With Chen Han leading the way, Ling Feng and the other two entered the clubhouse and headed straight toward the back.

The staff here saw that it was Chen Han bringing them in, so they didn’t come over to ask anything, just watched them go to the back.

At the door of the manager’s office, Chen Han knocked.

"Come in."

A shrill male voice said.

Pushing the door open, Ling Feng was the first to step inside.

The man in the room had a deathly pale face with no color, and dark circles under his eyes.

Their eyes met, and the man’s eyes suddenly went wide as he froze for a moment.

Then an unexpected scene to Ling Feng played out: the man actually jumped up and rushed for the window, smashing straight through the glass!

"..."

Ling Feng was speechless.

Then he let out a cold laugh. "Trying to run? Even if you’d grown wings, don’t think about getting away!"

With that, he leaped out in one bound and was instantly behind the man.

The other had smashed through the glass; his body and face were cut and bleeding. He had just struggled to his feet when he felt a chill at his back, and then his collar was grabbed!

The guy’s body trembled at once. "D-don’t kill me!"

"Who said anything about killing you? What are you so nervous for?"

Ling Feng rolled his eyes, hauled him up, and carried him back into the office.

After putting the man down, Ling Feng motioned for Gu Li and Chen Han to sit, then sat down himself, pinning the man in place. "What’s your name?"

The other obviously recognized him. His eyes were a bit nervous; he paused before saying, "I, I’m called Wang De."

"Oh, so you’re the senior brother, right?"

Ling Feng nodded and asked coolly.

Wang De snuck a glance at Chen Han, knowing it was useless to lie, and then nodded. "Y-yes."

"Good. I came to you for nothing else. I heard you’ve got a special ability, that you can communicate with the one who preached to you, that so-called Main God, right?" Ling Feng continued.

"....."

Wang De kept his head down. After a moment of silence he finally raised it and looked at him. "M-Mr. Ling, why are you asking this?"

"What do you think?"

Ling Feng looked at him with a cold sneer.

Under that gaze, Wang De felt his heart go cold and involuntarily swallowed. "I..."

"Enough, cut the crap and answer my question. Otherwise I really will kill you!"

Ling Feng’s eyes widened as he barked harshly. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

Wang De’s legs went weak and he dropped straight to the ground, nearly fainting!

Seeing this, Ling Feng rolled his eyes, thinking that with such a fragile mindset he’d actually managed to be a preacher?

In the time that followed, he smoothly extracted some useful information from Wang De’s mouth, including the origin of the Shenxing Cult and the name of the so‑called Main God.

Most importantly, Ling Feng got from Wang De’s hand a small statue only the size of a palm.

This thing had always been with Wang De; wherever he went he took it, and at night he even placed it under his pillow when he slept.

It was precisely because of this that Wang De gained the ability to communicate through the statue!

Upon discovering this object, Ling Feng’s spirits shook!

Because with this, it seemed there was finally a breakthrough to uncover the truth!

So Ling Feng immediately had Wang De converse with the statue to see if it would speak.

But no matter how Wang De called it, the statue showed no response at all.

Seeing Ling Feng’s unfriendly gaze on him, Wang De hurriedly explained, "Th-this isn’t my fault, originally it—it really could talk!"

"Oh really? So you’re saying it’s only keeping quiet because we’re here?"

Ling Feng let out a cold laugh, then took out the previous bottle that held the resin.

There wasn’t much divine tree resin left inside, only two or three drops.

But even a single drop was enough, more than enough to destroy that statue.

Taking it out, Ling Feng smiled and said to the statue, "Since you won’t speak, then I have no choice but to use this to destroy you, so you can’t harm anyone else!"

No sooner had he said that than a stiff voice came from within the little statue. "No!"

"Scared now?"

Ling Feng smiled, then said, "Since you’re scared and don’t want to lose this vessel, then you’d better behave and cooperate with me! Who exactly are you?"

"...."

After a moment of silence, the statue spoke again in stiff Huaxia language. "I am the Great Deity Tristda."

"Great Deity my ass, you’re nothing but a pack of filthy demons and ghosts that can’t see the light of day!"

Ling Feng cursed angrily, then asked, "Now tell me where you’re hiding, what your purpose is in infiltrating the Mortal World to preach, and who it is that helped you plant all those statues!"

"...."

Asked that, the statue fell silent again.

"Not talking, huh? Then I’ll just have to do it the hard way!" Ling Feng said.

"Stop using that to threaten me. There are some things I cannot tell you, even if you destroy my parasitic vessel," the statue said.

"Very good."

Ling Feng nodded. "If you won’t talk, I can always find someone else. I’m sure at least one coward will tell me the truth. Your sacrifice will be completely meaningless!"

With that he twisted off the cap and was about to pour out the resin inside!

The statue immediately spoke. "Wait!"

"What? Thought it through?" Ling Feng asked with a cold smile.

"You’re right. Even if I don’t talk, someone else certainly will."

The statue said this, and then, without holding anything back, haltingly spilled out a whole lot.

After it finished, it suddenly asked, "Now that I’ve told you all this, can you not destroy my parasitic vessel?"

"I can."

Suppressing the shock in his heart, Ling Feng nodded. "On the condition that you truly reform and no longer attempt to meddle in human affairs."

"Fine. I’ll revoke the Shenxing Cult’s preacher qualification right now."

As soon as he finished speaking, the statue flashed with light, and Wang De’s eyes immediately rolled back as he let out a painful groan and then collapsed unconscious!

Ling Feng nodded, shot a meaningful look at Gu Li, then said, "Let’s head back first and talk there!"

"Alright!"

Gu Li nodded and looked at Chen Han. "Little Chen, you stay and handle the disbanding of the Shenxing Cult, then go back to the rental place and wait for us!"

"Okay."

Chen Han had also heard everything the statue said; his whole body was drenched in cold sweat.

Ling Feng put the statue away into the Space Ring, then took Gu Li and directly Teleported away, leaving Wang De and the Shenxing Cult matter to Chen Han.

After returning to Lingyun Island, Ling Feng’s brows were tightly knit. "This really is serious. What do you think we should do now?"

"Boss, the way I see it, we can’t delay on either front. On one side is that guy who infiltrated Earth and spread the statues, and on the other, we can go over to Venus and see what’s really going on there!" Gu Li said.

"Yeah."

Ling Feng nodded, then said, "Immediately upgrade the mission to find that person to the highest level, and go all out to hunt him down!"

Gu Li: "Got it, I’ll take care of it right now!"