The lightless darkness recedes, and the wasteland of souls once again appears before us.

Although he had guessed before, this time Rod profoundly realized that these clusters of ashes are extinguished stars, the embers left by once-powerful humans.

This wasteland of souls is the hall of heroic spirits, the tomb of the great ones.

The dream realm reignites their soul fire in a characteristic way, and the stars are the heroic spirits, with star energy as their characteristics. Ascension and quantification are the process of reclaiming the former source laws.

Heigao'er was right; the greatness of the dream realm stems from the greatness of humanity.

These countless heroic spirits are the root power of the dream realm.

The sacrifices of the past were not in vain.

At this moment, the urgent voice of the Book of Knowledge suddenly came to his ears.

"Master, what happened? Why was I unable to reach you just now?"

With a thought, the world flipped, and Rod found himself once again beside the Obelisk.

The Book of Knowledge and the puppet stood before him, looking extremely anxious, with the puppet's golden blade on its wrist already drawn.

As soon as they saw Rod, they breathed a long sigh of relief.

The puppet retracted its blade and returned to its calm demeanor.

The Book of Knowledge leapt onto Rod's shoulder, constantly inspecting him.

"I'm fine."

Rod took it down.

"Just now, inside, I encountered the residual soul of the previous Master of Dreams, Heigao'er."

He recounted the incident in detail, not leaving out a single word.

After listening, the Book of Knowledge was as if struck by lightning.

"What? Such a thing happened? The dream realm was almost polluted? Ancient evil thought... so terrifying?"

Rod frowned and said, "Are you unaware of Heigao'er's encounter in the Starry Kingdom?"

The Book of Knowledge shook its pages, indicating that it had no memory of such matters.

The puppet said thoughtfully, "The last scene in my memory is of the moment the dream realm shattered... When I awoke again, it was to meet the Master."

Rod suddenly understood: "After the dream realm shattered, Heigao'er held on for a while, trying to recover by establishing the Starry Kingdom... But failed due to being plotted against, and by that time, you had all already fallen into silence."

The Book of Knowledge said regretfully, "I actually forgot the memory about the star soul... No wonder I've always felt something was wrong but couldn't recall the issue. I have indeed been negligent."

Rod looked at it in surprise; this was the first time the Book of Knowledge admitted its mistakes so directly. This responsible spirit moved him, so he spoke to comfort it: "It's not your fault; memory loss is something that can't be helped."

"No."

The Book of Knowledge obstinately said, "Such important memories should be distributed evenly across the entire soul. As long as there's a bit of impression, I should be able to remember. It shouldn't be like this, where even if you tell me, I still can't recall anything."

"Moreover, Amon's evil thought buried within the dream realm's stars is an absolute trump card, and I failed to detect anything. If it weren't for the Master's extraordinary will, everything would have been lost."

The words of the Book of Knowledge were filled with intense anger, and it looked as if it wanted to slap itself.

Rod felt an inexplicable touch; although sometimes unreliable and occasionally comical, the Book of Knowledge was undoubtedly a loyal assistant.

The puppet said, "Master, we should quickly retrieve the star soul of the Dark Devourer. The Prince's words indicate that the Dark Devourer is the dream realm's core, the main star of succession among the Masters of Dreams. Each Master of Dreams is fuel and firewood for the next. With such accumulated generations, the Dark Devourer should be very powerful, and the separated star soul also contains a large portion of its power. If there's an accident, it would be a major loss."

This made Rod tense.

"Could the power be lost?"

"Of course," the Book of Knowledge explained. "I don't know what kind of method the former Master used, but any power of protection or sealing is limited."

"Could the star soul be polluted?"

This question led the Book of Knowledge to sink into thought.

"I'm not sure... I don't know if the star soul is really the soul of a star... A long time ago, I actually had doubts about stars; the strength provided by the Dark Devourer was too little, yet it provided a lot of source energy. But after observing for a long time, each star was complete and self-consistent. It's hard to imagine they also have a soul..."

The puppet said, "If the star soul is a soul, it would inevitably be polluted. Any tangible, spiritual substance would be eroded by the black fog, without exception."

The tone of the Book of Knowledge became somewhat urgent.

"We must quickly kill Asdes, the King of the Deep Sea!"

Rod's heart sank; the King of the Deep Sea, Asdes, was an incredibly powerful old dominator, but it was far from Troli, temporarily posing no threat to humanity. It was hard to imagine the Royal City being willing to expend significant combat power to hunt it down at this time.

Even though he was the most promising new star, he couldn't make such an unwarranted demand.

If the Royal City refused this action, he would have to act alone.

Of course, he was far from being a match for this powerful monster; the only hope of victory was to lure it back to the Spirit Realm and use a Spirit Realm Strike.

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