Chapter 185: Evil God Hunted

Meanwhile.

Below the apartment building.

At a distant intersection.

Song Xu and the others were rapidly flying toward the building.

"Hmph," Song Xu thought to himself, "the big truck was only for hitting people."

"When we really need to travel, we have a top-tier courier and two top-tier delivery drivers—both speed and load capacity are astonishing."

At that moment, Song Xu and the two other construction site followers were each being carried on the backs of two delivery-driver followers and one courier follower, their bodies leaving a series of afterimages as they quickly weaved through traffic.

Seeing the continuous urgings from Huo Shan, Song Xu replied: "Hold steady, we've already 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 considerably: "Finally safe."

A moment later, Huo Shan saw Song Xu walking in through the door, rejoiced, and immediately opened the hidden compartment and rushed over: "You finally made it, 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?"

Looking at the other's pants, Huo Shan suddenly realized: "Damn it, isn't this that guy from just now? He changed his facial features and disguised himself as Song Xu? This guy knows Song Xu's information, and he knows Song Xu came up?"

The one stepping into the room right now was Zhang Yu, who, after circulating the Red Marrow Chaos Qi, had altered his facial features according to Song Xu's data and dressed up as Song Xu.

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

However, in his panic, Huo Shan didn't immediately notice the problems with Zhang Yu.

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

But Zhang Yu's form flickered, and he already had Huo Shan in his grip.

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

Zhang Yu struck out with a palm, fiercely hitting the bear plush toy, causing Huo Shan to shake violently.

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

Although this plush bear looked like just a toy, striking it with physical attacks could harm the evil god.

Moreover, because the consciousness was hidden inside and had full perception, intense shaking could disturb the evil god's consciousness through its perception.

According to Fu Ji, it was like getting carsick.

Seeing the immobilized Huo Shan after the shaking, Zhang Yu grabbed the black bead that was Fu Ji and shoved it against the plush bear's head.

With the stirring of strands of evil god power, Fu Ji temporarily suppressed the consciousness of the plush bear.

In an instant, Fu Ji quickly searched the ritual power within the other's body and cheered: "Haha, it's done, Zhang Yu! This guy is temporarily under my control."

Lines of ritual records flashed before Fu Ji, and she murmured: "Let me first check what rules he set for his followers."

Just then, the sound of breaking air came from several directions, as if six figures were cutting through the night sky, rapidly approaching the room.

Bai Zhenzhen: Bro! Why the hell haven't you come down yet! They're already going up!

Zhang Yu didn't have time to read Bai Zhenzhen's phone message; listening to the approaching sounds of breaking air, he realized they were about to reach the door.

The six—Song Xu and the others—came speeding along, charged through the broken door, and saw the entire room filled with smashed objects.

The bear plush was sitting upright on a chair, with someone kneeling before it; from the side, it seemed to be Li Quan.

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

However, a doubt surged in Song Xu's heart: "Li Quan is back so soon? Did he pay the fine and bail and rush over?"

And seeing everyone arrive, Li Quan snorted coldly and said, "What are you doing? Why are you so late? Do you have any idea how frightened the master was?"

"As followers of the evil god, how are you protecting the safety of the evil god master?"

"Why don't you kneel down immediately?"

At the same time, the bear plush toy on the sofa trembled and let out a snort, as if dissatisfied with their attitude.

Although the evil god followers still had various doubts in their hearts, seeing this, they quickly knelt in front of the sofa and began to apologize to Huoshan.

"Sorry, master, we are late."

"Master, we came at full speed..."

"Master, we will definitely help you take revenge!"

Song Xu, however, felt more and more that Li Quan was off. The more he looked, the more he felt that the other's appearance actually had differences from Li Quan. It was just that Huoshan mostly commanded them remotely, and Song Xu rarely saw Li Quan on normal days, so he didn't recognize the other at first.

So Song Xu flickered his figure, directly blocking the exit, then fixed his gaze and said, "You are not Li Quan!"

Feeling the eyes of everyone in the room staring at him, Zhang Yu's face shifted slightly, and with the operation of the Red Marrow Chaos Primordial Qi, he transformed into another unfamiliar appearance.

"Yes, I am not Li Quan."

"So you have revealed your identities as evil god followers..."

Hearing these words, everyone's faces changed drastically, and then they felt waves of heat rolling over their bodies, as if flames were about to burn from within.

"Not good!" Song Xu exclaimed in alarm. "Catch him! Kill him!"

Unlike Zhang Yu, who was first abandoned by Fuji and later suppressed Fuji,

These six followers of Song Xu had been under Huoshan's control, having been thoroughly bound by a series of wishes, including not harming Huoshan and not revealing their identities as evil god followers.

Watching the six agitated figures, Zhang Yu's mind recalled the memory of himself in the unfinished building, watching Zhou Tianyi burn to death.

At that time, Zhou Tianyi, as an evil god follower, had burned to death precisely because he accidentally revealed his identity as an evil god follower.

Not a single mistake—every move's internal content is scrutinized at a glance.

Later, Zhang Yu asked Fuji about this matter, and only then did he learn that many evil gods, in order to prevent investigation by the righteous gods, would proactively set such wishes.

Once a follower discovers that they have leaked their identity, whether actively or passively, it will trigger the backlash of the ritual.

And just now, after Fuji checked Huoshan's ritual records, this was further confirmed.

Watching the six people's skin turning redder and redder, Zhang Yu thought to himself, "As expected, it's a retarded ritual."

At the same time, Song Xu felt that the ritual power inside him had already begun a countdown. He roared and charged toward Zhang Yu to kill him.

"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 drastically, and all mustered their full strength, ready to kill Zhang Yu.

At this moment, Song Xu plus five peak Qi Refining experts—six people—swept toward Zhang Yu with desperate, life-or-death killing intent. The heavy pressure was something Zhang Yu had never experienced before.

The surging waves of force compressed the atmosphere, as if about to boil the air in the room.

Palm force, fist force, leg force... Six masters, six deadly techniques, all crashed toward Zhang Yu simultaneously, as if about to tear him to pieces in the next instant.

But facing such terrifying pressure, Zhang Yu gave a slight smile, pounced forward, and grabbed the bear plush toy from the sofa, holding it in front of him.

No harming the evil god!

Seeing the bear plush toy in front of Zhang Yu, the six followers were startled, and they all changed their moves, not daring to strike forward.

The violent change of moves under full-force attacks left the six masters so frustrated they felt like spitting blood, their Qi and blood and magical power churning.

And Zhang Yu, seizing this momentary opportunity, charged back instead, his protective Qi surging wildly, and the black Formless Cloud Shield completely engulfed everyone.

"What is this?!"

Feeling his vision completely blocked, Song Xu reacted quickly. Thinking that this Qi was obscuring his sight, he roared and swung both palms, blasting apart the black cloud-like Formless Cloud Shield.

The other five also moved swiftly, smashing the pervasive Qi into pieces as if tearing apart mist.

The Formless Cloud Shield that Yu Xinghan couldn't clear away even after half an hour of blasting—under the combined assault of these six masters, it couldn't even hold for half a second.

But just as they effortlessly blasted away the protective Qi, they heard a bang, and a nearby window shattered open.

At the sight of the broken window, one of the delivery cultists moved fastest, like a flash of lightning, leaping out ahead of the rest in pursuit of Zhang Yu.

The remaining five, feeling the ritual power growing hotter and hotter within their bodies, also jumped out of the window without hesitation.

A mere few stories' height was nowhere near enough to kill them.

At that moment, they were filled with nothing but murderous intent and an unyielding determination to kill Zhang Yu at all costs.

But when they saw the stool that had smashed the window and was now falling downward, shock and fury flickered in their eyes.

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

Meanwhile, back inside the apartment room, Zhang Yu was still hidden within a patch of black shadow—the very shadow cast by his Grand Sun Qi Sea after absorbing the light.

Earlier, he had first used the bear plushie to force the six to change their moves, buying time, then used the Grand Sun Qi Sea combined with Formless Cloud Shield to blind their vision. After that, he grabbed a stool and smashed it through the window, while he himself retreated into this shadow.

Now, standing in this darkness, Zhang Yu blended in as naturally as if he were just another shadow in the corner of the room.

Listening to the roars and screams coming from outside the window, Zhang Yu sighed, “Information gap… information gap.”

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

At the same time, the six flaming men roared and shot upward, leaping toward the apartment window, but one by one they turned to ash both inside and outside the apartment, dissipating into the night sky.

A few minutes later, a large group of constables arrived at the scene and sealed off the entire floor of the apartment building.

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

On the other side, after Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen retrieved the surveillance footage from the abandoned building in the suburbs, they returned to the apartment and looked at Fuji with eager anticipation, saying, “Hey, can you boost our potential now?”

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Happy New Year, everyone. I’ll be visiting relatives on New Year’s Eve, so I probably won’t have time to write tomorrow’s chapter (the first day of the New Year). I’m taking a one-day leave here, and I’ll resume regular updates on the second day. Also, I wish you all a happy Spring Festival, good health, peace and joy in the new year, success in your studies, and achievement in your careers.