As the golden divine fire severed the entire city, hundreds of thousands of Greed Demons let out shrill wails simultaneously.

Their bodies twitched, struggled, and tore apart, while the black mud corruption collapsed and peeled away in the raging fire.

Both the black mud and the filth were stripped away and purified under this single sword strike.

And those lives that had been consumed by the Greed Demon were all gently lifted and reshaped by the golden divine fire.

Individual humans emerged from the flames, their outlines becoming visible.

Some had just reached adulthood, while others were white-haired and elderly; some wept in terror, while others looked around in bewilderment.

They had once sunk into the stomach of the Greed Demon, losing track of time, but now they saw the light of day once more.

"…I… is this… am I still alive?"

"Didn't I lose?"

"Wasn't I eaten?!"

Sobs and exclamations intertwined as beams of golden light sent these reborn people away one by one—ten, a hundred, a thousand; thousands of silhouettes like a meteor shower detached from Magic City Tokyo, sent back to the reality on the ground along the beams of light.

Over the past decade, hundreds of thousands of people who had gone missing or died in Tokyo were all returned by this one sword strike.

It was as if a rain of life had been scattered over the skies of Tokyo.

[Uriel, the Divine Fire Bearer, Illuminates the Dawn of the World]

— Uriel, who wields the form of fire to illuminate the new world.

Even the hundreds of thousands of lives accumulated over a decade were utterly defeated.

This was the firelight that cleansed the dust and filth, paving the way for the new world.

It could even cleave through the authority of a Demon King.

It could even sever the divine power of the silver coin.

Such power had never been seen in this world before.

Let all the Demon Kings of the world tremble before this power!

On the path of Qi Xing opening up the new world, she would hold the divine fire high, illuminating the darkness of ignorance.

Volume 4: Evil Magic City Tokyo: 162: Angel and Devil

"No no no no no no!" the Greed Demon screamed, but the "no" was useless.

The entire Magic City Tokyo had already been split in two by Jingo Rin using her giant golden flame sword.

— This was an entire modern metropolis, twice as big as New York!

It wasn't the kind of city surrounded by walls in the Middle Ages!

Was this kind of city something that could be split in half with a single sword strike?!

At least Jingo Rin could do it.

It was just a pity that Magic City Tokyo was not the Heart Chamber of the Greed Demon's Inner Realm.

Splitting the city in half was not enough to make him collapse and die immediately; it only took away the hundreds of thousands of lives he had hoarded over the past ten years.

Now, the entire Magic City was split in two.

One half of the city began to collapse, sinking down like a broken dam, swallowed by darkness and sinking into the abyss of the Dream of All Living Beings.

Buildings tilted, stretched, and twisted in the dim light; countless streets and structures dissolved like bubbles, like the reverberations of the Greed Demon's ambition collapsing.

The remaining half, though battered and broken, still stubbornly floated in mid-air, remaining firm.

Amidst the wreckage, the Greed Demon's Logic was still struggling to maintain order.

Taking a closer look, the Greed Demon, who had just been screaming "No!", was nowhere to be seen.

But of course, he hadn't died, rather…

[His Heart Chamber and the silver coin are hidden inside that wreckage!]

With Magic City Tokyo collapsing, the stupid Loli Evil God's useless silver coin radar finally returned to normal.

She hurriedly pounced onto Qi Xing's head, slapping his hair vigorously, [Quick! Pursue the fleeing enemy with remaining courage! Cut weeds and dig up roots, steal his silver coin!]

In the face of treasure, it was only natural for Sasa, who was in a good mood, to be so excited.

But did she really need to tell him that?

"Is it possible for his main body to escape?" To be safe, Qi Xing still asked.

[Impossible.] Sasa was full of confidence, [The type of Inner Realm he has is different from yours, which you can retract and deploy at will.]

[How long can your Glorious Underworld Sovereign: Judgment World last once opened? Given your current synchronization rate with the Master silver coin, half a day or a day is probably the limit, right?]

[But this guy's Magic City Tokyo has probably been maintained for nearly ten years. Do you think he is that much stronger than you?]

This made sense.

Qi Xing knew clearly how difficult it was to distort the world with one's own desires.

He had only deployed his Inner Realm two or three times, but he knew his current limit was likely only a dozen or so hours.

This Magic City Tokyo had almost completely detached from the material world, becoming an alien space independent of the world.

It was not like an ordinary Inner Realm that was still attached to a specific geographical location.

Instead, it (to a certain extent) transcended the concept of "coordinates."

To a certain extent, after all, not completely.

To enter this Magic City, one must either possess the correct method or have sufficient qualifications.

Otherwise, even if one tried for a hundred years, one wouldn't even be able to touch the edge of it.

By comparison, the Inner Realms Qi Xing had encountered before were all still connected to the physical world, and the corresponding difficulty of maintaining them was much smaller.

Thinking about it this way, the reason why the Greed Demon was able to maintain Magic City Tokyo for ten years without it collapsing was likely precisely because—

"He hasn't been able to move it since he finished constructing it." Qi Xing pondered, "I suspect… he also can't just throw the hundreds of thousands of Greed Demons outside."

Thinking about it, perhaps many Silver Coin Messengers were actually like this; they were likely bound by their own desires and instead trapped in the worlds they created.

That was why they could only expand slowly, step by step, and could not be like Qi Xing, running around, deploying whenever he wanted, and retracting whenever he pleased.

Perhaps this was also why these Demon Kings hadn't turned the whole world upside down yet.

Because the larger their Inner Realms were, and the heavier their power, the harder it was to move flexibly.

Since the Heart Chamber of the Inner Realm could not move, even if the Greed Demon's main body escaped, it would be no different from suicide.

His main body had probably already returned to the Heart Chamber, waiting for the final showdown with Qi Xing and Jingo Rin.

This was good.

Qi Xing actually also felt that the battle with the Greed Demon was not yet complete.

…While he was thinking about the mysteries and weaknesses of the Silver Coin Messengers, Sasa quietly turned her head to look at Jingo Rin, cautiously examining her.

Jingo Rin also turned her head to look back at her.

For Sasa, this was really quite frightening.

It was not the first time she had doubted the source of Jingo Rin's power.

After all, this four-colored Uriel divine fire did not look like anything from the Sasa Universe.

But in the past, Sasa had comforted herself with wishful thinking—perhaps Jingo Rin was just a modern version of Joan of Arc.

After all, "desire is power" was the basic rule of the Sasa Universe.

Therefore, ever since she was sealed, there had occasionally been saints who, because of their extreme longing for God, had their faith penetrate the boundaries of the universe and received divine blessings from the angels in the upper layers of the Tree of Life.

In the past, Sasa could still pretend—ah, perhaps Jingo Rin was just such a case?

But now it seemed that this explanation no longer held up.

Jingo Rin's power was too strong, already far exceeding the possible scope of "angelic blessing."

Moreover, looking at her current appearance—those steel wings that seemed to be cast from flowing fire, the complex mechanical patterns covering her entire body—all of this made Sasa feel extremely uneasy, and she couldn't help but groan inwardly.

She was a false god who had plagiarized her own father's database, and furthermore, she herself was essentially a type of angel.

So Sasa knew very well: the essence of an angel was actually a machine created by the One True God.

—Saying "machine" was just for the sake of understanding.

In reality, the essence of angels was spiritual, but they were indeed divine artificial intelligences created by the One True God.

The Giant Spirit Sasa created was something similar she had imitated.

However, now, Jingo Rin's figure gave Sasa a familiar feeling of a prototype that simply shouldn't appear in this world.

This was terrible.

[…Are you Uriel?] With a probing intent, Sasa spoke in a low voice, asking Jingo Rin in the language of angels.

[?] Jingo Rin just tilted her head, not understanding the meaning.

—Had she guessed wrong?

She tried her best again, carefully observing Jingo Rin's soul—however, no matter how she looked at it, this Jingo Rin was not a transmigrator.

Jingo Rin's soul was definitely local, from this world.

What on earth was going on?

Could it be, could it be… a situation like Ultraman?

Samael seemed to have heard of such things before.

If an angel fused with a human, due to the limitations of the physical body, it seemed the divine power would become half-baked, and it was even possible for the human soul to take the dominant position… Could it be like this?

"I don't know what you're muttering about, devil."

Jingo Rin suddenly spoke at this moment, her voice not loud, but enough to reach Sasa's ears,

"But no matter what crooked ideas you're cooking up, I intend to tell you this—Qi Xing does not need a devil whispering temptations into his ear."

"I will become the light that illuminates his path forward. He will walk towards the glorious Dawn World."

"As for you, go fall into the underworld yourself."

Her tone was quite calm, as if she were stating a future that was destined to happen.

Huh?

This provocation, full of contempt, immediately left the Loli Evil God stunned for a moment.

…Following closely behind was an overflowing rage.

For two thousand years, no one had ever dared to provoke her like this!

[You're just a human who obtained angelic power. Standing on Uriel's shoulders to speak to me, where do you get such confidence and audacity?]

[Uriel himself would even have to call me 'sister'!]

For the first time in a thousand years, Jingo Rin's words even made Samael laugh in extreme anger!

Stupid as she was, Samael still had some insight into human nature and immediately spat out a vicious counterattack,

[A glorious new world? Who is that new world for?]

[Only those who are qualified can step into the new world.]

[The path is narrow, and the gate is small. Not everyone can step into it.]

[In the vast world, among the billions of ants, what qualification do they have to demand that the strong carry their destiny?]

Her voice had gradually calmed down, her tone like a knife,

[Why should the strong be responsible for the weak?]

In Sasa's eyes, there was already a glimmer of something that wasn't so stupid, the true sharpness of a Dark Evil God,

[Uriel is just an angel who guides death; a Valkyrie, in essence, is a death god who summons heroes to Valhalla.]

[The light you speak of will only drag Qi Xing into endless responsibility, and will only illuminate a path destined to crush him.]

[Only I—]

[Only I know how to guide him to become the True King who rules the world.]

…Over the past few months, Sasa had basically been content to float on Qi Xing's head and watch the show, not in a rush to get involved herself, feeling that she was in control of the overall situation.

However, at this moment, facing the inexplicable existence of Jingo Rin, she felt… a threat for the first time.

For the first time, she had an enemy.

A devil's enemy.

Since ancient times, there has been a classic metaphor—angels and devils will stand on the left and right shoulders of humans, respectively, whispering in their ears..