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Facing Chen Jianxin’s despairing expression, the redfox girl wickedly waved the jade pendant and dagger in her hands.

At the same time, she also stabbed the bull demon’s leg with the dagger. The bull demon was so scared he trembled and quickly bowed and nodded, indicating that whatever these two demoness said was right.

For a moment, Erli was caught in a dilemma.

Chen Jianxin was naturally frightened by Jinyue’s words. Even though he was tied up with vines, he still shouted for Erli not to believe the witch’s lies.

But seeing Erli already walking step by step toward the witch and taking the dagger, Chen Jianxin was helpless and could only keep urging Erli to stay calm like some useless waste of a protagonist.

"I, I want to get this jade pendant back as a deposit first..."

Erli stood before the witches, gritting her teeth.

Jinyue was silent for a moment, but finally smiled and handed the jade pendant to the girl.

So, Chen Jianxin’s efforts paid off.

At the final moment of testing human nature, Chen Jianxin’s talking-no-jutsu ultimately awakened the last bit of conscience in Erli.

Even though Erli had walked over with the jade pendant and dagger, she still couldn’t bring herself to harm Chen Jianxin. She suddenly slashed the vines wrapped around him with one stroke and stuffed the jade pendant into Chen Jianxin’s hands.

After that... Chen Jianxin got the jade pendant and quickly crushed it to call for Yuyan’s help.

But during the subsequent escape, Erli couldn’t keep up due to exhaustion and failed to dodge one of Liuli’s vine piercings, dying on the spot as she fell into the depths of the mine tunnel cliff.

Later... Chen Jianxin knelt at the cliff edge, so grief-stricken that he fainted. After losing consciousness, he actually had a desperate blackening explosion of cultivation.

Even later, even with his blackening, Chen Jianxin still couldn’t match Jinyue and Liuli, which was when Yuyan finally made her grand entrance as the main heroine to save Chen Jianxin...

Tsk tsk, what a good cute girl. Look how obedient she is—not arrogant at all. It’s such a shame the game wasted her life on that loser.

Walking through the abandoned mine tunnel, Yino petted the raccoongirl’s head, unable to help praising her.

Now, he’d already broken the game’s urgent plot of the protagonist being hunted.

Both Liuli and Jinyue belonged to him.

Walking through this abandoned mine tunnel now, Yino felt unprecedented peace of mind.

He didn’t need to worry about the crazy witch who used illusion magic to sow discord, nor about the cult holy maiden who’d blackened due to the pain of losing her sister.

Even that blood-licking, self-harm-loving Mei who was even crazier than Liuli had already been held back by Yuyan.

Yino’s side was completely smooth sailing—!

"Erli, call me Hero Big Brother again."

In this situation, Yino was in an excellent mood and couldn’t help humming folk songs from his hometown with his hands behind his head.

Beside him, the little raccoon’s face had already been rubbed red by Yino’s palm. She pouted her cherry lips and shook the pair of small round ears on her head, blushing as she sweetly called out: "He... Hero Big Brother!"

"Mm... I think Big Brother sounds better. From now on, just call me Big Brother, got it?"

"Erli remembers... Big Brother!"

"See, she is actually quite sweet~"

Yino gradually became addicted to the girl’s repeated calls of big brother.

Having personally witnessed Yino’s invincible prowess, Erli was now unprecedentedly obedient.

Of course, there was another reason—she was very afraid of the little fox on Yino’s shoulder. Every time she called Yino big brother, that fox would glare at her fiercely, even baring her teeth and hissing at her.

And the more aggressively that fox scared Erli, the more afraid she became, the more she instinctively sought security by staying close to Yino’s arm, which in turn made Erli become more obedient to Yino.

"B... Big Brother... where are we going..."

Seeing the abandoned mine tunnel getting deeper and the atmosphere becoming colder and darker, even though Erli trusted Yino’s abilities, she still couldn’t suppress her inner curiosity.

At some point, Yino finally stopped in front of a wall at the end of the abandoned mine tunnel.

He faced the seemingly ordinary wall, secretly channeling spiritual energy into his palms, then raised both hands and pressed them against the wall—

"Next comes the final crucial step in destroying the Demon Abyss!"

Yino smiled.

As his words fell, terrifying spiritual patterns also emanated from his palms.

In an instant, the entire wall shattered with a resounding crash.

As the dead end at the abandoned mine tunnel’s terminus was broken through, everyone saw several wisps of sinister crimson blood light slowly seeping out from behind the wall.

"This, this is...?"

Jinyue’s eyes widened. Even as a member of the Witch Tea Party, this was her first time witnessing such a spectacular and evil sight.

No...

She might have actually seen something similar before.

Back at the mountain temple’s altar, Jinyue had personally witnessed the Full Moon Mother Goddess’s giant crimson eye.

Now, this scene was surprisingly similar in style to the Full Moon Mother Goddess’s crimson eye!

"Hehe... sure enough, it’s right here..."

Yino smiled with satisfaction.

He was the first to step forward, entering this boundless giant secret realm behind the wall.

Bathed in the sky full of blood light, Yino looked up and finally got a clear view of the giant heart sealed in the depths of the Demon Abyss, which in the game’s third volume finale was called the [Demon Abyss Core, Mother Goddess’s Heart]—

After refining this Demon Abyss Core, I’ll officially unlock the protagonist’s abyss attribute!

Recalling the dual attributes that the game’s protagonist unlocked at the end of the third volume, Yino was now extremely excited looking at that giant Demon Abyss Core.

As the giant heart continuously extended tentacles to attack the intruders, Yino suddenly snapped out of his achievement-finding euphoria.

He thought of something important and quickly activated the jade pendant in his arms—

"This kind of giant multiplayer dungeon boss can’t be defeated without calling in some professional DPS!"

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Bathed in this endless phantom mist, the white-clothed woman’s dress was stained with blood. Her beautiful eyes, which had once been full of fighting spirit, had gradually lost their luster after hours of chase and escape, worn down by the phantom mist’s torment.

Yuyan had fallen into some kind of death loop.

She couldn’t sense the enemy’s presence, she couldn’t even see the path ahead clearly with her naked eyes...

There was no map here, no landmark buildings—everything was monotonously the same black forest and mist. Yuyan didn’t know how many times she’d circled back to the starting point.

She truly felt despair.

No light...

No hope...

Yuyan didn’t even know what she was still persisting for, since at this rate, being caught by those two cult witches was practically a foregone conclusion.

"Oh~ are you finally tired?"

"If you give up struggling this quickly, I’m nowhere near satisfied yet~ Hahahahaha!!!"

The girl’s sick laughter echoed through the forest.

But at this critical moment full of danger, Yuyan was suddenly attracted by a dazzling ray of sunlight in the distance through the mist—

"The jade pendant?!"