This feeling came quickly and left just as fast.

Fang Zhou let out a breath of relief. It seemed that purifying the desecration aura from the Ant Queen's Magic Crystal had once again earned the attention of the World Will.

Unfortunately, this time, he did not receive a World Rune as a reward. But Fang Zhou wasn't entirely unrewarded. He looked at the status bar on his attribute panel. The [World Will's Attention] status was sparkling brightly, its color now a few shades darker.

Perhaps if I purify the desecration aura a few more times, the World Will will give me more rewards. A brand new World Rune? Or maybe an enhancement to the effects of [Night Watcher I]?

Fang Zhou lightly clenched his fist, his heart filled with anticipation.

Beside him, Instructor Wang Tao's expression had grown somewhat numb. As a Human Alliance Warrior, he had killed Demons for Blue Star and earned merits in its name. He himself had once been extremely lucky to receive the attention of Blue Star's World Will. During that time, although he failed to comprehend a World Rune, he gained a deeper understanding of his own Profession, successfully breaking through and advancing to the Silver rank.

Therefore, Wang Tao naturally understood that the mysterious fluctuation emanating from Fang Zhou just now was the attention of the World Will.

He was completely puzzled. Could this kid, Fang Zhou, be the illegitimate son of Blue Star's World Will? Why does such a rare world blessing keep appearing on him, over and over again?

Lost in his own anticipation, Fang Zhou had no idea what Instructor Wang Tao was grumbling about. After composing himself, he turned to look at the deep pit where the Ant Queen had previously resided. For Fang Zhou, whether it was the Magic Crystal or the Skills, the spoils from the Ant Queen were purely an unexpected bonus. He was more interested in the whereabouts of General Ning Feihu's remains.

With the Ant Queen's massive body gone, Fang Zhou and Wang Tao could finally see the bottom of the deep pit. They had originally thought the bottom of the pit was made of soil and rock, but it turned out to be a pool of viscous, turbid liquid.

Fang Zhou directed the Skeleton Army to scour the deep pit, hoping to discover something. Soon, a Skeleton dredged up a partially dissolved bone fragment.

Fang Zhou and Wang Tao looked at the fragment, which resembled a leg bone. When a sudden thought occurred to them, their expressions turned grim. Quickly, a pile of severely dissolved bone fragments was fished out from the bottom of the pit by the Skeletons.

The bone fragments were jumbled in a chaotic pile, clearly having suffered some powerful destructive force that had shattered the once-complete skeleton beyond recognition.

Fang Zhou's heart tightened as a sense of foreboding washed over him.

「At that moment, in the command hall of the Cave Fortress.」

The instructors who had been constantly monitoring Fang Zhou's exploration of the ant nest could no longer sit still. An instructor shot to his feet, his expression somber. "This... couldn't be General Ning's remains, could it?"

Another instructor slammed his hand on the table, his expression furious. "Damn those ants! How dare they commit such a desecration!"

Lu Hu's expression was also grim. He magnified the live-stream image, carefully examining the pile of bones Fang Zhou had cleaned. After a long moment, he drew a heavy breath and said with some uncertainty, "Let's not get ahead of ourselves. The inner layer of this bone is rough and reddish. It shouldn't be human. It looks more like it belongs to a Frenzy Demon."

Back in the ant nest, Instructor Wang Tao had reached the same conclusion after several checks.

"Fang Zhou, these bone fragments are large and unusually heavy. They also carry the nauseating stench of an Abyssal Demon. They are definitely not human bones." Wang Tao continued, "This must be the corpse of some powerful Demon. Perhaps it's from one of the three Golden Tier Demons that General Ning Feihu fought to the death!"

When it came to the biological structure of Abyssal Demons, Instructor Wang Tao, a veteran who had personally slain countless Demons on the Human-Demon Battlefield, held absolute authority.

Upon hearing this, Fang Zhou unconsciously let out a sigh of relief, his expression easing slightly. He gently picked up a bone fragment and looked at his attribute panel, where a new prompt had appeared.

"Detected a trace amount of desecration aura. Estimated consumption of 10 Soul Power for Purification."

"Begin Purification?"

Fang Zhou paused. He hadn't expected that decades after the bloody battle, a trace of desecration aura would still linger on these bone fragments.

Golden Tier experts are as terrifying as they say!

After silently confirming, 10 points of Soul Power were consumed, and the desecration aura within the bone fragment was quickly dissolved. But the bone fragment also turned to dust, scattering from between Fang Zhou's fingers.

Seeing this, Instructor Wang Tao became even more certain.

He said to Fang Zhou, "Fang Zhou, did you just use a Purification skill again? It seems these fragments are indeed the bones of High-Tier Demons. The flesh and bones of Demons at Golden Tier and above are filled with desecration aura; it's the very source of their power. Only their bones, after the desecration aura within them is purified, will turn to dust and vanish completely, just like that."

Fang Zhou nodded slightly, looked at the heap of Demon bones before him, and asked, "Instructor Wang, should I purify all these fragments?"

Wang Tao shook his head. "No rush. These are precious historical artifacts and spoils of war. Later, I'll take them back to the military academy to analyze their composition. It might help us reconstruct the course of General Ning Feihu's battle."

Fang Zhou, upon hearing this, naturally didn't insist. Under the erosion of time, the desecration aura on these High-Tier Demon bones wasn't very thick; in total, it wasn't even comparable to the Ant Queen's Magic Crystal from earlier. Even if he purified it all, he probably wouldn't gain much attention from the World Will.

At this, Instructor Wang Tao smirked coldly and said, "No wonder that Fierce Ant Queen was able to condense a rare Magic Crystal. It must have encountered these Demon bones while digging its nest. By some coincidence, it absorbed the desecration aura within them, which allowed it to propagate such a massive swarm of Fierce Ants."

Fang Zhou immediately understood. He quickly came to his senses, his expression excited as he said, "Instructor Wang, since we found the bones of the Demons that died with General Ning, his remains must be nearby!"

Wang Tao nodded heavily, his gaze fixed on Fang Zhou, full of anticipation.

Fang Zhou once again activated the [Soul Realm] skill, communicating with the [Heroic Spirit Battle Banner] in his hand. Under the mysterious guidance of the Heroic Spirit's will from within the Battle Banner, Fang Zhou's gaze locked onto a nearby rock wall piled with hundreds of ant eggs. Something seemed to be hidden there.

He summoned a Skeleton Flying Spear and hurled it precisely at the rock wall.

With a loud bang, the rock wall shattered, revealing a wide cavern space behind it.

Instructor Wang Tao, his expression one of pure excitement, charged forward. Fang Zhou directed the Skeleton Army to follow close behind.

In the center of the cavern, a majestic, towering figure nearly two meters tall stood.

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