Inside the apartment, André was still slumped on the ground, staring blankly.
This wasn't because of the injury on his face - Oliver's healing technique was very effective, and within less than ten seconds after being enveloped by that green light, his wounds and pain had mostly healed and disappeared.
The reason André sat there motionless was because he was having a headache.
When he had been talking with Jennifer earlier, he was completely unlike Tao Ran from the Original Dome Realm, who could handle any situation or crisis with calm composure.
If it had been his former self, he would never have had that attitude. No matter how much he disliked that Jennifer, he could have casually dealt with it back then. Powerless shouting was just the barking of a house dog.
As they say, a wise man doesn't fight when the odds are against him - why provoke with words and get slapped for nothing?
Unfortunately, at that time his body, even his own will, were already in an involuntary, uncontrolled state.
Obviously, this was due to the original owner of this body. This person's residual consciousness, instincts, obsessions, and even temperament were all influencing him, driving him to act that way.
This meant three things. First, his control over this body was even worse than he had imagined.
Second, he had underestimated the impact on his own soul after merging with André's residual spirit.
Although he had gained this body and accepted André's residual memories, at the same time he himself had also changed, integrating parts that previously belonged to André into his body, even his soul.
Third, the influence of André's residual spirit on him had been amplified at least tenfold by the secret technique Dugu Tianyi had imposed on him, making his current situation even worse.
Speaking of which, he had felt something was wrong back at the sports arena. How could he have gotten angry to that degree just because of two heavy hits and contempt from his opponent? To actually disregard the consequences and directly use techniques this body couldn't handle?
The "Divine Sky Limitless Purple Void Immortal King" from the Original Dome Realm, though famously narrow-minded, was far from losing his reason over small matters to that extent.
André thought this was really troublesome. Although he had long known that merging with another's residual spirit would certainly bring various troubles, he had never imagined before that the situation would deteriorate to this extent.
The only thing André was grateful for was that the fusion of both souls was still dominated by Tao Ran. He examined himself deeply and felt no major abnormalities - he was still himself, not dominated by another person's thinking.
However, it was also fact that his personality had changed, and to a large extent, he could no longer act according to his own original will. So whatever he wanted to do in the future, he had to take this point into consideration.
André reflected for a full ten minutes before struggling to stand up and closing his door.
This door lock was broken and couldn't be locked properly, but it was enough to shut out all the probing gazes from neighbors outside.
Only then did André glance up at the light fixture above. He felt fortunate that there were no signs of tampering there - his fortune should still be safe.
In this chaotic neighborhood, being careful could never be wrong.
André rested only briefly before beginning to move various furniture inside, piling them in corners.
As a third-level magic energy swordsman, his physical qualities were almost at the limits of what the human body could achieve, so André's current body had three to four hundred kilograms of strength, easily moving large furniture pieces like beds and sofas.
Then he used a fruit knife to carve visually mysterious runes on the cleared floor space in the center of the room.
Each completed carving caused a hazy spiritual light to shimmer on the wooden floor.
If this were the Original Dome Realm, André would need certain immortal stones and jade, or other materials as foundations to set up this kind of talisman array.
But in this world, spiritual essence was so abundant that André could hardly imagine it, so he could skip this step entirely.
He was a renowned talisman array master who could compensate for this deficiency through other methods.
After about three and a half hours, a talisman array resembling an innate Eight Trigrams diagram gradually took shape in the center of this semi-basement room.
After André handled all the details properly and checked multiple times, he sat right in the center of the array. Then he cut a small opening in his wrist with the fruit knife, letting abundant blood spill down and merge into the array.
Soon after, excitement gradually appeared in André's pupils.
He first drew a strange rune in front of himself, then reached his hand into a gradually appearing black void ahead.
If someone looked from the side at this moment, they would see that most of André's right hand had vanished into thin air.
This was actually the Divine Sky Gate's top-level secret technique "Qiankun Divine Seal." The Original Dome Realm was scarce in spiritual power, and the production of various precious materials decreased year by year. Spatial artifacts that were common tens of thousands of years ago had few remaining by André's era.
However, thirteen hundred years ago, the Divine Sky Gate had a peerless master who created the "Qiankun Divine Seal" technique. All those at the golden core realm and above could use this technique to create their own space and store various items inside.
Although this space was considerably smaller than true spatial artifacts, it was economical, environmentally friendly, had no consumption, no pollution, and had certain development potential.
The "Qiankun Divine Seal" at golden core realm was at most one foot square, but by André's great ascension realm, it could expand to three zhang in diameter.
What André had never expected was that after encountering that disaster in the boundless void, even his several natal immortal treasures had all turned to dust, yet his "Qiankun Divine Seal" could be preserved without immediately collapsing.
After a while, André suddenly pulled something out from that black void. It was two mirrors with an overall silver-white color, but he didn't even glance at them, casually throwing them on the ground.
Next came four golden ingots, seven pigeon egg-sized gems, five jade talisman plates, nine five-inch square spirit stones, all extracted one by one from that black void.
As time passed, some anxiety gradually appeared in André's eyes. With his extraction, the already scarred space within this "Qiankun Divine Seal" was in continuous collapse due to external spiritual disturbance, yet he still hadn't found what he really wanted.
He could only explore and search using this clumsy method, because everything inside was currently in a scattered state, and his severely injured soul had lost its sensing ability.
Until a moment later, he finally relaxed slightly and extracted a nine-story purple-gold pagoda from that black void.
At this moment, the space within the "Qiankun Divine Seal" happened to completely collapse.
André looked helpless and could only grab two more golden ingots nearby, then with flying hands, quickly formed a strange hand seal in front of him, completely sealing the spatial gap. He let his many years of accumulated treasures scatter forever in the outer void beyond realms.
But next, André felt no regret at all. Instead, he collapsed on the ground, looking at the purple-gold pagoda beside him and laughing heartily, thinking his luck really wasn't completely ruined.
Even in the Original Dome Realm, no one had ever known that the so-called "Divine Sky Limitless Purple Void Immortal King" Tao Ran, praised as the "genius among geniuses" of the cultivation world whose entire dao cultivation was unprecedented and unmatched, actually had only mediocre cultivation talent, not much better than ordinary people. The reason he could achieve great ascension in just a few decades was because of this strange treasure he named the "Divine Sky Spiritual Fortune Purple Gold Pagoda."
He obtained this item at age nine, then soared to greatness. As an ordinary person, he was accepted by the Divine Sky Gate, after which his cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, encountering almost no significant obstacles. All cultivation methods and dao classics - he understood them upon comprehension; all immortal techniques, talisman arrays, alchemy, and so on - he learned them immediately upon studying.
Others thought it was his exceptional talent, but André knew it was all because of this strange treasure that could master his own "luck" and "momentum" through the power of merit. Without this item, he couldn't even enter the immortal gate.