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End of Chapter 454 [4000 words]

[Watsuyama City, Abandoned Observatory]

Seeing Jing Liuli suddenly start putting on airs, Tiandao shook his head helplessly, then looked at the 'Parasitic Star Beast' not far away and slowly walked towards it.

As Tiandao walked, he condensed a pure 'vector longsword' in his hand.

Once they were within a certain distance, the Heavenly Dao casually waved its hand.

The vector longsword drew a golden arc in his hand, severing the tentacles that the fleshy ball suddenly flung out.

The dark green liquid spurting from the broken end was blocked by his force field beforehand, so that not even a speck of dirt got on his clothes.

"Roar!"

The severe physical damage caused the parasitic star beast to let out another painful scream.

Looking at the struggling and trembling ball of flesh, Tiandao did not rush to continue the attack. Instead, he turned to Jing Liuli and teased, "Liuli, your master's lines are a bit too old-fashioned."

"I want you to take care of it!"

Jing Liuli blushed, and a circle of pale purple star energy ripples suddenly exploded around her.

The next second, the light rope that was originally wrapped around the flesh ball instantly split into dozens of branches, which burrowed into the cracks on the surface of the flesh ball like vines.

At the same time, special translucent flowers bloomed at the end of the light rope.

These flowers open together, releasing pollen with a calming fragrance.

However, the pollen, shimmering with a fine purple light, fell on the surface of the fleshy ball and pierced the membrane like red-hot needles, causing it to twitch in pain.

Perhaps they felt they had made significant progress during this period, or perhaps they wanted to show off in front of the Heavenly Dao.

Jing Liuli then began to explain her own moves on the spot.

"Heavenly Dao, don't underestimate my 'Dream Erosion' technique, because it is completely different from ordinary 'Mental Suppression'."

As she spoke, Jing Liuli's fingers swiftly swept across the air.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of chaotic consciousness projections related to 'Parasitic Star Beasts' appeared in front of her.

“Look at the Heavenly Dao, its core consciousness is full of fragmented devouring commands, and I am using the benign power of dreams to dispel its ferocity based on this.”

"Also, its core is in that black crystalline structure right in the center of its body. I've already marked it in red with my 'consciousness marker,' so your vector force field can sense it, right?"

The Heavenly Dao nodded; in fact, Jing Liuli didn't even need to speak.

The moment she took control of the parasitic star beast, the Heavenly Dao's Star Erosion Eye locked onto the black crystalline substance hidden beneath the parasitic star beast's layers of flesh.

The surface of the black lens was covered with strange patterns, constantly emanating a kind of 'distorted' aura, which made people very uncomfortable.

What the Heavenly Dao was even more concerned about was the more detailed memory images that the black crystal was now releasing.

The white experimental chamber, the figures in protective suits, and the constantly fluctuating energy data.

Although these images flashed by like a revolving lantern, they clearly pointed to one conclusion.

That means this parasitic star beast was not born naturally, but was an experimental product created by humans.

Who created it, and who placed it in Yueshan City?

The Heavenly Dao was very curious about this.

"Roar!"

Seemingly sensing that its core was locked, the Parasitic Star Beast's massive body suddenly contracted violently and then expanded rapidly, breaking free from Mirror Glaze's 'Dream Chains' on the spot.

Then, dozens of slits instantly appeared in the fleshy membrane on its body, and countless tiny tentacles covered with barbs gushed out from the slits, with sticky dark green mucus hanging from the ends of the tentacles.

The bones that originally formed the bone wall around them immediately began to recombine, transforming into dozens of bone puppets. The puppets held bone knives made of bone spikes and roared as they charged towards the two.

However, even more troublesome than these was the fact that the main mouth on top of the parasitic star beast's flesh ball suddenly opened, spewing out a cloud of gray mist with a pungent odor.

Wherever the fog passed, the wooden planks on the platform began to turn black and rot, clearly indicating that they contained strong corrosive properties.

Seeing this, Tiandao expressionlessly shielded Jing Liuli behind him, and the vector force field around him instantly expanded, forming a semi-transparent dome.

The force field surface rippled with fine, illusory patterns, causing the bone knives of the skeletal puppets to leave only a shallow white mark when they struck it, before being instantly deflected and shattered into dust upon impact with the observatory wall.

As for that highly corrosive gray fog
With a slight movement of his fingertip, Tiandao caused countless tiny vector vortexes to suddenly form at the edge of the vector force field, forcibly drawing the mist into the vortexes.

Then, guided by the force field, it pushes back towards the fleshy ball itself.

puff!

The rebounding mist adhered to the fleshy membrane of the fleshy ball, instantly corroding a charred hole, causing it to emit sharp, painful screams.

Seeing this, Jing Liuli immediately seized the opportunity.

The purple butterfly mark between her eyebrows suddenly split into two overlapping butterfly shadows, and star energy condensed into hundreds of light butterflies around her, with complex patterns appearing on their wings.

The next second, the densely packed light butterflies suddenly self-destructed, transforming into new 'Double Dream Chains' that covered the parasitic star beast.

The newly created dream chain holds a secret.

The outer chains are as thick as an arm and can lock the parasitic star beast's body and movement.

The inner chains are as thin as hair, able to follow the nerve patterns of the parasitic star beast and penetrate its body, reaching the source of its black crystalline structure.

The former controls the other's physical body, while the latter traps its consciousness!

The ability to control enemies beyond one's level still put considerable pressure on Jing Liuli.

Despite her constant teasing about how crudely the parasitic star beast used its mental power, she remained silent.

However, the opponent's total spiritual power is indeed far greater than that of Jing Liuli.

Being able to overcome the gap in the total spiritual strength between the two sides through skill is already the limit that Jing Liuli can achieve.

Fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, and her face was visibly paler.

"The Heavenly Dao has stronger mental resistance than I thought, and it is also devouring the consciousness of other parasites to strengthen itself."

“I can sense that those Star Messengers who were devoured still have residual consciousness. Next, I will try to awaken their ‘consciousness resonance’.”

As soon as he finished speaking, countless pale golden spots of light suddenly lit up inside the parasitic star beast's body.

These points of light are none other than fragments of the Star Envoy's consciousness that it devoured.

However, these points of light seem to have sensed the 'resonance' of the mirror glass, and under the guidance of the dream chains, they have begun to attack the core of the flesh ball's consciousness, making its twisting even more chaotic.

"Heavenly Dao, I can only maintain this for a maximum of fifteen seconds."

"enough."

Tiandao's voice was calm and steady. At this moment, he could clearly sense the faint purple star energy fluctuations coming from the core of the flesh ball.

That was the consciousness marker of the mirror glass, like a precise lighthouse.

He pushed off the ground with both feet, his body transforming into a streak of azure light. The vector force field around him condensed into a sharp edge, severing all the scattered tentacles that came his way.

As you approach the fleshy ball, it suddenly opens dozens of secondary mouths, spewing out gray rays that carry a mental pollution effect.

This is an attack that transforms its own chaotic consciousness; being hit by it will plunge you into an endless nightmare.

In response, the Heavenly Dao merely glanced calmly at those gray rays.

A defensive shield composed of vector force fields instantly appeared in front of the Heavenly Dao.

Subsequently, the gray ray that struck the vector shield was instantly decomposed into harmless star energy particles, which then dispersed into the air.

Taking advantage of this gap, the Heavenly Dao swiftly turned back using the vector nodes in the air, precisely avoiding the slime sprayed out by the Parasitic Star Beast as it struggled in its death throes time and time again.

Upon reaching the optimal attack position, the Heavenly Dao sensed that the inner chains of the Mirror Glaze suddenly tightened. This was a signal that the Parasitic Star Beast's mental defenses had been weakened to the extreme.

A glint of light flashed in Tiandao's azure eyes as he raised his right hand.

The next second, Jing Liuli was shocked to find that her dream power was suddenly out of control!
She looked in the direction of the Heavenly Dao and discovered that, for some reason, the Heavenly Dao was able to temporarily gain access to a portion of her dream power through vector control.

When? My Star Source betrayed me?
Under Jing Liuli's puzzled and curious gaze, the vector longsword that Tiandao had fused with the power of dreams gleamed with a golden and purple light in his hand, seemingly containing three layers of power.

Vector Control: Shattered Dreams.

The Heavenly Dao's blade fell, yet it manifested three kinds of destruction.

The first wave of damage had an armor-piercing effect, instantly cleaving through the thick membrane of the parasitic star beast's body, revealing a black crystalline structure wrapped in light ropes.

The second wave of destruction, centered on a shockwave field, shattered the surrounding tendrils and bones, while simultaneously channeling the Mirror Glass's star energy into the lens, further dismantling its defenses.

The third destructive blade of light, combining the combined strength of the two, transformed into a slender yet deadly stream of two-colored light, precisely piercing the core of the lens.

At the same time, a large amount of vector force field flowed into the parasitic star beast's body along the longsword.

In the blink of an eye, the creature's body suddenly swelled to twice its original size, and the blood vessels under its skin bulged and ruptured like earthworms.

And Jing Liuli truly deserves the title of best support.

She seized the opportunity presented by the Heavenly Dao's severe injury to the parasitic star beast, causing a sudden collective eruption of a large number of 'star envoy consciousnesses' within its body.

This backlash from the inner spiritual realm instantly resonated with the vector star energy of the Heavenly Dao, leaving the parasitic star beast somewhat overwhelmed.

boom!
With a deafening explosion, a large amount of dark green liquid mixed with broken bone fragments flew everywhere.

In response, Heaven had anticipated this and protected Mirror Glaze behind him, forming an impenetrable barrier with its surrounding force field.

In the intense light of the explosion, Jing Liuli's figure was bathed in a pale purple halo.

She is using the remaining star energy to guide those liberated fragments of consciousness.

Guided by her, the pale golden light spots transformed into tiny light butterflies, which circled once in the air, nodded gently to the two of them, and then flew off in various directions in Yue Shan City.

One of the light butterflies landed on Jing Liuli's fingertip, and the word "thank you" appeared on its wings.

That was Mitchell's former captain, and one of the first Star Envoys to be parasitized.

Jing Liuli breathed a sigh of relief after the light butterfly flew away.

Then she looked at the Heavenly Dao and said smugly, "Heavenly Dao, my strength is now vastly different from what it used to be, isn't it?"

Upon hearing this, the Heavenly Dao unusually refrained from striking the Mirror Glaze.

After all, Jing Liuli's control and development of her own star source has indeed reached a level that is worthy of being called a 'master'.

And she was only in her early twenties.

Thinking of this, Heavenly Dao nodded and said, "Not bad."

"whee."

Receiving praise from the Heavenly Dao, Jing Liuli smiled smugly.

Meanwhile, as the aftershocks of the explosion subsided, the observation tower platform was riddled with cracks, and rubble was falling in a flurry.

Tiandao, carrying the exhausted Jing Liuli, landed on the relatively intact edge, where the invisible vector force field shielded them from all impacts.

Jing Liuli was panting heavily, her cheeks flushed from exhaustion.

Finally, she reached into her pocket and pulled out a strawberry-flavored energy bar, but her hand was shaking so much that she almost dropped it and missed taking a bite twice.

Upon seeing this, Tiandao immediately took the energy bar, tore open the packaging for her, and handed it over. Then his gaze fell on the black crystalline fragments left on the ground not far away.

As the Star Eclipse Eye swept across the fragments, some of the broken experimental footage reappeared.

This time, however, he clearly saw the markings on the experimental module.

Heaven noted down this 'sign' and decided to go back and see what it really meant.

He felt that there must be some unspeakable secrets hidden behind this 'symbol'.

Noticing the strange behavior of the Heavenly Dao, Jing Liuli, who was biting an energy bar, immediately followed the Heavenly Dao's gaze.

What met her eyes was a pile of dull fragments.

Then, as if she had thought of something, Jing Liuli raised her hand and released a wisp of star energy towards the fragment.

Pale purple starlight fell onto the fragments, and a blurry image appeared.

This is a scene depicting the Parasitic Star Beast being cultivated.

One after another, figures in protective suits came to the petri dish where it was located and injected a large amount of 'gray energy' into its body.

More importantly, many similar scenes appeared prominently in the corners of this image.

Clearly, the Parasitic Star Beast was just one of many experimental subjects.

Seeing this, Jing Liuli frowned and said, "Heavenly Dao, it seems that some people are doing something very dangerous."

Tiandao nodded and said, "Let others investigate later. We have done what we were supposed to do."

Just then, Tiandao's communicator suddenly rang; it was a message from Mitchell.

In the scene, Mitchell is standing at the entrance of the branch, followed by several Star Envoys dressed in headquarters uniforms.

"Lord Tiandao, the support from headquarters has arrived. They said they will take over the follow-up cleanup work and asked you to contact the Grand Master as soon as you return."

"understood."

Tiandao hung up the communication and looked at Jing Liuli, who had regained her vitality.

"Let's go back to headquarters."

"Wait, look over there!"

Jing Liuli suddenly grabbed him and pointed to the street below the observatory.

Tiandao looked in the direction she pointed and saw that the rain had stopped and the sunlight was shining through the clouds onto the streets of Yueshan City.

The Star Envoys who were originally parasitized, although their bodies still bear traces of beast-like transformation, have regained their clarity of mind and are being gathered and settled by the Star Envoys at headquarters.

Residents opened their windows, curiously looking at the scene outside. The bakery owner had even started displaying freshly baked toast, and the air was filled with the aroma of wheat and the freshness after the rain.

"Although we encountered strange experimental subjects, at least we saved the city."

Jing Liuli smiled, her purple eyes reflecting the sunlight.

Tiandao gazed at the city below, which was gradually regaining its vitality, a rare hint of gentleness appearing in his azure eyes. He raised his hand and ruffled Jing Liuli's hair, and an invisible vector force field condensed beneath their feet.

"Let's go, stop looking, let's go back and collect our points. As for your snack expenses this time, I'll reimburse you."

"real?!"

Jing Liuli's eyes lit up instantly, and her previous fatigue vanished.

"I want to eat the limited-edition strawberry cake from that shop in the south of the city, and I also want to buy the latest energy bar gift box!"

"Row."

Heaven smiled helplessly, then leaped into the air with her.

Behind them, the red signal lighthouse of Yueshan City was still flashing, but this time, the red light no longer represented vigilance, but symbolized the end of the crisis.

Amidst the ruins, new life is quietly emerging.

(End of this chapter)