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

In the headquarters office, Zhou Yi, Li Podi, and other ninth-level saints involuntarily took a half step back under this oppressive force.

The magic power within his body completely stopped circulating uncontrollably.

Li Weiguo's expression changed drastically; he felt the entire building tremble slightly under the influence of this fluctuation.

Before everyone could recover from their shock...

A voice, seemingly transcending endless space and time, exploded directly in everyone's minds.

The voice carried an undeniable domineering and furious tone, like a thunderclap from the heavens, making one's eardrums ache.

"You alien scum! How dare you touch the pride of my divine world! You're courting death!"

These few words, though brief, were like a sharp sword, piercing the sky and dispelling the gloom that shrouded everyone's hearts.

The office was completely silent.

Several seconds passed before Zhou Yi suddenly raised his head, his eyes bursting with ecstatic joy.

"This...this is..."

Li Podi swallowed hard, his voice trembling slightly.

Li Weiguo slowly lowered his hand from the phone, walked to the window, looked at the faint golden light in the sky outside, and exhaled a long breath.

"No need to invite them."

"The old man himself has taken to the field."

……

Meanwhile, deep within the dimensional rift on the East China Sea front, Alaya is experiencing the most terrifying and desperate moment of his long life.

After that huge black raven let out that piercing cry.

An hourglass-shaped phantom emitting an eerie red light appeared directly above his head.

That hourglass is not a physical object.

Therefore... no matter how he moves, the hourglass follows him everywhere.

The fine red sand in the hourglass is flowing downwards at a constant and relentless pace.

As the first grain of sand fell.

Alaya sensed an extremely terrifying change occurring inside her body.

His demigod origin, the deep-sea rules he spent thousands of years condensing.

It is passing by rapidly in an incomprehensible way.

This is not an energy loss caused by injury at all.

Rather, it is the foundation upon which his existence in this world is being forcibly removed.

"Damn it, how could this happen?"

Alaya panicked completely.

As a true demigod, he once regarded all living beings as ants, and he had never felt so powerless, even when facing demigods from other races.

He raised his scale-covered arm and frantically compressed the surrounding water elements.

It condensed into dozens of deep-sea high-pressure water blades, powerful enough to cut through space.

He slashed fiercely at the hourglass above his head.

However, the water blades, imbued with the power of demigods, pierced directly through the hourglass's phantom image and struck the void behind it, without causing the slightest impact on the hourglass.

The hourglass remained suspended there, the red sand continuing its relentless fall...

Seeing that the attack was ineffective, Alaya immediately changed its strategy.

He quickly took out several secret medicines that exuded a strong life force from his storage space.

This is the ultimate life-saving trump card of the Water Forbidden Clan.

Even a demigod on the verge of death can be instantly brought back to life.

Without hesitation, he crushed the secret medicine and absorbed its immense life energy into his body.

However, the miracle did not happen.

The life energy that was powerful enough to bring the dead back to life entered his body, but it vanished without a trace, like a clay ox sinking into the sea.

His body received no repair, and the loss of his vital essence did not slow down in the slightest.

"No! This can't be! This can't be!"

Alaya screamed desperately, her voice filled with terror.

He tried to back away, attempting to escape this calamity-ridden domain controlled by Gu Xu.

But he found that his legs felt incredibly heavy.

The Silent Domain of the Gravedigger Old Black and the Decaying Virus of Twitch continue to relentlessly ravage his body.

The shadow of that dead raven completely blocked all his escape routes.

He was a high and mighty demigod, but at this moment, he resembled a condemned prisoner bound to an execution ground.

They could only watch helplessly as the executioner's blade slowly descended.

No matter what secret techniques he uses.

No matter how much he burned his blood energy, it was all in vain.

The other three demigods of the Forbidden Water Clan also fell into this extreme despair.

Above each of their heads floated a blood-red hourglass that was counting down.

One of the demigods suffered a complete mental breakdown.

He desperately wanted to rush towards Gu Xu's territory, attempting to take Gu Xu down with him before he died.

However, when his attack entered the shadow of the raven's outstretched wings...

The rule of [Misfortune Shroud] takes effect instantly.

The devastating energy storm did not harm Gu Xu in the slightest.

Instead, it backfired on him with ten times the power.

The demigod coughed up a mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, his entire chest cavity collapsed instantly, and he slammed heavily to the ground, unable to move any further.

They could only watch in despair as the hourglass above them continued to flow.

Not only these four demigods, but also that enormous mountain of flesh that represented the projection of the Abyss Emperor.

They received the same treatment.

Above the giant single eye in the very center of the mountain of flesh.

A much larger, blood-red hourglass was suspended in the air.

The projection of the Abyss Emperor finally sensed a real threat, and an extremely human-like anger flashed in its single eye!

It is a source-level existence that has touched the very origin of the world, even if it is just a projection.

We should never be locked into by such inexplicable rules.

The giant eye spun wildly, releasing beams of dark purple destructive light, attempting to erase the raven and Gu Xu from their very concept.

However, a million ravens, like a black storm, swarmed towards the beam of light.

They opened their sharp beaks and frantically pecked at those source-level light pillars as if they were food.

Not only that, but a large number of ravens landed directly on the mountain of flesh.

They began tearing at the rotten flesh and black scales.

The projection of the Abyss Emperor attempted to sever its connection with this clone, but the rules of the hourglass had already locked onto its life essence.

No matter how it's cut... it can't stop the fine sand from flowing out of the hourglass.

Seeing the miserable state of his companions, and seeing that even the Emperor's projection was helpless.

Alaya's mind completely collapsed, and only a thin layer of red sand remained in the hourglass.

At this moment, he could not self-destruct, could not commit suicide, and could not even control the flow of his magic.

Alaya opened its mouth wide, but could not make a sound.

He knelt blankly in mid-air, experiencing the ultimate helplessness of not even being able to control his own life or death.

He could only be like a puppet, powerless to resist.

Staring at the last few grains of red sand about to fall overhead.

Gu Xu sat comfortably in the bright red sedan chair, watching the scene before him with an expressionless face.

He neither made any sarcastic remarks nor took the opportunity to launch an attack.

They simply waited quietly for the rules to take effect.

The red sand in the hourglass is decreasing.

Three pills.

Two.

One grain.

The last grain of red sand silently passed through the narrow passage of the hourglass and fell to the bottom.

Time resets to zero.