Reincarnated as a bamboo rat, it begins its extreme survival struggle.

Just as the monsters were watching the man's movements, the tall, strong man stopped the small boat on the shore and once again jumped naked into the water and quickly dived down.

This action caused the surrounding monsters to quickly retreat, fearing that they had offended this plague god.

Meanwhile, the man's body posture changed rapidly as he entered the water. Hair grew all over his body, and his face bulged and expanded, revealing his werewolf form in the blink of an eye.

Werewolves are a powerful alien race living in the human world. They are a formidable dark race on par with vampires. Having existed since ancient times, werewolves are not a weak race like demi-humans with obvious racial defects that can be easily fooled.

They are born with powerful bodies, but don't think that werewolves are just big and clumsy brutes. This race has amazing talent in shadow magic and physical enhancement magic.

Like vampires, normal adult werewolves have a life level of at least level 20. As one of the best of the werewolf race, this werewolf who dived underwater has a level of 40, making him a true legendary powerhouse. In a place like Chishui City, where experts gather, he can be considered a high-end combatant.

But knowing in his heart what kind of werewolves he was about to face, he was extremely uneasy.

Strength and weakness are always relative. The werewolves, who are considered strong in the Chishui City area, are nothing more than powerless ants in front of the [Wrathful Lord].

He continued to descend, the surrounding crimson river water growing increasingly dark, further shielding his senses.

It is also getting stronger and stronger; this is a characteristic of the red river water in the Raging Waves Canyon.

These rivers make adventurers' journeys in the Raging Waves Canyon exceptionally dangerous, as no one knows what lurks beneath the surface.

The red river's properties are also the reason why [Wrathful Lord] has been able to survive to this day; the fluctuations of his rebirth were concealed by the rushing river.

When the werewolf dived to a certain depth, his body disappeared into the river, and at the same time, the voice of [Wrathful God] rang directly in the werewolf's mind.

"Have you found the high-quality resentment hidden beneath Chishui City?"

In the blink of an eye, the werewolf appeared in a separate space without the crimson river water; this was the broken space below the Raging Wave Canyon.

After the world's debris fell into Raging Tide Canyon, it shattered into countless independent fragments. These fragments may contain treasures or monsters. High-level adventurers enter Raging Tide Canyon primarily for these fragments, and the [Wrathful Lord] is also hiding in one of them.

"My lord, we have not yet completed our mission. A slight change has occurred, so we have to come and report to you ahead of schedule."

Faced with the questioning of the Wrathful God, the werewolf trembled and opened his mental world to the Wrathful God, allowing this demon to directly explore the depths of his memories. This was the fastest way to understand the situation, and the Wrathful God did not like subordinates who dawdled.

It was only after the werewolf released the defenses of its mental world that the figure of the Wrathful God flashed in front of the werewolf.

His appearance was that of a thin, hunched old man who was about 1.2 meters tall. Although he had a human appearance, his pitch-black eyes did not belong to the category of normal humans no matter how you looked at it.

His consciousness directly probed into the werewolf's mental world, spending half a second browsing through all of the werewolf's memories.

"The Myth of Crimson Light, something interesting."

The Wrathful God stated that he had never heard of any red light myth, but the descriptions in the red light myth were quite similar to his own experiences.

The werewolf said that their internal speculation among the demon servants is that the myth of the red light is bait released to test the existence of the Wrathful God. They, the demon servants, do not know how to deal with it for the time being, so they came here to wait for the Wrathful God's instructions.

"Testing my existence? Perhaps it serves that purpose, but I always feel that this thing is someone trying to become a god."

The existence of the Wrathful God is so ancient that He has preserved the method of becoming a god through faith in His memory. Therefore, when looking at the myth of the red light, the Wrathful God does not feel that the myth of the red light is directed at Him.

However, the fact that someone was tinkering with methods to become a god has piqued the interest of Allah.

"If becoming a god were that easy, people would have faith in gods all over the world long ago. The dangers involved are not easy to overcome."

The Wrathful God shook his head, vanished from before the werewolf, leaving only a faint, uttered sentence:

"The myth of the Crimson Light is not important. The key task now is to put the statue into the dense resentment in the underground of Crimson Water City as soon as possible. As long as I complete the revival, even if the Crimson Light God really exists, he will just be my food."

As a demon that has existed since ancient times, the Wrathful God has fought to the death with genuine extraterrestrial deities, and he doesn't even consider a mere god of faith a threat.

Chapter 230 Help from Demon Followers

"I can feel the power of faith gathering towards me. Once enough power of faith is accumulated to ignite the divine fire and solidify the concept into a divine essence, I will gain the power to liberate myself from despair."

After the Red Light myth had been spreading in the lower city for three weeks, Bell had converted more than a thousand believers to build shrines for Phili, and most people in Red Light City had heard about the Red Light myth.

The result of these efforts was that Phili was surrounded by points of faith, and the concept of the Crimson Light God gradually became clearer in her.

"According to my calculations, I am still far from meeting the minimum requirements for becoming a god. I need at least five thousand believers to offer sacrifices to me three times in order to have any chance of igniting the divine fire."

In the Sea of ​​Depravity, Bell watched as Feli gathered her faith power; he now knew all about Feli's plan to become a god.

However, Bell was not optimistic about Felicity's plan to become a god. In her calculations, igniting the divine fire and forging the divine essence only required the minimum amount of faith power, leaving no room for error.

It's like drawing cards; igniting the divine fire and forging the divine essence are both highly likely to fail—that is, a 99.99% chance of failure.

Each of those individual races worships a god, and each one is worshipped for hundreds of years with the full strength of the entire race. They ignite the divine fire and become demigods only after countless trials and errors with the fire of faith. The resources required to go from demigod to a true mythological level increase by another order of magnitude.

Even if Felicity's calculations were perfect, Belle would find it hard to believe that she could draw an SSR twice in a row.

“Your current accumulation is simply not enough. I want to take bigger steps and quickly spread the myth of the Crimson Light to everyone in the city, cultivate a large number of believers to obtain sacrifices. Even those who don’t care about the myth of the Crimson Light will know the concept of the Crimson Light God after the preaching, which will help you consolidate your understanding.”

Three weeks have passed, and no matter how indolent the higher-ups of the Crimson Light God are, they can no longer allow the Crimson Light myth to continue to circulate.

With the restriction order about to be issued, the church members gradually realized what was happening and prepared to trace the origin of the Red Light myth. If they didn't pull off something big soon, all of Bell's efforts over the past few days would be in vain.

“But if we speed up the plan, your risk level will increase exponentially. Recently, bishops from the church have already explored the Sea of ​​Depths. If multiple bishops investigate together, I will definitely not be able to continue hiding.”

Belle and Felicity were unaware of the existence of the demon. In their eyes, the atmosphere had become increasingly tense recently, and it seemed that a city-wide search could be launched at any moment.

Time was of the essence, so Bell decided to plan his pace more carefully and accelerate his efforts to gain more faith power.

"Leave the city affairs to me. By this time next month, I will grant you more faith power than originally planned."

As Bell said this, his consciousness withdrew from the Sea of ​​Depth. As a king, entering the Sea of ​​Depth was as easy for him as returning home. Feli was also able to linger in the Sea of ​​Depth with the people of the church for a long time.

Now, Bell is preparing to do something big. He still has the Crimson Marrow Fluid. With these things in hand, he plans to target the upper echelons of Crimson Water City, aiming to spread the Crimson Light Myth throughout Crimson Water as quickly as possible.

The extent to which the city's administrators could not control the situation.

Meanwhile, on the other side of Chishui City, within the secret society of the [Wrathful God], the demon followers finalized their latest course of action.

They will spend a month making thorough preparations, and then at this time next month, they will send the statue of the Wrathful God into a place in Redwater City that has a large amount of high-quality Wrathful Emotions.

"Gentlemen, before the mighty power of the Wrathful God, mere mythology is nothing to fear, and Redwater City is nothing more than that. As long as the Wrathful God can be restored, we will become the masters of this region, and everything will submit to us."

“I have discovered that there is a secret base underground in Chishui City, and those high-quality resentment emotions are in this underground base.”

"Several of our people have already infiltrated the city guard's high command. In three days, our people will be able to hold the positions of senior officers in the city guard."

"We have also secured seven votes in the city council, which gives us the ability to exert some influence over the city's administration."

The subordinates transformed by [Wrathful God] are all quite capable, with strong individual combat power and very sharp minds.

They quietly became part of the city's decision-making force. Although they were not enough to shake the existence of Chishui City, they had no problem influencing the city's daily policies.

"Isn't the Crimson Light Myth making a huge fuss right now? You all need to exert your efforts in multiple ways to delay the order to deal with the Crimson Light Myth as much as possible, and have people spread the Crimson Light Myth out of the country, making it as big as possible, ideally attracting everyone's attention, and buying as much time as possible for our plan."

These guys who serve the demons plan to use the Red Light Myth incident as an opportunity to infiltrate the underground base and cause trouble.

They not only want to delay the resolution of the Red Light myth, but also want to vigorously promote the Red Light myth.

It's fortunate that Bell didn't know their plan; if Bell knew that these demon cultists were going to help him like this, he would be grinning from ear to ear.

He was worried that he wouldn't be able to make any big news in the short term, but now, someone is giving him free publicity while also taking the fall for him.

However, putting aside the actions of these demon cultists, Bell himself is also preparing for a big event.

He had left the city of Chishui and appeared on a high ground 15 kilometers outside the city. Here, Bell used rare materials such as mithril to lay out a brand new magic circle to gather energy and create a dream.

Beneath the city of Chishui, Bell had already dug tunnels and used cobblestones and other materials to set up a large, semi-finished magic circle.

Having previous experience in creating ultra-wide-area magic circles, creating such a large magic circle is not difficult for Bell at all.

"The two magic circles inside and outside the city are mother and child to each other. When the magic circle is activated, it can draw in a massive amount of magic power to help me construct the dream. Next, I will let you guys experience what it means to personally participate in the Crimson Light Myth from a first-person perspective."

【Dream Weaving】is an invincible skill for Bell. By weaving a complete myth of the crimson light through dreams, he brings a first-person immersive experience to everyone in the city. This is the big project Bell is preparing.

People in this era were still relatively superstitious, and in the magical world, gods and demons were not non-existent.

Bell no longer cared about the city-wide investigation it might cause; he now wanted the concept of the Crimson Light God to be deeply and clearly etched into the minds of every resident of Crimson Water City.

Once everyone in the city knows the myth of the Crimson Light, tracing its origins becomes a joke, and finding the priests becomes extremely difficult.

Chapter 231 Red Light City Special Investigation Team

"A lot has happened in Chishui City recently, especially the myth of the Crimson Light, which has caused quite a stir. What do you all think?"

"What else can we say? Someone deliberately created this commotion to confuse the public. Recently, our opinions have been facing significant obstacles within the city council, and the middle ranks of the city guard are also using various excuses to delay action orders."

Within the most magnificent area of ​​Chishui City, the city's six oldest and most prestigious families reside.

The combined population of these six families accounts for only three percent of the total population of Chishui City, but they possess fifty-five percent of the city's wealth. If it weren't for the occasional emergence of rapidly growing geniuses, they would have long since taken complete control of Chishui City's resources.

They control a large number of positions in the city council and the city guard that can interfere with decision-making. In the past, when the Red Light myth became popular in the city, relevant agencies would have gone to investigate. At that time, they would have dismissed or suppressed those who needed to be dismissed. How could it have escalated to this scale?

The resistance that arose within the city council and the city guard surprised the heads of the six major families. In their eyes, someone wanted to use this widely publicized incident to cover up other things being done in secret.

“Let’s send our trusted people directly to take action, bypassing the city council and the city guard, and find out the hidden entity behind the Red Light Myth incident. As for the Red Light Myth itself, let the church handle it.”

The managers of the six major families are undoubtedly the elite among elites to be able to manage Chishui City, a super-large city. They are determined to find out those who spread the myth of the red light in the city.

A special investigation team composed of experts from the six major families appeared directly in Chishui City and began searching for clues about the incident with astonishing efficiency. They possessed the best cultivation resources and the most comprehensive professional equipment. The six major families had poured a lot of resources into the members of this special investigation team, so those who could obtain so many resources were naturally no ordinary people.

Three days later, the dream magic circle constructed by Bell outside the city entered its final debugging stage. The demon cultists who had been searching for traces of the underground base in Redwater City also found a way to enter the underground base. Meanwhile, the newly formed special search team captured many people who spread the Red Light myth.

To conceal their activities, the demon cultists released many individuals within the city to help spread the myth of the Crimson Light. Taking advantage of the chaos caused by the myth, they continued to approach the core secrets of Crimson Water City.

However, the people they sent out, when spreading the myth of the Red Light, could not guarantee their own safety by using dreams to preach, unlike Bell.

"Sir, the interrogation of those who spread the myth of the Crimson Light has been completed. With the assistance of the [Mind Manipulator], all the information in their minds has been extracted. Please take a look."

Inside the special investigation team's temporary base, an adjutant-like man presented a memory crystal. This was a valuable item that allowed one to obtain all information with just a thought. It was extremely expensive to manufacture, and only the six major families possessed such a costly and limited-use item.