Zhou Huai turned around and surveyed his surroundings.

The once incredibly prosperous megacity had been transformed into a living hell on earth.

Buildings had collapsed, the ground was split open for thousands of meters, and thick smoke and flames rolled through the ruins. In the distance, the faint, desperate wails and cries of survivors could be heard.

“A mess?” Zhou Huai looked at the ruins. “In my eyes, this isn't a mess; it's a lush, thriving field of leeks.”

Chun froze for a moment and frowned. “What kind of wicked scheme are you cooking up now? You aren't planning to extract and refine the Souls of these Mortals, are you? That would be an act that enrages the Heavenly Dao!”

“Do I look like that kind of insane Devil Head?”

Zhou Huai glanced at her and smiled.

“Dead people have no value.”

“Only the living—and specifically, living people filled with awe and gratitude—can continuously provide me with what I want.”

After saying that, Zhou Huai ignored Chun's confusion and sank his consciousness into his mind.

“Great Sage Li Er, come out and get to work!”

“Hum—!”

Zhou Huai raised his hand, and a ripple appeared in the Void Realm.

A phantom figure clad in Yin and Yang Daoist robes and holding a fly-whisk slowly emerged behind Zhou Huai. The phantom was tens of thousands of feet tall, its entire body surrounded by a golden halo.

Zhou Huai raised his hand, his fingertips swirling with the brilliant golden light of Karma, and pointed toward the shattered city of Tokyo below.

“Words Follow the Law—”

Zhou Huai opened his mouth, and his voice, bolstered by his majestic magical power, transformed into a grand celestial sound that echoed in the ears of every survivor.

“Time reversal! Restoration!!!”

“Hum—!”

As the mantra fell, over a million points of Karma that had just been credited to the System panel evaporated!

But what followed was a miracle worthy of being recorded in human history!

A thick golden halo swept across the entire city of Tokyo!

Chun's eyes widened as the bottomless fissures began to forcibly close at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Shattered asphalt roads pieced themselves back together; skyscrapers snapped in half rose from the ruins, and broken steel bars and glass curtain walls were restored to their original state within the golden light!

Not only that, but the golden light fell upon every corner of the # Nоvеlight # city.

The ordinary citizens whose limbs had been severed by the shockwaves of the battle, or who were even on the verge of death, had their wounds healed and their vitality restored the moment they touched the golden light!

“My god... my leg is healed! My leg grew back!”

“The buildings are restored! Oh gods... the gods are saving us!”

“Thank you, Lord God! Thank you, Master, for granting us new life!”

Amidst the ruins, millions of survivors first stood frozen in place, then danced with joy, and finally fell to their knees one after another.

Ignoring the mud on the ground, they all knelt and kowtowed frantically toward the ten-thousand-foot-tall phantom of the Dao Ancestor in the sky and Zhou Huai, who was suspended in front of it.

【Ding! Large amount of Power Of Faith received!】

【Ding! Karma +100!】

【Ding! Karma +500!】

【Ding! Karma +10,000!】

The System's notification sounds spammed frantically in Zhou Huai's mind.

Golden threads of faith, invisible to the naked eye, converged from all directions of Tokyo and poured continuously into Zhou Huai's body.

On the System panel, the Karma points were still ticking up rapidly.

Plus fifty, plus a hundred, plus a thousand...

In just this short while, several hundred thousand more Karma points had been credited.

Compared to the massive fifty million Karma points that had evaporated earlier to forcibly raise his Clone's Rank, this change of a few hundred thousand was somewhat insignificant.

But that wasn't how the math worked.

The three hundred million Karma points dropped by the Extreme Ice Empress and the Alligator Snapping Turtle, plus the guaranteed SSS-Rank class orb, had already made him a huge profit.

And the faith and gratitude converging from these countless commoners before him was a business that would truly yield long-term results.

As long as these Tokyo citizens who survived the disaster were still breathing, and as long as they remembered the Dao Ancestor Li Er who saved the entire city like a Heavenly God descending to earth, the threads of faith would never break.

This Karma would surely be continuous and endless.

“Leeks need to be well-tended; if I manifest a miracle and drop some sweet rain every now and then, they’ll naturally grow quite well.”

Zhou Huai casually snapped his fingers, dispersing the ten-thousand-foot-tall phantom of the Dao Ancestor in the sky.

Having done all this, he ignored the crowd below that was still kneeling, worshiping, and crying out in gratitude.

Zhou Huai slipped back into the crumbling world of the Ise Grand Shrine ruins.

Upon entering the ruins, blood covering the ground and condensed frost met his eyes.

Lacking the Law support of the Extreme Ice Empress and the pseudo-divine rank Alligator Snapping Turtle, the collapse of this ruin space was being forcibly held steady by Chun using the Heaven-Reaching Ancient Vine, but there were deep Void Realm cracks and shattered ice mountains everywhere.

Zhou Huai followed the sound of Xiao Hei’s roars and flew to the deepest part of the ruins.

The scene before him made him stop in his tracks.

Ahead, the mangled corpse of the Abyssal Profound Ice Alligator Turtle lay like a black mountain snapped in half across the broken ice fields.

Even though it was completely dead, red blood Qi and white frost still swirled within the flesh of this pseudo-divine rank exotic beast.

And at the edge of the hundred-meter-wide bloody hole blasted open by the Abyssal Blood Death Seal on the Alligator Snapping Turtle...

The Abyssal Demon Dragon Xiao Hei was using both its hands and feet, plunging its head into the flesh to feast greedily.

“Crunch! Tear—”

Xiao Hei bit off a large chunk of flesh emitting cold Qi. Not caring that the meat still contained sharp ice shards, it tilted its neck and swallowed it whole.

However...

Compared to the mountain-like corpse of the Alligator Snapping Turtle, Xiao Hei’s two-hundred-meter-long body looked exceptionally small. Zhou Huai couldn't help but cover his face.

“What the hell...”

Zhou Huai sighed, flew above Xiao Hei’s head, and kicked its hard dragon horns.

“Stop eating and take a break!” Zhou Huai scolded irritably.

Xiao Hei, whose mouth was covered in blood, was interrupted by its master. It raised its massive head and let out a whimper toward Zhou Huai: “Wuuu—”

“Wuu my ass! Look for yourself at how big this old turtle is!”

Zhou Huai pointed at the mountain of meat. “Even if you were a pig—no, even if you were a bottomless pit—with your appetite, one bite only gnaws off a layer of its skin.”

“If I let you gnaw through this bit by bit, it would take you until the Year of the Monkey to finish it!”

Xiao Hei blinked its dark golden vertical pupils, pacing anxiously around the Alligator Snapping Turtle’s corpse, its thick tail thumping against the ice on the ground.

“Let’s go, stop thinking about it.”

Zhou Huai rubbed his temples. “This ruin space won’t last much longer. When the space completely collapses, this corpse will be sucked into the void turbulence and ground into dust. We need to evacuate quickly.”

However, even as he said this, Zhou Huai himself looked at the pseudo-divine rank mountain of meat and sighed.

This was a pseudo-divine rank exotic beast!

This turtle shell, these bones, and this flesh containing the Origin of extreme ice!

If he could bring it back to Ou Yezi, he might be able to forge several legendary-grade top-tier items, and even forcibly raise the core combat power of the entire Eternal Night Guild.

Leaving the corpse here like this was truly such a waste of God's gifts!