Chapter 374: Chapter 374

Long Ze’s heart trembled as he said, "I’ve said it before; I can’t control what other worlds do, but what gives you the right to target my Beast World!"

Ming Jiu snapped his fingers. Then, the doors and windows of the room closed, plunging it into darkness. In this small room, a sea of stars appeared.

The beautiful starry sky immediately captured the cubs’ attention. They tried to touch the stars in the room. Ming Jiu’s heart softened as he watched the little ones. He stirred the starry sky, allowing a few stars to race towards them.

Finally, Ming Jiu said to Long Ze, "These are the stars from my world." After he spoke, the world Ming Jiu pointed at transformed into a crimson mist of blood.

"These," he continued, "are the stars I found that were transformed by the apocalypse."

One by one, all the stars turned into mists of blood.

Long Ze had been narrowing his eyes cautiously, but when the last mist of blood formed, he was so astonished that his eyes widened.

Ming Jiu said, "I took the hearts of nine worlds, but in reality, twelve worlds were affected. And these twelve worlds together form..."

Long Ze exclaimed, "A twelve-pointed star?!" Pointing to the star system in the middle of the twelve-pointed star, he continued, "The one in the very center, is that my Beast World?!"

Ming Jiu nodded. A chill rose from Long Ze’s feet, and he felt as if his scalp was about to explode.

"What does this mean?"

Ming Jiu said, "Someone wants to use these worlds to form a Twelve-pointed Star Array, using the Beast World as both a sacrifice and the Formation’s eye."

Ming Jiu pointed in another direction, where the attack formed by this Formation and its eye was aimed...

Long Ze cried out, "They’re sacrificing my Beast World to strike at the Divine Temple!"

Ming Jiu said, "I believe they want to destroy the Divine Race."

Long Ze was speechless.

Long Ze asked, "The Divine Race is immortal and indestructible. Who would dare to do such a thing?!"

Ming Jiu frowned. "I don’t know."

Ultimately, Night God Ming Jiu and Beast God Long Ze were merely gods from comparatively lower-level worlds within the myriad of worlds.

Ming Jiu said, "Initially, I wanted to extract the heart of the Beast World before the Twelve-pointed Star Array was fully constructed to disable the Formation."

He sighed. "Look at this star. This is the planet where Si Yan lived in her previous life. Now, fewer than one hundred thousand humans survive there, and they’re about to be overrun by zombies." For more chapters visıt noveⅼfire.net

Goosebumps rose all over Long Ze’s skin.

Who would be so bold as to use over a dozen worlds, at the cost of tens, even hundreds of billions of lives, just for one strike at the Divine Temple?

Long Ze stared at Ming Jiu. "So you planned to use Si Yan from the very beginning?"

She Wang and the four cubs who were playing with the stars all turned to look at Ming Jiu.

"You exposed Si Yan to the apocalyptic world and then groomed her step by step. Was that intentional?"

"I did not." Ming Jiu touched the egg in his arms, his expression darkening.

"I wanted to keep her out of it. You were the one who dragged her into this."

Long Ze retorted, "How could I possibly know you didn’t intend to involve her? Si Yan is my precious grandchild!"

"After she changed the destiny of the Silver Wolf Tribe," Ming Jiu pointed at She Wang, "and altered his fate, Si Yan was already involved."

Long Ze argued, "You can’t arrange her life like that! She’s not an ordinary person. How can you treat her like a puppet on strings?"

The two gods argued heatedly before sitting down separately.

Long Ze clenched his fists. He was tense; he knew the Beast World had reached a critical moment of life and death.

"I will never let you destroy the heart of the Beast World."

Ming Jiu replied, "Not destroy it. Nine world hearts are enough to forge a world-destroying divine weapon. I only want to save my family when the weapon is complete."

Long Ze asked, "Nine world hearts still require a gentle world heart as a catalyst. Without the Beast World’s heart, what’s your plan?"

Long Ze suddenly paused, looking at Ming Jiu with suspicion. "Unless..."

"Ming Jiu, you’re insane!"

Ming Jiu said, "A gentle world heart isn’t available, but there is an incompetent god. I just need to borrow the Beast World’s heart for a while."

Ming Jiu gently stroked the egg in his embrace. He felt content with the time he had spent with Si Yan and the cubs.

Long Ze stared at Ming Jiu in amazement.

The stars dissipated. Pale light filtered through the leaves, casting a golden glow on Ming Jiu’s face, highlighting the lonely figure before Long Ze.

"I formed a second personality. He’s called Ming Ji, and he split off to become an independent individual. Now, he’s like a younger brother to me."

"Long Ze, from now on, I’m entrusting my younger siblings to you. Please look after them."

Long Ze’s mouth fell open in surprise. "You... have you lost your mind?"

Ming Jiu looked up, his dark silver eyes filled with steely determination.

Long Ze suddenly understood. "What do you plan to tell Si Yan?"

Ming Jiu said, "Help me keep it from her."

The four cubs stared at this handsome uncle in shock.

She Wang lowered his gaze slightly, a hint of hesitation in his eyes.

Long Ze suddenly didn’t know what to think anymore.

He looked at his old colleague, who seemed engulfed in solitude.

Finally, he answered, "Alright, I promise."

She Wang interrupted, "Where is Si Yan now?"

Ming Jiu looked up at the male before him and asked, "Lord. I want to ask you, what does Si Yan mean to you?"

She Wang took half a step forward. "Si Yan is the first person I see when I wake up every morning."

His slender hand rested on his chest. "I call her my Mistress; she says she is my wife."

She Wang suddenly lifted his head. His purple, amethyst-like eyes shone with an intense light.

"She is my bone, my blood."

"To me, Si Yan is more precious than my own life!"

He was tall and slender, devastatingly handsome. Yet, his star-like, cold eyes seemed to hold space for only one person.

He certainly is good-looking.

Ming Jiu couldn’t help but recall when Si Yan was still in high school. He’d shown her an animal picture book, subtly asking which animals she liked and which she detested.

She had said she liked dragons, especially cool and handsome Black Dragons.

She hated snakes; she despised and feared those legless serpents the most.

But now... everything has changed.

Ming Jiu stared at She Wang for a long moment.

Although, for a long time, he’d found She Wang rather disagreeable.

But now, he suddenly, somewhat approved of this union.

Ming Jiu said, "Where I come from, forming a bond means marriage. Marriage requires a grand banquet, vows to Heaven and Earth, to parents, and to the community."

"A husband has only one wife, and a wife, only one husband."

"If you want to be with her, you must follow our customs and hold a proper wedding ceremony."

"Only after the wedding will we acknowledge you as husband and wife."

She Wang still didn’t fully understand the relationship between Ming Jiu and Si Yan, but at this moment, Ming Jiu felt like an elder to him.

He said firmly, "Alright."

Ming Jiu pointed in a direction. "Si Yan is now in the northern Polar Lands, in the snowy mountains. You..."

But She Wang vanished in a flash of electric light, disappearing from the spot.

Ming Jiu’s mouth twitched. You’re a cold-blooded serpent Beastman. Are you really suited to go to the snowy mountains?