"Big... Big brother... It... It suddenly became so quiet here..."
After the stone coffin, You Ermus, Hades, and Hera disappeared, Xiao Xiao scanned her surroundings, her small brows furrowed tightly.
"Indeed!"
Qiao Ying nodded. "Just now, the entire City of Sin was either shouting and killing, or there were all sorts of fighting and screaming sounds... But now there's not a sound... It's a bit strange!"
"It should be the sacrificial formation that You Ermus, Hades, and Hera jointly activated just now..."
Leng Yue chimed in, "That terrifying blood energy just now... now this City of Sin... besides us, it's hard to imagine there's anyone left..."
"Big brother, what about Sister Ling!"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Xiao immediately became anxious.
"Who?"
Suddenly, Ling Xi spun around, her angelic power surging, and she looked warily at a ruin behind them.
Leng Yue and Qiao Ying were similarly alert, as there was a powerful demonic energy fluctuation emanating from that direction.
"You don't need to be so hostile towards me... Without me, those two would have died for sure!"
A slightly lazy male voice rang out.
Then, there was a rumbling sound from the ruins. A large amount of earth, stones, building debris, and weapons flew up, and a young, plump man with a big head, thick neck, and a body full of fat waddled out. It was Beelzebub, one of the Seven Great Devils.
Behind Beelzebub followed two large, white grubs. The grubs wriggled violently and then split open, and two figures fell out. They were Wu Ye Ling and the man called "Camera."
"Wh... What's going on? What happened?"
Wu Ye Ling was covered in the grubs' sticky fluid. Her eyes were dazed as she looked around.
"Sister Ling, are you alright?"
Seeing this, Xiao Xiao immediately rushed to Wu Ye Ling's side, her voice filled with concern.
"Uh... I... I'm fine... And you..." Wu Ye Ling scratched her head, looking quite confused. "I was waiting for you guys at the teleportation array... Suddenly, all my blood energy felt like it was about to leave my body... and then I fainted..."
"I'm fine!"
Xiao Xiao shook her head slightly, a clear smile on her face. She was clearly happy to see Wu Ye Ling unharmed.
"Why did you save them..."
Ye Feng looked at Beelzebub, his brow furrowed slightly.
Ling Xi, Leng Yue, and Qiao Ying also looked confused, but they had largely guessed that Beelzebub had saved Wu Ye Ling mainly because of Ye Feng...
"Let's leave this cursed place first..."
...
The sun began to set,
The evening clouds were like fire,
Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, Ling Xi, Leng Yue, Qiao Ying, Wu Ye Ling, and Beelzebub were having a picnic on a patch of grass. In the distance lay the eerie and sinister City of Sin, though the white mist had begun to dissipate...
"You still haven't told me why you saved Ling and the others!"
Ye Feng looked at Beelzebub, handing him a freshly roasted chicken leg.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Xiao and the others cast curious and surprised glances.
Beelzebub didn't answer immediately, instead devouring the chicken leg in a few bites.
"Delicious!"
Beelzebub exclaimed, then looked at Ye Feng. "What do you think is the relationship between the gods and us Seven Great Devils?"
"This..."
Ye Feng frowned slightly. "I'm not sure... But I've heard that gods and devils are mortal enemies... You often fight and such... But judging from the situation in the City of Sin, things seem a bit strange..."
Beelzebub looked up at the sky and sighed. "The so-called gods... are just a bunch of hypocritical scum..."
"We Seven Great Devils... are the remaining vestiges of the Twelve Main Gods..."
"Just as You Ermus said... Lucifer is indeed a part of Hades, the King of the Underworld... Lucifer is a vestige of Hades..."
As Beelzebub spoke, he helped himself to a skewer of lamb skewers and began to eat.
"Were you there at the time?"
Ye Feng frowned, puzzled, as he hadn't sensed Beelzebub's presence then.
"No!"
Beelzebub shook his head. "I am the leader of the insectoid race... There were some insects nearby at the time... I can share their vision, hearing, and so on... As long as I don't actively control them, you wouldn't notice, of course... because they're just ordinary insects..."
Saying this, Beelzebub looked thoughtful. "It's precisely because of this ability... that I learned about the relationship between the Twelve Main Gods and the Seven Great Devils..."
"The Twelve Main Gods are worshipped and revered by countless people... The Seven Great Devils are scorned and hated by countless people... Although we devils deserve to be scorned and hated... who would have thought... that all of this was orchestrated by the so-called gods..."
"Ye Feng, the Ares you encountered before, and other main gods, their powers are likely only half... The other half of their power belongs to the Seven Great Devils..."
Beelzebub looked at Ye Feng and paused. "You already know the demonic vestiges of You Ermus, Hades, and Hera, who are respectively the King of Sloth, Belial; the King of Pride, Lucifer; and the King of Lust, Asmodeus."
"And the demonic vestige of Ares is the King of Wrath, Samael... Apollo is the King of Greed, Mammon... Cynthia is the Queen of Envy, Leviathan..."
"As for me, the King of Gluttony, I am a vestige of that fellow Poseidon!"
Beelzebub explained rapidly to Ye Feng.
"So that's how it is..."
Hearing this, Ye Feng fell into deep thought.
"What about the other five... Aren't there twelve main gods?"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao ran over, holding the somewhat listless scouting colorful chicken.
Although the scouting colorful chicken wasn't seriously injured, it had been greatly frightened and was trembling and chirping uneasily. After Xiao Xiao comforted it for a while, the scouting colorful chicken finally quieted down.
"The remaining five of the Twelve Main Gods are Zeus, Athena, Dionysus, Demeter, and Aphrodite!"
"Zeus is known as the King of the Gods, the most powerful being among them... If I'm not mistaken, the being in the stone coffin that You Ermus and Hera placed in the highest tower of the City of Sin all these years should be Zeus!"
"Athena is said to be the most intelligent of the gods... I know very little about her... However, she is said to be the only one among the Twelve Main Gods who willingly entered reincarnation!"
As Beelzebub spoke, he handed Ye Feng a skewer of roasted pork belly.
"Willingly entered reincarnation? What's going on?"
Ye Feng took the pork belly from Beelzebub, looking quite perplexed.
...