The job change is a bizarre and calamity; the nation begs me to tone it down.

Alaya slightly raised her arm and swept her fingers across the boundless ruins around her: "Your defeat was already destined the moment we tore open the dimensional rift."

"What do you think you can change by holding out here? Your comrades, your officers, your entire Godslayer Army has basically been wiped out."

"They were either torn to pieces by my army or lying in some corner barely clinging to life."

Alaya's tone became increasingly cruel.

He seemed to relish the process of completely destroying his prey's psychological defenses before it died: "Even your Shenxia Empire's proud military genius, Ye Nantian, what was his ultimate fate?"

"Wasn't he also driven to a dead end, forced to self-destruct like a firework? Even that old madman is dead, and you're still stubbornly resisting me. What's the point?"

These words were like a red-hot knife, cutting into Ji Wenzhou's heart piece by piece.

Ji Wenzhou's fingers, gripping the battle sword, had lost their color from excessive force, and his body trembled uncontrollably.

He knew that what Alaya said was true; most of the East China Sea defense line had fallen, and his comrades were falling in droves.

The despair of a legion's annihilation was more suffocating than the physical wounds on one's body.

In fact, although Alaya was extremely arrogant and mocked Ji Wenzhou, he had a very strange doubt lingering in his heart.

As a demigod who had lived for a very long time, he was actually extremely cautious by nature.

He kept calculating the current situation in his mind.

The Forbidden Water Clan has mobilized its entire force to search for the key.

Four demigods descended, and even went to great lengths to create such a huge commotion, tearing the defenses of the Divine Shepherd to shreds.

Logically speaking, the Divine Xia Empire had been pushed to the brink of destruction.

According to the intelligence held by the Forbidden Water Clan, what truly makes the Divine Xia Empire dreadful is not just its active-duty legions.

Instead, it is the Night Watch.

However... the battle in the East China Sea has become so fierce that even Ye Nantian has died in battle.

Why haven't the Night Watch members from Sherlock Holmes appeared yet?

Alaya's eyes scanned the surrounding ruins.

What are those in power in Sherlock Holmes waiting for?

Is it truly a dead end where those old folks can't be woken up, or is this a huge trap in itself?

Sherlock is somewhere unseen.

Is he brewing a forbidden method that could wipe out all of these demigods in one fell swoop?

This apprehension about the unknown depths of the matter prevents Alaya from having a sure chance of victory.

They never completely let their guard down.

Just as Alaya's thoughts were turning.

Ji Wenzhou, who had been keeping his head down as if crushed by despair, suddenly straightened up.

He used his nicked and chipped sword to brace himself against the ground, trying to keep his broken body from collapsing.

"Hehehe..."

Immediately afterwards, a low laugh came from deep in his throat.

The laughter aggravated his fatal chest wound, causing him to cough violently.

Large mouthfuls of dark blood mixed with fragments of internal organs were coughed up.

But Ji Wenzhou didn't wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth. He slowly raised his head and looked at Alaya, which was suspended in mid-air.

His face was full of a defiant, sneer.

"Those mere trash from the forbidden aquatic tribe..."

"You abyssal beasts who only know how to breed in the mud and kill, do you even deserve to understand the beliefs of us, the people of Shenxia?"

The insulting curse rang out loudly in the deathly silence surrounding them.

Upon hearing the deputy commander's words, the remaining soldiers of the God-Slaying Army behind him had their previously dim eyes blaze with renewed fury.

They straightened their backs and raised their weapons even higher.

This time, Alaya was not provoked by the provocation of a dying man.

He simply scoffed, "Belief? What a boring and laughable word."

"Since you claim your beliefs are so unbreakable, let me see what those beliefs really are."

Alaya slowly descended from mid-air, her toes touching the scorched ground.

He did not directly kill Ji Wenzhou, but instead looked past the remaining soldiers and towards the passage leading to the interior of Shenxia behind them.

There, thousands of ordinary civilians who had not had time to evacuate were still hiding.

"Of course, I won't kill you yet."

"Since you're so eager to be a hero, I'll let you live a good life."

"I will make you see with your own eyes the land you are fighting so hard to protect, your comrades behind you, and those poor civilians."

"How were they torn to pieces bit by bit under the feet of my army? How did they completely disappear?"

"I'm really looking forward to seeing if your beliefs will still allow you to continue sneering when you've lost everything!"

"Everyone, listen to my command... continue killing everything in your sight!"

As Alaya's command was given.

The thousands of forbidden aquatic creatures around them seemed to have received some kind of signal and roared again.

Their mouths, filled with sharp teeth, spewed a foul stench as they trampled over the corpses of their companions.

Like a black tsunami, it surged wildly towards the less than one hundred humans in the center of the encirclement.

The earth tremors were despairing.

Ji Wenzhou looked at the monsters surging in from all directions and said nothing more, but he knew that the final moment had arrived.

He didn't turn around to look at his brothers behind him, but instead forced all the last bit of his strength into his battle blade.

Prepare for the final, desperate charge.

However, just as Alaya finished speaking, just as those monsters were about to pounce on the God-Slaying Army,

Alaya, who had been so confident, suddenly froze with a cold smile.

His keen senses, typical of a demigod, sent a frantic warning to his brain at that moment.

Alaya suddenly turned around and looked up at the sky above, which was obscured by gunpowder smoke.

Immediately afterwards, the originally gloomy and gray sky was forcibly torn apart without warning by an extremely pure black mist.

The temperature around them plummeted in an instant, and even the flooding seawater instantly froze into a layer of black ice crystals.

Before anyone could react, a sharp, high-pitched suona horn sounded, filled with endless sorrow and eeriness.

It suddenly exploded in the sky above this ruined city!

The sound of the suona pierced the soul.

At this moment, all the sea beasts, Ji Wenzhou, and the demigod Alaya were in the extremely narrowed gaze of the sea beasts.

In that torn black void, a bright red sedan chair, exuding a dense aura of death, was carried out of the spatial rift by one hundred and eight pale-faced vengeful ghosts with extreme stiffness and domineering force!

The tassels hanging from the sedan chair fluttered in the cold wind...