The Permanence, a Fool's Thousand Faces!

"Goodbye, my friend. Aha will be watching you every moment~"

"Oh, and I left you a little surprise. No need to thank me~"

His airy voice faded, and the gaudy Aeon's figure scattered like colorful candy wrapping torn to shreds.

As Aha vanished, Huo Yuhao's vision blurred. The feeling of weightlessness passed in an instant.

When he came to, he and Gu Yue were standing in a guest room at the Star Emperor Hotel. Ning Tian sat cross-legged in the center, enveloped in a gentle glow as she refined the External Soul Bone.

"Was that... really a God?"

Gu Yue spoke first, her brows drawing together.

As the Silver Dragon King, she could sense higher beings. But that presence had overturned everything she knew about Gods—

No solemn force that made heaven and earth tremble, no unfathomable schemes. He had been more like a child who did whatever he pleased!

Mad, absurd, bizarre!

"The Aeon of Elation, Aha."

Huo Yuhao answered, then his fingertips brushed against something hard that hadn't been at his waist before. He looked down and went numb.

It was a matte-black half mask shaped like a Night Raven with folded wings. Dark-purple vines were carved to the left of its nose bridge, while crimson flame marks spread across the right. Its winglike edges were sharp and clean, its openwork carving impossibly fine.

He couldn't help grumbling inwardly: A mask the moment we meet? Is he throwing a job as an Elation Pathstrider straight in my face? A Masked Fool, too? Do I look that easy to rope in?

"The Aeon of Elation... What a strange name." Gu Yue blinked, then abruptly changed the subject. "Yuhao, aren't you curious how I was able to become a Soul Ring?"

"No."

Huo Yuhao looked up at her. Meeting her