# Chapter 467: Preserved Intact
To be honest, curly hair wasn't really that big of a deal.
But the problem was that Enel shouldn't have used a headband to wrap up his hair in the first place. Because Ian had already formed a preconceived notion and gotten used to seeing him with his head wrapped, now that he'd been beaten and suddenly revealed this head of curly hair, anyone would find it an eyesore...
Most importantly, Enel's earlobes were very large. When his head was wrapped, it wasn't too noticeable, but now paired with that curly hair, he looked like an old lady...
Ian felt like he was going to laugh himself into a hernia, while Enel himself had a face alternating between red and white.
Clearly, Enel also thought his hairstyle wasn't good-looking; otherwise, he wouldn't have wrapped his hair so tightly. Even a god had to save face... If anyone else had mocked him like this, Enel would have, without a second word, directly hit them with a Judgment of God.
But now, the one mocking him happened to be Ian, to the point where Enel felt like banging his head against the wall!
What could he do? He couldn't win in a fight, couldn't escape, and now Ian held his life in his hands. Was he supposed to fight Ian to the death just because of a hairstyle?
Fortunately, Ian wasn't the type to deliberately mock someone's flaws. He had just suddenly seen such a bizarre hairstyle and couldn't hold it in. After laughing enough, Ian tossed Enel's headband back to him and said, "Put it on!"
Enel gloomily took the headband and put it on his head, then lay on the ground and asked Ian weakly, "What exactly do you want?"
This was what puzzled him the most. Logically speaking, since Ian's blade could cut him, he could certainly kill him. But during their fight, Ian hadn't used his weapon much.
It was clear that Ian had shown him mercy.
"I want all the gold you have!" Ian crouched down and looked at him.
"Just... just for that!?" Enel's eyes nearly popped out. "You challenged the dignity of a god just for so-called gold!?"
The moment he finished speaking, there was a sharp *smack* as Ian slapped him across the face, looking displeased. "Even now, you still think you're a god?"
Enel was dazed from the slap. His face was already swollen, and Ian's slap added five more finger marks.
Enel felt so wronged. He had just said it out of habit, blurting it out. Did Ian have to hit him like that?
Just as Ian had anticipated, this thorough beating had completely shattered Enel's confidence. Like a balloon blown up too much, once punctured, it deflated faster than usual. Enel's proud, invincible mentality was gone, replaced by the thick, lingering psychological shadow Ian had brought him.
Although he was still unwilling, he knew he was no match for Ian and couldn't even take revenge.
Seeing Enel looking like he was about to cry, Ian sneered at him, "Don't forget, you came to me first. If you hadn't shown up, I was just planning to take the gold and leave. But who told you to think you were so tough?"
These words hit Enel even harder. Yes, it was he who had provoked Ian first, and now he was the one being taught a lesson like a grandson...
A classic case of trying to show off and getting screwed instead...
"The gold is yours!" Enel said gloomily. "I'll give you all the gold I've collected! Just take the gold and leave this Sky Island!"
"I'll take the gold, of course!" Ian said first, then looked up at the black thunderclouds in the sky. Because Ian had stopped him in time, although the thunderclouds were still quite large, they hadn't spread to cover the entire island. Even so, Ian still felt somewhat annoyed. He lowered his head and asked Enel, "I remember, you wanted to destroy the entire Sky Island, making me and my companions lose our foothold and fall down, right?"
"..." Enel didn't dare answer this question. He was afraid that if he answered, Ian would beat him again.
"I heard from the people of Angel Island that you destroyed your own hometown back then! And now you want to destroy this Sky Island too?" Ian continued pressing.
"Why not!?" Enel suddenly looked up and retorted to Ian, "Everything must follow the laws of nature. This Sky Island is not a cloud yet can exist in the sky. The people here are not birds yet can survive in the air. All of this violates the laws of nature. Earth returns to earth, people return to people, gods return to gods. Everything has its own destination. I'm just correcting these violated laws. What's wrong with that?"
This theory was the principle Enel had always followed, and it was also the reason for his extreme behavior.
However, upon hearing this theory, Ian asked him a question that left him dumbfounded: "Then according to you, since you can't even beat me, you can't be a god. So where is your destination?"
Enel stared at Ian in shock, unable to answer.
Before meeting Ian, his inflated mentality made him feel he was the invincible god, and the god's destination was the infinite earth. That's why Enel built the Ark Maxim, wanting to go to the infinite earth of his dreams.
But now, Ian's appearance had knocked this god down from his pedestal, making him realize that he was actually just a person. So what was he supposed to do now?
If he wasn't a god, he wasn't qualified to go to the infinite earth...
"Can't say anything, can you?" Ian looked at him and sneered, "I'm exactly the opposite. In my view, what exists is reasonable. Whether it's the Sky Island or the Sky Island people, since they can live in the sky, it means it's reasonable. But you can't even see that, willfully deciding their fate based on your own ideas!?"
With that, Ian shook his head and said, "You're sick. You need treatment!"
Looking up, Ian examined the thunderclouds in the sky. He felt that if he left these thunderclouds alone, they might still be dangerous. Those thunderclouds contained massive amounts of lightning energy. If left unchecked, when the energy accumulated to a certain level, lightning would still strike down.
Now, Ian had subdued Enel before he could cause greater destruction. In Ian's view, this was a good thing. It wasn't that to save this Sky Island, he had to let it be destroyed first and then rebuild, letting Enel torment everyone until they felt despair before stepping in as a savior. Stopping Enel in advance allowed this island to be preserved to the greatest extent.
Thinking this, Ian flew back into the sky and plunged into the thunderclouds.
He planned to absorb the electrical energy in these thunderclouds, leaving no hidden dangers behind.
At the same time, leaving like this was also a test to see if Enel would still try to run.
...
While Ian was plunging into the thunderclouds, panic had already spread across Angel Island below. The people who had escaped from building Enel's ark brought back news that shocked all the residents of Angel Island.
People had thought their families were serving the god, but it turned out that wasn't the case at all. They had been captured as slaves! Not only that, but the god was also going to destroy the island.
After getting through the initial disbelief, people gradually began to suspect. Especially when they noticed black thunderclouds appearing over the Angel Island sacred ground, a long-suppressed fear dominated them.
For Enel, the people of Sky Island were afraid and terrified. They knew what kind of power Enel had and what kind of past he had.
As panic began to spread, people started to flee, and this fleeing drove even more people...
People began boarding ships one after another, fleeing toward the Gate of Heaven.
However, strangely enough, the black thunderclouds in the sky stopped spreading after a while.
"What's going on?" People looked suspiciously at the sky over the distant sacred ground.
Not only that, but they gradually observed that the lightning spreading through the black thunderclouds seemed to be disappearing.
Before long, the black thunderclouds in the sky completely vanished, replaced by the white clouds familiar to the Sky Island people.
"Are... are we saved?" People stared blankly at this unbelievable scene, muttering to themselves.
It was at this moment that the escaped slaves suddenly remembered the man with black flame wings they had encountered while descending on leaves!
They couldn't help blurting out, exclaiming, "Enemy of the god! It's the enemy of the god! It must be him! It must be him who stopped Enel!"