Netherworld Retrograde

Li Yelai was currently supporting the Little Mad King.

First she'd been tormented by the plague virus, her wounds unable to heal. Then, while fully conscious, multiple necrotic organs were removed. Even this strongest assassin felt a wave of weakness.

Although her face was still expressionless as ever, the sweat covering her body and her rapid breathing both signaled that she'd just endured terrifying pain.

Seeing everyone's weird expressions and that no one came over to help, Li Yelai couldn't help asking in puzzlement.

"What's wrong with you guys?"

"Nothing." Cheese stepped up to help, supporting the Little Mad King, and asked, "How do you feel?"

Though not quite used to it, the Little Mad King didn't refuse Cheese's support. She nodded slightly and answered, "Much better, it's just…"

She touched her newly healed abdomen. "Feels a bit bloated."

Seeing her action, Cheese and Doll: ?

Long Lie forcefully turned his head to the side, looking at his arm that had only been reattached a few days ago.

Ming Lang lowered his head to stare at his phone with no signal, while Gu Yue and Liu Yun continued to look up at the moon in the sky, their bodies trembling as if they were about to lose it.

Doll's billboard popped up a bunch of garbled symbols. [&*...*%&@#&...]

The corner of Cheese's mouth twitched. He leaned close to Li Yelai and whispered in a voice only the three of them could hear, "What did you use to treat her? Did you use that Rainbow Through the Sun 'truth' of yours?"

The Little Mad King looked at him in confusion, clearly not understanding what he meant.

"What 'truth'…" Li Yelai was dazed for a moment, then realized this must be the Little Mad King's curse causing yet another misunderstanding.

He hurriedly explained, "Multiple necrotic organs got cut out. When they're being reshaped, you really will feel swelling and pain. That's normal. I've had my organs smashed to bits plenty of times; I know how this works. Where the hell did your mind run off to this time?"

Only then did everyone return to normal, as if that misunderstanding had never happened.

At the same time, Li Yelai activated the Divine Demon Stele, suppressing everyone's curses.

So no more weird misunderstandings would pop up.

This time opening the Divine Demon Stele, Li Yelai could clearly sense that its curse-suppression had grown stronger, and the range seemed larger as well.

He had no idea what greater changes the now curse‑enhanced Divine Demon Stele might bring.

For now, everyone present was their own people, so Li Yelai didn't bother with nonsense.

He asked about casualties in the fortress.

The appearance of Mechanical Souls and Imitative Heavenly Soldiers had greatly reduced casualties. But sacrifice was unavoidable. There were still some Horror Demons with strange abilities that slipped past the Mechanical Soul and Heavenly Soldier defenses, broke into the fortress, and slaughtered the Human Warriors who lay in deep sleep.

As for the situation in the other shelters, it was still unknown.

As for the eastern Battlefield, there was nothing Li Yelai could do. Aside from him already having exhausted his Spiritual Energy, he had also sent all of the Old Mad King's Biomimetic Tear Drops over there. All he could do was hope the Human Warriors there could hold back the Beastmen.

Afterward, Li Yelai told them what he'd gained after defeating Emperor's Fall.

First was the gaze of Deceit Dao falling on him; he had now become a Four Gods' Choice in name.

Cheese and the others' expressions changed, and Doll asked, "But wasn't Emperor's Fall a Three Gods' Chosen? Why would that draw Deceit Dao's attention? Emperor's Fall has nothing to do with Deceit Dao."

"After all, Captain got his Chaos Chosen Identity for free. As a Human Champion, he used the Chaos Chosen Identity to go undercover in the Church. That alone is enough to be called mocking All Gods." Long Lie thought for a moment and said, "Just from that point, it's no surprise Deceit Dao took a liking to Captain."

"Mm, the reason Deceit Dao is so disliked by the other Chaos Factions is that, for the sake of fun, they don't even care about their own interests. They'll even deliberately get themselves killed and exiled just to weave some conspiracy." Gu Yue replied, "Captain, with your situation, Deceit Dao has probably been drooling over you for a long time. They just never had the chance to corrupt you; now they borrowed the Chaos Ritual to finally find an opening."

"So you're saying my freeloading was also part of Deceit Dao's calculations?" Li Yelai laughed. "They knew I was fake and still didn't tell the other Evil Gods? Just for the fun of it?"

"Very likely. Otherwise how would they deserve to be called that dogshit Deceit Dao?" Ming Lang replied. "Of course, an even bigger possibility is they originally wanted to forcibly corrupt you, but the ritual got interrupted."

Li Yelai nodded.

Then he told them about the new Divine Demon Stele and Heroic Spirit Sea he'd obtained.

The effects of the Divine Demon Stele he'd slowly test himself later.

After that, Li Yelai directly took the Heroic Spirit Sea out of his Reserve Space.

Everyone clicked their tongues in wonder at the floating little droplet. Obviously it was just a single drop of water, yet it seemed to contain an ocean's worth of mysterious power.

One of the top rewards of Ten Thousand Dragon Lake, the Inheritance Land.

"If possible, after we wipe out the Disaster Fog, we can bring this Heroic Spirit Sea back to Border City and let the Old Mad King summon Heroic Spirits for a battle. Add in the Biomimetic Tear Drops, and Border City will have no more pressure!" Long Lie suggested.

"Of course, if the subsequent situation is still in a bad slog, we can selectively choose an Overlord to power up." Liu Yun asked, "Captain, can you take in another Heroic Spirit Sea?"

"No." Li Yelai shook his head. "You can only have one Heroic Spirit Sea."

"Then I recommend Toy Captain. Among the Overlords, her strength is pretty much the highest. Powering up her combat ability gives the best value for the cost." Gu Yue said.

At that, Cheese turned to Doll and asked, "Doll, you also cleared the tenth floor. What good stuff did you get? Is it also bound?"

Doll had already taken off her doll headgear, revealing her trimmed hairstyle; her originally waist‑length hair was now a bit shorter.

She answered, "It's not a treasure bound to the Soul Well, but a kind of biotech creation."

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