Chapter 673: Awaiting Death
"What just happened...?"
Hearing the shouts from outside, the girl in the light cocoon slowly began to awaken. She rubbed her sleepy eyes, looking curiously at the astonished crowd.
"You... weren't you dead?!" The bald man from the Hell Squad stared, his face a picture of disbelief.
Just moments ago, Aili had been utterly obliterated by Bai Mo, reduced to ashes. Even the Main God had confirmed her death, yet in the blink of an eye, she had been reborn here.
"Where's my power?!" The bald girl suddenly discovered this terrifying truth.
She had actually, unbelievably, reverted to an ordinary person!
An ordinary person with no power!
The bloodline powers she had exchanged, the magic she had learned, the modifications she had undergone—all were gone. Even the photograph used to unleash "Love as a Mountain" had vanished.
Fear, only fear remained in her heart now.
Back then, she had been taken in by a powerful otaku from a two-dimensional world, becoming one of his harem members, which allowed her to get through the initial difficult period.
But now, would there still be such a person?
...
Captain Han Luo gazed at Aili with cold eyes, weighing the subsequent gains and losses.
With his perception, he naturally understood clearly that this young girl had lost the power that made her his teammate.
Even if she had miraculously come back to life.
One hundred thousand points—that was roughly the cost required to restore Aili from her current state as an ordinary person back to her previous level of power.
The Main God Temple had this advantage: as long as you were willing to splurge on points, exchanging for bloodlines, cultivation techniques, weapons, and pills, even a pig could be transformed into an Immortal.
The question was, was it worth it?
From a rational perspective, bringing her back in her current state was truly no different from simply grabbing a random ordinary person off the street to join the team.
He held the team-up card in his hand, lost in thought.
"Wait, you... you got out of there alive?!"
Ming Qi was the first to react to this shocking truth.
Fearing obliteration by the Main God, she had deliberately avoided using the words "Main God" in front of Bai Mo, replacing them with a pronoun.
"I'm free?!"
Even more astonished than Ming Qi was Aili herself.
Only then did she realize that the familiar Main God System panel was gone!
"I'm really free..."
"I'm really free..."
"I'm really free..."
"..."
The girl cried tears of joy, shouting like a broken record.
At this moment, everyone's gaze turned to Bai Mo, for he had created a miracle: he had actually snatched a living Reincarnator from the grasp of the Main God!
"Hold on, I need to make some adjustments." Bai Mo's reply was somewhat vague.
The tip of his index finger glowed with a faint Spirit Energy light.
At the same time, Aili felt a slight itch on her body, as if something was trying to burrow out from within.
Ten seconds later, she finally realized what was trying to emerge.
It was hair.
Beautiful golden hair began to sprout from her smooth skin, quickly growing back to its original length.
"Grumble..."
An unbearable hunger pang, accompanied by a thunderous rumble from her stomach, appeared.
It seemed the rapid growth of her hair had consumed a vast amount of energy from her body.
"..."
The bald man from the Hell Squad rubbed his own head, deep in thought.
"May I ask, your esteemed self..." Han Luo's tone had completely changed by now.
Someone capable of snatching people from the Main God's grasp was, by all appearances, not on the same level as him.
"Yes, but the price is to lose everything you gained in the Main God Temple and revert to the ordinary person you were before entering it."
"..."
"Allow me a moment to consider."
The allure of Bai Mo being able to extract them from the Main God Temple was indeed immense, but reverting to ordinary mortals... for Reincarnators accustomed to a life of grand exploits, this was truly somewhat difficult to accept.
"After leaving the Main God Temple, may we seek refuge with you?"
With such a mighty patron right before them, only a fool wouldn't seize the opportunity.
"There will be an opportunity."
"Every person on this planet will soon face a choice in their lives," Bai Mo muttered to himself.
...
"Come, kill me."
The first to make a choice was Ming Qi of the Heaven Squad.
She reabsorbed Ming Qi Ling back into her body, then stepped forward and spoke to Bai Mo.
Through her previous observations, Ming Qi had roughly figured out Bai Mo's method for snatching people from the Main God: he first fabricated a feigned death that could deceive the Main God, causing the Main God to cancel the Reincarnator's ID, and then revived them using Spirit Arts.
"Don't rush. Before you leave, convert all the points you can, then give the items to me."
"..."
Ming Qi hadn't expected that the other party would still try to fleece the Main God one last time.
"So, can I keep a little for myself...?"
If she still possessed resources exchanged from the Main God Temple after reverting to an ordinary person, she could easily rise again—that was her small calculation.
"Woman, are you taking the Main God for a fool...?" Han Luo was the first to jump out and scoff. "You'd run away and still dare to hold onto its possessions?"
"Alright." After a few moments of hesitation, Ming Qi closed her eyes and nodded.
She and her other sister personalities were already weary of the Main God Temple's constant life-or-death environment.
Moreover, they had a faint premonition that if she, at the peak of the Six Tiers, continued to grow stronger and stepped into a new realm, she would very likely encounter unforeseen calamities.
"Can I be killed now?" Ming Qi asked.
"You're a bit different from her." Bai Mo looked at Aili, who had put her clothes back on.
"Is it because I'm not as 'endowed' as her?" she joked with a laugh.
After shedding the Main God's burden, Ming Qi completely relaxed. At the same time, she silently mocked herself for actually drawing her sword against Bai Mo; truly, ignorance made one fearless.
"In terms of cellular structure, you are stronger."
"I'm worried that the aftermath of killing you would destroy the entire Eastern Province."
Unlike Aili, who was barely a Fourth Tier, Ming Qi was a genuine Six Tiers expert.
Although Bai Mo's control over his true body's power had greatly increased due to the arrival of millions of Holy Progenitors, instantly killing a Six Tiers expert would still inevitably cause terrifying collateral damage, resulting in casualties numbering in the millions.
For him, who already considered Water Blue Star his personal dominion, this was undoubtedly an unacceptable loss.
"..."
"Then how should I die?" Ming Qi had never imagined that one day, she would be discussing with a stranger how to gracefully bring about her own demise.
"Take the items you've exchanged for and go to this place. They will painlessly and harmlessly fulfill your wish." Bai Mo casually handed Ming Qi the location of the Holy Progenitor arrival base.
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