Starting with the awakened Poison God: I choose the Master Thief.

Roar! ! !

The behemoth, writhing in pain, locked onto Chu Ci once more.

The massive tentacles attacked wildly, but were all blocked by the light shield.

[Ding! Damage has been inflicted on the Spirit Dust Beast. Successfully entered the fourth hidden stage of the secret realm—the Sealed Beast.]

[You can try to do something; the Spirit Dust Beast is sealed at the bottom of the valley and will not harm you.]

Alternatively, you can choose to leave now; the rewards from the secret realm will be distributed based on your contribution points.

Below the system prompt, an introduction appears.

[The Secret Realm of the Fallen Church]

Brief History: Clerks of the Holy See were ordered to bring God's feathers to reinforce the seal, but they were corrupted by an unknown, fallen being and turned into selfish monsters.

(Please remember that the power of purification can cause immense damage to beings tainted by corruption.)

Purification? No wonder the boss couldn't get rid of the poison; it turns out this stuff was poison to him.

But who is this unknown entity? How could it have infected Koma?

Just as Chu Ci was standing on the cliff top pondering, a figure slowly approached from behind.

who!

Chu Ci suddenly turned around and looked.

"My lord! It's me! Hahaha..."

Not far away, the bearded man smiled awkwardly.

"It's you? Didn't you meet with some misfortune?" Chu Ci stared intently at him, as if the other party wouldn't give up until he gave her an explanation.

"Ugh! A zombie suddenly jumped out of the bushes and startled me. It took me a lot of effort to shake it off."

The bearded man waved his hand, revealing a look that said, "Don't even mention it."

"I see. You're really lucky. Those zombies weren't very fast, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to escape back to the village."

Hearing the other party's reply, Chu Ci breathed a sigh of relief and let down her guard.

"Yes, yes, you're right, sir. It's all thanks to you that we defeated this monster! I thank you on behalf of everyone in the village!"

boom!boom!

The bearded man immediately knelt down, slamming his head hard against the ground.

"Alright, now that the matter is resolved, I should leave."

Chu Ci didn't look at him for long before preparing to leave.

One step, two steps, and the distance between the two quickly shrank to zero.

Looking at the other person's back, suddenly, the bearded man's face turned fierce, and he pulled out a dagger from his chest and stabbed at him.

Sensing the fluctuations behind him, Chu Ci's expression remained unchanged.

"It really was you."

He calmly and swiftly sidestepped, easily dodging the knife.

The bearded man's face immediately turned ugly after his attack missed its mark.

He picked up the dagger and pointed it at Chu Ci. His eyes had long lost their previous honesty and kindness, leaving only cunning and ruthlessness.

How did you find me?

"Heh, is there even a need to discover that? An ordinary villager who just escaped from a monster's clutches wouldn't run home, but instead ran to this even more dangerous place. To say you came to congratulate me would be a lie!"

Although he said that, Chu Ci knew in his heart that if it weren't for the system notification, he might not have been wary of this guy.

After all, it's difficult for people to be on guard before they have any suspicions.

Looking at the dagger in the other person's hand, something suddenly popped into Chu Ci's mind again.

"You lied before when you said you stood in the last row when praying to God, didn't you?"

The bearded man was taken aback; he hadn't expected the other person to suddenly bring up this topic.

"Ha, you guessed right, I'm not in the last row."

"When the Holy See members conduct collective prayer, they always choose one person to pray with the highest-ranking person."

"In order to get that guy to see me, I desperately pretended to be devout, acting like a clown in front of those fleas, displaying my so-called faith."

"It turned out to work. Koma noticed me immediately and invited me to pray with him, and then..."

Chu Ci suddenly interrupted, "Then you plunged the dagger, laced with corrupting substances, into his body, right?"

"You lack real strength and can only resort to sneak attacks to harm others. When you are not exposed, you are the most ruthless viper, capable of taking lives at any time."

"But once exposed, you'll only be able to desperately try to escape back to the shadows like a rat, am I right?"

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly froze.

The bearded man's legs, which had been moving outwards, stopped at this moment.

His expression as he looked at Chu Ci was somewhat complicated.

There was anger, malice, confusion, and regret.

If I had struck a sneak attack the moment they first met me, things might not have come to this.

"You don't really think I didn't have a backup plan, do you?! Corpse wolves, charge!"

The purple magic circle reappeared on the ground.

Three corpse wolves appeared at the same time.

Awooo!!!

Chu Ci remained completely calm. A bottle of yellow liquid had appeared in his hand, which was a purification potion.

When the zombie wolves rushed in front of Chu Ci, he quickly splashed the prepared potion onto them.

-10000 -10000 -10000 (Restraint)

[Ding! 3 Corpse Wolves defeated, 3 Fallen Soul Dust obtained.]

A damage of up to 1 was detonated, and the three corpse wolves instantly turned to ashes and vanished.

"What you have in your hand is... a purification potion!"

The bearded man was immediately thrown into a panic.

The reason he has been holed up in this small village is not only because he wants to find a way to release the giant spirit beast sealed in the valley, but also because in the city, the purification skills and methods of the chosen ones and professionals are the most deadly poison to someone like him, greatly reducing his safety.

"You seem to be very afraid of this thing."

Stealth, activate.

After saying that, Chu Ci's figure disappeared from the other party's sight.

"Y-you! What do you think you're doing?!"

The bearded man was so frightened by this scene that he kept looking around.

Chu Ci secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

I told you, there aren't that many ways to detect stealth. I can accept that Koma has the Eye of Truth, but if even a noob like him who only relies on sneak attacks can detect stealth, then he should consider changing classes and starting over.

Of course, if it were only level 1 anti-stealth, he wouldn't be visible now.

Just as the bearded man slowly backed away, Chu Ci had already arrived behind him.

He took out another bottle of purification potion, just as he was about to throw it away.

Wait a minute, I haven't even used my elixir of life yet. Maybe I can pull out something good.

I'll pay!

[Ding! Congratulations on obtaining the token – the Remnant Blood Ancient Ring.]