Heroes Return

"Now that you mention it! That's really amazing!" Ling Yu looked at Lin Jie with admiration, then seemed to realize something: "Wait! I've also been turned into a woman! Thinking about it that way, wouldn't I have even more convenience than you? I can go into the women's bathhouse, the women's toilet, and the women's changing room whenever I want! Hehe!"

“You’re right!” Lin Jie looked at Ling Yu with an “I finally understand” expression.

"Speaking of which, as a girl, I could totally take this opportunity to flirt with those girls or something." At this moment, prompted by Lin Jie, Ling Yu immediately thought of some rather lewd things.

“Let’s cooperate after this is over!” Lin Jie suddenly looked at Ling Yu solemnly.

"Cooperation? What do you mean?"

"Think about it! Isn't it very abnormal for a little kid like me to run into the women's bathroom by myself without any adults around? Generally speaking, there should be parents when taking a child to bathe."

"Oh! I see! You actually mean I should pretend to be your mother? And then we can work together?"

"That's exactly how it is. Think about it, as a complete stranger, it's impossible for you to suddenly start playing around with those girls, since you don't know them at all! But if I'm here, I can create opportunities for you to get to know those girls, right?" Lin Jie's eyes were already shining as he said this!

"That's absolutely right! From now on, whenever we go out together, I'll pretend to be your mom!" Ling Yu exclaimed excitedly.

"Just play the older sister! Playing the mother would be too difficult for someone your age, wouldn't it? After all, you only look like an eighteen-year-old girl!" Lin Jie carefully examined Ling Yu's current appearance. Although her features were still vaguely recognizable as Ling Yu's, she had completely transformed into a very gentle and cute-looking girl. Moreover, she even had a pair of lewd breasts on her chest.

"Oh, I don't really care what role I play!"

"No, no, no, as a mother, you still look too young!"

"You're being a bit outdated. Haven't you seen the news lately? A sixteen-year-old girl, heavily pregnant, beat up her nineteen-year-old husband and his fourteen-year-old mistress in the street." Ling Yu said to Lin Jie nonchalantly, "In this day and age, girls are far more open-minded than you can imagine!"

"Damn! That guy's a beast! Men like that should be sent to the Bachelor's Temple to be beaten up by the people there! I've lived for over twenty years! Why can't I meet girls who are that open-minded?! Damn it!" Lin Jie, in the body of a child, said "damn it" twice before enthusiastically discussing with Ling Yu again: "You should pretend to be my older sister! At least that way it won't feel out of place! Hehe! I'm getting excited now! Hehe!"

"I'm getting excited now! Hehe!" Ling Yu grinned mischievously.

And so, the lewd alliance between the two 'men' was officially established on this day, but after laughing for a while, they fell silent once again.

"Speaking of which, now that my body has become a girl, will I really get excited when I'm with girls again?" Ling Yu suddenly touched his chest.

After he finished speaking, both of them realized an even more serious problem! Lin Jie's current body was equivalent to that of a three-year-old child! And his body hadn't developed at all! In other words, he couldn't possibly have the kind of desire that every man has! Moreover, his Optimus Prime had already turned into a baby elephant.

Ling Yu was the exact opposite of him; at this point, his penis had vanished!

Then, faced with the choice between having a normal penis and not having one but being able to have intimate contact with a girl, the two made their choices once again.

Lin Jie gripped the longsword, which was taller than himself, while Ling Yu tightened his grip on the spear.

"As expected, we should take down that Ivan first and then figure out a way to turn back," Lin Jie said coldly.

"That's right! I'm the protagonist of a hot-blooded story! I'm not the protagonist of a gender-swapped novel!" Ling Yu suddenly became murderous: "I must find my penis!"

At that moment, the two transformed into menacing warriors and began searching for Ivan in the city.

Another part of the city.

"What was that murderous aura just now? What did those Ivans do?" The Son of God looked warily at the scene not far away.

“No matter what those Ivans do, they will all die by my hand.” Leng Yan said, casually tossing the head of an Ivan, now an ice sculpture, to the ground. This was the ninth Ivan he had killed. “Can you sense the location of the central temple now?”

"I can't sense it. It seems it's not just a matter of the terrain changing. The central temple seems to be shrouded in a dark power." The Son of God said calmly, "To use the darkest power in the most sacred place, those sinners should all die here."

“You don’t need to tell me, all of these Ivans will die here anyway. Their biggest mistake was provoking me.” Leng Yan said, coldly looking at the person in front of him.

At that moment, right opposite them, two people dressed in priestly robes appeared. One of them, dressed in red, held a golden wand inlaid with numerous jewels.

The other was simply dressed in a plain priest's robe and holding a Bible.

"Cardinal and Pope! Have you two been turned into heroic spirits too?" The Son of God looked at the two people in front of him, a golden flame constantly rising in his eyes.

"It's been a long time since we last met. I never imagined that when I see the messenger of God again, I would be meeting you with such a sinner's body," the man whom the Son of God called the Pope said with a smile to the Son of God.

"This is all the work of that damned Ivan! You are not sinners at all! How could the most devout believers..."

“Son of God, perhaps it is most appropriate for you to end our sins!” the cardinal suddenly said. “We are indeed sinners, and we have committed heinous crimes.”

"What are you talking about?" The Son of God looked at the two people in front of him with some surprise.

"We two have committed a grave error! We dared to deceive the great God, and have brought about a dark judgment." The Pope smiled at the two men before him: "Be careful!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a large number of knights clad in white armor leaped out from the Bible in his hands...

Chapter 20

There was no time for them to speak; a large number of people wearing armor rushed toward Leng Yan and the Son of God at an extremely fast speed.

But all the knights were forced to halt their charge halfway through, for a simple reason: they were frozen in place. In an instant, the knights stood motionless like a group of ice sculptures.

"Be careful? That word doesn't seem to suit me at all," Leng Yan said coldly, then looked at the cardinal and the pope. Meanwhile, the lower bodies of the two men opposite him were frozen in ice.

"Oh? You must be Mr. Leng Yan from the Hero Association? He's terrifyingly cold!" The Pope smiled at Leng Yan. "No wonder you're the most likely to replace Zero as the man who will strike fear into the hearts of all criminals!"

"Hmph! I can replace Zero sooner or later, you don't need to explain that." Leng Yan coldly replied, "The only reason I didn't freeze you two to death immediately is that I want to know what exactly the sins you're talking about are, and what they have to do with that madman Ivan?"

“We shouldn’t have told the Hero Association, but since we’re already dead, let me explain to atone for our mistakes.” The Pope maintained his smile.

"What exactly did you do while I was away from the Holy Capital?" the Son of God asked anxiously.

"We killed an angel!" These few words froze the atmosphere. A moment of complete silence descended upon the room.

At this moment, a look of shock and even horror appeared on the face of the Son of God. Leng Yan, however, maintained his cold smile, and his eyes held a mocking, smug look.

At this moment, the expression of the Son of God could no longer be described as stiff.

“You actually killed an angel! What are you thinking? Don’t you intend to continue being devout believers in God? And which angel did you kill?” The Son of God looked at the two priests before him with a serious expression: “You are not worthy of being called servants of God.”

“We killed the angel with the trumpet. The very angel who escaped from the prison island,” the archbishop said. “She should have had one last trumpet left to sound. But we killed her!”

"You actually killed that great angel!" The Son of God glared angrily at the high-ranking figure of the Holy Church before him. "You are no longer worthy to be called followers of my God!! Do you know how important that angel's mission was? And yet you killed her!"

"You mean the angel who was in charge of blowing the seventh horn?" Leng Yan said coldly at this moment, "I think that kind of angel is just dead! That was an angel who brought endless disasters to all mankind! If it weren't for Zero, mankind might have been wiped out."

"What do you know? That was a great baptism!" The Son of God said angrily to Leng Yan. "You self-righteous fools have no idea what the Final Judgment truly means! It was a great baptism! If it weren't for Zero's interference, the world should have been a better place!"

"Hmph! Without Zero's interference, you think you can become the king of this world according to God's plan? By then, most of the world's population will have died out! Science and technology will be restarted directly," Leng Yan said disdainfully.

"I've already said it! It was a great revolution! Someone like you, a mere mortal, could never possibly comprehend the greatness of that revolution!"

"Mortal? Hmph! You can talk about that when you've defeated me!"

"You have no idea how great God is."

"If anyone gets in my way, I'll kill them even if they're a god!" Leng Yan said, pointing his palm at the two people.

"Just as rumored, he is an unruly person!" the Pope said with a smile. "But please let us finish what we have to say; things are not as simple as you think."

"No matter what! The crimes of the two of you are absolutely unforgivable!" The Son of God also drew the Spear of Langnuki.

“We have already been punished by my God, and now we are dead. We suffered unbearable torment while alive, and our spirits are enslaved by that criminal after death.”

"You have no right to speak of God! You two have betrayed the glory of God!" said the Son of God, pointing the Spear of Longinus at the two men before him.

“We understand, and that’s why we want to atone for our sins as much as possible!” the cardinal said coldly. “We didn’t just kill an angel! We also…”

However, the cardinal couldn't continue speaking. Suddenly, their bodies erupted with dazzling light, and the wand in the cardinal's hand also shone brilliantly.

"You are not qualified to use the Supreme Scepter at all." Just as the Son of God finished speaking, a golden energy as thick as an arm swept towards the two of them.

Accompanying this energy was a series of massive explosions. However, the explosions were frozen just before they reached the two people.

Leng Yan maintained his cold smile, and the blue flame capable of easily freezing even extremely hot flames reappeared in his hand: "So you finally couldn't control yourself after all?"

Leng Yan spoke calmly, and then he raised his hand, freezing dozens of large energy beams in mid-air.

"There's nothing I can't freeze as long as it truly exists in this world." With that, Leng Yan looked once more at the Pope, whose lower body he had frozen. But then the Pope vanished, along with the frozen knights.

"Be careful! We've lost control of our bodies! And be careful of that thing! It's because of that thing that we're being punished by God!" the Pope shouted to the two men in mid-air, as countless orbs of light flew towards his body. Instantly, a gigantic giant of light formed in the air, holding a huge Bible in his hand.

"What exactly is that thing? What kind of divine punishment have you suffered?" The Son of God roared angrily at the cardinal in the sky! He knew that the Pope, who had already transformed into that form, was completely unable to speak.

"We..." The cardinal had just uttered "we" when he suddenly fell silent. At the same time, the Son of God also seemed to have received some message and shut his mouth.

"Then you may now face judgment!" said the Son of God, hurling the Spear of Longinus at the cardinal in the sky.

At the same time, hundreds of terrifying energy beams erupted in front of the cardinal. These beams made several turns in the air before shooting down at the two people below.

However, even without touching the two people, this energy was still transformed into hundreds of ice pillars.

At the same time, the colossal Pope of Light stomped down on the two of them. However, before his body was even touched, it was instantly frozen into an ice sculpture.

"Hmph! I hate this kind of half-truth that I only tell half of what's going on," Leng Yan said disdainfully.

At the same time, the Spear of Longinus pierced through the icicles and went straight through the Cardinal's body.

"Be careful, the real trouble is about to begin!" the Son of God said, his face grim. Just as the Cardinal was pierced by the Spear of Longinus, he suddenly threw the Supreme Scepter directly at the Pope, who was frozen into an ice giant. The Pope's body reappeared, but this time he held a massive scepter in his hand.

Without any warning, more than a dozen energy blasts, each several meters thick, shot directly towards the two cities. The Son of God was certain that such an attack could instantly destroy the entire city.

Immediately afterwards, the frost that had covered the Giant of Light shattered, and the Supreme Scepter entered the Giant of Light's body. A powerful beam of energy shot down.

"Watch out! His attack is no less powerful than the main cannons of the alien fleet!" The Son of God immediately shouted to Leng Yan beside him. But at this moment, he noticed that the latter still had a faint sneer on his face.

The next moment, all the energy attacks turned into this giant ice pillar.

"This is finally getting interesting." Feeling the powerful light energy emanating from the Pope, Leng Yan's lips curled up slightly. Then he said to the Son of God beside him, "You just need to watch from here. I'll handle this."

"Are you kidding me! The Supreme Scepter is connected to all believers. As long as there are believers of God in this world, it possesses infinite power! No matter how strong you are, you can't defeat him by your own strength! We should join forces now to separate the Pope from the Supreme Scepter!"

"Just watch! You just need to watch!" Leng Yan said coldly, pointing his palm at the Pope within the giant of light. A pillar of blue fire swept directly towards the giant of light.

At the same time, a concentrated, immense power swept directly towards Cold Flame from in front of the Giant of Light.

The beam of light and the pillar of blue fire collided in mid-air, resulting in a stalemate. Both forces tried their best to push each other back.

"He possesses inexhaustible power! You'll only be worn down by him if you fight like this!" The Son of God reminded Leng Yan once again: "The Supreme Scepter is a masterpiece of the gods! You cannot defeat him!"

"Don't even mention that it's a prop made by a god! Even if the god himself came, I wouldn't be afraid!" After saying this coldly, the blue flames suddenly spread upwards along the golden energy beam.

Then, something unbelievable happened to the Son of God: the golden giant of light, which should have possessed boundless power, was instantly frozen into an ice pillar by the Son of God's attack. But that wasn't all; the power unleashed by the cold flames affected the climate of the entire O district at that moment.

Not only in the Holy City, but throughout the entire O District, snow began to fall due to Cold Flame's attack!

"This! This far surpasses the power of SS-level! This is already the realm of demigods!" The Son of God stared at Leng Yan in shock.

"I've said it before, there's nothing in this world I can't freeze." Leng Yan looked at the previously arrogant giant of light before him and snapped his fingers lightly. The giant instantly turned into countless snowflakes that scattered into the sky. At that moment, the Supreme Scepter also fell from the sky.

Chapter 21

"Alright, now we should talk!" After instantly killing the opponent that the Son of God seemed unable to defeat alone, Leng Yan stared intently at the Son of God with his light blue eyes.

"Is there something you need?" The Son of God's golden pupils stared unwaveringly at Leng Yan. The atmosphere between the two instantly plummeted to freezing point.