I! Cleaner!-Chapter 963 - 892: Guaranteed Win!

Perceiving the danger, Leon decisively stopped his corruption and silently hid in the deepest part of the Mountain Woman's Heart Lake, while the Overlords of the Dead Realm arrived at the source of the Silver Frozen River one after another.

"It's about time."

Squinting at the glacier upstream of the Frozen River, the Faceless Man turned and said to the Mountain Woman:

"You go ahead and take a bite, freeze the Food God inside Heart Lake, and then we can talk about what's next."

"Alright."

As if she had already expected this, the Mountain Woman showed no surprise on her face. She stepped over the dark ice spikes on the Silver Frozen River, heading toward the distant, pitch-black giant glacier.

When she finally reached the foot of the glacier, under the wary gaze of Leon, his mount, whom he had only tamed a few days ago, astonishingly dug out a piece, pitch-black...

No, not black!

Momentarily risking exposure, Leon took a brief glance at the ice block in the Mountain Woman's hand and felt a shudder run down his spine.

The ice block excavated by the Mountain Woman from the glacier was not actually black, but rather a very deep, dark red! A somber, decaying blood red!

What made Leon instinctively feel uneasy was that the ice block in the Mountain Woman's hand emitted more than just a sense of cold.

The chill, capable of freezing the entire Heart Lake, was merely the surface symptom of this aura. The true nature of these ice blocks represented something closer to the essence of death, a bizarre existence of "finality" and "silence," like the "bloody" aura emitted by death itself.

After the Mountain Woman bit off a corner of the blood-colored black ice and swallowed it with great difficulty, Leon, forced to "taste" a bit as well, couldn't help but entertain an extremely peculiar thought.

If "death" itself could bleed... then this might be the taste.

...

"Hiss..."

After uncontrollably shivering, the blood drained completely from her face, and her lips turned blackish from the cold, making her look "deader" than the dead. The Mountain Woman first tried to feel her Heart Lake, then finally revealed a painful smile.

"Frozen... d-d-d-done! H-he's not moving at all!"

"Phew..." xN

Seeing the relieved expression on the Mountain Woman's face, the thirteen Overlords of the Dead Realm at the source of the "Frozen" River also relaxed slightly in response.

For nothing else, the "pressure" the Food God brought to everyone during this period was indeed a bit terrifying.

Those who were tragically devoured at the Gate of the Deceased and are still queuing for resurrection, the watchful Death Hounds, need not be mentioned. Just the turmoil from two days ago, which disrupted half of the Dead Realm, was enough to make all the Overlords of the Dead Realm uneasy.

Facing the premeditated assault of the Food God, the Reticulated Hind, the strongest on the No Return Path's first half, got blown apart on the spot in a single encounter. If not for the Mountain Woman pulling it out in time, it would have joined the Death Hounds in companionship by now.

And the Mountain Woman, whose power ranked in the top three among the Overlords of the Dead Realm, was also heavily battered by him, suffering full-body cracks, half of Zhanhuai Mountain collapsed, and her own Heart Lake was eroded, almost turning into a puppet at their command.

Fortunately, there were three Overlords of the Dead Realm in Zhanhuai Mountain at that time.

If it weren't for the Faceless Man weakening from the sidelines, forcibly dragging the Food God down from the Pillar God level, Mountain Woman and the Reticulated Hind alone would have likely been doomed. At this rate, they'd lose three Overlords, or more, before even engaging in war with the Council of Clearance.

Even knowing this is only a quarter of the Food God's soul hiding in the Heart Lake, whenever his fearsome combat record is recalled, shadows would invariably creep into the minds of all Dead Realm Overlords.

And now that the Mountain Woman consumed the Blood of the Dead, borrowing death to freeze the Food God, it temporarily eased the burden Leon had placed overhead, making the heavy-hearted Overlords of the Dead Realm feel slightly better.

"Since the issue with the Food God is temporarily resolved, let's talk business."

After confirming the stillness of her Heart Lake to be akin to death, the Faceless Man finally relaxed before speaking gravely:

"Regarding the previous plan to ambush the Council of Clearance outside the Sage's Cemetery, do you have any thoughts?"

"..."

"Let me put this more bluntly."

Seeing the varied expressions yet unspoken words of the Overlords of the Dead Realm, the Faceless Man sighed and said:

"Do you still have the guts to participate in the ambush now?"

"..."

"..."

"It's not a matter of courage, but the risk is just too great."

Faced with the Faceless Man's rather blunt questioning, the Death Keeper, wrapped in corpse straps and bloody hair, stood out after a moment of silence and hesitantly spoke:

"If we actually ambush the Council of Clearance and kill two or three directors, then there will be no room for negotiation between us and the Council of Clearance.

And everyone saw the events from two days ago, the Food God brought only a quarter of his soul and caused this much chaos. If we completely fall out with the Council of Clearance and fail to capture the Food God, letting him escape..."

Then we might never see peace again.

Although the Death Keeper did not finish his sentence, all the Overlords of the Dead Realm present understood his meaning.

Judging by the Food God's displayed abilities during the chaos two days ago, if he manages to escape intact with even a fragment of his soul, he could recreate the disaster and randomly kill a few of us Overlords.

And if the Food God entirely escapes, or his true form wasn't here at all, then a being thrice as terrifying as before would be stalking the Dead Realm to massacre, who could bear that?

"But but but... But we must fight!"

After cautiously spitting out a bit of the Blood of the Dead ice debris, the trembling Mountain Woman cried out, gritting her teeth:

"I faced the Food God directly! I understand! When he looks at us, his eyes are like looking at corpses!

Bah! Listen to me! The Food God could never possibly tolerate us, and he'd never accept surrender! Just a glance tells me he intends to destroy the entire Dead Realm! There's no room for reconciliation!"

Having thoroughly spat out the ice debris in her mouth, the Mountain Woman gradually stopped trembling as she spoke and said with wary eyes:

"You can ask the Faceless Man and the Reticulated Hind; they were both there at the time. Ask them if they felt the same!"

Upon hearing this, the Overlords of the Dead Realm felt their hearts tighten, and when the Faceless Man and Reticulated Hind nodded, even the Death Keeper, who initially opposed the ambush, fell silent.

So, we must battle the Council of Clearance with bloodshed after all... but...

"Can we win?"

Squinting the crow's eyes on both temples, Grandma Crow-eye frowned and said:

"Even if we can activate the Frozen River, the Council of Clearance's directors have the Star Palace's protection, with numerous lifesaving methods. Can Frozen River truly detain the directors who come to negotiate?" 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"What is the Frozen River?"

"The Frozen River is..."

Instinctively answering half-way, Grandma Crow-eye suddenly stopped, turning her head with a snap, staring as if having seen a ghost at the Mountain Woman's chest... where the Food God was peering out, watching her curiously.

"You're not frozen?!!?!!!"

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