While White Snake was searching for his method of death, Jiang Ruoxue and I hurriedly left the game venue.

“Ruoxue… were you serious just now?” I asked, holding the manga book.

“More or less,” Jiang Ruoxue answered.

“But will he die that easily?” I asked again.

“It’s precisely because both he and I know that Earth-level Zodiacs can’t possibly die that easily that this idea is reasonable,” Jiang Ruoxue replied. “As long as he can’t die, he’ll realize he’s different from normal people. Injuries that can kill normal people can’t kill him, and things that make normal people feel sad shouldn’t make him feel sad either.”

“Huh…?” I was a bit stunned. “This works too? Are you secretly using ‘Causality’ again?”

“This isn’t my ‘Causality,’ but his own ‘Causality,'” Jiang Ruoxue answered. “It’s getting dark. Let’s find a place to rest, and we’ll go find Baiyang first thing tomorrow morning.”

Jiang Ruoxue and I simply rested for the night in a dilapidated building by the roadside. As soon as the sun climbed into the sky the next day, we hurried toward Baiyang’s location.

Normally, at this kind of early morning hour, there shouldn’t be any participants on the streets, but after walking for only ten minutes, we found a figure standing in the middle of the road, moving her muscles and bones with very exaggerated motions.

She seemed to be… doing morning exercises?

Who would stand in the middle of the road doing morning exercises at dawn?

“One, two, three, four… two, two, three, four…” That person had her back to us, muttering softly.

Jiang Ruoxue was slightly startled when she saw that figure, then mumbled, “She looks familiar.”

“You know her?” I asked.

“She seems to be one of our own.”

Only then did I notice this was an auntie about fifty years old. Her figure had already become somewhat bloated, but her mental state looked quite good.

“Oh my?” After seeing Jiang Ruoxue, she raised her eyebrows. “Isn’t this Little Jiang? Child… what are you doing here?”

“Long live the Extreme Path, Auntie Tong,” Jiang Ruoxue said with a smile.

“Long live, may everyone’s faith live for ten thousand years,” Auntie Tong replied with a smile.

I noticed this auntie was wearing both a cross and Buddhist prayer beads around her neck—her faith seemed a bit mixed.

“Zhichun, let me introduce you. This is a very interesting auntie,” Jiang Ruoxue said with a smile. “She believes in all the faiths in this world. That day, she was the one who chased after me to join the ‘Extreme Path,’ since after all, the ‘Extreme Path’ is also a faith.”

“Believes in all faiths…?” I found it a bit absurd. Wouldn’t that mean she believed in nothing at all?

“That’s right,” Auntie Tong said while twisting her body. “Child, are you also ‘Extreme Path’? Since you believe in the ‘Extreme Path,’ would you consider also believing in Taoism, Buddhism, Catholicism, Allah, and Christianity?”

After hearing this, I nearly broke down. Could all these things really be believed in together?

Moreover, when did our “Extreme Path” become a religion?

“Auntie Tong, our Zhichun won’t be believing in those,” Jiang Ruoxue declined on my behalf. “Spare her—the ‘Extreme Path’ alone is enough to keep her busy.”

“Oh my, that’s fine too,” Auntie Tong nodded. “Everyone has the freedom to choose their faith. Children, where are you heading?”

“We need to handle something,” Jiang Ruoxue said. “It’s a matter for the ‘Extreme Path’ itself.”

“I’m also ‘Extreme Path,'” Auntie Tong said. “I’ll go with you.”

“Ah?”

After hearing this, I hurriedly waved my hands. Having one strange person like Jiang Ruoxue around me was enough. If we added Auntie Tong, I would really feel socially dead when facing Baiyang…

“That’s great!” Jiang Ruoxue agreed. “The more people, the greater the strength! Come with us, Auntie Tong!”

“Oh my!” Auntie Tong looked very happy. “Wonderful, I can finally do something for the ‘Extreme Path.'”

I didn’t even know what was happening… The three of us actually set off together.

Baiyang shouldn’t blame me, right? The people I was bringing to see him… seemed to increase day by day.

Although I felt this wasn’t good, Jiang Ruoxue told me “everything is causality”—we only needed to let all things take their natural course.

I felt what she said seemed to make some sense, but also felt something was off about it…

When we saw Baiyang, he was standing at the entrance to his venue. Just as I had guessed, he wouldn’t stare at the mirror in the morning—he was just talking to himself.

“Hey!” Jiang Ruoxue waved her hand from afar.

Baiyang heard the noise and turned his head to look at us. After discovering that three people had come, he quickly frowned.

“Is this some kind of tourist attraction?” Baiyang asked.

“No, no, no,” Jiang Ruoxue shook her head. “This is our teammate. You can call her Auntie Tong.”

“Skip the introduction,” Baiyang said. “I’m not interested in her. Did you find the cartoon character?”

“We found it,” I took out the manga book from behind me and handed it to Baiyang.

“This is the only one we could find,” Jiang Ruoxue also interjected from the side. “It’s really difficult to find a complete cartoon character in this kind of place.”

Baiyang lowered his head and opened the manga book. This was an old-style manga without color, purely drawn with lines. He didn’t look at the content—he just quickly flipped through a few pages and soon locked onto a female manga character.

He stared at that character for a few seconds, then slowly closed his eyes.

One minute later, he suddenly opened his eyes, and the manga book in his hand fell to the ground.

“What… happened?” I felt the situation wasn’t good.

“It won’t work…” Baiyang said. “A completely distorted face composed of lines makes me feel even more terrified. At least without a face, she still seemed like an incomplete person, but if she had this kind of face, she would truly be a monster… This really won’t work.”

I clearly saw a trace of cold sweat flow down from Qi Xia’s forehead.

Jiang Ruoxue and I looked at each other. We knew what Baiyang meant wasn’t that this manga book wouldn’t work, but that all “cartoon characters” wouldn’t work.

But then how could we create this face out of thin air?

Before Jiang Ruoxue and I could come up with an idea, Auntie Tong beside us slowly walked forward a step and asked:

“Child, have you encountered some difficulty?”

“I’m sorry, I don’t know you,” Baiyang answered decisively. “This matter has nothing to do with you.”

“No, no, no… oh my,” Auntie Tong continued walking forward, then spoke. “All of us are brothers and sisters. We are children of the same person… We should help each other here.”

“Interesting,” Baiyang sneered. “You look like you’re about to retire, yet you’re a child of the same person as me?”

“Child…” Auntie Tong seemed completely immune to Baiyang’s attacks, only walking forward with a kind expression on her face.

When she was only one step away from Baiyang, she reached out and placed her hand on Baiyang’s chest, then said in a deep voice:

“Although I don’t know what difficulty you’ve encountered, child… if you want to achieve your wish, you must cast aside the lingering thoughts in your heart.”