Chapter 1 The Concept of Peacekeeping

The brawny demons under Izhaks probably had a subtle misunderstanding of the concept of "peacekeeping forces." Perhaps they focused on the word "forces" rather than "peacekeeping," but it didn't matter because the term peacekeeping force was just a front for the report.

After learning about the Elder Council, Hao Ren understood that this incident could only be resolved with strong measures.

After clearing the last small group of resistance personnel in the palace, the legion soldiers began to count the battle damage and investigate the internal structure of the newly occupied ruins. Brotaros led the demons to build a huge runestone device in the square, preparing to prop up the arcane shield and fortify the place into a new stronghold. Hao Ren looked at the lingering smoke on the battlefield and turned to say, "Let's go see... Holy crap, Lily, what's wrong with you?!"

He didn't have to turn his head, but when he did, he was immediately startled. The husky girl behind him was as fluffy as a velvet ball. Her tail was a puff of fur, her ears were also furry and upright, and even the hair on her head was fluffy as if it had been electrocuted. She stood behind Hao Ren with a blank expression, motionless, the whole dog looking like it had just landed from a Category 12 typhoon. Hao Ren's exclamation finally called Lily's soul back. The husky girl turned her eyes blankly, her ears swaying in all directions, and finally said leisurely, "...Is it over?"

"She's not shell-shocked, is she!" Nangong Wuyue quickly cast a healing spell on Lily. "Please don't, her brain is already not working well..."

Hao Ren also flusteredly patted Lily on the shoulder and waved his hand in front of her eyes: "This scatterbrain... you should have transformed back into human form earlier!"

Lily finally recovered after being tossed around by Wuyue and Hao Ren. She grabbed Hao Ren's hand, her furry head not completely calmed down, and her face looked like she was about to cry: "It all happened so suddenly..."

This useless husky seemed to be a waste as soon as she entered the field, so Hao Ren could only hand this girl over to Wuyue to take care of, while he and Vivian went to check the situation on the battlefield.

The battlefield after the melee was filled with thick smoke, and the places scorched by the arcane flames emitted a pungent smell. The entire palace and the square in front of the palace were littered with debris, but as Tutan said, these ancient and mysterious architectural ruins were incredibly solid. Although the battle was extremely fierce, and the firepower of the demon legion was no less than that of modern human heavy fire troops, the architectural ruins that served as the battlefield were undamaged.

Okay, it sounds a little strange to point to a pile of ruins and say they are intact, but that's the truth.

Hao Ren came to the largest "crater." Saying it was a crater, but in reality, there were only hot, shattered fragments of runestones left after the explosion, as well as large patches of smoky marks that blackened the ground. The bombed area had not a single crack. He reached out and wiped the ground near the point of the explosion, and what he touched was a smooth "slate" like jade: the entire square was built with similar materials.

"It didn't even leave a scratch..." Vivian also looked at this scene in surprise. She looked around, and although the smoke and scattered weapons made the battlefield look like a mess, if these things were removed, it would be obvious that the ruins themselves were not damaged at all. She snapped her fingers and casually summoned a small bat covered in electric light, and ordered the small bat to bite on a "stone brick" next to it, and it immediately let out a scream: "Ouch...it hurts my teeth..."

"It is an ultra-high-strength material second only to the main armor plate of the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace," Hao Ren frowned and stood up, "So far, neither the Dream Plane nor the Surface World has any mortal race that can forge this kind of thing... Below God, above man."

Vivian covered her mouth: "Ah?"

Hao Ren didn't say anything, just took out his psionic pistol and shot at the ground not far away.

The bright psionic light bullet bombarded the ground, and a pale blue light mist burst out immediately. Under the bombardment of this divinely-made weapon that transcended secular rules, the supposedly indestructible Corpus ruins were finally destroyed: large pieces of "stone brick" fragments exploded, and psionic-crystallized debris flew all over the sky. After these debris settled, an explosion crater with a diameter of about one meter and a bottom covered with blue crystals was left in place.

Bai Huo, who was following behind them, was shocked when she saw this scene: "My God... your weapon is so powerful!"

However, Hao Ren shook his head regretfully: "No, on the contrary, its power has been weakened too much."

The crater blasted out by the psionic light bullet looked scary, but it was far less effective than when it hit secular matter. Bai Huo couldn't tell, but Hao Ren was very familiar with the performance of his pistol. It should have blasted a bigger crater.

Only divinity can weaken the power of psionic weapons.

Using "resistance" as an analogy, all mortals and mortal creations in the world have zero resistance when facing psionic energy. Even the weakest psionic energy (such as Hao Ren's small pistol) can cause full true damage to them.

Only true gods and divine creations can resist psionic energy. Even if it is only one percent, or zero point one percent of resistance, it is an insurmountable gap compared to zero percent.

Sometimes divinity is hidden very deeply, and sometimes it dissipates to the point where it is almost undetectable, but there is one detection method that is always effective.

That is to give it a shot with a psionic weapon—as long as the power is lost, then it must be a divine creation.

Vivian vaguely guessed the purpose of Hao Ren's test, and she was dumbfounded: "Could it be that this is..."

Hao Ren didn't answer, but ran quickly towards the palace not far away. He rushed into the palace gate, shuttling between the huge pillars and the collapsed and dilapidated reliefs, trying to find some architectural features that were more in line with his memory. Finally, he stopped in front of a well-preserved relief mural.

He looked at the exquisite and mysterious ancient relics in front of him, and then looked at the wide halls on both sides. Some vague and distorted fragments in his memory suddenly overlapped with the scene in front of him, and a huge excitement and excitement spread from the bottom of his heart: "Sure enough... sure enough! I knew why this place felt so familiar!"

Vivian and Bai Huo followed in, the former knowing what Hao Ren was pointing at: "Is this the palace of the Creation Goddess?"

"That's right! This is it!" Hao Ren's excitement was uncontrollable. He couldn't believe that the biggest clue he had been searching for would suddenly appear in front of him in this way. In his excitement, he couldn't help but hug Vivian. "It's these palaces! That's the place I saw in the illusion!"

Vivian was also excited when she heard the news: "Really? Really? Are you sure you didn't see it wrong? How did these palaces get here?!"

"The golden disk was blasted over, so it's possible that the palaces were blasted over together!" Hao Ren grabbed Vivian's shoulders, his face flushed, "We have to celebrate when we get back! This is a big surprise!"

Vivian also had a bright smile on her face: "I want a new wok! And a new spatula!"

Bai Huo, who was next to her, finally couldn't stand it anymore: "That... are you two done yet? Can someone explain to me what's going on?"

Bai Huo's interruption made Vivian and Hao Ren suddenly wake up. They quickly separated, both with embarrassed expressions on their faces. Hao Ren scratched his hair: "Uh... a little excited, a little excited."

Vivian chuckled dryly and waved to Bai Huo: "This is our business, it's not clear to explain to you for the time being."

Bai Huo looked at the two lunatics in front of her suspiciously, but she knew that Hao Ren had a mysterious force behind him, and there were some things she couldn't inquire about, so she didn't delve into it.

Hao Ren calmed down from the excitement and embarrassment just now. He opened his eyes wide and looked at everything around him, now completely sure that this was the architectural style he had seen in the God-Slaying Illusion of the Golden Disk.

The Goddess Palace on the Star of Creation.

At first, he only felt that these palaces were a bit familiar but couldn't recognize them, because the illusions he had seen by touching the Golden Disk had been distorted by the subconscious. Although he felt that he had seen them clearly at the time, recalling them later was like recalling a dream, full of vagueness. The second reason was that these remnants of the Corpus space were fragmented, completely splattered out after the collapse of the Star of Creation. It was difficult to recognize their former form based on these fragments floating around, not to mention that he had only seen the original appearance of these palaces in a vague illusion.

Hao Ren frowned as he looked at the dilapidated long hall in front of him. As the fragments of memory in his mind gradually reorganized, he was shocked to discover another thing:

The place in front of him... seems to be the place where he was in the illusion!!