Envy Descends!

[It sensed the threat and struck back in a frenzy.]

[Pitch-black tentacles burst from the Divine Silkworm War King's soul, turning into countless venomous snakes that lunged at you with Envy's particular malice and brutality.]

[Your expression did not change.]

[Void Power became a vast gray net that blotted out the sky, sweeping up every tendril of the Source of the Weird that fought back.]

[The devouring began.]

[This was no careful stripping away, as before. You swallowed it in great mouthfuls.]

[Your command of this power was no longer what it once was. The gray currents moved as naturally as your own limbs, threading precisely through the Divine Silkworm War King's soul and tearing the Source of the Weird out by the roots from every crack within it.]

[Hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss— Black vapor poured wildly from the fissures in the rock, and the whole of Enlightenment Cliff shook violently.]

[The uprooted Source of the Weird struggled desperately in midair, shrieking so sharply that even the void trembled.]

[But Void Power remained unmoved. Like a ravenous python, it swallowed its prey piece by piece.]

[One incense stick burned down.]

[Then two.]

[Then three.]

[The instant the last trace of the Source of the Weird was removed, the Divine Silkworm War King's remnant soul suddenly lit up.]

[His soul, suppressed for tens of thousands of years, had finally cast off its shackles. Though faint, it shone again with a gentle, pure radiance, like a luminous pearl freed from the mud.]

[His aura began to recover. No longer the murky gray-black of corruption, it became a clear white touched with the soft glow of silk.]

["Ah... That feels good..."]

[His voice rose from deep underground, a long-lost heartiness mingling with its rasp. "I've never felt this good in my life.]

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