Intense shaking assaulted the top of the spacecraft, and it seemed like everyone inside could hear the sound of the metal compressing. "Still haven’t found a landing spot?" Jie An clutched his chair and looked through the porthole, asking loudly. Outside the porthole, the view had turned into a bright red, twisting and fluctuating within that hazy color. Li Cheng, with one hand on the handle in front of the screen, was rapidly pushing buttons on the screen. "Unable to... detect... suitable... landing site." The communicator emitted a static ’sizzle’ sound, and the Speech Master’s intermittent voice came through, "Communication... severe interference..." The situation was different from what they had expected. The Transparent Planet was neither a solid planet nor an illusionary projection that could be passed through directly; its surface was showing unstable properties, sometimes solidifying, sometimes completely ghostly. The real-time "landing" image on the monitor began to show static, and a sharp alarm echoed throughout the spacecraft. As they gradually approached the unstable ’surface of the planet,’ the spacecraft’s built-in detection equipment was rapidly failing. "The propulsion system is damaged, and the lander is losing control." Li Cheng looked at the suddenly popped-up red text box on the screen, paused for a moment, then quickly said, "What’s the problem?" ’He Ao’ looked up at Li Cheng. Under normal atmospheric friction, it was unlikely that the propulsion system would be damaged. Moreover, the Transparent Planet’s surface had no atmosphere. Li Cheng rapidly operated the buttons, "There’s no detection of any physical matter outside, but the equipment is damaged. If it’s not an internal structural issue," He paused and looked out the window, "then it might be Extraordinary Power." "So are we going to crash?" Jie An touched his helmet, "Does this mean we’re already finished before we even started?" Goya, who had been silent until then, looked up and glared at him. The sound of metal distorting outside grew stronger, as if an invisible force was acting on the lander, intent on completely tearing apart this metal creation. Just as previously estimated, this planet had fully ’revived.’ What they were about to land on was not a physically consistent, real planet, but an Extraordinary Creation related to Angels; approaching this creation could likely provoke an attack from it. The environment fell somewhat silent, though they had anticipated this situation before departure, a slight panic still arose in everyone’s hearts when it actually happened. Goya lowered her head and glanced at her phone; she had just tried her number again, but still with no effect. "Can you... break through... ?" Goya looked up at Li Cheng, her voice soft yet clearly heard by everyone. She was asking if Li Cheng could use the Angelic Tier Andaville’s Spear to penetrate the defense of the Transparent Planet. "Not necessarily, it’s too risky," Li Cheng shook his head, "If we use Andaville’s Spear, we’ll have to break through the lander from the inside, exposing ourselves directly to space. Our spacesuits could easily be damaged and won’t last long, "Moreover, given the state of this Transparent Planet, we may not be able to attack its substance for a while, and crucially, even if we break through the defense, we might not be able to smoothly enter the interior of the Transparent Planet." Jie An opened his mouth, his tone slightly lower. Goya lowered her head, glanced at her phone, then shifted her gaze towards ’Hao Yi’ at her side. The remaining two also unconsciously shifted their gazes over. In situations involving bizarre and extraordinary powers, brainpower and knowledge were often more useful than brute force. "Research Institute..." At that moment, the sound from the communicator came through intermittently, "Got in touch... with Minister He..." Everyone instantly focused their attention on the communicator. The voice inside the communicator continued, "It was... the past... oneself... ritual... needed..." The red glow outside the window intensified. Accompanied by a sharp blast, only the sizzling and complex sound of electricity remained inside the entire communicator. Jie An was startled, "At such a critical moment, it’s gone? What exactly did He Ao say?!" Sitting in the corner, He Ao: ... Listening to the rustling sound from the communicator, Goya turned her head again towards ’Hao Yi.’ The others also quickly turned their gaze back, "The most critical information has probably come across, which are ’the past’ and ’oneself’," He Ao cleared his throat, noting the puzzled expressions of the crowd, and quickly spoke, "He Ao might have found some crucial clue on the ground, discovering the essence of the ritual. "From this perspective, this ’past’ ’oneself’ is actually the mystical essence of ’calling oneself,’ ’contacting one’s past self.’" He looked up at the crowd listening intently, "And connecting this with the incidents of the ’disappearances’ where deceased loved ones make calls, "From a mystical standpoint, deceased loved ones often relate to a kind of extreme ’emotion,’ which can usually serve as a stable ’anchor,’ applicable in rituals. "That is to say, the fundamental mode of action of this extraordinary power might be to use a past experience, charged with a certain extreme emotion, to influence the present. "Hence, deducing from this, the core of the ritual that triggers this extraordinary power should be ’contacting one’s past self who experienced extreme emotion;’ therefore, the real complete ritual would be," He paused briefly, then said quickly, "Through the phone, trying to contact oneself at some past moment when in extreme emotional distress, "Here, it might be important to note, it doesn’t necessarily have to be your current phone number because, during that emotional period, we might not have been using the same phone number as now, "It’s best to be able to contact the phone of ’oneself’ at that past time point, while recollecting that experience, recalling oneself immersed in that extreme emotion." Can so many implications really be deduced from those few words? Meanwhile, Goya had already picked up the phone, tapping out a phone number, and pressing dial. The space around them twisted subtly as if an invisible force swept over, and the white-haired ’young girl’ instantaneously disappeared from the cabin. Accompanied by a loud noise, some creases appeared on the metal overhead. Li Cheng wasted no time, picked up the phone with a somewhat somber expression as though remembering something, then dialed his own number, which he had never changed. As the invisible force swept over, Li Cheng too vanished from the cabin. At that time, Jie An no longer had the leisure to be surprised, and after a brief recollection, he gave ’Hao Yi’ a thumbs-up, then quickly entered his own phone number, and also instantly disappeared from the cabin. He Ao watched as everyone vanished, lowing his head to look at his phone. This body was not his true self but a clone; after pondering briefly, he dialed a phone number. The next second, his body disappeared from the cabin. A massive crack spread across the top of the cabin, and the entire cabin seemed to be torn apart by some invisible force in an instant, then rapidly shredded into countless tiny pieces, scattering like dust in the void. Above the continuously breaking lander, a black coffin appeared instantly. The coffin lid opened, and a girl with ash-gold hair emerged from the coffin. She glanced around at the blood-red space, a kind of invisible fluctuation reflected in her ’field of view.’ This was the ripple formed on the surface of the transparent planet after the triggering ritual. After a brief survey, she lay back in the coffin, and as the black coffin lid closed, the coffin quickly descended toward the rippling ripple. As the coffin rapidly approached, the surrounding dense blood-red radiance gradually turned pitch black, and ’bubbles’ filled with various illusions slowly emerged around the coffin. The tightly closed coffin quickly rushed towards the deepest part of all the bubbles through the gaps between them. Meanwhile, an invisible dark radiance surged out from the surrounding bubbles, covering the shell of the coffin like layers of film, seemingly trying to expel the coffin. Under this ’confrontation,’ the speed of the coffin drastically slowed down and began to approach the nearby bubbles. Finally, the moment the speed of the coffin dropped to zero, it crashed into a cluster of ’bubble groups’ and disappeared within them. With everything returning to silence, from a much more distant viewpoint, in the silent starry sky, the transparent planet hidden in the void gradually revealed a blood-red outline. The radiant blood sun had fully revived, its crimson light shining on the icy ground. Standing in this crimson radiance, He Ao slowly opened his eyes. He glanced at the thank you reply from the Research Institute on his phone regarding his recent ’ritual conjecture,’ then raised his head to look at the blood-red sky above. Dolls are not really ’life,’ so they can follow the ripple formed by the ’Hao Yi clone’ ritual as ’objects’ and enter the interior of the transparent planet. That was originally He Ao’s ’plan,’ to let the doll sneak in with ’Hao Yi’ and others. However, there was a slight mishap because the doll’s core itself contained remnants of Angel Designation 009-1 and had certain Angel Designations, so the force of the transparent planet could not fully attract ’her.’ This allowed the doll to break free from the control of the transparent planet and directly enter some kind of ’transitional area,’ able to freely choose its own ’landing point.’ So, He Ao directly tried to let the doll keep going deeper to see if it could touch the core of the transparent planet. Meanwhile, the force of the transparent planet seemed to also discover this ’foreign angel,’ constantly trying to expel the doll. After a long flight, the doll had little energy left and quickly consumed it while battling these repelling forces. Eventually, at the moment the doll’s energy was completely exhausted, He Ao concealed the doll’s aura and reached an ’bubble group’ closer to the core that was relatively easy to enter, blending in. The doll wasn’t a real ’angel,’ so after its power was exhausted and its aura was concealed, it wasn’t so easily found. Yet, He Ao himself could rely on the connection between himself and the doll to quickly locate the doll close to the core. And the doll itself also had ways to ’recover power.’ He Ao withdrew his thoughts, picked up his phone, sketched out memories in his mind, and dialed the phone number of the auntie from the small store near his childhood home. The scenery around him flickered, but the crimson radiance still shone on his hand, unchanged. Sure enough, this ritual couldn’t succeed on the ground here; perhaps it was because of the transparent planet’s force only being able to drag him from such a far distance, or there could be other interfering factors. He Ao glanced at Komo nearby, who was still unsettled, raised his hand, and looked at the floating black ash in his hand. At this moment, this black ash was in a peculiar state, constantly reconstructing itself, trying to condense into a small piece of pitch-black ’paper,’ but the moment it fully formed into paper, it would quickly collapse back into black ash, repeating this cycle over and over. This state of the ash seemed to exist between ash and paper; it was continuously trying to return to a paper state, but repeatedly failed. He Ao sensed the power contained within the ash; so far, he knew that this black ash was called ’Echo of the Bygone Days’ and it could, to some extent, reconstruct scenes that had happened in the past. It was also because of this information that He Ao deduced the ritual core for entering the ’transparent planet’ that created the blood sun in the sky. The power of this ’Echo of the Bygone Days’ itself was not strong, only able to construct some small ’scenes.’ However, under the ’observation’ of the Eye of Truth’s power, this Echo of the Bygone Days still had some sort of connection to something deep in the void. He Ao speculated that this connected object was the ’transparent planet’ in the sky. There should be some secret technique to directly borrow strength from the transparent planet through this connection, but obviously, He Ao didn’t know this secret technique; even if he did, the transparent planet was most likely not going to lend its strength to him. However, this connection made him think of another ’possibility.’ He raised the Echo of the Bygone Days in his hand and directly stimulated all its power along the invisible connection. At that moment, He Ao’s field of view rapidly distorted and changed, and a majestic ’planet,’ seemingly covering the sun, appeared above his head. He Ao looked up at the planet that occupied most of the sky. During the Underground Palace incident, he had once stood in space and gazed at this thousand-kilometer-diameter planet. But the Relic Planet in He Ao’s eyes at this moment was slightly different from the ’Relic Planet’ he had seen before. The planet He Ao saw now was filled with bustling skyscrapers, with flowing machinery shuttling all around the planet. Scores of beautiful spaceships danced densely like bees above the planet, the blazing man-made sun brought brilliant light, and towering space elevators connected to majestic spaceports. And at the moment, He Ao seemed to be standing on a ’spaceport,’ looking out at the huge and prosperous planet. This was not the now-ruined ’relic.’ ’Echo of the Bygone Days’ He Ao chewed over this name in his mind. The planet above his head seemed to be the Relic Planet during its most glorious era, a revival of the past scene with a highly advanced civilization. This might be the ’Truth’ of that transparent planet. He Ao pondered, took a step forward, and at that instant, the scenery around him instantly shattered and reverted to a fiery red glow. He Ao lowered his head and looked at the black ash in his hands. The line leading to the depths of the void wasn’t strong. His guess was correct, this Echo of the Bygone Days might indeed be able to directly connect to the deepest part of the transparent planet, but the passage formed by its power wasn’t strong enough to carry He Ao through. Could reducing the distance make this ’passage’ more stable? How to reduce the distance? Slowly traverse there with Velora? He Ao looked up at the blood sun above. The chances were high that they wouldn’t give him that much time. Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, he lowered his head again, glanced at the ’ordinary people’ who were put into deep sleep and locked in the castle, then looked at Komo who was gradually coming to his senses next to him, "You arrange for someone to rescue these surviving ’missing persons,’ I’ve got something else, need to leave first." "Okay, yes, Mister He Ao!" Komo’s spirit was invigorated. "Just call me Minister He." He Ao nodded quickly, took a step forward, quickly disappeared into the forest ahead, vanishing from Komo’s view. "Min.. Minister He..?" Komo, still a bit dazed, initially paused, then watched the direction in which He Ao disappeared, his eyes slightly widening, his face showing joy. Meanwhile, He Ao was already standing behind a large boulder, Velora emerged from the void and took his figure away. This time, he did not enter the carriage but directly entered the cabin. As Velora entered the pitch-dark shuttle tunnel, He Ao reached out his hand and placed it on the squirming flesh control panel. Streams of red mist emerged from the flesh control panel, then, in He Ao’s view, they sketched out various strokes and complex pattern lines formed in the void. Eventually, these intricate patterns covered the entire cabin, filling He Ao’s field of view. This was a ’space-time coordinate.’ As the pattern fully formed, He Ao took out a Nutritional Canned Food, took out a piece of meat and threw it into his mouth, then closed his eyes slightly, and upon reopening them, nested orange-gray circles lit up in his pupils. In the void, the invisible eye embedded in the inverted triangle slowly opened. Blood seeped through his skin, the power of the Eye of Truth traveled through his hand and entered Velora. Angelic Tier strength could serve as an ’accelerator,’ significantly increasing Velora’s speed as it traversed space. There was a place, in the mystical sense, closer to that transparent planet than the Main World.