Chapter 465: Evil God Ritual - The Boathouse

The two sides of the mirrored water wall reflect Tavel and Spades.

The innumerable threads of Tavel and Spades fly upwards, are pulled straight out, and are derived into the depths of the universe, where they spread out without limit, flowing through a distant door.

Behind the door is little Bai Liu, aged fourteen, sitting in a chair, and Bai six, embracing him, with a silk thread running through the door directly beneath Bai Liu's chair, tied around his wrists and ankles.

Bai Liu was wrapped in heavy silk threads, and Bai six stroked the heavy threads that fell on Bai Liu's shoulders, smiling softly and saying.

"The suffering of the sacrifice and of the attendant, is ultimately sacrificed to God, and the more the sacrifice and the attendant struggle, the more suffering God receives."

"Only God is the most painful of creatures."

"Do you think so?" Bai six's hand passed through the silk threads, brushed them away from Bai Liu's face, held the side of his face and said softly, "It's a sad look, but so perfect."

"There is no more suitable heir than you."

Bai six looked down into Bai Liu's black eyes without a hint of light and curled his mouth, "If you were a god, who would you pick to be your beloved sacrifice?"

"Is it necessary to choose?" Bai Liu suddenly spoke, his eyes raised, looking through the silk threads at Bai six, "The sacrifice before me, the soul that has offered me love, has there not been only one from beginning to end?"

[System warning: Player Bai Liu has zero spirit level and has opened a berserk panel!

Bai Liu's right hand catches the silk thread and pulls it towards him, while Bai six, who is also entangled in the thread, is pulled to take a step towards Bai Liu's side, and both of them step into the void at the same time.

"Surely you can't be fooled." Bai six smiled at Bai Liu as he descended, "You are far too perceptive to the love and pain you receive."

"You're the most perfect mirror I've ever seen."

Bai six's hand touches Bai Liu's dark eyes through the overflowing silk threads and whispers in a daze, "I can see clearly in your eyes what I have."

"What I have ......"

Bai Liu's hair falls upwards, strands of hair and transparent threads fly past the corners of his eyes, his eyes calmly reflecting the universe, looking straight at Bai six, but not reflecting Bai six's shadow, only a door with a silvery blue glow.

"It's just a door without a key."

Bai six laughed as he snapped his fingers and [the door] appeared directly below them, opening to them, and he and Bai Liu fell into it, entangled in the silk thread.

" Bai Liu, where did you say the key to the door was?"

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu has triggered a plot point to enter "The Evil God Festival - Act 3"]

The fire was raging and screams continued to be heard from inside the shrine, which was shrouded in flames.

Inside the Shrine.

Bai Liu was instantly transported back to the timeline of five years ago as he looked across at Bai six, his eyes glowing an eerie silvery blue, before he threw a crisp whip at Bai six's face.

The whip struck through and smashed directly into the pond below the shrine, cracking the bottom of the pond and sending water down the cracks to reveal a barren bottom.

In the middle of the pool lies Tavel, blindfolded by silk, his clothes soaking wet, huddled at the bottom of the pool, choking weakly, his right hand clutching the coin Bai Liu had given him.

Without hesitation, Bai Liu jumped to the bottom of the pool and ran in the direction of Tavel.

The black bone whip fell in front of Bai Liu and spun out a bone spike, which Bai Liu dodged with an eloquent leap backwards and blocked with a whip.

The whips intertwine and Bai Liu and Bai six move in almost perfect unison to drag the handles and pull the whips in their own direction.

Bai Liu looked up at Bai six, who looked back at him with a smirk, "Although I do use a weak shell now, and you have forced yourself to explode to your limits, it is not that easy for you to beat me now."

As soon as the words were out of Bai Liu's mouth, he simply let go of the whips he was pulling at each other, his right hand turning into a monkey's paw and his gaze calmly snapping outwards.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu uses Player Mu Sicheng's Burst Skill (Thief Stalking) - Super Full Speed Stamina Slot Empty Status]

In a blink of an eye, Bai Liu appeared in front of Bai six, and with a flip of his long hand, his sharp-fingered monkey claws struck out at Bai six's neck.

Bai six raised an eyebrow and quickly crouched down to let the pendant fall back to his neck, while swinging his whip backhanded and wrapping it around, the bone spikes jamming outward into Bai Liu's wrist in an attempt to shake him off.

Bai Liu flipped his wrist and came right after him, his monkey paw going straight for Bai six's throat.

"That's a nice response." Bai six leaned back and stepped away as he smirked and pointed to the reverse cross pendant in front of his heart, "When did you guess that this body was using this pendant and not the supposed wish to summon me to descend?"

Bai Liu's eyes were cold and stern, not even talking to Bai six, he raised his hand and attacked Bai six's left hand, the target was obvious, the reverse cross pendant.

"Well, it looks like you're not going to say." Bai six smiled and asked thoughtfully in return, "Then I'll have to guess for myself."

"It's because you found out that the wishing level here doesn't even reach the divine level and that you once managed to summon Tavel in reality as a believer using the reverse cross dangling as a token, isn't it?"

"But unfortunately." Bai six eyes scattered as he raised his hand and struck, catching the monkey paw Bai Liu was striking at him with as he smiled, "This pendant has since disappeared because Spades has completely destroyed Tavel."

Bai Liu's chest rose and fell very slightly, and his wrist, held by Bai six, was covered in holes of blood from bone spikes that were now dripping down.

Bai six laughed: "With your current strength, you're not lucky if you want to take the reverse cross from me."

"But alas, your luck seems to be ...... too."

"Die, Bai six!" A harsh female voice roared from Bai six's back, while a short knife pierced through Bai six's chest.

The force of the stabbing sent Bai Liu's body a little further in front of him, just enough for his outstretched monkey paw to hook the reverse cross pendant that swung out in front of Bai Liu's heart.

Bai Liu clutched the reverse cross pendant and yanked it outwards, and the next second the grin on Bai six's face deepened as he backhanded a whip to open Beiyuan Xiaokui, who was behind him and sending his short sword into his body with all his might, the long whip in his hand turning into a poker.

The glinting cold edge of the poker slashes towards Bai Liu's right wrist where he clutches the reverse cross pendant!

Bai Liu's right hand fell off with a crash and blood gushed out.

Xiaokui was swept by the whip and fell against a pillar, where she crumpled to her knees and vomited a large mouthful of oozing blood.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu switches to the system panel of player Liu Jiayi and uses his personal skill (Antidote) on himself]

Bai Liu threw out a bottle of antidote to interrupt Bai Liu's hand and grabbed Bai six who was dropping the reverse cross pendant, the antidote flipped and poured in the air and landed on Bai Liu's severed right hand, which instantly grew back and was followed by a whip to break the bottle.

Bai Liu's hand holding the reverse cross pendant is jolted away by the whip.

After the brief disconnection from the Reverse Cross, Bai Liu's movements became noticeably slower, but he still reacted quickly, using his fingers to hook back the Reverse Cross pendant that Bai Liu had shaken away with a speed that was almost invisible to his eyes.

The moment he gripped the reverse cross pendant, Bai six paused for a moment, and with a low smile he lifted his head, holding his right hand flat and stretching it loose.

-- A coin-shaped pendant fell from his hand and swayed twice like a pendulum.

Scarred and bruised, Tavel chokes and coughs and opens his hand - no longer containing coins, but the reverse cross pendant on Bai six.

[System warning: Player Bai six's token prop (Reverse Cross Pendant) for summoning the Evil God has disappeared, and the Evil God will soon leave the game copy.

"That's funny." Bai six's body was turning dead white little by little, like a real corpse, but he was still smiling, looking at Bai Liu with that amused look, as if he was looking at some creature that had never been seen before and smiling, "That's funny."

"In that moment just now, you seized the opportunity to unite the other two to exchange the reverse cross pendant in my hand."

"You actually put the key to victory on a chip that was not at all certain, and by helping the other side to get them to help you."

Bai six looks over to a limp Xiaokui in the corner: "- just like in the last match."

He lifted the corners of his mouth and shifted his gaze to the bloodied Bai Liu, "I don't know, when did you get this simple thought [that good things come in return]?"

"Are you going to beat me with this [good guys will beat bad guys], [good will eventually triumph over evil] stuff?"

"A friendly reminder." Bai six smiled, "The last person who thought that way never beat me."

"It's true that I can't win against you now." Bai Liu, beaten against the post by Bai six, looked up slowly, his voice broken and hoarse, but still articulate, "I don't believe in good karma either."

"According to my perception, most of the time, most of the time in this world it's the bad guys who have it better than the good guys."

"You make me even more curious as to the reason you chose to do this?" Bai six laughed up, "Since you share my perception, there's no way you'd put your chips on beating me on a little npc girl."

"Because I won you once." Bai Liu looked straight at Bai six calmly, "I'm not being nice."

"I just replicated my last win over you when I couldn't think of any other way."

Bai six was silent, and he fist-pumped his palm in realization, "Because you helped Yuan Guang win against me by mistake last time, you've chosen to see if it works again this time."

"That was fun."

Bai six looked at Bai Liu with a soft smile, "Obviously all you've been getting is the negative feedback I've designed for you [that good will be rewarded with bad], that helping others will result in bad karma."

"But you help people just once, and the result of getting positive feedback from others starts to transform you."

" Bai Liu, you've even made me start to wonder if [I] am a good boy from the core."

"I'm really looking forward to what you're going to be like the next time I see you."

[System Alert: Evil God leaves player Bai six's body]

Bai Liu fell to his knees at the same time as Bai Liu's body closed its eyes and collapsed.

He braced himself on the floor with no blood on his face and took two deep breaths before he could barely stand up.

Bai Liu heals himself with the antidote as he staggers towards Tavel in the pool.

He paused beside Tavel for a moment, then bent down and picked him up horizontally.

Tavel, who was blindfolded by silk thread, wrapped his arms around Bai Liu's shoulders in confusion as he was picked up by him and called his name very softly: "...... Bai Liu ?"

"You hold my shoulders steady." Bai Liu took a deep breath and switched hands to hold Tavel tightly with one arm, then carried the unconscious Xiaokui on his back as well, his face calm as he said, "What that bitch Bai six left us is not over."

"The group from the Gifune family are waiting outside now."

"I'll get you out of here before you say anything."