Good

Divinity boiled, and this time, even Xia Yitiao, who was outside the water curtain, was startled.

“Can you hold on?”

He voiced his question to the sealed object, but it offered no response.

This made Xia Yitiao feel increasingly that something was wrong!

The biggest difference between a sealed object and a transcendent item was that they possessed intelligence and could be communicated with.

This was especially true for a sealed object like this one, which he had cooperated with for a long time.

Even if Xia Yitiao didn't use his divinity, logically speaking, the sealed object should have given him some sort of vague answer.

Yet now, the sealed object was terrifyingly silent, as if it simply didn't have the time to deal with him.

Xia Yitiao's divinity began to stir, preparing for any eventuality just in case.

Within the water curtain, everyone grew tense.

Lyu Xiaofeng's face was turning purple, the infection of the toxins growing more severe by the second.

“I gave you the Sequence 3 blood, and this is how you use it? If I had known, I would have been better off letting myself lose control. At least then I might have had a chance to take down this evil god.”

Jade Dog said nothing to his complaints, but Red Fox gave a cold sneer.

“Even if you lost control, it would only be delaying the inevitable. The moment you lost control and harmed a single person, you would become our target. How long do you think you could have lasted then?”

“Since you were once a soldier, you should know the strength of us Baleful Stars.”

Lyu Xiaofeng didn't argue, because he knew Red Fox was right.

Back when he was on the battlefield, he had heard many stories about the Baleful Stars.

Assassinating enemy commanders and spreading information in the shadows were all their specialties.

It was no exaggeration to say that their contributions were not a single bit less than those of the soldiers who shed blood on the front lines.

“I don't know if the water curtain can withstand the power of this explosion. If it breaks, the evil god's self-detonation, the sludge's contamination, and that Black Death Lolita's toxins... the civilians outside will be in grave danger!”

Lyu Xiaofeng almost laughed out of sheer anger. What time was it, and they still had the mind to worry about the civilians outside?

Besides, civilians were a dime a dozen.

But you wouldn't necessarily find a single Demigod among tens of thousands of commoners.

In terms of rarity and value, a Demigod was clearly more important!

Instead of worrying about those commoners, they should be worrying about how they were going to survive.

At the thought of this, Lyu Xiaofeng was consumed by fury.

He had originally possessed many transcendent items and even a sealed object, but that traitorous Old Fourth had sold every last one of them.

Consequently, now that he was in danger, he found himself without a single useful tool.

“Open the water curtain and let us out!”

Lyu Xiaofeng spoke decisively. In his current state, there was no way he could survive the explosion.

Red Fox and Jade Dog remained unmoved by his words. Lyu Xiaofeng looked up and roared.

“Bureau Chief Xia! Open the water curtain! Do you really want to watch the Baleful Stars die here? Aren't you afraid the Headquarters will punish you for your crimes?”

Xia Yitiao still didn't respond. Lyu Xiaofeng was truly starting to panic; the repeated setbacks had already sent his mental state into a tailspin.

He turned to Red Fox and said, “Say something! It wasn't easy for you to become a Demigod, was it? Are you really willing to die here?”

Red Fox looked at him with a trace of pity in her eyes.

“We are Baleful Stars. Do you understand the meaning behind those two words?”

Jade Dog spoke with equal seriousness.

“Don't waste your breath. Even if Bureau Chief Xia wanted to open the water curtain, we wouldn't agree to it. We are Baleful Stars, and our duty is to eliminate any existence that threatens the people.”

“If the water curtain isn't opened, only the few of us will die.”

“If the water curtain is opened, tens of thousands of civilians might die!”

“Forget tens of thousands—even if it were only a few thousand or a few hundred, we wouldn't take that risk.”

Lyu Xiaofeng was nearly exploding with rage as he pointed a finger at Jade Dog's nose.

“Are you lunatics?! Trading a few hundred civilians for a Demigod—a battlefield commander would laugh his head off if he heard that!”

“Is there a more profitable deal in this world? Forget a few hundred—even a few thousand or tens of thousands would still be a profit!”

“Don't act so compassionate. It's not like I haven't seen bloodthirsty, murderous Baleful Stars before. What are you pretending for!”

Jade Dog and Red Fox didn't refute Lyu Xiaofeng's questioning, because what he said did indeed happen.

It was an unavoidable reality; no matter how good an organization was, there would always be a few bad seeds.

But the vast majority of Baleful Stars were good, and that was enough.

Seeing the pair's fearless attitude, Lyu Xiaofeng was so angry he didn't know what else to say. He could only look toward Black Death Lolita in the distance.

“The evil god you summoned is now trying to kill you along with everyone else. What about you? Are you just going to sit there and wait for death?”

Black Death Lolita was already fuming, and Lyu Xiaofeng's words instantly resonated with her.

“That bastard! Not only did he not give me the rewards he promised, but now he wants to blow me up too? Is this the promise of an evil god?”

Seeing a glimmer of hope, Lyu Xiaofeng instinctively wanted to move closer to her.

Boom!

The humanoid figure made of sludge began to crumble bit by bit. Large chunks of mire fell away, and an incredibly brilliant light of energy began to glow from the sludge giant's chest and abdomen.

“Open the water curtain!”

Lyu Xiaofeng was going mad with frustration. For some reason, he felt like he had been extremely unlucky lately.

His sealed object was lost, his son and grandson were killed, and his transcendent items and antiques had all been sold.

Even his father's head had been chopped off, and he himself was now on the brink of death.

It had all happened too fast. Could there be something wrong with the feng shui of his ancestral graves?

If he could survive this, he would definitely find an expert to take a look at the feng shui.

Even an ant would struggle to live, let alone a Demigod.

Jade Dog and the others began to search for a way to survive. Even Da Di couldn't help but look at Black Death Lolita and ask, “You're the one who summoned this evil god. Don't you know its weakness?”

Black Death Lolita couldn't be bothered to respond. With her life on the line, how could she have the time to talk to this big oaf?

The light at the evil god's chest grew brighter and brighter. Within the divine kingdom, the new black shadow's size was nearly catching up to the old one.

Then, the new black shadow split off a portion of its power and merged it into the old shadow.

Vaguely, a new trace of understanding appeared in Yin Yang's mind.

These two black shadows seemed to share some overlapping authorities.

It was like one god having authority over fire while another had authority over lava; there were common points between them.

And what the new black shadow was doing now was transferring all these overlapping, common authorities to the old black shadow.

Yin Yang stroked his chin, wondering if having the shadows of two gods within his divine kingdom would cause any problems.

The old black shadow had granted him a massive increase in strength last time; he wondered what this new one would bring.

Regardless, he was the master of the divine kingdom now. Since it wanted to stay here, it was only right that it paid some rent, wasn't it?

Just as he was thinking, a streak of white light slashed through the sky, piercing directly through the water curtain and skewering the core where the energy was gathering!