Encounter: Ling Mo and Finality

Ling Mo had just awakened from unconsciousness and stared blankly at the unfamiliar surroundings. Wasn't he in the Star Dou Great Forest? Where was this? Even the cloak he had been wearing had vanished.

"Hey, can you hear me?" A voice interrupted Ling Mo's pointless thoughts.

Looking at the man and woman before him, a thought suddenly surfaced in Ling Mo's mind. Could they have saved me? But after sensing their auras, Ling Mo dismissed the idea. A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was not something two Soul Elders before him could deal with. So the question returned to where it began: who had saved him?

"Little brother, the person you picked up is quite pretty, but she seems a little silly. She's been sitting there ever since she woke up. It's like she can't hear me when I talk to her, just staring blankly."

The more mature-looking woman spoke to the boy beside her. There was no complaint in her tone, but Ling Mo somehow felt that something was off. Rising to his feet, Ling Mo asked the two, "Excuse me, where is this?"

Li Xin, who had her back to Ling Mo, whipped around when she heard his voice. After looking at him, she excitedly said to Long Haochen, "Little brother, she spoke! She spoke!"

Faced with Li Xin acting like this, Long Haochen could only smile awkwardly, unsure how to respond. Li Xin paid no attention to his reaction. After speaking, she turned and approached Ling Mo, grabbed one of his hands, and fired off question after question. "Little sister, what's your name? Where do you live? Who else is in your family? Did you run into some trouble and collapse by the roadside? Tell your big sister. I'm a Fourth-rank Knight, so I can definitely help you."

Ling Mo barely managed a smile. Faced with the barrage of questions from this unfamiliar woman holding his hand, he could not help but grumble inwardly. Wasn't I the one who asked first? Why are you checking my household registration instead? Li Xin's "little sister" in particular left him covered in black lines, looking as though he wanted to speak but held himself back.

In the end, Long Haochen stepped in to interrupt Li Xin. "Hello, miss. My name is Long Haochen, and I am also a knight. We found you unconscious in the wilderness while traveling to this city and brought you here. If you have encountered any trouble, then in the name of a knight, I promise to do everything in my power to help you. So, could you tell us your name and whether you are in trouble?"

Hearing that, Ling Mo could not help shouting in his heart, Big sister, look at him! You're both knights, so why is there such a huge difference? But what did he say his name was? Long Hao... Holy shit, Long Haochen, and he was a knight...

I transmigrated again?

Ling Mo's mind was in utter turmoil. Who was he? Where was he? What was he doing? How had he transmigrated again after waking up from one sleep? Holy shit?! Could that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast have killed him?!

The shocked Ling Mo began questioning his life.

After twists and turns, nearly two years had passed since Ling Mo arrived in the world of Seal of the Throne. Over those two years, Ling Mo gradually accepted the fact that he had transmigrated once more. Later, he discovered that although he had transmigrated again, his martial soul remained. Even Snow Empress was still quietly staying within the Stigmata Space. Aside from being in a different world, everything was the same as before his transmigration.

Later, with Long Haochen's help, Ling Mo successfully joined the Warrior Temple. It was not that Ling Mo did not want to join the Knight Temple, but he truly lacked the light attribute. Although the Knight Temple had a special method for converting one's own attribute into the light attribute, Ling Mo thought, Seven for one? What a damn loss! Ling Mo also did not reveal that he possessed multiple attributes. He merely told Long Haochen that compared to being a knight, he was more suited to being a warrior.

After two years, Ling Mo passed the Warrior Temple's examinations and ultimately became a Fourth-rank Warrior. The reason he was only fourth-rank was not because his strength was limited to the fourth rank. Although his actual strength went beyond that, the assessment also included a spiritual energy test. Without soul beasts, Ling Mo's level had become completely unable to improve after reaching level fifty. It was not that Ling Mo had not considered cultivating spiritual energy, but after using spiritual energy cultivation methods, what increased was still his Soul Power Level. This left him completely unable to take another step forward.

Because his Soul Power Level could not increase, after reaching level fifty, Ling Mo could only continuously improve his physical strength. By now, Ling Mo was confident that if he returned to the Douluo World, he could successfully absorb even a forty-thousand-year soul ring. Combined with methods such as Black Abyss White Flower and stigmata... uh, it seemed difficult to judge. But there were no soul beasts in this world anyway, so there was no need to dwell on it.

It was not as though Ling Mo had not hunted magical beasts, but magical beasts did not produce soul rings after he killed them, extinguishing Ling Mo's final hope. However, as his physical strength continued to increase and his stigmata slowly advanced, he could use more Honkai Energy. He was a man who had faced Finality head-on with the Skyfire Greatsword twice! No matter how strong a Ninth Tier powerhouse was, could they be stronger than the Herrscher of the End? Therefore, Ling Mo believed that even if he could not raise his level, one day, he would surely stand at the pinnacle of this world.

After returning to his residence, Ling Mo sent his consciousness into the Stigmata Space and arrived beneath the familiar Cherry Blossom Tree. Snow Empress, who had always stood beneath the tree, was now glaring angrily yet silently at a woman who had taken over her usual spot.

Ling Mo took a closer look, and his heart skipped a beat. Holy shit, I'm screwed!

That woman was none other than Ling Mo's "old friend"—the Herrscher of the End.

Seeing Finality, Ling Mo was shocked beyond words and did not know what he should say.

"Let me guess. Are you thinking... why I'm not dead?"

Aside from the golden cross-star marking on her forehead, the Herrscher of the End looked like an ordinary young girl. Yet Ling Mo did not dare lower his guard in the slightest. She had appeared within his Stigmata Space without the true owner of the space, himself, knowing about it. Her current strength was easy to imagine.

Ling Mo calmed himself and said, "I should have realized it sooner. Welt Yang could inject his consciousness into a Herrscher Core and be reborn multiple times. How could you possibly be unable to do the same?"

"So, are you trying to prove that you're very stupid?" Finality did not open her mouth, but a cold, mechanical voice that felt vaguely familiar to Ling Mo echoed in his mind.

"..." Why does the Herrscher of the End I'm meeting this time feel kind of strange? Ling Mo thought to himself. As he found it strange, Finality's voice rang out in his mind once more. "You must be curious why you have come to another new world, but that is unimportant. You only need to know that the Will of Honkai has its eyes on us now. You need to help me analyze the essence of this world so that I can integrate into it and be regarded by this world's will as one of its subjects. Of course, it would be even better if I could replace or surpass it."

"Why should I help you?" Ling Mo refused outright.

Finality turned her head and glanced at him. Her voice sounded again. "You will, if you do not want the world you saved to be destroyed again. Of course, if you can accept me staying in your body forever, you can ignore me."

"What do you mean?" Ling Mo's gaze gradually turned dangerous.

"You don't need to know that. You only need to do as I say. It will only benefit you."

Ling Mo snorted coldly. "Why should I listen to you? I don't believe you have any good intentions."

Finality's voice did not appear again, and the two stood silently where they were.

Snow Empress watched the silent pair from the side, uncertain whether she should speak.

After an unknown amount of time, Finality finally spoke her first words aloud. "Tell me, you and the Thirteen Flame-Chasers were unable to defeat even a weakened me. So how did I lose to you alone? Was it because you possessed multiple Divine Keys and several Herrscher Cores?"