian's situation and knew it was impossible to completely hide it from Black Tower and the others. Moreover, the local Xi Lian would definitely appear later, and he, as Xi Lian, would have to give an explanation.

However, the Holy Grail should still not be taken out.

This has nothing to do with trust or distrust.

Some things, some events, are either taken to the coffin after death and left for those who remember them to retrieve.

Since the person is dead anyway, the secret is already out in the open.

Only when the goal is achieved directly, making the secret no longer a secret, can it be revealed.

Therefore, Danlei gave this explanation, which was half-true and half-false.
"You're half right. I picked up this girl when I entered Onphalus."

I couldn't break through the firewall of the Ancients head-on like you guys, so I took the shortcut of the Memory Providers to sneak across.

That place is the junkyard of Onfaros's fragmented data and memories. The child's real name should be Xilian, but when I met her, she was a collection of data and memories left behind after an individual had been repeatedly deleted.

She clearly has a deep connection with this scepter, and with some coincidences that I can't quite understand, she has now become a kind of memory spirit to me.

However, it is a memory spirit with a complete mind, capable of independent thinking, and with a very distinct personality.

Moreover, her personality may be influenced by me later in life, but it has almost no innate part from me.

After all, I don't feel pity for almost everything.

Upon hearing this, Hei Ta roughly understood Dan Lei's situation and immediately sighed with emotion.
"The journeys of most heroes in the universe are nothing more than dice they casually toss."

Danlei, it seems you've also been outmaneuvered by some powerful forces.

Otherwise, there's really no way to explain why you've encountered all sorts of incidents these past few years whenever you've left me and Nguyen Mai.

Dan Lei agreed with the Black Tower's assessment, believing that he had definitely been tricked by [Fu Li], otherwise how could Xi Lian have any connection with the Holy Grail?

[Mutual] sent himself into the Collapse Iron Universe. Whether He participated in Xi Lian's affairs is unknown, but the question "Why can birds fly?" was asked by Him.

[Aha] Danlei wouldn't suspect that He was the mastermind, because He clearly discovered the secret in the middle and then forced his way in to watch the fun.

However, Dan Lei never intended to dwell on these periods. Once he ascended to the Star God realm, he would naturally have the opportunity to break free from the plans of other Star Gods.

If you can't ascend on your own, then just obediently follow their arrangements. Life is like that—if you can't resist, then just enjoy it.

When you can no longer enjoy yourself, let your last bit of brilliance shine brightly, trying to blind the eyes of those who are planning this behind the scenes.

Therefore, Danlei conveyed an indifferent attitude to the Black Tower and said...
"Don't worry, our destiny may indeed be arranged by some beings, but how we choose to walk it is up to us."

After all, those beings certainly wouldn't care whether I hopped, ran, or did backflips all the way down this road.

Moreover, the path I'm on now is one that will give these guys a pleasant surprise.

Dan Lei's words immediately amused Hei Ta, who then directly retorted...
"With this mentality, no wonder [Aha] is clinging to you and you can't get rid of him no matter what you do."

You certainly have the makings of a fool.

Having said that, Black Tower, seeing that Aglaia and Feng Jin could no longer continue their act, stood up with a serious expression, released Dan Lei, and stepped forward to say...
"Danlei, you can begin."

Seeing this, Dan Lei first introduced the two sides, then shared everything he knew about Onpharos, and regardless of whether Aglaia and Feng Jin understood what he was saying, he handed the Heavenly Fire to Feng Jin.

"Feng Jin, as agreed, I am now returning this spark of the sky to you."

Although I just used the ultimate protocol of the Fire Seed, it still has the power to make you a demigod.

Onphalus's re-creation is equivalent to the world being refreshed; the necessary processes still need to be followed.

At this moment, both Aglaia and Feng Jin felt dizzy.

Onphalus's communication tablets functioned like mobile phones, but had nothing to do with computers in the traditional sense.

Even in places like the original Dawn and Dusk Eye Fortress, which had such a distinct computer-style design, the locals used passwords to create celestial murals, knowing nothing about the underlying principles.

Therefore, Dan Lei's string of computer terms, Aglaia and Feng Jin, sounded like gibberish to him.

However, the two understood that the world of Onpharos was not actually founded by Titans, but by a higher-level god.

However, they could not understand why such a god would be cultivated by Lygus, and why he would deliberately create a world like Onphalus and keep destroying it.

Aglaia and Feng Jin had too many questions in their minds, so they couldn't believe Dan Lei's words.

Fortunately, Danlei felt it was normal that the two didn't believe him.

If Dan Lei had lived a previous life, and one day a person he wasn't particularly close to ran up to him and suddenly started spouting a bunch of concepts he didn't understand at all, and then said that he was some kind of created ant, Dan Lei would definitely have thought the person was crazy.

Therefore, Dan Lei did not demand that Aglaia and Feng Jin necessarily believe him. Instead, he opened the Dao Memory Gate and spoke to Aglaia and Feng Jin.

"I know that what I'm saying is difficult for you to understand for the time being, but you can verify these things gradually. Thanks to Tosefel, my experiment has succeeded. The Temple of Immortality has broken away from Onpharos and will not be affected by the creation."

In other words, when the world is recreated, you only need to hide in the Temple of Immortality to sneak into the next cycle.

So, you should go back and finish creating the new world.

"Black Tower, Nguyen May, Slugum, you should come with me to Onpharos."

Dan Lei suggested returning to Onfaros first, and Aglaia and Feng Jin naturally had no objections, as did the three geniuses.

However, when Dan Lei stepped out of the Memory Gate, the first thing he saw was a scene of the end of the world.

The Dawn Machine behind Kefaller has been shut down, and the artificial sun he created earlier seems to have been shot down as well.

The sky turned blood red, and countless fiery meteors fell from the sky, crashing into the city of Ohma, where the cries and roars of the residents could be heard everywhere.

The only good news was that Dan Lei's mental scan didn't reveal many Black Tide creations in the city.

The Black Tide Creatures attempting to flood into the city were stopped at the city's edge by the three thousand magical puppets he had left behind, along with three thousand computing power insects that served as dragon mounts.

Bai'e, Saifeier, and Wan Di, who had rushed back, were cooperating with the demonic puppets in defense.

Tirispeius was opening a portal within the city to allow the people to temporarily escape the falling fireballs from the solid marble palace.

The cries of agony in the city now are mostly caused by the collapse of buildings and fires following the fall of fireballs.

Moreover, as soon as Black Tower and the others arrived at Onfaros, their physical memory became unstable.

Slight distortions appeared around my body, and they were slowly spreading, like the pixelation on an old television screen.

Black Tower analyzed the reason in less than a second and said directly...

"Danlei, this world is rejecting us. Immortal One can only maintain our form for a limited time. Can you use the Ultimate Protocol to make the firewall ignore us again?"

Upon hearing this, Dan Lei asked Feng Jin.
"Feng Jin, could you lend me a spark of fire from the sky?"

Upon hearing this, Feng Jin didn't hesitate for long. She immediately handed the embers she had been clutching tightly to Dan Lei and said expectantly...

"Danlei, you can save Ohmma, right?"

Regarding Feng Jin's problem, Dan Lei casually summoned tens of thousands of computing power insects that had transformed into Western dragons, ordering them to support the external battlefield and control the magical puppets. He then instructed them to notify Bai E and the others who were fighting the Black Tide on the front lines to find Tirisippius and return to the Cloud Stone Palace to reunite.

After taking concrete action, Danlei once again simulated the data of the demigod Feng Jin in an attempt to activate the final agreement governed by the spark of the sky.

However, this startup failed. The Skyfire responded, but the δ-me13 firewall seemed to be rejecting the connection.

After trying again with the same result, Dan Lei wasted no time and handed the fire seed back to Feng Jin, saying...
"No, the ultimate protocol suddenly stopped working. I don't know if a spark can only be connected once, or if the vulnerabilities were discovered and patched in time by the Legus.

After all, I was using external computing power to mimic local electrical signals. With his technical capabilities, it wouldn't be difficult for him to add a retrieval logic to the system and plug such a loophole.

"Black Tower, could you install the same data firewall that ScrewGumm helped me develop, just like I did?"

Black Tower rejected Dan Lei's suggestion without even thinking.
"No, we don't have supercomputers on us. I don't want to inject strange programs into my genes. You know, those things can't be deleted."

After Black Tower finished speaking, Aunt Screw also spoke.
"Yes, that firewall is useful, but it consumes a lot of my computing power. My computing center is already occupied by similar programs, so I can't install an even more outrageous one."

Black Tower and Screw Aunt both shared this opinion, so there was no need to ask Ruan Mei; if she wanted to install something like a gene engine, she would have done so long ago.

Clearly, the three geniuses would rather go back to the Temple of Immortality and slowly decipher the Iron Tomb's firewall than install some strange firewall on themselves.

After all, there is only one Immortal One, and being able to remotely access computing power and being able to carry a supercomputer around are two completely different concepts.

Seeing this, Dan Lei didn't press the matter and simply said...

"I see. Then I'll leave the memory gate open for now. You can travel around while your memory bodies can still hold on."

Although the sudden apocalypse here is definitely related to Laikushi, I need to find someone to ask about the specifics.

The three members of Black Tower had no objections to Dan Lei's arrangement.

After Dan Lei finished speaking, Aunt Screw took out an anchor-shaped object and said...

"Danlei, this is a strange object called the 'Knowledge Anchor,' which I once used to anchor the chaotic time inside another scepter."

Based on your description of re-creation, time in this world will definitely be recalculated after creation.

The Temple of Immortality is now outside the world, and once the world resets, its synchronization connection with the current world will be severed.

Therefore, you need to entrust this identification anchor to a trusted person so that they can enter a new world.

In this way, the Temple of Immortality can anchor the flow of time in the next cycle, allowing time on both sides to synchronize again.

Dan Lei had heard of the Engraving Anchor before; it was described in the memory bubble of the Black Tower Space Station after the 3.3 plot abrupt ending, before his transmigration in his previous life.

But later Dan Lei traveled to Type-Moon, and he didn't know how effective this thing was in Onpharos.

However, Danlei trusted Screw Aunt's judgment.

If this person thought the product might malfunction, they would definitely say so in advance.

Even if he didn't say it, he was at least 80-90% sure this thing would work.

Therefore, Dan Lei didn't hesitate, and immediately put away the identification anchor and said...

"I understand, I know who to give it to."

After all, there's one person who's deeply connected to this world.

After saying that, Danlei spoke to Aglaia and Feng Jin.

"You go to the Marble Palace. Aglaia, while you soothe people's hearts, wait for Bai E to join you."

Feng Jin, after you return the fire of the sky, immediately begin the demigod trial.

I'm going to retrieve the spark of the Dead World. Since this cycle of reincarnation has entered its final countdown, Bai E must also face his fate.

Feng Jin had no problem with Dan Lei's arrangement, but Aglaia said...
"No, I want to go with you to retrieve the fire of the world."

Danlei knew that Aglaia, who had almost lost all humanity, no longer cared much about other people's feelings, so she didn't trust him to show it directly.

So Danlei didn't argue with her, and after summoning Sorapis and Lunebis, he spoke directly.
"Alright, hop on your mounts, let's head straight for the Fire Seed of the Necromancer."

(End of this chapter)