Chapter 181: Successfully Hunting the Evil God

Chapter 181: The Hunt for the Evil God Succeeds

At the same time.

Beneath the apartment building.

At a distant intersection.

Song Xu and the others were racing toward the building at breakneck speed.

"Hmph," Song Xu thought to himself. "The truck was just for ramming people."

"When it comes to real travel, we have a top-tier courier and two top-tier deliverymen—both speed and carrying capacity are nothing short of astonishing."

At that moment, Song Xu and the two construction site followers were being carried on the backs of two deliverymen and one courier, their bodies leaving a trail of afterimages as they swiftly weaved through traffic.

Seeing the constant urgent messages from Huo Shan, Song Xu replied: Stay calm, we've arrived.

...

Inside the apartment.

Huo Shan listened to the other's reluctant sigh, watched his departing figure, and felt a slight relief in his heart.

Then, seeing Song Xu's message that he had arrived, he relaxed even more: "Finally safe."

A moment later, Huo Shan saw Song Xu walk in through the door, felt a surge of joy, and immediately opened the hidden compartment to rush over: "You're finally here, kid!"

But when he saw the face turning toward him, Huo Shan suddenly sensed something was off.

"This guy's face is a bit stiff..."

"This guy seems..."

"Not Song Xu?"

Huo Shan looked at the other's pants and suddenly realized: "Damn it, isn't this the same guy from before? He changed his face, disguised himself as Song Xu? He knows Song Xu's info, and he knows Song Xu came up?"

The one who had just entered the room was Zhang Yu, who, after circulating the Crimson Marrow Primordial Qi, had altered his facial features to match Song Xu's profile, disguising himself as Song Xu.

But this disguise was actually quite crude; if Huo Shan had observed carefully, he would have quickly recognized that Zhang Yu was not Song Xu.

Yet in his panic, Huo Shan failed to notice the flaws in Zhang Yu's appearance at first.

Seeing Zhang Yu walking toward him with a smile, Huo Shan let out a startled cry and tried to retreat.

But Zhang Yu's figure flickered, and he had already grabbed Huo Shan in his hand.

"Finally got you," Fu Ji laughed heartily. "Zhang Yu, quickly use the method I taught you to suppress him! Don't let him move!"

Zhang Yu struck out with his palm, slamming it hard onto the bear plush toy, sending violent tremors through Huo Shan.

According to Fu Ji, these evil gods were immensely powerful when performing rituals, but their true bodies were not strong—otherwise, they wouldn't need to hide from the detection of the righteous gods.

Though the bear plush looked like a mere toy, physical attacks against it could harm the evil god.

Moreover, since the consciousness was hidden within and retained full perception, intense vibrations could disrupt the evil god's consciousness through its own perception.

As Fu Ji put it, it was like motion sickness.

Seeing Huo Shan unable to move after the shaking, Zhang Yu grabbed the black bead that was Fu Ji and pressed it firmly onto the bear plush's head.

With a ripple of evil god power, Fu Ji temporarily suppressed the bear plush's consciousness.

In an instant, Fu Ji rapidly searched through the ritual power within the other's body and cheered: "Haha, it's done, Zhang Yu! I've temporarily suppressed this guy."

One by one, ritual records flashed before Fu Ji's eyes, and she murmured: "Let me see what rules he set for his followers."

Just then, a series of sounds of breaking air came, as if six figures were tearing through the night sky, rapidly approaching the room.

Bai Zhenzhen: Yu Zi! Why the hell haven't you come down yet! They've already gone up!

Zhang Yu had no time to read Bai Zhenzhen's phone message; hearing the approaching sounds, he knew they were about to reach the door.

...

Song Xu and the other six sped all the way, burst through the broken door, and saw the entire room littered with smashed objects.

The bear plush sat upright on a chair, with someone kneeling before it—from the side, it looked like Li Quan.

Seeing the bear plush unharmed, Song Xu and the others breathed a slight sigh of relief.

But a doubt arose in Song Xu's mind: "Li Quan came back so quickly? Did he pay the fine and bail and rush over?"

Seeing their arrival, Li Quan snorted coldly and said: "What the hell are you doing? Why are you so late? Do you know how much the master was frightened?"

"As followers of the evil god, how do you protect the master's safety?"

"Kneel down now!"

At that moment, the bear plush on the sofa trembled and let out a cold snort, as if displeased with their attitude.

Though the evil god followers still had various doubts, they quickly knelt before the sofa and began apologizing to Huo Shan.

"Sorry, master, we came late."

"Master, we rushed here as fast as we could..."

"Master, we will definitely avenge you!"

Song Xu, however, found Li Quan increasingly suspicious, and the more he looked, the more he noticed differences in the other's appearance. But since Huo Shan mostly commanded them remotely, and Song Xu rarely saw Li Quan in person, he hadn't recognized the imposter immediately.

So Song Xu's figure flickered, blocking the exit, and with a sharp gaze, he said: "You're not Li Quan!"

Feeling the gazes of everyone in the room fixed on him, Zhang Yu's face shifted slightly; as the Crimson Marrow Primordial Qi circulated, it transformed into another unfamiliar visage.

"Yeah, I'm not Li Quan."

"So you've revealed your identities as evil god followers..."

Hearing these words, the group's faces twisted in horror, and then they felt waves of heat surging through their bodies, as if flames were about to burn from within.

"No!" Song Xu exclaimed. "Grab him! Kill him!"

Unlike Zhang Yu, who had been abandoned by Fu Ji at first and later suppressed her, these six followers of Song Xu had always been under Huo Shan's control, bound by a series of wishes—including not harming Huo Shan and not revealing their identities as evil god followers.

Seeing the six agitated figures, Zhang Yu recalled the memory of watching Zhou Tianyi burn to death in the abandoned building.

At that time, Zhou Tianyi, as an evil god follower, had also died by self-immolation after accidentally revealing his identity.

Later, Zhang Yu asked Fu Ji about this and learned that many evil gods, to prevent detection by righteous gods, would proactively set such wishes.

Once followers realized they had leaked their identity—whether intentionally or unintentionally—the ritual's backlash would be triggered.

And after Fu Ji had just checked Huo Shan's ritual records, she confirmed this.

Watching the six people's skin growing redder, Zhang Yu thought to himself: "Sure enough, a stupid ritual."

At the same time, Song Xu felt the ritual power within him beginning its countdown. He roared and charged at Zhang Yu.

"Kill him before the full backlash! Then it won't count as leaking information, and we still have a chance to survive!"

The other five also changed expressions, mustering all their strength to attack Zhang Yu.

At this moment, Song Xu, along with five peak Qi Refining experts, surged toward Zhang Yu with a desperate, murderous intent—a crushing pressure Zhang Yu had never faced before.

The surging force compressed the air, as if it would boil the atmosphere within the room.

Palm force, fist force, leg force... Six masters, six lethal strikes simultaneously hurtled toward Zhang Yu, as if to tear him to shreds in the next instant.

But faced with such terrifying pressure, Zhang Yu merely smiled, lunged forward, and grabbed the bear plushie from the sofa to shield himself.

Do not harm the evil god!

Seeing the bear plushie before Zhang Yu, the six disciples were startled, and each altered their moves, daring not to strike forward.

The fierce change of moves under full force left the six masters so frustrated they could spit blood, their qi and mana churning violently.

Yet Zhang Yu, seizing this momentary opportunity, charged back, his protective aura surging wildly, and the black Formless Cloud Aura engulfed them all.

"What is this!"

Feeling his vision completely obscured, Song Xu reacted swiftly; thinking the aura had blinded him, he roared and swept his palms to scatter the black-cloud-like Formless Cloud Aura.

The other five moved just as quickly, tearing the aura apart like shredding mist.

The Formless Cloud Aura that Yu Xinghan couldn't clear in half an hour now couldn't hold for even half a second under the combined assault of these six masters.

But just as they dispersed the aura in an instant, they heard a bang—the window beside them had shattered.

Seeing the broken window, one of the delivery disciples, fastest as a flash of lightning, leaped out first, intent on chasing Zhang Yu.

The remaining five, feeling the ritual power within them growing hotter and hotter, jumped out without hesitation.

A mere few stories' height could not kill them.

At that moment, they were filled only with murderous intent and the resolve to kill Zhang Yu at all costs.

But when they saw the stool that had smashed the window falling downward, their eyes flashed with a mix of shock and fury.

"Was it this stool that broke the window and fell? Not that man jumping down?"

Meanwhile, inside the apartment, Zhang Yu remained hidden in a patch of black shadow—the shadow formed by the Great Sun Qi Sea absorbing light.

Earlier, he had first used the bear plushie to force the six to change their moves, buying time; then he used the Great Sun Qi Sea combined with Formless Cloud Aura to blind them, next grabbed the stool to smash the window, and himself fell into this shadow.

Now Zhang Yu stood in this darkness, as naturally as if he were a shadow in the corner of the room.

Listening to the roars and screams from outside the window, Zhang Yu sighed, "Information asymmetry, information asymmetry."

With that, he picked up the bear plushie from the floor, turned, and walked out of the apartment.

At the same time, six fiery figures roared as they shot upward, leaping toward the apartment windows, but soon turned to ashes both inside and outside the apartment, dissipating into the night sky.

Minutes later, a large number of constables arrived at the scene and sealed off the entire floor of the apartment.

Not long after, under the awed gazes of many constables, the Songyang City Patrol Team arrived and began investigating the incident.

On the other side, after retrieving the surveillance from the suburban unfinished building, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen returned to the apartment and looked at Fuji with eager anticipation, saying, "Hey, can you enhance our potential now?"

(End of this chapter)