At this moment, Ti Sheng is taking in less air than he’s expelling, utterly devastated.

The two Earth humans across were truly too steady!

Clearly, they could have killed him in just a few moves if they worked together, yet they weren’t greedy or reckless, leaving no chance for a comeback.

How could such people exist?

They used to be so flippant, but at the crucial moment, they suddenly changed their style and became prudent...

Not giving a way out at all!

Though Ti Sheng knew he was already doomed, as the second generation God of Slaughter, superior to his predecessor, he was usually cautious and well-versed in survival. But the more critical the moment, the calmer and more rational he became. Hidden wisdom began to activate again, thoughts racing, sparking flashes of insight, trying to find a possibility within the impossible and survive this unprecedented crisis!

"Let’s stop now!"

Ti Sheng tried to calm his own breath, putting on a facade of tranquility: "I admit your strength."

"But... a god like me cannot be easily killed."

"As long as one believer still has faith in me, I could reincarnate and return, reshape my divine body, condense my divine format, and live again!"

"If you stop now, everything that happened before, I can overlook. We can go our separate ways, and even if we can’t be allies, we can remain strangers without conflict."

As soon as the words fell, just a glance at the expressions of Ma Ran and Su Qiangwei made Ti Sheng realize he made a mistake!

The intelligence these two Earth humans possessed was far more than he anticipated!

They knew that inheriting the God of Slaughter’s divine format, the most crucial aspect was inheriting the former god’s hatred and obsession, which mandated killing Ma Ran and Su Qiangwei. Otherwise, essential fusion couldn’t be completed.

It had been several millennia since inheriting the previous God of Slaughter’s divine format. Ti Sheng had gathered all divine fragments and reforged them, steadily nurturing for thousands of years, accumulating faith and divine power, constantly improving and optimizing the structure of the divine format.

Now, Ti Sheng was even stronger than the previous deity.

But problems also arose...

His divine format had been optimized to an almost perfect stage, but it wasn’t truly perfect. To advance further, he must fulfill the previous God of Slaughter’s obsession and resolve their grievances, to truly ascend from a weak deity with weak divine power, bypass lower rank gods, to achieve a powerful middle rank god’s divine format! 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Under such circumstances, Ti Sheng and Ma Ran, along with Su Qiangwei, were natural enemies, locked in an irreconcilable conflict!

Initially, Ti Sheng believed, although these two possessed significant intelligence, they probably didn’t know about this impasse, and with the right attitude, he could conquer without fighting.

Now it seemed he had overthought.

The Prophet’s ability to predict the future was completely unreasonable!

The divine formats which shrouded in mystery, capable of nullifying most prophecy methods in the cosmos, were completely seen through by the other party!

One wrong step, and half of Ti Sheng’s heart went cold.

Feeling Ma Ran’s calm gaze, and stung by Su Qiangwei’s mocking smile that made one want to hit her, Ti Sheng decided to change strategy.

He glared at Su Qiangwei viciously, murderous intent evident in his blood-red eyes leaking substantial ferocity, while the Divine Artifact Tang Blade in his hand vibrated slightly, seeming to thirst for slaughter and blood: "Mortal! You have angered a god!"

Su Qiangwei raised an eyebrow slightly, her lips curling as she was about to speak when a data panel emerged before her eyes, with blue background and red text, revealing four simple lines.

[Prophet System Friendly Reminder—The god has angered you.]

[Temporary Mission Generated.]

[Mission Objective: Kill this god!]

[Mission Reward: Red Braised Beef Noodles · Ma Ran Special Edition X2.]

With a thought, the light screen faded.

Su Qiangwei’s demeanor gradually became calm, though her scarlet pupils faintly leaked bright red light down her cheeks, forming two bright red tassel light bands at her temples.

"Today, you are doomed to die!"

"Even Master Heaven couldn’t save you!"

Those were the words spoken by Master Qiangwei!

After speaking, Su Qiangwei, wielding the Water Quality Thunder Spear, her figure burst, instantly appearing before Ti Sheng.

...

Three breaths later.

Under the combined efforts of Ma Ran and Su Qiangwei, Ti Sheng was completely annihilated.

However, before his death, he was much calmer than the previous God of Slaughter, showing no hysterical madness nor the ferocity to drag enemies down with him, just calmness and satisfaction.

"I have lived for several centuries, and even if I die today, this life was worth it."

This statement, rather than a last will, sounded more like self-comfort, almost like self-deception.

Ma Ran created a localized Youwen Text Illusion while using the Profound Immortal medal to Melt Devouring Ti Sheng’s divine body, enhancing his own life’s foundation and cell viability.

This was the divine body Ti Sheng had constructed over thousands of years, pooling a star of literary power, though not reaching middle rank god level, it was still at lower rank god level.

Even if Ma Ran only used its most essential parts, it was immensely beneficial.

The three major attributes of strength, speed, and endurance directly increased by around fifty percent!

Besides that...

Ma Ran also completely refined Ti Sheng’s Divine Artifact Tang Blade, integrating some of its essence into his own Spiritual Soldier.

The straight-edged, dragon-inlaid Tang Blade, previously showing a hint of purplish-red hues, after fully absorbing Ti Sheng’s Slaughter Divine Artifact, changed color once more.

The whole Tang Blade, colors separated from blade to spine, showed a hazy and mysterious purple cloud pattern, while the blade part was pure blood-red.

Ma Ran could clearly perceive that his Spiritual Soldier Tang Blade’s attributes in many ways saw significant changes.

Its strength, toughness, sharpness, soul-killing ability...

All aspects saw substantial improvement.

As for the divine format...

The same mistake, Ma Ran wouldn’t make a second time.

Together with Su Qiangwei, they formed a net, intercepting the escaping divine format at the last crucial moment.

However, the divine format is something that exists between the near illusory and real, entangled with massive slaughter obsessions and life forms’ misinterpreted laws.

Initially, Ma Ran intended to use the Profound Immortal medal to consume it outright, but the medal determined the Slaughter Divine Format wasn’t worth consuming.

Forced devouring was possible.

But the issue was...

Doing so would bring no benefit, potentially polluting one’s path, adversely impacting future development.

Better to expend energy and destroy it on the spot.

"The Profound Immortal medal’s devouring and purification ability still has its limitations..."

Ma Ran mused: "If I could make the Profound Immortal medal evolve, enhance its level, that would be ideal."