In the north of the Jade Pure Realm, an enormous brown cubic rock stood on the ground.
This cubic rock was 99, 000 feet long, 99, 000 feet wide, and 99, 000 feet high.
On its surface, an exit opened for every thirty feet in the span of its entire height.
Its inside was hollow, giving way to many intricate caves and passages.
This place was called the Heavenly Square City, and it was one of the headquarters of the Four Spirits
Sect.
In a room on the upper left part of the Heavenly Square City was a wounded man dressed in cotton
clothes.
His hands and feet were tightly tied by four iron chains, pulling his limbs straight.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
A white whip thrashed violently in the air and lashed hard at the man, landing on his already frail body.
Clap!
As the white whip hit him, it emitted a beaming ray of silver-white light, which was the Light of
Annihilation.
The man in cotton clothes was a Treacherous Being.
It was difficult for ordinary punishment methods to damage a Treacherous Being. However, if they were
hit by the Light of Annihilation, they would feel pain as when ordinary mortals were stabbed by thorns.
This was the case for only the resentment-level and hatred-level Treacherous Beings.
Once the hostility-level Treacherous Beings came into contact with the Light of Annihilation, they would
instantly turn into fine gray ashes.
Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!
The man's clothes were torn and stained with blood as he had suffered many beatings for several days.
The one who smacked the whip was a human woman. With each hit, she reprimanded the man
solemnly, "Do you understand the gravity of your crime, Alphonse?"
Clap!
"Do you understand the gravity of your crime, Alphonse?"
Clap!
"Do you understand the gravity of your crime, Alphonse?!"
The man's name was Alphonse Shen. He was the chief of the Joy House, which was affiliated to the
Human Spirit Sect.
The woman, on the other hand, was a subordinate of the Joy House.
Despite the stern expression on her face, she enjoyed no pleasure from the abuse. Her eyes revealed
the pity she felt.
The Joy House was responsible for guarding the Treasure Bottle Platform to protect the Godly Way
energy.
Things had been fine in the past chaotic eras. Unfortunately, the Godly Way energy was stolen by the
Nihility race some days ago.
As the chief of the Joy House, Alphonse had to take responsibility for an unforgivable mistake.
Clap!
The woman had whipped him day and night.
She feared that if she continued to hit him with the Light of Annihilation, he might get beaten to death.
Without saying a word, Alphonse silently endured the torment.
A voice suddenly spoke from outside the room.
"General Alphonse, how have you been doing these days?"
the voice asked with a hint of mockery.
When the woman heard the voice, she frowned and whipped more forcefully.
If she was seen with favoritism to the chief, he would only receive greater blame and suffering.
A person came into the room and motioned her to stop beating. She then paused, carefully retracted
the whip, and stepped aside.
She dared not touch the whip as it contained the tremendous Light of Annihilation.
The visitor was a middle-aged man from the Ten Directions House. It was General Gianni.
Alphonse was the chief of the Joy House while Gianni was the chief of the Broad House. They were at
the same level; however, whether before or after becoming a Treacherous Being, Alphonse had always
remained stronger than Gianni. They regarded each other as rivals.
After becoming Treacherous Beings, Gianni had been promoted to an important position, while
Alphonse had been sent to the Treasure Bottle Platform, which was considered deportation.
Now Gianni visited him with an obvious intent to laugh at him.
Alphonse glanced at Gianni indifferently. "Are you going to eliminate my coordinates?" he asked.
For Treacherous Beings, they could come back to life repeatedly as long as their coordinates
remained.
In fact, all the other attacking methods made no difference to the Treacherous Beings.
The woman's continuous whipping would only bring physical pain to Alphonse but would not kill him.
Many members of the Joy House had been killed on the Treasure Bottle Platform, but they had all been
revived in the blink of an eye.
However, removing their coordinates was equivalent to sentencing their end. It meant eternal death for
Treacherous Beings.
Gianni laughed and said, "General Alphonse, you are known to always set your safety aside. Are you
also afraid of death now?"
"When I got awakened by those snakes, I've been ready for this," replied Alphonse.
"They are badly in need of talents. They won't kill you for the time being. Besides, the Joy House's
guardianship at the Treasure Bottle Platform is just the first insurance, and the Godly Way energy itself
is the second insurance!" Gianni declared as he stepped forward.
"What did you do to it?" Alphonse squinted his eyes.
Gianni turned around. "Come and release him!" he yelled to the woman.
The woman's face lit up. She joyously hurried forward and proceeded to untie the chains that bound
her chief.
Gianni then pulled something from his sleeve, taking out a mirror.
The mirror showed a blurry image. It was vaguely a lake where several black ships floated above the
water.
"What's this?" Alphonse asked. He had been guarding the remote Treasure Bottle Platform for many
years, so he had poor information.
"The Black Ship, a force supported by the birds in the Source World," Gianni explained.
"Is the Godly Way energy in their hands?" Alphonse asked.
Gianni nodded and said, "There is a person among them who can fuse the Godly Ways. They must be
anxious in creating the perfect Ways-blending Energy."
"Perfect Ways-blending Energy..." Alphonse rolled his eyes and said, "How can that be perfect?"
The Four Spirits Sect could scale the number of energy in the secondary worlds either up or down at
their will.
If a world builder set the number of energy in a secondary world to be one thousand in total, then the
Ways-blending Energy formed by one thousand kinds of energy would be the limit in this world.
If the number was three thousand in total, then the Ways-blending Energy formed by three thousand
Godly Ways would be the limit.
"To the chaos, this is already perfection. Have you forgotten that we are also members of the chaos
now? Don't use your past eyes to define things," Gianni said.
They both knew it was difficult for them to return to their original vast world.
Alphonse glanced at Gianni. "If he masters the complete Ways-blending Energy, he might have the
ability to change the structure of the chaos. But you don't seem to be worried at all, do you?" he asked.
"Well, once he merges the last Godly Way, the second insurance will be triggered. We only need to
wait and see," Gianni said with complacency.
Gianni, Alphonse, and the woman looked closely at the mirror, quietly observing the scene.
Because the picture was too blurry, they could only recognize the distorted figures of black ships and
the lake. The other details remained unknown to them.
A few hours later...
The black ship at the center shook violently on the water.
It was as if an earthquake had started from beneath the lake, creating huge waves.
After that, a sheet of white light had suddenly swallowed the black ship...
"That power is extraordinary,"
Gianni commented as he patted on Alphonse's shoulder. He handed him the mirror and left the room.
Holding the mirror in his hand, Alphonse watched until the white light dimmed gradually and
disappeared.
The black ship had been wrecked with its pieces scattered on the surface of the lake. Dark blood
started gushing out from its ruins.
The ship was a part of the captain's body. Once it had been damaged too seriously, it wouldn't recover
quickly. It reflected that a large amount of blood had been shed from the captain.
"They suspect that I deliberately allowed the Grandmaster of Heaven to steal the Godly Way energy
from us," concluded Alphonse.
The woman nodded and asked, "Did he send this mirror to you as a warning?"
"It's not a warning," said Alphonse. "It's just a token of his contempt. He wants to tell me that whatever I
want to do would just turn out pointless!" He crushed the mirror into pieces in his hand.
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