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【 Act IV: World of Evil 】

The white light dissipated.

The anticipated land of lava and bones did not appear.

Instead, it was a distorted and magnificent divine realm, beyond description.

The Joint Squad found themselves standing on a black plaza solidified from countless wailing souls.

The sky had no sun, moon, or stars.

There were only gigantic, bone-deep crack, like scars on the universe.

From those crack, what seeped out was not light, but chaotic energy, thick as oil, filled with pure malice.

In the distance, stood majestic temples, directly materialized from negative emotions like hatred, jealousy, and greed.

Some temples had countless prying eyes growing on their walls.

Other temples were formed by countless venomous snakes, coiling, biting, and devouring each other.

This was the Celestial Realm of the World of Evil—the Temple of Ten Thousand Evils!

This was the gods' gladiatorial arena, the ultimate culmination of all negative emotions in the universe!

"Ugh..."

Star Gazing Goddess Lingxi let out a pained groan the moment she stepped onto this land.

She felt her connection to the myriad stars completely severed by a brutal force!

The stars that once gave her revelations now became cold, mocking black holes, frantically devouring her mental energy.

"My shadow... is 'melting'!"

Shadow Empress Ye Liuli's expression was extremely grim.

She found that her proud power of shadows, here, was rapidly dissolving and evaporating like ice and snow exposed to the scorching sun.

This world was repelling them!

Repelling all power not belonging to "evil"!

Fate Seer Cang Xuan and Shadowless Ghost Ye Qiong were in even worse states.

The threads of destiny in Cang Xuan's eyes became blurry, interfered with by an endless influx of malice, rendering any effective deduction impossible.

As for Ye Qiong, he felt for the first time how pale and powerless his proud "shadowless" path was.

Here, he couldn't completely conceal his aura.

Because the aura of a "living being" on him was so out of place in this world filled with "malice" and "corruption"!

It was like a torch in the dark, no matter how much it was covered, it still appeared so glaring!

The most terrifying thing for them was the gazes from all directions, filled with greed, scrutiny, and undisguised "appetite"!

And deep within those majestic temples, various native evil gods, emanating terrifying auras, had already noticed these "uninvited guests."

They were like a flock of sheep who had stumbled into a crocodile pond, instantly becoming the common target of all predators!

Crisis was imminent!

Just then, the cold, yet at this moment incredibly comforting, notification sound of the chat group rang in everyone's minds like a timely rain.

【Warning! Detecting that all group members have entered a high-risk, exclusionary world—Distorted Evil Lands (World of Evil)!】

【World rules have changed! Emergency identity calibration in progress...】

【Calibration complete! Matching temporary identities for everyone to avoid direct obliteration by world rules!】

【Worldview summary, loading—】

A massive stream of information poured into the minds of everyone in the Joint Squad.

【Welcome to Act IV: World of Evil】

【World Name: Distorted Evil Lands】

【World Rules: Evil Corrupted Immortal Dao. Everything in this realm follows the laws of evil "defined" by a supreme existence. The source of power is pure "malice"; the path to advancement is endless "corruption."】

【World Structure:】

【1. Celestial Realm · Temple of Ten Thousand Evils: The playground of the gods. There is no order here, only naked power hierarchy. Weaker gods are "food" or "offspring" for stronger gods.】

【Powerful "Mother Gods" can create weaker "Child Gods" by dividing their own "evil" authority. Child Gods must offer "faith" to Mother Gods in exchange for protection, but they also constantly covet the Mother God's divine throne.】

【2. Mortal Realm · Sinful Pasture: The energy source of the gods. All living beings in the Mortal Realm are "livestock" raised by the gods. Their pain, despair, hatred, jealousy... all negative emotions will be transformed into the purest "power of faith" and absorbed by the gods in the Celestial Realm.】

【Gods Do Not Descend: The gods of the Celestial Realm, constrained by the rules of the Heavenly Dao, cannot descend to the Mortal Realm in their true forms. All interference with the Mortal Realm must be done through the following methods:】

【—Divine Oracle: Transmitting will to believers.】

【—Sacrifice: Bestowing "blessings" (stronger malice) or "curses" through the sacrifices of believers.】

【—Incarnation: Finding suitable "vessels" and injecting a wisp of divine consciousness into them to temporarily walk among mortals.】

【—Divine War Proxy: Cultivating "chosen ones" in the Mortal Realm to act as their spokespersons among mortals, waging wars to harvest larger-scale "faith."】

【Identity disguise has been generated!】

【All group members, from now on, must strictly play your new identities. Any OOC (out of character) behavior may lead to the disguise failing and attract the siege of native evil gods!】

【Chain Breaker Gu Yanci】

【Temporary Identity: God of Doomsday Tragedy】

【Divine Authority: Tragedy, Endings, Irreversible Regret】

【Core Role-Play: You do not enjoy mere slaughter. What you pursue is to guide a civilization, a love story, a hero, towards the most glorious, most brilliant, and most irreversible tragic end.】

【When a hero, after saving the world, is betrayed by its people; when lovers, after enduring hardships, are ultimately separated by life and death... the extreme "evil of sorrow" that erupts at that moment is your most delicious sustenance.】

【Shadow Empress Ye Liuli】

【Temporary Identity: God of Mysterious Lies and Betrayal】

【Divine Authority: Lies, Betrayal, Whispers Hidden in Shadows】

【Core Role-Play: Your believers are the best spies and assassins. What you enjoy is sowing seeds of suspicion among the firmest alliances; whispering temptations of betrayal into the ears of the most loyal subjects.】

【When fathers and sons turn against each other, brothers become enemies, and lovers stab each other, that is when you gain supreme pleasure.】

【Star Gazing Goddess Lingxi】

【Temporary Identity: God of Despairing Apocalypse】

【Divine Authority: Destiny, Despair, Unchangeable Misfortune】

【Core Role-Play: Every one of your divine oracles is a precise "death prophecy." You will tell a king that his kingdom is destined to fall; you will tell a mother that her child is destined to die young.】

【You never deceive; you merely present the cruelest "future" in a bloody manner before them, and then enjoy their futile struggles, knowing the outcome, and from it, extract "despair."】

【Fate Seer Cang Xuan】

【Temporary Identity: God of Broken Oaths】

【Divine Authority: Oaths, Contracts, and Their Breaking】

【Core Role-Play: You are keen to witness all beautiful agreements in the world. Then, personally tear them apart. You will lure lovers who have sworn eternal vows to sign contracts betraying each other; you will instigate brothers who have shared life and death to make oaths to abandon each other.】

【The moment an oath is broken, the "evil" of collapsing faith is your power.】

【Shadowless Ghost Ye Qiong】

【Temporary Identity: God of Silent Backstabbing】

【Divine Authority: Assassination, Backstabbing, the Fatal Blow from the Closest Person】

【Core Role-Play: Your existence is to interpret "the safest is the most dangerous." You never appear directly; you only bestow power upon the most trusted family members, friends, and partners.】

【Then, when the target is most relaxed and unguarded, guide them to deliver the most fatal stab from behind.】

【Mission Issued!】

【Main Quest One: Disguise and Establishment.】

【Quest Requirements: Successfully role-play your new identity in the Temple of Ten Thousand Evils without being exposed. Choose a "Mother God" to pledge allegiance to, or, as a "Wild God," endure the pressure from all native gods until the first "Temple Truce Period" arrives.】

【Main Quest Two: Pasture Management.】

【Quest Requirements: In the Mortal Realm · Sinful Pasture, choose an area as your "Faith Pasture." Through various means, develop believers and harvest negative emotions to restore and enhance your power.】

【Final Quest: Find the Holy Sword, Redeem the Source of Evil.】

【Quest Requirements: In the Mortal Realm, find the "Holy Sword of Hope" formed by Zhang Wei, and find the "Hero" born from the Mortal Realm's destiny who wields the Holy Sword. Finally, with the Hero's help, find and redeem the source of "evil" in this world—the initial incarnation of evil named "Haha."】

【Warning: This world has undergone a "Law Upgrade" by an unknown entity; the actual difficulty far exceeds system evaluation! All group members, please proceed with extreme caution!】

【Warning: The key plot item "Zhang Wei" was lost during transmission; current location: Mortal Realm · Sinful Pasture. Please find her as soon as possible!】

The information stream ended here.

The five members of the Joint Squad took a full ten seconds to digest this script, which could be described as a hellish beginning.

Playing an evil god?

Developing a cult?

And even pledging allegiance to a more powerful evil god as a "subordinate"?

What kind of devilish mission was this?!

However, reality gave them no time to complain.

A corrosive voice, as if countless venomous snakes were hissing in their ears, sounded from behind.

"Hehehehe..."

It was an extremely enchanting and beautiful female deity.

She wore a magnificent robe woven from countless jealous gazes.

Her long hair was made of countless small, flicking venomous snakes.

A charming smile was on her face, but her eyes were filled with the most malicious suspicion and hatred for all beautiful things in the world.

【Mother God · Jealousy and Suspicion】!

She was an extremely powerful "Mother God" in this Temple of Ten Thousand Evils!

She walked with elegant steps, slowly approaching the Joint Squad.

Her snake-like eyes swept over them one by one, as if to see through their very souls.

"Newcomers..."

She chuckled, covering her mouth, but her voice made the surrounding space ripple.

"You smell... very 'unfamiliar.'"

"Neither the flames of 'wrath,' nor the stench of 'greed.' And certainly no aura of any 'mother.'"

Her smile suddenly turned cold.

A terrifying divine might, like a mountain collapse and a tsunami, crushed down on the five of them!

"Speak."

"You, these weak and pathetic 'Wild Gods'..."

"—From which forgotten 'corner of evil thoughts' were you born?"

This question was like a blade held to their throats!

If they answered well, they might temporarily gain a moment of respite.

If they answered poorly, they might become the "nourishment" for this "Mother God's" path to advancement today!

The five members of the Joint Squad instantly fell into a deathly silence.

Their backs were already drenched in cold sweat... And at this moment, Gu Jianghan's consciousness was not entirely focused on the deadly "interview" before him.

In his eyes, where the left held stars and the right held the mortal realm, a brand new scene was slowly unfolding.

It was a scene from the 【Mortal Realm · Sinful Pasture】.

The land was a scorched earth, dyed dark red by war and blood.

The sky was perpetually shrouded under heavy dark clouds.

In the ruins of a village destroyed by monsters, littered with corpses,

A tattered, wounded youth, with an unyielding flame burning in his eyes, was struggling, step by step, towards the center of the village, the only untouched sanctuary.

There, a magnificent longsword, radiating holy light and inscribed with three ancient runes—"Joy, Anger, Sorrow"—was quietly plunged into a black altar.

Upon closer inspection, on the ornate hilt of the sword, a character "Wei" written in an unknown divine script, flickered faintly.

The youth reached out his hand, stained with blood and dirt.

He gripped the hilt.

Then, with all his might—he pulled it upward!