499: The bizarre case of a city being destroyed

Qin Shilei moved his thoughts and left the Blessed Land with Mary.

With a wave of his hand, the hundreds of Evolutionaries from before appeared in the open space in front.

Qin Shilei ordered, "Set up your magic array!"

Those people immediately scattered, each hunting a different beast nearby, and then returned to the open space.

Using the blood of the different beasts, they drew an intricate magic array about twenty to thirty meters wide on the ground.

Then, they placed countless various materials into the magic array.

Finally, tens of thousands of crystals were placed inside to activate it.

The magic array flashed a red light, and then nothing happened.

"Is that it?" Qin Shilei, who had been waiting intently, was very puzzled.

Where is the master you spoke of? Why haven't I seen him appear yet?

"Now, if we just put a large amount of flesh and blood and souls into it, this magic array can be completely activated."

The hundreds of people turned and ran in all directions again, continuously bringing back half-dead different beasts from afar.

After those different beasts were thrown into the magic array, small white balls representing the light of the soul floated out from their minds, and the different beasts instantly died.

The small white balls were absorbed by the magic array, and even the flesh and blood of the different beasts were completely melted by the magic array.

Qin Shilei saw that these people had thrown dozens of different beasts into it, but still couldn't fully activate the magic array, so he had to personally intervene.

Finally, he brought thousands of different beasts before successfully activating the magic array.

The magic array, like a pool of blood, suddenly gave off a thick blood mist.

The blood mist slowly gathered towards the center, gradually forming a humanoid object made of blood.

"Hehehe!"

The blood man cackled, "Not bad, I didn't expect you to find out the information I needed in such a short time.

Now let me first see where this place is?"

The blood man was about to fly into the air to observe the surroundings when he suddenly saw a familiar face appear before him.

"Arons, long time no see!"

Qin Shilei smiled and waved at the other party.

The appearance of this blood man was exactly that of Arons, who Qin Shilei had met once before.

Arons was stunned, "It's you? It seems you have seen through my methods."

Qin Shilei smiled faintly, "It is I, Great Lord Arons, it seems you are about to lose a clone today."

Arons said indifferently, "Just a mere clone, take it if you want.

A friendly reminder, those humans you took into that space, there might still be pawns I've placed there."

After Arons finished speaking, he quickly flew down towards the magic array below.

He spoke casually, but he was still unwilling to easily give up this clone.

A dazzling silver light suddenly flashed, instantly striking Arons.

This clone, only at Platinum Peak, couldn't even let out a scream before it was shattered by the thunderclap, turning back into blood mist.

Qin Shilei then summoned several more thunderclaps, completely destroying the magic array under his feet and the blood mist on it.

He also conveniently sent the hundreds of humans who had been subjected to Arons' secret technique to hell.

Mary said with some concern, "Qin Dage, do you think there are still demon spies hidden among the humans in Amelia? Should we conduct a large-scale investigation?"

Qin Shilei pondered for a moment, "A large-scale investigation is too time-consuming and laborious. Pay more attention when you absorb the power of faith.

If a similar situation occurs again, we will make plans then."

He paused, then said again, "We should still go find Hela; she has lived for tens of thousands of years and must have a way to deal with this situation."

Mary nodded, "Okay."

The two quickly arrived at Hela's temple through the teleportation array.

A minute later, Hela's clone appeared before them.

Qin Shilei bowed in thanks, "Thank you again, Divine Venerable, for your previous guidance, which allowed Qin to successfully advance to the Master Realm in such a short time."

"You're welcome!"

Hela smiled, "This Venerable was just about to personally congratulate Your Highness on shedding your mortal body!"

After some pleasantries, Qin Shilei stated the purpose of his visit, "This is my wife, Mary. She discovered something amiss when absorbing the power of faith.

Unexpectedly, there were spies from the Abyss World hidden among the believers.

Divine Venerable, do you have a method to quickly identify those insincere false believers?"

Hela glanced at Mary, "That's simple. As long as she becomes a god, all false believers will have nowhere to hide."

Qin Shilei gave a wry smile, "This, I'm afraid, cannot be done in a short time."

"Oh." Hela stared at Qin Shilei and asked, "Can't you also make your wife become a god as quickly as you did?"

Qin Shilei shook his head, "No."

"I see." Hela said thoughtfully, "This is a bit troublesome. The spies you mentioned actually come in several forms.

Some are unwitting spies who have been affected by a secret technique; some are devout believers of other gods, who have sealed their hearts with special methods and then turned to you; and there are some who are merely shallow believers, who harbored ill intentions from the start.

Although they can also provide you with the power of faith, they can easily betray you.

Your wife is not a god, so many divine methods cannot be used."

Qin Shilei frowned slightly, "Is there no method that Mary can use right now?"

Hela looked at Qin Shilei, "Fine, I will grant you another favor."

With that, she extended her right index finger and pointed it at Mary's forehead.

"Mary, Divine Venerable is imparting a technique to you; there's no need to avoid it." Qin Shilei stopped Mary's attempt to dodge.

Hela's index finger flashed with white light, and she transmitted a set of incantations to Mary.

"Thank you, Divine Venerable, for imparting the technique!" Mary bowed in thanks.

Seeing Hela's friendliness, Qin Shilei once again asked her about the key strategies for battles between gods.

He learned that it was very difficult for gods to kill each other because both sides could retreat into their own space when they were at a disadvantage.

It was extremely difficult for anyone not proficient in spatial techniques to attack a god hidden in their personal space.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, gods would not bring enemies into their Divine Kingdom to use its power against them.

Through this exchange, Qin Shilei gained a lot of knowledge about gods.

After leaving Hela's temple, Qin Shilei and Mary continued to relocate believers.

However, this action was soon interrupted again.

The Lair Duchy, a vassal state of Great Xia, was annihilated, suspected to be the work of Abyss demons.

The Lair Duchy was nearly fifty thousand kilometers from Great Xia, at the very edge of Great Xia's sphere of influence. Its area was only one-twentieth of Great Xia's, with only two cities protected by walls, and about 1.6 to 1.7 million survivors.

When the people of Qin An Royal Mansion received news of the incident in the first city, they immediately dispatched Platinum Experts to investigate, only to discover that another city in Lair had also been massacred.

No, it should be that more than a million survivors in both cities had mysteriously and silently lost their lives.

Because the members of the Dark Night could not find the cause and feared similar events might occur in other cities, they immediately notified Qin Shilei.