[After the Star God’s death, whether it’s thoughts, spirit, or resentment, all should return to the Great Aether Circulation. However, due to unknown reasons, the residual thoughts mixed with the lingering hatred of all beings have transformed into this silent, gazing Great Demon]

[...]

"Indeed."

Raising his eyebrows, Ian murmured softly, "That twilight-colored light, is it the Silent True Demon..."

A long time ago in Avak’s laboratory, during the battle with Viscount Awak’s ’Dead River Armament’, Ian had already heard of the renowned Silent True Demon from Adalbert. As one of the most powerful demons in this world, the Silent True Demon without a lair hides in the deepest part of the Tranquil Sea. No one knows whether it’s named for the Tranquil Sea or if the Tranquil Sea is named for it.

And now, from the information in the Rites of the Star Gods, it seems that the Tranquil Sea is tranquil precisely because of the Silent True Demon.

——Transformed from the sigh of the fallen Star God... Perhaps it’s not just that. The entire Realm of Light is likely somewhat connected to the fallen Star God.

This counts as Fifth Energy Level, or even as information that only those strong in the Fifth Energy Level can know.

At the moment, Ian was deeply interested. He turned his head and asked the Pupationer, "Why do you call it Silent True Demon?" 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

[In the Realm of Light, communication is impossible. Approaching the Silent True Demon, one cannot exchange any information. Everyone can see each other but cannot convey even a bit of information. This is the origin of the name ’Silent True Demon’.]

The Pupationer looked towards the direction of the Silent True Demon and spoke softly: [The Tranquil Sea is almost without wind and waves, and some say it’s due to the influence of the Silent True Demon’s power. But honestly, it hardly ever takes initiative... Unless someone wants to destroy the Realm of Light, wants to kill it, otherwise, the Silent True Demon will never actively attack anyone, any creature.]

[Its main body is inside the Realm of Light, and what is outside is just a tentacle, or perhaps an eye.]

"Interesting."

Ian nodded slightly, then turned to look at the Pupationer: "Are you going in together?"

[To see you]

The Pupationer said quite frankly: [If you don’t want me to see, I will naturally leave. But if you don’t speak, of course, I would like to see what plans you, the strongest of the new generation, have in your belly, why you are so insistent on coming here.]

"Then come and see."

Ian had nothing to hide at this point. He stepped forward, passing the silent True Demon, striding towards the entrance of the Realm of Light.

And the Pupationer silently followed behind him.

Buzz——

At the entrance of the Light Cavern, marks and runes emerged on Ian’s body. Some were signatures, some were stamps, and around the Light Cavern, the Spirit Energy Fields left by various major forces also opened gaps one after another to let Ian in.

Although he could completely force his way in, by giving these major forces some face, they would also give Ian face.

Savaga also took out a stamp from Huai, opening the last Gate for Ian. From beginning to end, the Silent True Demon made no movement, still surrounding the entrance to the Realm of Light as peacefully as ever.

But in reality, Ian sensed the slight vibration of the ’Rites of the Star Gods’ inside his Fairy Body.

He turned his head to meet the twilight-colored light outside the Light Cavern.

It was like staring at a dim star.

At that moment, he seemed to feel a great sorrow——the pain of a betrayed mission, the bewilderment about the future, and the sigh about his own destiny.

Buzz——

Suddenly, the entire entrance to the Light Cavern, even the entire Realm of Light, began to vibrate slightly. This caused the once silent seabed of the Tranquil Sea, which had been calm for thousands of years, to stir with noisy waves.

Rings of light ripples spreading in concentric circles on the dark seabed spread in all directions.

[This, is this?!]

Following behind Ian, the Pupationer showed a slight change in expression——he had been to this area countless times before, and it can be said that the core concept of ’Flame Reincarnation’ realized by the Ashen King was greatly linked to the Realm of Light. Yet, neither he nor the Ashen King had ever caused such a huge change in the Realm of Light.

Looking up, this King of Nemasases gazed at Ian in astonishment and realization——although the latter had never answered his question of ’why to go to the Realm of Light,’ at this point, everything spoke louder than words.

Ian Silverpeak, might truly have a significant connection with the Realm of Light!

And just as the Pupationer was shocked, Ian had already stepped into the Realm of Light. Savaga also had no time to continue being shocked. He steadied himself and, with a deep look at the somewhat changed Silent True Demon, also stepped into the Light Cavern and entered the Realm of Light.

Realm of Light.

A world composed of countless types of light, possessing magnificent rainbow halos, but with a base of pure white light.

In the instant he entered the Realm of Light, Ian instinctively took a deep breath.

The Fairy Body does not require breathing, but it was just this one ’unneeded breath’ that caused the cross-shaped starlight wings on his back to begin spreading, expanding, and growing like ice flowers atop the water’s surface in winter.

——What is this?!

Feeling the endless expansion of the power within, Ian looked down in shock at his hands, and then he saw that the rotating light wheel behind his Fairy Body also began to appear sequentially, growing larger and larger——immense Spirit Energy Power, Origin Quality, and even the Aether of the entire Realm of Light were pouring into him without end!

"This is, the Star God’s Vitality?!"

At this moment, Ian realized that the feeling was just like during the Calamity of Light when he received inexhaustible energy supplies, even more overwhelming——the entire Realm of Light was filled with the Star God’s infinite residual Vitality!

And as the holder of the Rites of the Star Gods, with his identity as a Juvenile Form Star God, it’s no wonder these energies flooded towards him like they had met a relative, without limit!

Yet this is just the beginning.

Raising his head, having just settled his inner tremors, Ian’s mind couldn’t help but be shaken again.

Because he saw... a sun.

A dead sun.

Above the firmament of the Realm of Light, a dim sun flickered, streaming white ’tears’ that fell from the sky to the ground.

And the essence of those tears was densely packed, practically limitless white ’Voidrealm Machine Gods’, climbing over a massive, dim twilight light sphere as ants climb over a behemoth’s corpse.

Their numbers were so great they covered the surface of this twilight sun, connecting from heaven to earth, like tears falling, overflowing to form the Realm of Light.

"This is..."

Ian took a deep breath, gazing at the ’sun’ and ’river of tears’ above.

The surface of this light sphere had a soft dark gold halo, with a core black and dim like a black hole’s center, countless gold light patterns like lightning connecting the two, making it appear like a slightly closed eye, a dead God’s eye, tiredly gazing at this world.

It does not move——even though countless literally demon-averse Voidrealm Machine Gods are climbing over it, and quite a few Fourth Energy Level Machine Gods as well.

This is the Silent True Demon... the true body.

And at this moment, it moved.

The dim sun vibrated slightly, locking its dark core onto Ian.

Then, it spoke.

[Star God...]

The Silent True Demon uttered words for the first time in sixteen hundred years: [Fellow...]

[Have you... finally returned?]