Hearing Jiang Shi say “Heart, come,” everyone in the low building instantly formed a tight “production chain.”

Ma Shier, the ‘Displacement’ user, used his faith to slightly move Luo Shiwu’s corpse into Officer Li’s line of sight.

Officer Li immediately activated ‘Reach Into Bag,’ pulling out that fresh, bloody heart from his pocket, then turned back and handed it to Song Qi. Song Qi briefly touched it and passed it to Cui Shisi, the ‘Passage’ user.

Cui Shisi threw the heart into the circle before him, which directly connected to the circle in front of Jiang Shi.

Under the effect of ‘Passage,’ the heart leaped to before Jiang Shi, dropped out from the ring, and fell into Jiang Shi’s hand.

All of this was completed within three seconds—Xuanwu couldn’t detect any flaw.

But Su Shan on the high building widened her eyes, because in that instant just now, there were so many ‘ripples’ that leaped up. The precision of their coordination and skillfulness of their execution dazzled her.

“Xuanwu…” Jiang Shi said. “I am the same as you—both able to extract organs from the opponent’s body. But I am also different from you.”

“What…?”

“Having already taken out the opponent’s heart, why would you personally crush it…?” Jiang Shi asked again.

“Then what about you?”

“Thorns, come.” Jiang Shi raised the heart in his hand to mid-air.

This single phrase “Thorns, come” left everyone in the building behind confused for a moment—this part of the plan obviously hadn’t been communicated in advance.

“What the fuck ‘thorns, come’…” Luo Shiyi asked. “Did we discuss this before?”

“Little Jiang Shi seems to be getting a bit carried away…” Bai Jiu said. “Quick, go find some thorns…”

“I’ll try…!” Liu Ershiyi, the ‘Maomu’ user, hurriedly walked forward a step, then turned back to give Ning Shiba, the ‘Wild Growth’ user, a look. The two immediately stood before the window.

‘Maomu’ closed his eyes. One second later, a cluster of small sisal suddenly grew from the ground behind Jiang Shi.

The leaves of that sisal pointed upward one by one, looking extremely sharp.

‘Wild Growth’ immediately followed by activating his faith, making the sisal leaves enormous. Then Ma Shier, the ‘Displacement’ user, hurriedly took action, controlling several sisal leaves to fly up and ultimately piercing accurately into the heart in Jiang Shi’s hand.

Jiang Shi’s brief sentence kept everyone behind him quite busy, yet Jiang Shi calmly looked at his own hand.

“Right, leaves come.” He added.

Xuanwu stared blankly at this scene for a long time. After all, from the aspect of “controlling objects out of thin air,” this short person before her was indeed more powerful than herself.

“How did that saying go…” Jiang Shi pondered for a moment, weighing the heart full of sisal leaves in his hand, then nodded and said, “Right, Xuanwu, look directly at this heart.”

Before Xuanwu could understand the meaning of this sentence, she saw Jiang Shi directly throw that heart full of leaves toward her.

The heart twisted and heated in mid-air, sparking with flashes of fire. Xuanwu instinctively used her only remaining left hand to block it.

“Boom”!!

A huge explosion sounded as the heart exploded into fragments in mid-air.

Xuanwu slowly raised her head, looking at the thick smoke and fragments in mid-air, remaining silent for a long time.

“Xuanwu, even with this, you still don’t believe… that I can replace you?” Jiang Shi asked.

Xuanwu remained silent, only staring blankly.

“Fine… since you still insist…” Jiang Shi extended both hands again. “Wind, come!!”

“Oh dear… it’s my turn…” Qiu Ershi, the ‘Strong Wind’ user, hurriedly stepped forward and whipped up a moderate tornado around Jiang Shi’s body, shredding the fragments in mid-air into threads.

“Rain, come!!” Jiang Shi called out loudly once again.

After hearing this, Bai Jiu was startled and turned to ask: “Wait, does ‘rain come’ mean me?”

“You have ‘Liquify,’ Ninth Sister…” Luo Shiyi said. “If not you, then who?”

“There’s nothing here to ‘Liquify’…” Bai Jiu said. “How could I possibly make it rain out of thin air…?”

After hearing this, Ma Shier, the ‘Displacement’ user, sighed: “Uh, I have a way, but it might have to wrong Little Shiwu’s corpse again…”

“This…” After hearing this, Bai Jiu paused, understanding Ma Shier’s meaning. “Well… alright then… but whether this scene is scary or not, I can’t guarantee.”

“Never mind, we’ll apologize to Little Shiwu next time!”

With that said, Jiang Shi saw Luo Shiwu’s corpse slowly rise into the sky. He didn’t yet understand what this meant, but then he saw that corpse begin to melt in mid-air.

A rain of blood and flesh drizzled down sparsely between the two of them, and for a moment the scene was incomparably quiet.

Qiu Ershi, the ‘Strong Wind’ user, hurriedly supplemented with a gust of wind, making the blood rain spread more evenly.

Xuanwu looked at this blood rain and remained silent for a long time, as if her thoughts had already flown to the distant horizon.

“Xuanwu…” Jiang Shi walked forward a step. “Now do you believe me?”

“I…”

“You don’t need to suffer like this anymore.” Jiang Shi said. “I’ll take over the shift. I will endure all the suffering, I will guard all the rules. You can go in peace.”

“You…”

Although Xuanwu’s body appeared to be a vast starry sky, at this moment it was trembling slightly.

“Give me your eyes.” Jiang Shi said. “That is something only you can reach into bag for.”

“I… I cannot…” Xuanwu trembled hesitantly, as if experiencing a tremendous psychological struggle.

Yun Shijiu stared at the street not far away from the high building, frowned, and blew his whistle on the spot.

After hearing the whistle, all the ‘Cat’ members raised their heads, their expressions becoming solemn one after another.

That was the whistle for “enemy entering formation.”

But in this place… who else could possibly “enter formation”?

“Baihu is coming…” Song Qi frowned and turned back. “A few people come with me to block Baihu with our lives. The rest continue to respond to Jiang Shi!”

“You’re crazy…” Bai Jiu grabbed Song Qi in one motion. “Seventh Brother, ‘block Baihu’—how many people do you think we have?!”

“There’s no other way!” Song Qi said. “Right now Little Jiang Shi is about to persuade Xuanwu. We can’t have anything go wrong at such a critical moment!”

With that, he led several people climbing out the window. But what no one expected was that after seeing Xuanwu from far away, Baihu’s feet struck the ground and his entire figure shot out explosively, standing in an instant between Xuanwu and Jiang Shi.

Song Qi cried out in alarm and hurriedly led people running up, also blocking in front of Jiang Shi.

Xuanwu didn’t seem to notice the changes in the people before her, only extending her hand to catch the blood rain.

And Baihu looked at this spectacular scene before him without speaking for a moment. His gaze remained on Jiang Shi the entire time.

“Baihu.” Xuanwu extended her hand to catch the blood rain, murmuring and asking, “He says he has come to replace me… is it true?”

After hearing this, Baihu was clearly startled. He then turned to look at Xuanwu, then looked at Jiang Shi again. His turbid eyes gradually lost their anger at this moment, replaced by an extremely complex emotion.

“He says I can die in peace… is it true?” Xuanwu asked again.

Baihu’s cracked lips trembled slightly, as if all words were stuck in his throat.

After a long while, he said in a hoarse voice: “Wu Xuan, it’s true. You are liberated.”