"Sacrifice!"

A long-unused act was once again performed by Tang Qi.

With both hands, he clutched the upper body of a beautiful yet bizarre corpse, ignoring the strong allure it emitted to any male creature, and directly offered her as a sacrifice to the "Master of the Crucible" that was ardently awaiting nourishment.

When he executed the Sacrifice Method, the Melten Furnace Array surfaced more swiftly than ever before, and the golden Light Flames swept out, instantly devouring the "Geluna Queen" imbued with Divine Power.

However, at that moment, Tang Qi felt that the Great Will beyond the portal, atop the cosmos of dark nihility, was dissatisfied with this particular "sacrifice," even somewhat disdainful.

Before Tang Qi could voice his criticism, streams of Information Fragments flowed in his mind, pulling his spirit into the "ruins of darkness" where he saw a Sun being slowly formed from the fiercely intense and scorching Light Flames—a somewhat illusory and clearly incomplete Sun.

"Half a Merit? That stingy?"

Tang Qi couldn't help but complain after all.

Although judging from the richness of the divinity within the Geluna Queen, she was barely qualified to be a sacrifice and surely could not earn much Merit, receiving only half still left Tang Qi quite helpless.

Of course, he also knew that the Melter, still in a "half-asleep, half-awake" state, was, in fact, a very "honest" Divine, and had set a fixed intelligence exchange program that would not purposely deceive any Melter Wizards.

In other words, the Geluna Queen was indeed only worth half a Merit.

"Perhaps there was also some loss; after all, the Geluna Queen had already been chewed over by the 'Devouring Beast,' with much of her soul's divinity already lost."

"Hmm, am I essentially picking out food from the stomach of a Devouring Beast and then feeding it to the Melter?"

"Anyway, it's not me who's eating. The Melter has been hungry for so long, it probably wouldn't mind, perhaps even be pleased."

With thoughts flickering, Tang Qi felt the Great Will for a moment and then affirmed.

This was his second attempt.

Compared to using the "Dream Realm Power," harnessing the Master of the Crucible's power to deal with the "Devouring Beast" was more appropriate. After all, the news that he, the former Witch School Principal, was actually a "Melter Wizard" had already been known by the Federation's mysterious side.

Maybe in secret, Evil God Organizations were already conspiring, preparing to collectively hunt him.

As for the Extraordinary Forces of the Order Camp, they were still watching.

After all, before his identity was exposed, he had always given the impression to the outside world that he was different from those lawless Melter Wizards from the Dark Era, and some polymaths and researchers believed that the Melter Wizard was just a sub-profession of the Principal.

This guess was roughly correct.

"Continue, time is pressing."

Muttering to himself, Tang Qi immediately scanned the oncoming tide of tentacles, which had gradually withstood the "Thunder Bombardment" and were once again eager to surge.

Turning sharply, with his three little pets, Tang Qi burrowed deeper.

Tap-tap-tap!

Boom-boom-boom!

Besides the "Fury Relievers," Tang Qi casually took out the "Evil Dragon Roar" and handed it to the eagerly playing Night Beast.

The Night Beast was responsible for leading the way, the Elf was responsible for speeding up and covering, Gluttony was responsible for picking up items, and Tang Qi, unburdened, was constantly searching for Extraordinary Power from the digestive system of the "Devouring Beast," especially for the parts endowed with Divinity.

The Melter was very picky; ordinary Extraordinary Creatures did not qualify to be sacrificed.

Only Divine creatures were worthy.

Compared to the tasks of his pets, Tang Qi's seemingly relaxed search had to endure the most severe damage.

Tang Qi kept his eyes open, and wherever he looked, the sights that met his eyes were equally terrifying. He was clearly in an enormous and winding "intestine," and although there were no surrounding, layered teeth, his feet tread upon a pile of flesh and corpses.

Having accumulated for years, they gradually melded into one entity, constantly oozing out stinking, filthy liquid; beneath the liquid were various broken limbs and heads. Upon sensing movement, they would collectively surge over, murmuring with pollution-filled delirium.

"Stay... stay here..."

"Stay... stay here..."

"Stay... become part of the Great Existence."

Beneath his feet was such a disgusting and horrifying scene. The dark red walls around him that wriggled constantly spewed acid with strong corrosive properties, like waterfalls and floods.

Simultaneously, toxic gases were released with a "hiss" from above, and periodically Extraordinary Creatures burrowed out... this was almost a perfect digestive system.

"A Legendary Level strong individual, without Divinity or corresponding Curios, would hardly last half an hour here."

"If at the Demigod Level, there's a hope of struggling like Samuel Winston did initially, but without rescue, they too would be completely digested over countless years."

As Tang Qi admired the "splendid scene," relying on "Guardian Spell" and "Flame Spell," he forcefully continued to the deeper depths.

Besides the sounds of ceaseless pollution murmurs in his ears, he also heard the raging sounds of a flood.

Those suction tentacles were in an uproar once again.

Yet Tang Qi had no time to pay attention; at this moment, his gaze suddenly passed over a large number of corpses, disregarding the Extraordinary Creatures cleared away by the pets, and directly locked onto a monstrous figure embedded in the flesh wall at the end of the "intestine" he was currently in.

It resembled a deformed, rotting ancient ape. Its skullcap was lifted, revealing grayish-white brain pulp forming bizarre sigil markings, as if mirroring a blurry, fiercely smiling face in the gray sky.

Its withered claws held a half-open Treasure Box.

Inside the box, a ghostlight faintly shimmered.

Almost instantly, Tang Qi's eyes were completely captivated.

In his mind, an overpowering "lust for possession" arose: Inside that treasure box lay treasures of unimaginable value, seize them, seize them quickly.

Tang Qi sprinted swiftly toward it, but halfway through, another Chaos Mushroom sprouted out of nowhere on the "Book of Nothingness" within him, snapping Tang Qi back to clarity as a cluster of Information Fragments exploded in his mind.

"Extraordinary Creatures: Desire Apostle, originally just an ordinary Human Ape, but it became an apostle of an Evil God after picking up a Treasure Box that contained a piece of flesh from an unknown Evil God... Its soul is extremely succulent Fuel."

"Blast"

As the Information Fragments flowed through, Tang Qi's flame-wrapped hands had already plunged into the bloody wall, commencing another round of digging.

Trapped within the wall, the Desire Ancient Ape clearly could not understand why its abilities had no effect on the "new Food." It attempted to struggle and resist, to no avail.

Its only hope was the Tide of tentacles surging towards Tang Qi's back not far behind him. Each tentacle possessed powerful strength; once entangled, Tang Qi and the three Little Guys would likely struggle to resist and would be directly dragged out.

However, Tang Qi ignored them, trusting the judgment of the aging black gentleman.

Outside, at the same moment.

An elder named "Chadwick Morgan" was leaping from high above, his hand gripping a sharp Thunder Spear that seemed to connect heaven and earth. Accompanied by a thunderous yell, the Thunder Spear pierced impeccably along a crack, driving deep into the body of the "Devouring Beast."

The sound of thunder, like the screams of thousands of birds, resonated within Its body.

"Gag"

Much like the sound of a Human gagging, the tentacles that the Devouring Beast had stuffed into its mouth began to be rapidly expelled.

The elder standing atop Its head was instantly wrapped by a dozen tentacles, and in the midst of squeezing, another massive explosion sounded, with brilliant white Lightning Blast.

The elder's figure, when it reappeared on the other side of darkness.

Tang Qi was also holding an "Ancient Ape Corpse," quickly casting the Molten Furnace Sacrifice Technique.

In the sweep of golden Light Flames, Tang Qi merely glanced at the second Sun Merit forming in the ruins of darkness, then continued to rush deeper.

...

"Sacrifice!"

Inside a furnace riddled with charred traces and shattered corpses, Tang Qi's somewhat muffled voice echoed.

At this moment, his head was tightly embraced by a peculiar "Monster," which was incessantly gnawing at him, its sharp teeth clashing with the Guardian barrier, the former cracking, yet unable to stop this monster resembling a little girl.

It had lean limbs, a fierce face, and was cloaked in an odd yellow robe.

The robe was made of swirling fog, densely packed with countless baby corpses shrunk to many times smaller, eerie and chilly, sending shivers down one's soul.

Tang Qi pressed his hands in but touched nothing.

Nevertheless, this did not hinder him from casting the Sacrifice Method upon this "Daughter of Marius," a Divine Monster he had already crippled; its gnawing was merely a display of impotent rage.

As the girl screamed and vanished, the golden Light Flames slowly dissipated, revealing a seemingly very exhausted Tang Qi.

He had been wreaking havoc inside the "Devouring Beast" for a while, continuously in combat and performing sacrifices. Even he began to feel fatigue.

He leaned against the bloody wall, which immediately emitted a sizzling sound like meat roasting due to the "Flame Spell."

His clothing and pets remained undamaged thanks to the Guardian Spell, but even Gluttony, responsible only for gathering, twisted its anthropomorphic features together.

Being so close, Tang Qi could distinctly sense the State of the "Devouring Beast."

Strictly speaking, It hadn't suffered much damage.

However, Tang Qi persistently prying Food from Its "stomach" was unforgivable for a Devouring Beast.

Its instincts crazily commanded the digestion system, attempting to vomit him out.

But to no avail, had it been some other "Monster," it might have tried the excretion system to flush him out the body.

Unfortunately, the Devouring Beast had no excretion system; It only ate without expelling.

Thus, outside at this moment.

It once again entered a state of fury, performing a true "self-cannibalism."

Amid booming noises, the mouth of the Devouring Beast split open, with hundreds of thousands of tentacles driven into it. The just as weary black elder, intending to continue releasing Thunder to force It to expel the tentacles, suddenly witnessed the Big Mouth snapping shut.

Along with a "snap~crack," hundreds of thousands of tentacles snapped all at once.

The parts snapped inside instantly transformed into hundreds of thousands of "Devouring Pythons," converging into a truly unstoppable "flood," submerging the area where Tang Qi was located.

This astonishing scene was sensed by both Tang Qi and the black elder.

Both were stunned.

Immediately after, Tang Qi's mind dived swiftly into the "ruins of darkness," and the latest count of Sun Merits appeared.

"Nine!"

"Should it be enough?"

A strong premonition of danger spurred Tang Qi to redeem immediately, but at this moment, another sense emerged from the bottom of his heart.

The place he was in now was very close, extremely close to the "Core Area" of the Devouring Beast.

"Should I take the risk?"

A thought surfaced in his mind.

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