After the divorce, the CEO's ex-wife deeply regretted her actions.

"The sacrifice was not to appease it."

"The sacrifice is to...feed it!"

Upon hearing this, Su Yao's body seemed to be struck by lightning, and she froze on the spot.

The last trace of color drained from her face, replaced by a deathly despair, as if her secret had been completely exposed.

She opened her mouth but couldn't make a sound; she just looked at Chen Yun with the eyes of someone looking at a monster.

She doesn't understand.

This secret is the greatest taboo passed down orally from generation to generation by the village's holy maidens, kept hidden deep within their hearts.

How...how could this man, in such a short time, with just a few lies and speculations, have touched upon the darkest truth?!

Boom!Boom!Boom!

The heavier, more urgent thuds pounded wildly against the stone door, and against everyone's heart.

Visible cracks have already appeared on the door panel!

A bone-chilling cold, mixed with a nauseating stench, seeped out from the crack!

"Looks like I guessed right."

Chen Yun got the answer from Su Yao's expression.

His anger had reached its peak.

What utter nonsense about saving the village!

This is not a story about sacrifice and protection at all.

This is a disgustingly dirty conspiracy about deception, captivity, and trafficking!

This village is not the guardian of the monsters at all.

They are... zookeepers!

And he, Chen Yun, was carefully selected and lured here, to be fed as top-grade food to his "pet"!

"brute!"

Chen Yun roared, his anger seemingly about to explode!

He suddenly raised the blood-red "Mother Talisman" in his hand. This time, he did not aim it at Su Yao, nor at the stone gate.

Instead, it aimed at... one of the core nodes of the massive magic array beneath their feet!

The runes there are the most complex, and the energy fluctuations are the most intense!

"What...what are you going to do?!"

Su Yao finally realized what was happening and let out a shrill scream!

"Stop! Are you crazy?! Destroy the array's core, and the entire array will go out of control! The earth's ley line power will then go berserk, and we'll all be blown to bits!"

She scrambled over, trying to stop Chen Yun.

"powder?"

Chen Yun turned his head to the side, the scarlet light of the "Mother Symbol" illuminating his crazed and resolute profile.

"That's still better than being used as animal feed!"

"Since you like it so much, why don't you all go and be buried with it!"

Before he finished speaking, a ruthless glint flashed in his eyes, and without hesitation, he slammed the "mother talisman" in his hand hard against the magic array node!

He's betting!

He bet that Su Yao had an even deeper secret she hadn't revealed!

He was betting that this magic array was far more important to Su Yao and the entire village than he, as a "sacrifice," was!

He wants to use this most extreme and insane method to force out all the truth!

"don't want--!!!"

Su Yao's screams were distorted, hoarse, and filled with unprecedented fear.

That fear even surpassed the fear of the monster behind the door.

Just as the "mother talisman" that would decide everything was about to fall, she could no longer care about hiding anything and used all her strength to shout out the ultimate secret!

"That's divine blood! Not demonic blood!!"

"What we worship in our village is the blood of the gods!!"

Divine Blood.

These two words were like a bucket of ice water, extinguishing some of Chen Yun's boiling anger.

His arm suddenly froze in mid-air, the "mother talisman" burning with scarlet light was only inches away from the core of the array below.

The violent energy nearly burned his palms.

But he didn't move.

It's not that I believed it, but rather that behind those two words lay an even more absurd and bizarre possibility.

god?

Behind the door, there was that thing that was banging on the door with brute force and emitting a putrid stench.

It’s simply the most ridiculous thing in the world!

Seeing him stop moving, Su Yao reacted like a drowning person grasping at a last straw. Forgetting all about her dignity and self-respect as a saintess, she scrambled forward, grabbing Chen Yun's leg tightly.

Her body was cold and trembling violently.

"No...please, don't destroy it!"

Her voice was hoarse and tearful, her face covered in tears and dust, looking utterly disheveled.

“That really is ‘divine blood’! It’s something our ancestors have protected for generations! It’s not evil, it’s just… it’s just that its power is too great, and we can’t control it!”

She spoke incoherently and incoherently, as if trying to cram a completely new explanation into Chen Yun's mind as quickly as possible.

"Disaster! Once the magic array is destroyed, the earth's veins will overflow, and the 'divine blood' will go out of control, triggering a catastrophe you can't even imagine!"

Chen Yun lowered his eyes and looked coldly at the woman at his feet who was on the verge of collapse.

His heart was as hard as iron.

disaster?

For me, being tricked into coming here as fodder is the biggest disaster.

What do the rest have to do with me?

But he did not immediately smash the "mother talisman," nor did he stop.

He is observing.

He is thinking.

Su Yao's fear didn't seem faked; the trembling that came from the depths of her soul couldn't be faked.

But her fear was strange.

It wasn't just the fear of the "divine blood" breaking through the door, but also a more fundamental fear of the magic array being destroyed.

It seemed that destroying this magic circle would have consequences ten thousand times worse than releasing that "monster".

Moreover, when she mentioned "divine blood," besides fear, there was also a hint of... awe deep in her eyes?

Even... fanaticism?

It's like the most devout believer describing a god they both love and fear.

This is so contradictory.

Would a normal person respect a stinking beast that might tear them apart at any moment?

unless……

There's a key point he hasn't figured out yet.

Thump! Thump! Thump! Boom—!!

The stone gate roared again with a deafening roar!

This time, it was no longer a simple collision.

In the center of the door panel, a huge crack suddenly exploded, like a black lightning bolt!

"Roar...ho..."

A roar, neither human nor beastly, filled with endless pain and violence, burst forth from the crack.

The sound was like a dull knife scraping against a rusty iron plate, piercing one's eardrums with pain.

A stronger, more nauseating stench, mixed with the smell of decay, surged out like a solid black fog!

Wherever the mist passed, the hard runes on the stone wall emitted a "sizzling" corroding sound, and the light dimmed instantly!

Even the "Mother Talisman" in Chen Yun's hand, its blood-red light flickered erratically under the impact of this aura.

"not good!"

Su Yao screamed, her face ashen white.

Chen Yun keenly noticed that her gaze suddenly drifted towards the violently shaking stone gate in that instant.