At the instant Veridia slowly opened her eyes, heaven and earth fell utterly silent.

Those eyes, indifferent and cold, swept toward the Totem Ninth Tier Demon Clan that was about to once again gather Demonic Qi and launch an attack.

Just being brushed by that gaze made the boiling Demonic Qi around him abruptly freeze.

What’s more, his entire body, under just a single look from Veridia, suddenly lost all response; he couldn’t even move a finger!

In this moment.

Veridia’s figure was reflected in his scarlet pupils.

As if what he saw was not a Totem Tier Two member of the Ghost Race, but a waking heaven and earth.

"No... this is impossible..."

"This is a Realm only the Demon God can reach! How could you..."

Fear gnawed at his heart, making even his soul tremble.

He clearly felt that his connection with this piece of heaven and earth had been completely severed.

Even the Demonic Qi around him was being rejected by this world.

This also meant...

The power displayed by the Ghost Race before his eyes was no longer that of a Totem, but of a god!

And the Demon Clan’s sense of it was not wrong.

After obtaining the inheritance of this world.

Within this world.

Veridia’s power was that of a god!

Under the Demon Clan’s eyes, terrified to the extreme, Veridia merely raised her right hand slightly.

Then, she lightly curled her five fingers in the air.

No earth‑shaking commotion, no burst of radiant Energy.

That Totem Ninth Tier existence, who had once left this world powerless to resist.

At this moment, together with all the Demonic Qi around him.

Silently, soundlessly, completely...

Turned into the finest specks of dust, drifting away on the wind, leaving not the slightest trace behind.

Aster Grant’s consciousness returned fully at just this moment, and he personally witnessed this shocking scene.

Yet his thoughts were not on the formidable power Veridia had shown.

Because this was the power of Divine Status.

On Azurea, Aster Grant could do the same thing.

Then, his gaze, instinctively and with a hint of guilt, slipped toward Lazuli at his side.

The second time already...

His heart was full of a pinched, awkward feeling.

He knew the one he liked was Lazuli, but...

He had already had intimate contact with other Beastbond twice.

Lazuli also sharply caught that fleeting guilty look in Aster Grant’s eyes.

Her brows furrowed slightly.

A strange feeling, indescribable, familiar yet unfamiliar, once again surfaced in her heart.

What’s going on?

Why would Master react like this?

Could it be...

Her gaze shifted between Veridia, who had just awakened, and Aster Grant, whose eyes were slightly evasive.

A guess vaguely began to take shape...

Could it be that when Master went into Veridia’s sea of consciousness to save her, something else happened?

"Ahem,"

Afraid that Lazuli would guess the truth, Aster Grant coughed lightly, forcibly changing the subject.

He looked toward Veridia, trying to sound as natural as possible:

"Veridia, you’ve just obtained Divine Status, first carefully sense the state of this world."

"Especially... whether there’s any passage directly connected to the Demon Abyss."

"As the master of this world, you should have the ability to seal or completely sever it."

Because Azurea had also been invaded by the Demon Clan, Aster Grant had experience.

Hearing this, Lazuli’s attention was drawn back, and she temporarily pressed down the doubts in her heart.

Veridia, meanwhile, nodded, following Aster Grant’s instructions.

She closed her eyes, letting her mind completely sink into her connection with this heaven and earth.

In that instant, her Perception seemed to stretch out without limit.

Mountains and rivers, the flow of the earth veins, the circulation of Energy...

Even the structure of space unfolded before her eyes like a scroll, crystal clear.

Sure enough, within her Perception, there were several twisted, filthy cracks, like boils.

They were continuously seeping Demonic Qi into the interior of this world.

"Found them."

Veridia opened her eyes, a trace of cold light flashing within.

With a slight movement of her mind, the spatial structures where those passages lay began to be forcibly repaired and fused.

Until they completely vanished from her Perception.

"Master, the passages have been completely sealed."

Veridia spoke, her gaze toward Aster Grant still carrying a hint of awkwardness.

The scene just now kept replaying in her mind, lingering.

Right now, she wasn’t quite sure how to face Aster Grant.

Aster Grant, not noticing Veridia’s abnormality, merely let out a sigh of relief upon hearing that the sealing was complete.

Now that the connection with the Demon Abyss had been cut, it meant this world would, for a short time, no longer suffer invasion from the Demon Clan.

As long as all the Demonic Qi within the world was completely cleansed, this world would be able to fully return to normal.

It was just that this wouldn’t be accomplished overnight.

The time to come would be left to the Ghost World to slowly recover.

Now, it was also time to leave this place.

However.

Just as Aster Grant decided to take his Beastbond and leave.

Veridia’s brows knitted lightly, a trace of doubt appearing on her face.

"But..."

She hesitated for a moment, then carefully sensed again:

"Aside from those passages polluted by Demonic Qi, I also sensed another..."

"Extremely hidden, and extremely ancient passage."

"Moreover, the direction it connects to... gives me a very distant, very unfamiliar feeling, unlike any region we know."

Veridia’s description made Aster Grant grow wary.

Another passage?

Not leading to the Demon Abyss?

Ancient and concealed?

What did that mean?

Could it be that this Ghost World, besides having once been invaded by the Demon Abyss, also had some secret connection with an unknown mysterious power or location?

All kinds of guesses flashed rapidly through Aster Grant’s mind, but none could be confirmed.

The unknown often meant danger, but it could also hide opportunity.

Especially under the current circumstances, where they were resisting the Demon Abyss and urgently needed to grow stronger.

"There’s too little information, guessing blindly is meaningless."

Aster Grant said, "Rather than speculate here, we might as well go see for ourselves."

"Veridia, take us to where that passage is."

Veridia nodded. As master of the world, with a thought, the space around them rippled like water.

She reached forward and made a light cutting motion, and a stable spatial fissure appeared before them.

"Follow me."

Aster Grant, Lazuli, and Vera followed closely behind Veridia, stepping into the fissure.

Light and shadow shifted before their eyes, and in the next second, they were already within a strange spatial interlayer.

This place lay at the border of the Ghost World, at the junction between reality and The Void, where the light was dim and twisted, writhing spatial barriers surrounded them.

In front of them, a faint silver crack, so thin it would be almost overlooked without careful Perception, inlaid itself in the wall of space.

It did not exude the filth and aggression of a Demon Abyss passage; instead, it had a sacred, stable quality.

"This is the place."

Veridia pointed at that faint silver crack.

"I can feel it’s very stable, and it seems to be one‑way. I just don’t know where it leads."

Aster Grant stepped forward, his Soul Perception Power cautiously extending.

At first, his Perception was still somewhat blurry.

But as he focused, carefully distinguishing the aura leaking through the barrier of the passage.

A sense of familiarity instantly rose in his heart.

Vast, radiant, orderly—it overlapped perfectly with a place in his memory!

"No way?!"

Aster Grant checked carefully again.

In the end, he was certain.

The world connected by this passage...

Was the Angel World!

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