Meanwhile, beneath the apartment building, at a distant intersection, Song Xu and others were speeding towards the building.

“Hmph,” Song Xu thought to himself. “The truck was only for hitting people. If we really need to travel fast, we have a top courier and two top delivery riders; their speed and load capacity are astounding.”

At that moment, Song Xu and two other construction site believers were each being carried on the backs of two delivery rider believers and one courier believer, their bodies leaving a trail of afterimages as they swiftly navigated through traffic.

Seeing the constant urging from Huo Shan, Song Xu replied, “Hold on, we’re here.”

Inside the apartment, listening to the opponent’s reluctant sigh and watching their retreating figure, Huo Shan felt a slight sense of relief.

Then, seeing Song Xu’s message that they had arrived, he was greatly relieved, exclaiming, “Finally, we’re safe.”

Moments later, seeing “Song Xu” walk in through the door, Huo Shan’s heart surged with joy. He immediately opened the interlayer and rushed over, “You’re finally here, kid!” But as the person turned their face, Huo Shan suddenly felt a hint of unease.

“Why does this guy’s face seem a bit stiff…”

“This guy seems to be…”

“Not Song Xu?”

Huo Shan looked at the person’s pants and suddenly realized, “Damn it, isn’t this the guy from before? He changed his face to impersonate Song Xu? Does he know Song Xu’s information, and even that Song Xu was coming up?”

The person who walked into the room at that moment was Zhang Yu, who had used the Crimson Marrow Qi to alter his facial features according to Song Xu’s data, disguised as Song Xu.

However, this disguise was quite crude; if Huo Shan had observed carefully, he would have quickly recognized that Zhang Yu was not Song Xu. Yet, in his desperation, Huo Shan didn’t immediately notice anything amiss with Zhang Yu.

Seeing Zhang Yu smiling as he approached him, Huo Shan cried out in alarm and tried to back away. But Zhang Yu’s figure flickered, and he already had Huo Shan in his grasp.

“Finally caught you,” Fu Ji laughed heartily. “Zhang Yu, quickly suppress him using the method I taught you! Don’t let him move!”

Zhang Yu unleashed a palm strike, slamming it forcefully onto the bear doll, causing Huo Shan to be violently shaken.

According to Fu Ji, while evil gods are immensely powerful when performing rituals, their true forms are not strong; otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to evade detection by righteous gods. Although the bear doll looked like just a toy, a physical attack on it could harm the evil god. Furthermore, because the consciousness was hidden within and possessed full sensory perception, intense vibrations could disturb the evil god’s consciousness through its senses. According to Fu Ji, it was like motion sickness.

Seeing Huo Shan unable to move after the intense shaking, Zhang Yu grasped the black bead that Fu Ji had transformed into and pressed it firmly onto the bear doll’s head. With a surge of evil god power, Fu Ji temporarily suppressed the bear doll’s consciousness.

In an instant, Fu Ji quickly searched for the ritual power within the opponent, cheering, “Haha, it’s done, Zhang Yu! This guy has been temporarily suppressed by me.” One ritual record after another flashed quickly before Fu Ji. Fu Ji murmured, “Let me first see what rules he set for his believers.”

Just then, a series of whooshing sounds echoed. It seemed six figures were cutting through the night sky, rapidly approaching the room.

Bai Zhenzhen’s message flashed on Zhang Yu’s phone: “Yu-zi! Why the hell aren’t you down yet! They’ve already gone up!”

Zhang Yu didn’t have time to read Bai Zhenzhen’s message. Hearing the increasingly close whooshing sounds, he knew the others were about to reach the door. Song Xu and the six others, having traveled at high speed, burst through the broken door and saw the entire room filled with smashed objects.

The bear doll was seated on a chair, with a person kneeling in front of it who, from the side, appeared to be Li Quan. Seeing the bear doll unharmed, all six of Song Xu’s group breathed a slight sigh of relief.

However, a question arose in Song Xu’s mind. “Li Quan came back so quickly? Did he pay the fine and bail, and rush over?”

Seeing everyone arrive, “Li Quan” snorted coldly and said, “What are you doing? Why are you so late? Do you know how much the Master was startled? As evil god believers, how could you fail to protect the evil god Master’s safety? Aren’t you going to kneel down immediately?” At the same time, the bear doll on the sofa vibrated slightly and let out a cold snort, seemingly displeased with their attitude.

Although the evil god believers still harbored various questions, upon seeing this, they immediately knelt before the sofa and began apologizing to Huo Shan. “Forgive us, Master, we are late.”

“Master, we rushed here at full speed…”

“Master, we will definitely avenge you!”

However, the more Song Xu looked at “Li Quan,” the more he felt something was off, realizing that the person’s appearance actually differed from Li Quan’s. It was only because Huo Shan mostly commanded them remotely, and Song Xu rarely saw Li Quan in person, that he didn’t immediately recognize the impostor.

So Song Xu’s figure flashed, directly blocking the exit, then his gaze sharpened, and he declared, “You are not Li Quan!”

Feeling the collective gaze of everyone present, Zhang Yu’s face subtly shifted, and with the circulation of his Crimson Marrow Qi, he transformed into another unfamiliar appearance. “Indeed, I am not Li Quan.”

“So, you’ve revealed your identities as evil god believers…”

Upon hearing these words, everyone’s faces drastically changed, and then they felt waves of heat surging through their bodies, as if flames were about to burn out from within.

“Oh no!” Song Xu exclaimed in alarm. “Catch him! Kill him!”

Unlike Zhang Yu, who was initially abandoned by Fu Ji and later suppressed her, Song Xu’s six believers had always been under Huo Shan’s control, bound by a series of complete wishes: not to harm Huo Shan, not to reveal their identities as evil god believers, and so on. Seeing the six people’s agitated state, Zhang Yu recalled the memory of Zhou Tianyi spontaneously combusting in the unfinished building.

Zhou Tianyi, as an evil god believer at the time, had spontaneously combusted precisely because he had inadvertently revealed his identity as an evil god believer. Zhang Yu later asked Fu Ji about this, and only then learned that many evil gods actively set such wishes to prevent righteous gods from tracking them. Once a believer’s identity was revealed, whether actively or passively, it would trigger a ritual backlash. And Fu Ji had just confirmed this after checking Huo Shan’s ritual records.

Seeing the six people’s skin turning redder and redder, Zhang Yu thought to himself, “As expected, it’s a moronic ritual.”

Meanwhile, Song Xu felt the ritual power within him beginning its countdown. He roared and charged at Zhang Yu. “Kill him before the backlash fully takes effect! Then it won’t count as a leak, and we’ll still have a chance to live!”

The other five also had drastically changed expressions, and gathering all their strength, they moved to attack Zhang Yu.

At this moment, Song Xu, along with five peak Qi Refinement cultivators, a total of six individuals, swept towards Zhang Yu with desperate, frantic killing intent. The immense pressure was something Zhang Yu had never encountered before. Surges of powerful force compressed the atmosphere, as if they were boiling the air currents in the room. Palm strikes, fist attacks, leg techniques… six masters, six deadly moves, simultaneously assailed Zhang Yu, seeming poised to tear him to shreds in the next instant.

But faced with such terrifying pressure, Zhang Yu merely smiled faintly, lunged forward, and grabbed the bear doll from the sofa, holding it in front of him.

*Do not harm the evil god!*

Seeing the bear doll in front of Zhang Yu, the six believers were all startled. They quickly changed their attacks, not daring to strike forward anymore. The abrupt change in their full-power attacks caused all six masters to be so frustrated they felt like spitting blood, their qi, blood, and magical energy surging violently within them.

Seizing this momentary opportunity, Zhang Yu counter-attacked, his body surging with gangqi. The black Formless Cloud Gang had already completely enveloped everyone.

“What is this!”

Feeling their vision completely obscured, Song Xu reacted extremely quickly. Believing it was the gangqi blocking their sight, he roared and swung both palms, scattering the Formless Cloud Gang that resembled black clouds filling the sky. The other five also moved swiftly, shattering the overwhelming gangqi as if tearing apart mist. The Formless Cloud Gang, which even Yu Xinghan couldn’t completely disperse in half an hour, didn’t last even half a second under the combined assault of these six masters.

But just as they dispersed the gangqi in the blink of an eye, they heard a crash, and a nearby window shattered. Seeing the broken window, one of the delivery rider believers, the fastest among them, flashed like lightning and leaped out first, intending to pursue Zhang Yu. The remaining five, feeling the ritual power within them growing hotter and hotter, also leaped out of the window without hesitation. A mere few floors’ height was not enough to kill them. At that moment, they were filled only with killing intent and a resolve not to rest until Zhang Yu was dead.

But when they saw the stool that had smashed the window and was now falling downwards, a mix of shock and fury appeared in their eyes. “Was it that stool that just smashed the window and fell? Not the person who jumped out?”

Meanwhile, inside the apartment room, Zhang Yu was still hidden in a mass of dark shadow—the shadow formed when his Great Sun Qi Sea absorbed light. He had first used the bear doll to force the six to change their attacks, gaining time, then used his Great Sun Qi Sea along with the Formless Cloud Gang to obscure their vision, before grabbing the stool to smash open the window and then receding into the shadows. Standing in this darkness, Zhang Yu appeared incredibly natural, as if he had become just another shadow in the corner of the room.

Listening to the roars and screams from outside the window, Zhang Yu sighed, “Information disparity, what a difference information makes.” With that, he picked up the bear doll from the floor, turned, and walked out of the apartment.

Meanwhile, six fiery figures roared and shot into the sky, leaping towards the apartment windows, but soon they turned into ash both inside and outside the apartment, dissipating into the night sky.

Several minutes later, a large number of constables arrived at the scene and cordoned off the entire apartment floor. Soon after, under the respectful gazes of many constables, the Songyang City Patrol Team arrived to begin investigating the incident.

On the other side, after Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen retrieved the surveillance footage from the unfinished building in the suburbs, they returned to the apartment. Looking at Fu Ji with eager anticipation, they said, “Hey, can you boost our potential now?”