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Before the dizziness from the teleportation had subsided, a smell of old blood mixed with rainwater hit me.

This is Earth 43, a world where even the rain is red.

The sight before him instantly made Xiu En suppress his urge to vomit.

It was the dark red color of blood that had dried on a rusty iron plate after three days.

The sky looked like skin with gangrene.

The sun hanging in mid-air was even more appalling.

It was like an old man who was barely clinging to life, emitting a heart-wrenching panting sound that only his kind could hear.

"Is this the place you brought me to?"

Ivy's big mouth opened and closed.

"The air here is like it was fried in aged corpse oil! And I've even developed an allergy to UV rays!"

Just as Xiu En was about to comfort the woman who was suffering from motion sickness, the system in his mind that had been quiet all along came to life.

A deep, dignified old man's voice rang out from above, so loud that even Ivy could hear it.

The principal guest has taken his/her seat; the auspicious time has arrived.

Now that you have arrived here, bearing the blood of Shao Hao and coming to save the world, how can you be so disrespectful?

A vast surge of righteous energy poured in from the void. This force not only stabilized his position in the air but also began to forcibly tidy his appearance.

Xiu En's wildly flowing long, straight black hair was gently gathered together and automatically coiled into an ancient-style bun without any hair ties.

"Uh, is now the time to do this? There are at least several thousand monsters down there watching, eager to drink my blood."

The system chose to ignore his protest.

Kneel! You may not kneel before the heavens, nor before the earth, but you must kneel before the path you are about to bear.

Xiu En knelt on one knee in mid-air.

In the void, light and shadow intertwine, revealing a simple black crown.

The black cloth crown slowly fell onto his head.

It doesn't seem to be a physical object, but rather a representation of some kind of rule.

[On an auspicious day of the month, Canadian dollars will be served. Abandoning you is a young ambition, obeying you will become a virtue. 】

"To put it another way, it means you shouldn't act like a little kid who only thinks about eating and frying."

Sunflower interrupted without any sense of propriety.

"Now you're going to manage these things like a mature adult?"

Xiu En curled his lip: "Heal people? Right now, all I want to heal is that sun that hasn't died yet."

Immediately afterwards, the second crown and leather cap fell down; it was a military cap made of white deerskin stitched together, carrying an aura of solemnity.

At this moment, every muscle in Xiu En's body was tense.

If before it was just that he felt something on his head, now this thing carries weight and the true meaning of killing and slaughter.

[Respect your majesty, be virtuous and discreet. With this solemnity, protect our land!]

Xiu En's golden eyes narrowed, and the fleeting phantom of Shao Hao on his body was even clearer than when the god descended that day.

Then came the third and final time.

The red and black ceremonial cap fell to the ground.

[To cultivate virtue, we offer this sacrifice to Heaven!]

With that final low shout, Xiu En felt himself being completely activated.

He was no longer an outsider who had wandered in, but a sun god who was even more orthodox than the natives of this world.

The red rain below seemed to be overwhelmed by this solemn aura that soared into the sky.

The evil energy that originally tried to corrupt the newly arrived sun around Xiu'en was suppressed by the righteous energy and could not make any progress.

The vampires that were about to pounce on them scattered and fled like flies scalded by a hot iron.

"Alright, alright, you've put on the hat and recited the lines."

Xiu En stood up and touched the crown on his head.

"Shouldn't you be giving me a nickname next? I know how to do that. Let me make it clear, don't call me something like 'Overlord' or 'Arrogant Heaven'."

The system's voice gradually faded, returning to its usual businesslike tone, but with a hint of expectation:

[A name is a great title, not to be given lightly. Look at this world, filth everywhere, the great sun about to set.]

Go then, wash this sky clean. Even if you only let a single ray of clean sunlight shine into that ditch, I will then inscribe for you a mark that will be remembered for eternity.

"Okay, okay."

Xiu En stretched his neck, the golden armor patterns running across his skin.

He looked up at the heartbreaking, gray sun.

"Little Flower, hold on tight. We're going to be doctors and perform CPR on a star."

"Also, close your eyes, but I've already put the best sunscreen on you, so it shouldn't be a problem if you don't close them."

The Shaohao Golden Qi on Xiu En's body suddenly transformed from its previous sharp and killing aura into a thick, bell-shaped spherical shield, completely enveloping the sunflower.

The next moment, empowered by righteous energy, he went against the current and soon crashed into the dark red corona layer that exuded a musty smell.

All that could be felt from the surroundings was a nauseating, sticky sensation.

That protective aura, which should have been extremely sacred, now seemed to be struggling to move forward in boiling asphalt.

That protective aura, which should have been extremely sacred, now seemed to be struggling to move forward in boiling asphalt.

Ivy was struggling to open her eyes inside the perfectly constant temperature golden dome.

Through the golden filter, Ivy saw not the magnificent interior of the star, but a massive disease.

"This doesn't look like burning!"

Instinct made her decision instantly, even though she was just a flower now.

"This is necrosis. All it has is endlessly proliferating fungi!"

"Fungi? Or should we call it vampire mold?"

Xiu En picked up the conversation, his tone unusually fiery.

He swung his hands in a cross-shaped slash.

With the support of righteous energy, the sharp edge, capable of cutting through dimensions, instantly severed the thick black vein in front of them, which resembled an underwater tunnel.

That thing is connected to the sun's core, continuously supplying it with some kind of black filth, while also drawing away the sun's last bit of light and heat.

The broken black veins emitted a scream as if they were alive, and the black liquid gushed out and was instantly evaporated by the surrounding divine fire.

"Did it work?"

The sunflower shook its leaves in surprise.

"No, it's not that easy."

Sure enough, the wound twitched twice in the next second, and that energy, carrying the stench of a damned vampire, was transmitted back up from the distant ground.

In the blink of an eye, the severed veins reconnected, and even grew thicker because of this provocation.

It's like an organ that has already become cancerous and spread; simply removing a part of it won't do any good.

"Did you see that?"

Xiu En pointed to the direction in which the black tube extended.

Even inside the star where visibility is extremely limited, with Shaohao's Eyes, he could still see the densely packed connection points on that causal line.

Each point corresponds to a high-ranking vampire on the ground.

Every single thread converges on the largest and most malevolent heart on Earth.

That is, it should have been the very center of Gotham or some other city.

"Someone is keeping it as a blood bag."

Xiu En shook his hand in disgust, his golden eyes piercing through the layers of clouds and locking onto the red rain world below.

"The insects on the ground are sucking the blood from the sky."

"So? We're supposed to stay here and wait for it to burn all of this down?"

Ivy asked tentatively, already sensing that Xiu En's aura had changed.

If he was a dignified guest of honor before, now he's like a volatile family member who's been provoked and is ready to tear the hospital apart.

"Burning it won't do any good."

Xiu En turned around and stood upside down.

He stared at the land below, which seemed to be forever shrouded in the stench of blood, and the golden shield instantly transformed into a pneumatic structure resembling a drill bit.

"Whether it's a vampire or a fungus, the principle of treatment is the same: we'll dig it out from the root."

Acceleration once again.

This time, it was not towards the light, but rather, it was swept away by divine wrath and plunged into the deepest darkness.