Song Qi ran wildly along the road while looking at the sun.

He knew the time everyone had to kill Zhu Que was extremely tight—they needed to succeed before all the Zodiac doors closed. Only then would the mission be considered complete.

They had roughly ten-plus minutes to gather and kill. This meant they had no way to execute a perfect combination technique—whoever arrived first would have to strike first.

“At ‘Earth-Pig’… people at ‘Earth-Pig.'”

Zhoumo’s “Telepathic Voice” rang in Song Qi’s ear once again. Ma Twelve behind him also heard the same voice a few seconds later.

“What’s going on… why is she saying it again?” Ma Twelve asked.

Song Qi slowly stopped in his tracks, carefully thinking through the current situation. Zhoumo’s second announcement that Zhu Que had descended at Earth-Pig’s location could only mean she could only use this method to contact everyone.

“There’s a problem with the signal flare.” Song Qi’s expression darkened.

“Ah?!”

Song Qi hurriedly turned to look at the nearby ground. What could he do now to help Zhoumo?

But the nearby streets were all ruins—the only thing he could find were stones.

“Seventh Brother…” Ma Twelve also said anxiously. “What should we do now?”

“It’s useless for us to go there. We need to tell everyone Sixth Sister’s location.” Song Qi hurried to one side and picked up three palm-sized stones from the ground. “I need your help.”

“Okay!”

After discussing for a moment, once Song Qi confirmed that Ma Twelve understood his tactics, he pulled out the signal flare from his body, then used a hair tie to roughly bind the three stones and the signal flare together.

“If we don’t succeed, Sixth Sister will die.” Song Qi reached out to stroke the stones and signal flare in his hand. “So we can’t fail.”

“Okay… I understand.”

Song Qi took a deep breath, then after a running start, his entire body launched like a slingshot in a wide arc, fiercely throwing the bound device toward the sky.

The next second, Song Qi and Ma Twelve ran toward the flying device. During this, Ma Twelve continuously waved both hands, seemingly adjusting the device’s position.

When the position was roughly determined, Song Qi lightly clenched his fist while running, and the first stone exploded, continuing to send the remaining two stones and the signal flare higher into the sky.

At this point, the hair tie was almost completely blown apart, only lightly binding the stones and signal flare together, looking precarious.

Song Qi made an immediate decision, then ignited the second and third stones in succession. Under the close-range “deflagration,” the signal flare instantly gained tremendous kinetic energy and sped toward the direction Ma Twelve had fixed.

“Seventh Brother! The position is about right!”

The two looked up at the sky. After confirming the general position, Song Qi extended his hand from afar and clenched it, detonating the signal flare high in the air.

The signal flare had already been blown to pieces. The slight “deflagration” caused the smoke inside to instantly burst forth.

A blood-red waterfall of smoke powder began to flow down through the air, pointing toward Zhu Que’s coordinates.

“Good thing it succeeded…” Song Qi said. “Twelve, have you noticed a problem…?”

“What?”

“I don’t know if it’s my imagination.” Song Qi said. “Today, the success rate of everyone in ‘Cat’ activating their ‘Echoes’ has been very high.”

“You mean…”

“In the past, could you and I have performed ‘Displacement’ and ‘Deflagration’ at this distance?”

“Maybe we’ve grown?” Ma Twelve said.

“It’s also possible it’s just good luck.” Song Qi said. “I hope this good luck can continue until Zhu Que dies here.”

……

Zhu Que and Zhoumo simultaneously looked up toward the sky. A golden-glittering red smoke rain began to fall above their heads.

“That’s… that’s great…” Zhoumo murmured.

“Great…?” Zhu Que showed a smile, lowering his head to look at Zhoumo. “Do you know the difference between me and Xuanwu?”

After hearing this, Zhoumo furrowed her brow and instinctively took a step backward.

“I don’t have ‘Immortality,’ so I absolutely cannot take risks.”

Zhu Que smiled and opened his mouth. A sinister gaze emanated from deep within his mouth.

Seeing this, Earth-Pig hurriedly ran forward several steps. At the critical moment, Zhu Que had already extended his hand to stab toward Zhoumo’s chest.

In almost a single breath, Earth-Pig reached out and grabbed Zhoumo’s arm, forcefully pulling her back, then flew up with a kick toward Zhu Que.

In the next breath, Zhu Que disappeared from his original position, flashing to appear behind Earth-Pig, then fiercely swung down with a claw. The suit on Earth-Pig’s back was completely torn apart, revealing four deep bloody marks.

At this moment, Zhoumo also fell heavily to the ground. After all, this was a pull from an “Earth-Level Zodiac”—ordinary people simply couldn’t resist this powerful force.

Under Zhu Que’s powerful attack, Earth-Pig collapsed to the ground. He wanted to reach out and cover his bleeding back, but could never touch the wounds.

“What a robust body.” Zhu Que said. “It still wasn’t torn to shreds?”

“I’ve just realized…” Earth-Pig coughed several times and spoke. “The power of a ‘Divine Beast’ is merely so-so…”

“Talking tough.” Zhu Que grinned and smiled. “Forgot to tell you—actually, you had a chance for promotion. Last night, ‘Heavenly-Pig’ died.”

“What…” After hearing this, Earth-Pig was slightly stunned.

“Perhaps for so many years you couldn’t see any hope of promotion, but now there is.” Zhu Que helplessly raised his hand and began using his other hand to pick at the shredded flesh in his fingernails. “How ironic, right? After finally making up your mind to start a rebellion, it happens to be right after you gained a promotion opportunity.”

“A mere ‘promotion’… don’t underestimate our agreement…” Earth-Pig slowly climbed up from the ground, simply tearing the entire suit from his body, and turned to look at Zhoumo. “‘Telepathic Voice’ lady, I will protect you until your teammates arrive.”

“‘Telepathic Voice’…?” After hearing this, Zhoumo looked slightly confused. “How did you know?”

“Because I touched you.” Earth-Pig said. “Unfortunately, people I’ve touched or who have touched me… I’ll know the ‘Immortal Techniques’ on their bodies…”

After hearing this, Zhu Que was slightly stunned: “You…”

Earth-Pig extended a finger with a long nail on it.

“The reason I’ve let my nails grow this long is to avoid touching others as much as possible. Otherwise, my ‘Spirit Touch’ would be exposed.” Earth-Pig smiled. “Zhu Que, did you never think your trump card would be exposed so early?”

After hearing this, Zhu Que slowly widened his eyes. It seemed that “exposing his trump card” meant he had already lost.

He immediately made a decision—as long as he could tear Earth-Pig to shreds before he could speak, so what if he had “Spirit Touch”?

With this thought, in the next second Zhu Que vanished from his position again, directly grasping Earth-Pig’s throat from behind.