Volume 4, Chapter 83 – Duan’s Decision, A Gamble

“Where the hell did she run off to? I can clearly sense her aura in this area, but I can’t find her? What the hell.”

Surveying the empty corridor around him, Visarion, the Seventh Ancestor, grew increasingly grim as violent blood energy continuously leaked from his body.

Visarion could not tolerate his prey escaping like this!

He was the strongest hunter—no prey could escape from his grasp!

However, just as he was about to unleash his full power and destroy everything around him to find the elf girl, a message quietly drifted into Visarion’s mind, causing him to frown.

“What? They’re almost here already? Fine…”

Damn it.

Whatever, they’re all in the Nether Palace anyway—she can’t escape.

After clicking his tongue in displeasure, Visarion quickly strode away into the distance.

…

Meanwhile, to avoid Visarion, Yeli led the little elf carefully in the opposite direction, deeper into the Nether Palace.

After seeing that Visarion hadn’t pursued them, Yeli rarely let out a long sigh of relief.

“Phew, looks like… we’re saved… huh?!”

However, before Yeli could relax for long, the elf girl who had been holding his hand suddenly let go and anxiously ran deeper into the Nether Palace.

“Eh?!”

Watching Nimi’s retreating figure, Yeli couldn’t help but freeze for a few seconds.

After blinking, Yeli immediately showed worry and anxiety.

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“Hey, hey, hey! Don’t wander around! It’s dangerous over there! Hey! You brat!”

Seeing that the little elf had no intention of stopping, Yeli gritted his teeth and actively chased after her.

Although Yeli had suppressed his power to avoid exposing his aura, he was ultimately a Peak Divine Martial Realm existence. With his superhuman physical abilities, Yeli quickly caught up to Nimi.

Then, Yeli directly used his height advantage to lift the little elf off the ground, scolding her with a serious expression:

“Please! You’re supposed to be escaping! Can you not make so much noise?! If you get caught, I’ll be done for too, okay?! Hm? Are you even listening to me?”

Seeing that the little elf completely ignored him and kept staring ahead with starry eyes, Yeli couldn’t help but frown.

Huh??

Driven by confusion, Yeli followed Nimi’s gaze and looked ahead.

Then, Yeli’s eyes suddenly contracted, his shock evident.

At this moment, a blue-haired girl with a stunningly beautiful face and closed eyes sat quietly on a massive chair in the center of this underground chamber, her limbs, waist, and neck all bound by golden chains.

Even so, the girl showed no signs of discomfort.

She simply slept peacefully, like a sleeping princess emanating a tragically beautiful aura.

The moment he saw her, Yeli was stunned, and the young man’s heart began beating rapidly.

The youth swallowed hard, and only then did he finally notice a certain black silhouette standing not far from the blue-haired girl.

“Sister Xing Wu! You’re back!”

The moment he saw her, Yeli exclaimed in surprise.

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However, since his attention was almost entirely focused on the blue-haired girl, Yeli seemed to have completely forgotten what Xing Wu had gone out to do earlier. He even curiously asked Xing Wu:

“Sister Xing Wu, who is this young lady?”

Perhaps due to staying in the Nether Palace every day with limited access to outside information, Yeli didn’t recognize the blue-haired girl’s identity.

However, facing Yeli’s question, Xing Wu clearly had no intention of answering.

Instead, she continued staring ahead with vacant eyes, as if she hadn’t heard Yeli’s inquiry at all.

But while Xing Wu didn’t respond, another voice drifted eerily from behind Yeli.

—”Why do you ask about her identity?”—

“Because I think I’ve found someone I like~”

Gazing at the blue-haired girl ahead, Yeli’s eyes sparkled as he seemed to grow increasingly excited.

He apparently didn’t notice that a certain black-haired girl’s eyebrow had twitched.

Not only the black-haired girl, but even the man who had just spoken behind her fell into silence.

“…”

After a moment of speechlessness, the man spoke with an exasperated expression.

“Her name is Gaia Lobir.”

“So she’s called Gaia Lobir~ What a beautiful name… huh?? Gaia Lobir?!”

After repeating the name once, Yeli’s expression immediately changed drastically as he staggered backward several steps in fright.

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“Gaia Lobir?! The Terran Malevolence!!!”

Realizing that the beautiful blue-haired girl before him was humanity’s greatest threat—the infamous evil god—Yeli, who had been in a daze, suddenly snapped back to reality.

After all, in the eyes of an evil god… as a Savior, he was probably as annoying as a fly. Just thinking about how he had gotten so close to the Terran Malevolence and even developed feelings for her made Yeli break out in a cold sweat.

Come to think of it, hadn’t Grandma Xing Wu set out this time to control the Terran Malevolence? Now that she was back and guarding this blue-haired girl, didn’t that indicate this girl was Gaia Lobir?

I’m such an idiot!

Yeli couldn’t help but curse himself hysterically in his mind.

Huh? Wait?

After cursing himself, the Savior couldn’t help but frown. He suddenly realized that the voice that had just reminded him sounded somewhat familiar.

Looking back, Yeli’s heart grew even colder.

“Duan, Mr. Duan? Why, why, why are you here?”

That’s right—the person now standing behind Yeli with his hands clasped behind his back was none other than Duan, the Fifth Ancestor of House Solrog.

Glancing lightly at the panicked Yeli, Duan asked back:

“That’s the question I want to ask you. Yeli, what are you doing here?”

“I, I was just, just wandering around randomly and accidentally ended up here.”

While answering nervously, Yeli slowly moved in front of the little elf and pulled her behind him.

“Just wandering around?”

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Of course, Yeli’s small movements couldn’t escape Duan’s eyes. However, this Ancestor of House Solrog didn’t say much, merely glancing lightly at Yeli and the elf girl behind him.

Though somewhat curious about how Yeli had ended up with the elf test subject, Duan didn’t have the energy to care about this issue right now—he had more important matters to attend to.

“Now isn’t the time for wandering around. Take your new friend back to your room.”

Hearing this, a look of deep surprise flashed in Yeli’s eyes. However, since Duan had said so, Yeli didn’t say anything more. After giving the Terran Malevolence and Xing Wu a complicated look, he decisively took the little elf’s hand and quickly left the room.

…

With Yeli’s departure, Duan walked step by step to Xing Wu’s side.

Gazing at the black-haired girl close at hand, a glint of determination flashed in Duan’s eyes.

Clearly, this Fifth Ancestor had already made his decision.

Wanting to completely control an evil god without taking any risks was obviously impossible.

And the results that controlling the Terran Malevolence could bring were simply too tempting—tempting enough to make Duan decide to try.

“Let’s gamble once.”

While muttering to himself, Duan slowly raised his hand. As his mystic art activated, a grayish-white orb of light gradually appeared in his palm. Xing Wu’s soul power quietly emanated from the orb.

Bai Xingwu…

“I hope you’ll still behave yourself afterward… otherwise, I have ten thousand ways to kill you.”

With those words, Duan directly pressed his hand against the black-haired girl’s forehead…