among the trees.

Bai Jiamu was running at full speed with Bai Yi on his back. His eyes were sharp and a scalpel kept flashing in his hand, spinning left and right, and nailing the corpses close to them to the ground or tree stumps.

Bai Yi shouted weakly from Bai Jiamu's back: "... Stop shaking, I'm going to fall."

"...You're so stupid." Bai Jiamu shrugged speechlessly and pushed Bai Yi, who was about to slide down, onto his back a little. "You're defeated as soon as you make a move. Are you a piece of trash?"

Bai Yi was dissatisfied: "How do I know Bai Liu is so strong!"

"He can fight Nishen on equal terms, so he must be a player of the same level as Heitao." Bai Jiamu dodged a corpse falling from his head with a vigilant look, "...If a player of this level wanted to kill you, you wouldn't even have time to log out of the game. Bai Liu must have held back on you just now."

Bai Yi paused and hummed.

Bai Jiamu added: "I feel like Ni Shen also held back, otherwise if he used his skills and weapons, he could have forced Bai Liuqing out of the game."

Bai Yi let out a long sigh: "Anyway, I never understood what Ni Shen was going to do."

"He could have just cleared out Bai Liu, so why did he use Tai Chi to slowly consume Bai Liu? He also made Liao Ke (the last member of the Killer Sequence Team) quit the game, so that we could come out to find Hei Tao."

"If you can understand Ni Shen's operation, it would be a bit insulting to Ni Shen's intelligence point of 96." Bai Jiamu rolled his eyes, "Do you remember what Ni Shen said to us when he first contacted Bai Liu?"

Bai Yi seemed to recall it seriously for a while: "I don't remember."

Bo Jiamu was simply speechless: "He said that Bai Liu is Hei Tao's recognized opponent and can make Hei Tao understand many things."

"He asked us to find Hei Tao to meet Bai Liu so that Bai Liu could influence Hei Tao." Bo Jiamu took a deep breath, "I don't know if it was because of Hei Tao's gang, but my intuition at this moment told me that after this game, Hei Tao can rejoin the team and fight with us."

"You make it sound so simple!" Bai Yi said with a bitter face, "Ni Shen asked us to find Spades, but when have we ever found him in the game? Even if we are teammates, Spades never lets anyone follow him once he enters the game. He is super hard to find, okay -"

Before Bai Yi finished speaking, he saw Hei Tao leading Tang Erda and Liu Jiayi jumping past them without looking back.

From a distance, one could still hear Tang Erda's questioning voice: "Tao, when we passed by the tree just now, I seemed to see your teammates?"

Heitao's voice was very calm: "No, you are mistaken, it is a corpse. Go find Bai Liu first."

"Corpse" Bai Yi: "..."

"Corpse" Bo Jiamu: "..."

"Spades--!" The twisted and angry voices of Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu startled the countless birds flying around, "Stop right there!"

Next to the lake.

A huge cloud of white smoke exploded and was then blown away by the swinging whip. Bai Liu stood in place with the whip hanging at his side and blood dripping from the bone spurs.

Two long, deep mud tracks were left on the ground. Nishen knelt on one knee at the end of the mud track, covering his right elbow with his left hand.

The fingers of his right hand were bloody and trembling slightly, with blood dripping down.

Nishen took a few deep breaths, raised his head and smiled: "——I thought you would need some time to get used to this new whip, but I didn't expect you to get the hang of it so quickly."

Bai Liu lowered his eyes: "I didn't expect that you still don't use skill weapons."

"Is there anything about me that deserves your mercy?"

Nishen's forehead was covered with cold sweat, but he curled his eyes and mouth: "I want to ask you the same question. You could have killed me earlier, so why did you show mercy to me again and again, and limit the damage to my right hand several times?"

"Why?" Nishen smiled, "Are you not ready to kill yet, or is it the same reason why you and I showed mercy?"

"——I like you because of Spade." Nishen laughed jokingly, "He likes you. He has never liked anyone since he was born. You are the first one."

"As his tactician, I would not easily hurt the only person he loves, so why don't you kill me?"

Bai Liu slowly opened his eyelids and looked down at the rebel god who was half-kneeling on the ground. The black coating on the whip spread upwards several times but was strangely pressed back.

The smile on Nishen's face deepened: "You didn't kill me because you also like Hei Tao and care about his feelings, right?"

Before he finished speaking, Bai Liu's whip suddenly stabbed towards Nishen. This time, it was no longer controlled within the range of Nishen's right hand as before, but stabbed towards Nishen's heart fiercely.

Nishen half-knelt on the ground, holding the whip that Bai Liu Ci thrust at him with his left hand. The force of the whip pushed him so hard that he knelt on the ground and slid back a distance.

When the whip was about to pierce his heart, Nishen gritted his teeth and held the opened bone spurs on the whip tightly, deflecting the whip so that it pierced his shoulder.

After the whip penetrated, it only paused slightly, and the bone spurs expanded one by one, as if to make sure that every bone spur had pierced into Nishen's flesh, before Bai Liu pulled it back.

The tail of the whip that pierced into Ni Shen's body directly tore the flesh on Ni Shen's shoulder when it was pulled back. A large hole that was bleeding continuously and deep enough to see the bone appeared on Ni Shen's shoulder.

Nishen's eyes half closed due to the pain, and he noticed that the black color of Bai Liu's whip had spread to two-thirds.

...This isn't good. Bai Liu is getting more and more skilled at using this new whip. Keeping him like this to slowly torture him, wouldn't it be for the purpose of...

"I'm not going to show mercy to you, but any new weapon needs practice after it is acquired." Bai Liu walked into Nishen, dragging the bloody whip. "Your physical skills are very good, just enough to restrain me."

Bai Liu looked down at the Nishen who was breathing heavily in silence. There was no human expression on his face, and he was as indifferent as a statue.

"There's no need for me to reject a high-quality training target that's been sent to me." Bai Liu said calmly, "I limited the attack range to your right hand before, and it was also for the purpose of practicing [Disarmament]."

The paint on the whip seemed to run upwards rapidly as if in joy, and soon turned three-quarters black.

"But now, since you are unwilling to use your skill weapon, you have lost the value of training." Bai Liu raised the whip calmly, "Let's stop here today."

The whip, which was dripping with blood, was raised high, and the fierce bone spurs on it were clearly revealed.

Nishen's eyes gradually grew colder. He slowly put his hands behind his back, grasped something, and took a deep breath.

I really didn't expect that the Bai Liu guys could force him to this point even before they got the entire inheritance of the evil god.

How should I put it, is he worthy of being the successor that the evil god has been waiting for so long?

[System prompt: Player God-defying Judge, do you want to use your personal skills...]

A pure black bone whip suddenly swung over from the other side of the lake and hit Bai Liu directly in the abdomen, throwing him away violently.

Nishen finally breathed a sigh of relief. He collapsed backwards onto the ground: "…Finally here."

Hei Tao jumped several times and landed on Bai Liu who had just climbed up from the ground. For the first time, a serious expression close to concentration appeared on his face: "You took something you hate."

Bai Liu coughed twice, brushed the dust off his knees, stood up straight, and looked at Hei Tao calmly: "I thought I would be very annoying, but now I am not that annoying."

Heitao interrupted Bai Liu expressionlessly: "You are lying. You are afraid."

"People are always afraid of the unknown self." Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at Hei Tao, "But that doesn't mean the unknown is a bad thing. If the unknown contains what you want, then the unknown is not a bad thing either."

Spade lowered his eyes and asked, "Why don't you hold the whip tightly?"

Bai Liu was silent. He suddenly clenched the whip. The black part on the whip suddenly rose up. Then he raised his hand and whipped Hei Tao in the face without hesitation.

Spade dodged nimbly and swung his well-worn, dented black bone whip horizontally with a cold expression.

The two black whips instantly intertwined in the air, pulled by Hei Tao and Bai Liu respectively, and entangled in the middle to form a thorn.

Bai Liu was about to pull back his bone whip.

Spade did not let go. He exerted force on his wrist, held the whip tightly and lifted it up, and the whip separated under his control.

At the same time, Hei Tao jumped up smoothly, stepped on the whip that Bai Liu had pulled back with a cold look, and quickly approached Bai Liu at the other end, reaching Bai Liu at the other end in the blink of an eye.

Bai quickly released the whip and tried to draw other weapons from the skill panel, but Spade was already close to him, leaving him no time to react.

Hei Tao used his waist to push forward, and kicked sideways, kicking Bai Liu's neck without holding back any strength.

Bai Liu could almost hear the sound of his bones being broken by Hei Tao's kicks. He could see his own reflection in Hei Tao's eyes with pure indifference.

Spade is... angry.

The next second, Bai Liu was kicked by Hei Tao and rolled several times on the ground. After hitting the shore of the lake and spitting out blood, he fell directly into the lake.

The entangled bone whips finally separated, and Bai Liu fell into the lake holding the bone whip, and Hei Tao followed closely and jumped into the lake.

Nishen, who was being helped up by Bai Jiamu and Bai Yijie, was shocked when he saw this scene: "This guy Heitao has used all his strength. He is serious about it."

Bai Yi was stunned: "Fuck! I've never seen Hei Tao move so fast! I can't even see it clearly!"

Before Bo Jiamu could react, he asked, "Why did Hei Tao suddenly use all his strength?"

Nishen touched his chin: "...If I have to say it, it's that you finally fall in love with someone, but that person completely denies himself and forces himself to become another person. The problem is that he himself hates this appearance, but he forces himself to keep acting despite his disgust."

"He doesn't accept himself, nor does he let the people around him accept him as he is. No one in this world would accept Bai Liu like that. He has even erased the meaning of his own existence, but he still has to calmly tell everyone, 'This is what I want.'"

"The person I love is being abused like this." Ni Shen looked at the lake, "You must be angry, Spade."