The aura of desolation filled Jiang Hao with fear. Even though his attributes and health were already high enough, he still couldn't help but feel terrified by the deathly stillness that would extinguish any life that entered it.

With Jiang Hao's current attribute values, he could sense that the hundreds of thousands of enlightened and unenlightened realms within the Spirit Ruins, suspended in the void, occupied a space somewhat like an enormous egg. Around the outside of this egg were the auras of annihilation. These auras neither came nor went, neither expanded nor contracted, like a solidified block of ice, or perhaps a shackle, sealing the entire Spirit Ruins within.

As for the area outside of the annihilation, Jiang Hao could not sense anything at all.

Jiang Hao tried to use the mustard seeds to explore those desolate spaces, but no matter how he probed, once the mustard seeds entered the desolate spaces, they all became completely silent. No matter how Jiang Hao tried to manipulate them, they could not produce any response.

Later, Jiang Hao tried throwing the monsters from the Spirit Ruins into that space.

The result was the same: a deathly silence.

Dejection filled Jiang Hao's heart. He had thought that there would be an infinitely wonderful world outside the Spirit Ruins, but the fact before him was so obvious: the Spirit Ruins seemed to be nothing more than a prison surrounded by deathly silence.

Even he couldn't escape.

After confirming this, Jiang Hao led his team back to Realm 7865. He even made a special trip to the Summoning Space to inquire with the little skeleton about the ancient gods and the matter of Annihilation.

Although the little skeleton knew some of the truth, it didn't tell Jiang Hao too much. It only asked him to continue fighting monsters and improving his attributes. One day, when he reached the god level, he would naturally understand some things.

God-level? What an elusive and unattainable level. Jiang Hao currently possesses hundreds of trillions of attribute points, yet he still cannot cross the threshold to godhood. Is it possible to become a god simply by killing monsters and absorbing their attribute points?

Filled with doubt and distrust, Jiang Hao remained silent in Realm 7865 for a full six months. During this time, he never left Resurrection City, spending his days either eating and drinking with his friends or wandering around the city.

Six months later, Jiang Hao sensed that the Grand Master Aorong, or rather, the "Prince He," was making unusual movements.

Jiang Hao immediately began monitoring Aorong using his mustard seed sensor.

It turned out that after waiting for nearly a year, and with no progress in Aoqin's operations, Aorong finally couldn't wait any longer. During Aoqin's most recent expedition, the Archmage Aorong, disguised as one of Aoqin's close followers, finally arrived at Space Realm 9352.

After arriving here, Aorong began to refine the space of the spatial realm.

Jiang Hao instantly understood what Orong, or rather, the Grand Preceptor of the Jackal Empire who was controlled by the "Prince of Peace," was up to.

It seems that it wants to refine the spatial realm inch by inch, and then achieve the goal of controlling the spatial realm.

Jiang Hao thought Aorong was adorably stupid.

Let alone Oron, a mid-level legendary figure, even someone who is about to reach the threshold of godhood wouldn't dare to lay a finger on that place in the very center of the spatial realm.

That was one of the dozen or so auras Jiang Hao sensed on the battlefield of gods and demons from hundreds of thousands of years ago: the divine core of the ancient space god. To be precise, at this moment, in the densest part of the spatial realm, lay a fragment of the ancient space god's divine core.

If you try to touch that thing before you've reached godhood, you'll only meet a gruesome end!

If Aorong had chosen to refine other ordinary realms step by step, refining the space of each realm one by one, Jiang Hao would have thought more highly of Aorong. But now it has chosen to take a risk, risking its life to touch that thing. Jiang Hao analyzed that Aorong's remaining time might not be long.

After all, they became legendary powerhouses at the same time as the Human King. Although jackals have a longer lifespan than humans, it's not by much. Jiang Hao estimated that Orong's body could only live for a maximum of 30 years, while "Prince He" clearly couldn't wait that long.

Although the gnolls have been relatively well-behaved in the past year, and there have been no more cases of gnolls selling or indiscriminately killing humans in the entire gnoll empire, they have not completely calmed down in secret.

The despicable things they do in secret might be able to be hidden from other human forces, but under Jiang Hao's god-level [Mustard Seed] skill, every detail is revealed.

So Jiang Hao, along with Xiao Shi, also arrived at Realm 9352.

Above Realm 9352, Oron's spatial refining had only just begun. As Jiang Hao had predicted, Oron's spatial collapse skill level was indeed not high. The reason it had such great power in Realm 5 was entirely because the space of Realm 5 had already been refined by it. In the refined space, its spatial collapse skill could indeed exert power far exceeding that of ordinary skills.

In the 9352nd realm, Oron's spatial collapse was even less powerful than the space butterfly of the silver level.

After Aorong's first wave of attacks ended, Jiang Hao was not harmed at all.

Meanwhile, Jiang Hao had closed the distance to within 30 meters of Aorong. 30 meters was just outside Aorong's spatial domain.

Knowing that Jiang Hao had seen through his secret, Aorong immediately went into hiding.

Jiang Hao flicked his hand and launched three spirit stone crystals towards the place where Aorong was hiding. With Jiang Hao's current attribute values, no one could withstand the power of a single attack. As for the three spirit stone crystals, their flying speed already surpassed anything Aorong had ever seen.

Although Aorong, who possessed spatial perception skills, managed to destroy two spirit stone crystals with his spatial collapse skill, the third spirit stone crystal still passed through his hiding place.

A moment later, Oron's hidden figure finally reappeared from that void.

Although Jiang Hao couldn't understand the gnoll's face, he could still sense Orong's current state through his mustard seed perception.

Its blood flow suddenly quickened, indicating that it was in a state of extreme fear; its breathing became extremely slow, indicating that it was trying to control its fear.

Jiang Hao smiled slightly in the air, not in a hurry to make a move.

After a long and agonizing wait, Aorong finally slowly pointed his finger at Jiang Hao in the air.

That shot that it would never fire until its death was finally fired amidst Jiang Hao's cat-and-mouse-like torment.

Jiang Hao did not stop Aorong.

The God-Slaying Curse, carrying immense power, hurtled towards Jiang Hao from the spatial realm. Previously, the God-Slaying Curse had traversed tens of thousands of realms in the blink of an eye. Now, without even a thought, the God-Slaying Curse had already flashed before Jiang Hao's eyes.

Jiang Hao could even feel the cold smile on Ao Rong's lips.

However, this god-slaying curse, carrying immense pressure and capable of destroying everything within a 50-kilometer radius of a realm—a terrifying skill that could even kill gods—completely dissipated the moment it touched Jiang Hao's eyelashes.

The hundreds of billions of mustard seeds that made up the God-Slaying Curse were all scattered and banished into the void by Jiang Hao with a single thought.

Aorong's eyes widened, bigger than duck eggs!