Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 425 Surrender and You Lose Half

Although he has been the Lord of the Underworld for a long time, Du Yi often forgets about it.

The reason is quite simple: the Netherworld doesn't need his management at all. Even without him as the Lord of the Netherworld, it had been operating stably for countless years. Now, even with him, he's just another person with authority.

Simply put, he can use his authority to influence the Underworld, but even if he doesn't interfere, the Underworld can still maintain normal operation.

However, if something foreign enters the underworld, that's a different matter altogether.

The fact that a living person could actually step into the underworld, and that aura that didn't belong to the dead, immediately alerted Du Yi.

Then he saw the four Star Sea Evil Gods, gathered around the strange egg, enthusiastically discussing the issue of escaping from prison.

This finally taught Du Yi the origin of the strange egg.

"No wonder this egg was excreted; it turns out it was the four of you."

Du Yi glanced at the four gods of the starry sea, then looked at the strange egg.

The strange egg had vanished, running faster than the four celestial beings. Clearly, when faced with a real crisis of death, it prioritized preserving itself.

"The soul of the main body is not so easy to die, otherwise it would not have been able to hold on until now. I might as well keep myself alive first, so that I will have a chance to save them."

Although the entire act could even be described as a betrayal of the Four Gods, the strange egg's reasons were perfectly plausible.

However, even if you run back to the material world, it doesn't mean you're truly safe.

Simply because, in the material world, there is also a pair of snake eyes watching it.

This is the real life-or-death situation.

"It's now!"

Just as the long tail rose and was about to wrap around, the entire monster egg suddenly faded and then vanished on the spot!

This caused Du Yi's long tail, which he had originally intended to use to coil up the monster egg, to completely miss its target.

"Is this, running away?"

Du Yi turned to look at the Seed of Creation beside him.

"Can you sense where it went?"

"It seems so, they ran away."

The Seed of Creation nodded.

"I can't feel it, at least not on this planet... I can't feel it at all, it's like I'm no longer in this world."

This prompted Du Yi to search again, but he couldn't find any trace of the strange egg in the Netherworld.

It's not in the underworld, nor in the material world, so where did it go?
Du Yi searched through the Seed of Creation several more times before temporarily putting the matter aside.

However, despite putting it aside, considering that the flesh and blood of the Four Star Gods had actually turned into parasites in his stomach, Du Yi simply went to the Underworld and dealt with the Four Star Gods again to vent his anger.

"In short, find a way to hand over that egg. What came out of my body is mine. If I can't hand it over..."

Du Yi didn't mention the consequences of failing to deliver, but it was clear that these consequences were something the Four Gods of the Star Sea couldn't bear.

This prompted the Four Star Gods to immediately begin searching for the strange egg after the giant serpent departed.

It wasn't to complete their mission; their main goal was to escape. After all, given the current situation, all four of them had figured out that the strange egg had probably hidden in some subspace, except that subspace wasn't the Underworld.

"They truly are our flesh and blood; their reaction speed is incredibly fast."

Thinking of how quickly the strange egg disappeared, the Four Gods of the Star Sea couldn't help but admire it.

Despite their admiration, they now realized that while the strange egg still harbored the intention to rescue them, it seemed to have slipped out of their control to some extent. Otherwise, with the main body facing danger, the egg would never have abandoned them and run away.

Choosing to leave at this time is absolute disloyalty.

"We have to catch it, otherwise..."

The God of Mystery was the first to point out that terrible consequence.

"You all know what it means that the remaining flesh and blood have developed their own will."

The remaining flesh and blood are attached to the remaining will, which is nothing to worry about. It's just that after the soul is sealed, the flesh and blood can still act on its own and can still save itself.

But if the remaining flesh and blood develop their own consciousness, that's a completely different matter.

That means another self is born on those remaining flesh and blood, or even that a completely different soul exists within the body.

How can there be two souls driving one body? So whose voice should you listen to?
Therefore, one of them must die.

Moreover, the souls born from that strange egg are likely not one, but four. These four souls, each corresponding to one of the four gods, have been twisted together under the immense pressure of death brought by the giant serpent, and have even developed their own consciousness.

This means that the strange egg will eventually realize that it doesn't need to save any of the Four Gods at all.

Holding the remains of the four gods and possessing their divine power left outside, it will only thrive as long as it doesn't try to save any of them.

"Although this will prevent it from facing the giant snake's pursuit... even with the four of us, would it be able to handle it?"

It seems that it still can't be done. At least, everything was already quite clear when that strange egg chose to escape.

"The first step is to abandon us. The second step is to kill us. After all, only by killing the four of us can it truly control all the power it has over itself."

At this point, the God of Mystery looked at the God of Destruction.

"The power of life, is it? Well done."

"Now is not the time for infighting."

In the end, it was the straightforward and courageous god who stepped forward and stopped the impending argument.

"Let's see how to handle this first. The most important thing is to find that egg. Do you have any ideas?"

"What can we do?"

The God of Mysteries shook his head.

“Once it dives into the subspace, do you know which subspace it goes to? Besides, we are not in the material world; we ourselves are in the subspace, and there is no connection between subspaces.”

Yes, that's the problem.

If we consider the material world as the trunk of a large tree, then the various subspaces are the branches, large and small, extending from the trunk. It is possible to go from the trunk to the branches, but no one can jump between the branches.

"So in order to survive, perhaps we should..."

At this point, the God of Mysteries took a deep breath.

"You all probably already know what's going on, right?"

The God of Mystery is focusing on the God of Courage.

"You might be the only one who can't accept it, but now you have no choice but to accept it."

"Surrender to that snake. It's not too late to admit defeat now."

(End of this chapter)