Before Heavenly-Pig could finish speaking, Qinglong had already appeared behind him.

“Qing… Qinglong… wait a moment…”

As soon as the words fell, Qinglong’s hand pressed down on the back of his head, then violently smashed him toward the tabletop.

BANG!!

A tremendous sound echoed through the room. Before Heavenly-Pig could even react, his entire forehead had already crashed into the wooden tabletop. Although it was a wooden surface, after bearing Qinglong’s arm strength, it didn’t shatter.

Many Heaven-level individuals turned their heads to the other side, but their cheeks were still splattered with blood.

Heavenly-Pig’s head was fiercely pressed against the tabletop. His body structure was clearly different from ordinary people. Although his head was already torn open with flesh exposed and in extreme pain, his skull hadn’t split open.

“Qing, Qinglong…” Heavenly-Pig groaned. “Listen to me first… I have my difficulties…”

“Why did you activate ‘Puppet’?” Qinglong asked coldly.

“I… this…”

Qinglong didn’t give him a chance to continue speaking. Grabbing Heavenly-Pig’s hair, he lifted him up, and before Heavenly-Pig could catch a breath, smashed him violently toward the tabletop again.

BANG!

Blood splattered once more. Heavenly-Horse reached out to cover Heavenly-Tiger’s eyes, while the rest all lowered their heads.

“Ahhh!!” This impact was truly not light. Heavenly-Pig screamed miserably, then hurriedly shouted, “Qinglong… calm down… I, I had no choice…”

After hearing this, Qinglong once again grabbed his hair and lifted that bloody, mangled face up, bringing his mouth close to the other’s ear and saying: “What I asked was ‘why did you activate Puppet’?”

Before Heavenly-Pig could answer, he was smashed toward the tabletop once more.

BANG!!

“Ahhhhh!! Damn it… Qinglong… you’re really not treating us like humans!!” Heavenly-Pig’s muffled voice came from the tabletop.

Then he used all his strength to break free from Qinglong’s hand, and with a “whoosh” stood up, his whole person assuming a do-or-die posture.

Several “Heaven-level” individuals looked up to see that Heavenly-Pig’s entire face was dyed red with fresh blood. His forehead had lost a large chunk of skin, his nose was broken, and even several of his front teeth were missing.

At this point, he had no other choice. Qinglong had killing intent. If he didn’t resist, he could only sit and wait for death. But if he did resist…

Seeing this, Qinglong’s eyebrows raised slightly, then he slowly retreated a step.

“Oh…” He slowly grinned. “What are you saying? Come kill me?”

“I… I…” Heavenly-Pig reached up to wipe the blood on his face, then said, “The ‘Puppet’ was a task Heavenly-Dragon assigned to me… I can’t defy either of you… what do you want me to do?”

“Then I truly apologize.” Qinglong wiped the bloodstains on his hands. “After all, I don’t know what Heavenly-Dragon said to you. Perhaps I misunderstood.”

“Damn it…” Heavenly-Pig pressed his lips together, the anger in both eyes already unable to be suppressed. “Calling it a ‘misunderstanding’… just because you ‘misunderstood’ you can beat me into this state…”

“So… what do you want to do?” Qinglong asked.

“I know I’m dead for sure…” Heavenly-Pig said. “Heavenly-Dragon did bring me a message. He told me to activate Puppet… in the dream he’ll kill me, in reality you’ll kill me. I fundamentally have no choice, so I can only fight to the death.”

Heavenly-Pig kept glancing at the other people in the room with his peripheral vision. How much he hoped that at this moment someone would stand up to support him.

Unfortunately, these people hadn’t received life-threatening danger. They could only lower their heads and pretend nothing had happened.

Originally, everyone had come here with fighting spirit, but in the span of decades had become true puppets.

“Everyone.” Heavenly-Pig said. “Right now, if you stand up with me to resist Qinglong, even if there are casualties, someone will definitely survive. Otherwise, we’ll be defeated one by one, and then we won’t have any chance at all.”

At this moment, only Heavenly-Sheep knew that what Heavenly-Pig said was true, because he had truly seen killing intent in Qinglong’s eyes.

But resisting Qinglong—how ridiculous a plan was that… He had “Soul Seizing”!

This man could not only casually seize away rationality, but could also control other people’s actions. Although everyone had extremely strong physical qualities, how could they use these bodies to deal with “Soul Seizing”?

At this moment, Heavenly-Sheep only had one thought—if the others all stood up, then he would stand up too.

If death was truly coming, then dying late was better than dying early.

The young girl Heavenly-Monkey heard Heavenly-Pig’s words and felt what he said made complete sense. But just as she was about to stand up, she was pulled back by Heavenly-Rooster.

Heavenly-Monkey looked at Heavenly-Rooster, only to see him frown and shake his head. The two seemed to have a disagreement for the first time in decades, both their eyes revealing incomprehension toward the other.

“Everyone… stand up.” Heavenly-Pig said. “You know what I’m saying isn’t false… this is truly our last chance. The ‘Heaven-level’ whose structure has never changed is now going to start having deaths. Don’t you understand how serious this matter is?”

The lonely voice drifted and echoed in the dim room, but couldn’t awaken a group of people pretending to sleep.

Until Qinglong grinned and laughed loudly, the only people standing on the scene were still just him and Heavenly-Pig.

“Heavenly-Pig, I see you’re confused. Actually making them choose between me and you.” Qinglong said. “But this is also a good thing. I haven’t fought with anyone for a very long time.”

“You…”

“Come.” Qinglong beckoned with his hand. “I won’t use ‘Soul Seizing.’ Let’s have a hearty battle.”

Hearing this sentence, Heavenly-Pig slowly swallowed, then took off his upper garment, wiped his blood-covered face, and finally tore the garment to shreds, took out a strip of cloth and tied it on top of his head, blocking the bleeding wound.

“Someone has to take this step.” Heavenly-Pig smiled bitterly. “Thinking about it carefully, returning to reality isn’t necessarily a bad thing. After all, in the dream I’m already about to die of old age.”

He moved his neck, then shook his hands and feet that he hadn’t moved in decades.

“It’s already been seventy years.” Heavenly-Pig’s eyes gradually became determined. “Even if I could return to the real world… would my family still be there waiting for me?”

“Hard to say.” Qinglong answered.

“They might have already died of old age long ago.” Heavenly-Pig let out a cold laugh. “Going back now would just cause them trouble.”

“You’re really great.” Qinglong also laughed. “I love watching someone as great as you die in front of me without any ability to fight back.”

“I’ll die, but definitely not without any ability to fight back.”

Heavenly-Pig gritted his teeth and charged forward with a step.

Just as he was about to reach Qinglong, his entire body suddenly emitted an extremely strong bright light, so dazzling that everyone closed their eyes.

Qinglong had just heard the “Echo” of “Burst Flash” when there was a tremendous sound like a car crash that exploded. The hands and feet of the two collided together.

…

On the playground of “Heaven’s Gate,” a woman’s corpse that had long since died thoroughly swayed and stood up. Like a marionette, she adapted to her own hands and feet, then bizarrely took steps and walked toward the teaching building.