Dawn Has Come, and Will Last Forever

"Dao Chong! Its use is inexhaustible, deep! Like the ancestor of all things."

A grand and vast voice, like celestial music descending from the nine heavens, echoed in He Ao's ears.

His figure instantly transformed into endless phantoms, then returned to one.

The Great Dao originates from emptiness and transforms into infinity, resembling a deep abyss from which all things are born.

The bull-like youth looked angrily at the flickering figure of He Ao, "Good! You are indeed one of the chosen!"

He roared, swinging both fists, and quickly charged at He Ao. His fists cut through the air with a fierce wind, "Watch me shatter your deceptive tricks."

However, He Ao's eyes were tightly closed, as if he hadn't seen the youth, and he lightly shifted his body to the side.

This movement was extremely slow, as if he were just making a normal turn while walking on the street, yet it happened to perfectly dodge the youth's fist.

The youth seemed to have anticipated that he would dodge this move, changing his fist into a claw and turning back to grab at He Ao.

He Ao turned back, his index and middle fingers together, and lightly tapped the youth's wrist. Immediately, the youth's movement paused, and his entire body froze for a moment.

He only felt a tingling sensation spread from his wrist, instantly draining all his strength and momentum.

He wanted to turn back and retract his fist, but He Ao had already walked in front of him at some point. Those joined fingers tapped several times below his chest and abdomen. His body instantly lost control, as if infinite strength couldn't be exerted.

This feeling was like being paralyzed in a nightmare; no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't control his body to move even half an inch.

Then He Ao grabbed his hand, which he hadn't retracted yet, turned, stepped back half a step, lowered his stance, and executed an over-the-shoulder throw, all in one smooth motion.

With a loud crash, the youth was directly thrown to the ground.

This impact also caused him to recover from that terrifying 'nightmare paralysis' feeling. He tried to move his body but felt numb all over, unable to exert any strength.

At this moment, He Ao had retreated to the study door.

It wasn't that he didn't want to continue showing off, but rather that his... cheat had expired.

The remaining bit of power after the Vermillion Fruit cleared his body had been completely consumed in the previous movements.

"Qi..."

He Ao felt the pattern of energy flow from just now. According to the description in that small book, after running the energy along specific lines, he could vaguely sense something called 'Qi'.

This Qi was indistinct, like a girl playing the zither behind a gauze curtain in ancient times. You could see her graceful figure and hear the beautiful music she played, but you just couldn't see her true appearance.

This mysterious Qi was the power that supported the moves he had just used. These moves were actually diagrams drawn in the small book, but they only had real power with the enhancement of that 'Qi'.

And after He Ao possessed 'Qi', he could also vaguely sense the 'Qi' of others, or rather, what others had was not 'Qi' but a similar energy flow.

The taps he had just given the youth were to cut off the energy flow within the youth's body. Although the youth himself might not have known the pattern of energy flow within his body, after being hit in vital points, that energy would scatter like water from a broken pipe, even causing harm to the body.

At this moment, the youth was lying on the ground, unable to even crawl up.

He Ao had the opportunity to kill the youth at this moment, but he didn't make a move.

If he had killed the youth with one move during the attack just now, it would have been self-defense.

After the second move, it could be excessive defense or even manslaughter.

There was no need for that. He Ao was a law-abiding good person.

He Ao flashed, preparing to enter the study.

Although the study was small, it contained a hidden world. All four sides, top and bottom, were reinforced with two layers of brick walls, with thick steel plates sandwiched between them.

The study door was also the latest and best anti-theft door on the market, unlike the main door which could be easily rammed open.

This was equivalent to a small safe room and should be able to hold out until Team Leader Liu arrived.

However, just as He Ao was about to enter the room, a violent alarm suddenly sounded from outside.

Team Leader Liu had arrived a little earlier than he expected.

"Ah!!!!"

The young man who had just been lying on the ground no longer cared about the soreness in his body and quickly scrambled up.

He wanted to go down the stairs, but he vaguely heard footsteps coming up the stairs.

He glanced around and rushed towards the large window in the living room.

"Huh?"

He Ao quickly walked over, waved his hand, and was just about to say something.

The young man trembled, thinking that He Ao was going to corner him with the police. He scrambled and rolled over the window, falling down with a crash.

"This is the fifth floor..."

He Ao lowered his hand, somewhat bewildered.

Don't fall to your death...

He quickly leaned out the window to look.

He only heard sounds of crashing and thudding.

The young man's body smashed through several rain shelters of the neighbors downstairs before hitting the ground with a splat.

This was the back of the building, and Team Leader Liu and the others hadn't arrived yet. The young man glanced around and saw no police. He quickly got up, scrambled, and rushed towards a small electric scooter nearby.

Then he took out a small tool that He Ao couldn't see clearly, started the electric scooter, and rode away.

Seeing that he was okay, He Ao breathed a sigh of relief.

If he had fallen to his death here, He Ao might have been implicated in some matters.

It would be troublesome if it turned into involuntary manslaughter.

Although this guy seemed not very smart, he was quite tough and resilient.

He Ao watched the young man's retreating figure, watching the bulging muscles on his body gradually deflate. He didn't know if the skill was actively deactivated or if its duration had expired.

He turned back and looked at the battlefield from just now. Several tiles on the floor were broken by the young man, and the old anti-theft door had several dents.

Hiss—

Replacing the anti-theft door and the tiles, that's all money.

He was a good person, who did he provoke?

Just then, he noticed a white object pressed under some torn clothes on a broken tile. It seemed to be a small card. He walked over and picked it up.

It was a white card the size of an ID card. The card seemed to have been treated with a special process. When He Ao looked at the front of the card, the surface reflected a faint, warm glow. The image on the card was a rising sun from the horizon. But when he tilted the card, the surface turned into a hazy, dark night scene.

As he tilted it from an angle to straight, the card surface would show the scene of night slowly turning into the morning sun.

"Interesting."

He flipped the card over. On the back was a short sentence.

[Dawn Has Come, and Will Last Forever.]

It looked like an identity card for some secret organization.

Normally, the more impressive the name and slogan, the weaker the actual combat power.

Just then, hurried footsteps came from the side. Team Leader Liu led a team of police officers in.

"He Ao," Team Leader Liu's hand was on his waist as he looked around, "Where is he?"

"He ran," He Ao pointed out the window, "He heard you coming, jumped out the window, and stole Big Sister Li's electric scooter from the sixth floor."

"That's good," Team Leader Liu seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. He looked at He Ao, "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine," He Ao nodded, then casually asked, "Team Leader Liu, when can I get the bonus?"

He needed money to replace the anti-theft door and the tiles.

Team Leader Liu didn't immediately follow He Ao's train of thought. Weren't they talking about the criminal? Why did it suddenly turn to money?

Then he glanced at the mess around him and understood. "That money should be available tonight. Also, I need to ask you for the details of what happened this afternoon. How about you come with us to the police station?"

He was a little worried that the person might return, and He Ao would be injured without their protection.

"Okay!"

He Ao nodded decisively.

While He Ao was talking with Team Leader Liu, a figure in a black trench coat circled around to the back of the building. He glanced in the direction where the electric scooter had disappeared, then looked up at the damaged awnings on the first to fourth floors.

Through these twisted and deformed awnings, it was as if he could see the young man awkwardly jumping down from the fifth floor.

'Bull' wasn't very smart, but he was strong.

He wouldn't be so panicked by the sound of police sirens.