THE GOD EATER

After Black Chains saw what had happened, his avatar stepped away from Loki in confusion and fear, saying, ”Wait a minute. Something is not right. You shouldn’t be this strong. What did you do? How did you do that?”

But Loki just smiled and said, ”Now, who is the ignorant fool?”

Then he proceeded to smash the black monkey.

He rushed over to the monkey and smacked it around. He smashed it into the ground with his fist and kicked it up with his foot. All the while, his external body was tearing the black monkey apart.

He was having a nice time, but Black Chains was not. In fact, no Dao Lord was having a nice time.

Heavenly Eye’s eye twitched as she said, ”I am screwed, aren’t I?”

Martial Will nodded and said, ”Yes, you are. We are all screwed.”

Heavenly Eye seemed to accept this verdict, but Sword Maestro refused to accept it. The Dao Lord of the Sword Way Sect shook his head and said, ”This can’t be allowed to continue. We have to do something to stop him.”

He believed that everyone would take his side on this, but Martial Will chuckled in amusement and said, ”What are you so anxious about?”

”At least you have one more pathway to fall back on. Heavenly Eye and Black Chains here are done for. They should be the ones panicking, not you.”

Tepid Scholar also said, ”Maybe this isn’t exactly the worst thing possible. At least, Black Chains will lose all of its pathways and die. That doesn’t seem like a bad deal to make for one pathway.”

Hearing this, Martial Will immediately perked up and said, ”Right? The whole world will belong to the two of us. We can share it or fight each other for it.”

But Tepid Scholar shook his head, saying, ”I think you’re getting ahead of yourself there.”

He pointed at himself as he said, ”I will still have two Grand Daos if I lose my Formation Pathway.”

Then he pointed at Martial Will and said, ”You, on the other hand, will only have your Strength Pathway, which is only a Major Dao. So how can you compete with me?”

In response, Martial Will sneered and said, ”You will be surprised, old man.”

His voice was full of pride and confidence as he said, ”It is not the first time I will be underestimated. You will be the latest in the series of those who’ve underestimated me and paid the price with their life.”

When Heavenly Eye heard this, she shook her head and said, ”I am not even dead yet, but you’re already fighting over how to divide the world in my absence.”

Then she said to Black Chains, ”I hope you have a plan to turn the situation around. Please tell me you have something planned.”

In response, Black Chains glared at her and said, ”What other plan can I have? Look at the situation clearly and tell me if there is a chance of a comeback?”

He raised his voice as he said, ”In fact, let’s start from how this dragon could ignore our Authority while suppressing ours. What can you tell us about that?”

He was shouting so much that even if the other Dao Lords didn’t want to pay attention to what he was saying, they had to pay attention now.

Because of all of the angry screaming, Tepid Scholar and Martial Will had stopped arguing with each other. The two of them were now staring at Heavenly Eye.

Tepid Scholar urged her, saying, ”Is there something about this dragon that we should know about that could help us defeat it?”

With a sneer of disdain, Martial Will said, ”Now that the situation has reached this point, you won’t even be lucky enough to keep your life. So is keeping secrets worth it?”

Without thinking about what to do, Heavenly Eye said, ”First of all, I am not hiding anything. Secondly...”

Martial Will interrupted her, saying, ”Bullshit.”

She ignored him and continued, ”Secondly, you guys are the ones hiding something. I know for a fact that Black Chains and Martial Will are hiding a secret pathway. As for what their secret pathways are, I don’t know.”

Then she turned to Tepid Scholar and said, ”I don’t know what you’re hiding. But you’re definitely hiding something. I can smell the stench of a secret on you.”

”Lies!” Black Chains said without hesitation. ”You’re spouting lies to distract us from the matter at hand and muddle the waters.”

He continued to shout at her, claiming that she was lying and slandering him.

But she kept calm and said, ”As for who is lying, we will know soon when you lose all of your pathways. At that time, you will have to expose your sixth secret pathway or give up on the Blessed Heaven World completely and pretend to die.”

”Knowing you, you won’t give up on the Blessed Heaven World. So I will be vindicated soon enough.”

Black Chains continued to deny her claim, but Martial Will didn’t deny anything. Instead, Martial Will narrowed his eyes at her and said, ”With the way you’re so calm about the possibility of losing your only two pathways, I’m guessing you have hidden pathways that you can fall back onto too.”

In response, she said in disdain, ”And they are saying that Lord Martial Will is dumb. It looks like they are wrong.”

”I want to tear you apart so bad,” Martial Will said in anger. ”I want to break your skull open, scoop out your brain, and show it to you.”

The Dao Lords began arguing with each other and calling each other names. Only two people didn’t join in.

Tepid Scholar and Sword Maestro watched on the sidelines as Martial Will, Heavenly Eye, and Black Chains accused each other of various crimes.

After a few milliseconds, Tepid Scholar got fed up with them and decided to intervene. He started by sighing and said, ”That’s enough.”