Let them offer their loyalty!

In Qin Shuman's report, Zhao Ji's actions this time were clearly very unusual, completely different from the previous invasions by evil gods.

Previously, if an evil god took an interest in a place, they would most likely engage in fierce battle with the evil god of that region directly.

The victor would extend their domain, enveloping the region corresponding to the city in the "Boundless Heart Sea," and begin to infiltrate their power.

Even if an evil god of a certain region were to suddenly fall, creating a power vacuum in that area, the first arriving evil god would typically claim it directly.

After all, evil gods are not the same as ordinary Cataclysmic Creatures. Their sources of power come not only from practicing their own "Path," but also from two other major channels.

One is harvesting the faith of followers; the other is controlling regions in the "Boundless Heart Sea."

The "Boundless Heart Sea" is the world of the mind, and all the splendor within this world is shaped by the thoughts and musings of the beings from the real world.

Thus, the world is power itself!

The more regions of the Boundless Heart Sea one controls, the stronger one's power becomes.

So, if Larilo truly fell, then as an evil god, Zhao Ji would definitely start to infiltrate and seize the region of Xinjie City.

But she did not do so; she merely glanced at it, left her aura, and then departed.

Her actions seemed less like she wanted to occupy Xinjie City and more like she was deterring other evil gods.

Later, combining the intelligence from the Eastern City Investigation Bureau that "Larilo and Zhao Ji are very likely to be related," Qin Shuman deduced that although Larilo had fallen, she probably wasn't dead.
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She was likely clinging to consciousness and a sliver of her soul, struggling to survive.

Qin Shuman reasoned that Zhao Ji came to Xinjie City probably because she discovered Larilo's fall and wanted to check on it.

If Larilo was truly dead, she would have taken over Xinjie City.

But now, discovering that Larilo hadn't fallen, she left her own aura to deter surrounding evil gods, covered for Larilo, and then left on her own.

Qin Shuman's deductions were well-founded.

Therefore, most of the higher-ups agreed with this investigative report. This also allowed them to relax a bit.

After all, having just taken down a Larilo, if another Zhao Ji were to arrive, the hearts of Xinjie City's upper echelons would probably be in their throats again!

Now, with Zhao Ji's invasion unlikely in the short term, they could breathe a little easier.

However, what nobody knew was that Qin Shuman's report actually... had two versions....

The first version was the one submitted to the higher-ups of the three major institutions of Xinjie City.

The second version was only submitted to Dai Yukang, the head of the Security Department, and..... secretly copied and given to Qiu Tu.

The second version of the report was largely the same as the first.

But at the end, Qin Shuman daringly proposed a "fighting evil gods with an evil god" strategy.

She believed that since Larilo was now weak and had the protection of the Great Evil God Zhao Ji,

Then... could they not secretly find Larilo, then control her?

Prevent her from recovering, yet not let her perish completely.

By using the existence of her remaining aura, they could have Zhao Ji come by occasionally to spread her aura, deterring other evil gods.

As a result, Xinjie City might enjoy an unprecedentedly peaceful era free from evil god corruption.

And what's more crucial, the area corresponding to Xinjie City in the Yinxin Sea would be temporarily without a master.

For the portions of the "Boundless Heart Sea" already dominated by evil gods, this was an extremely rare state.

Thus, the Security Department could absolutely apply to the Sanctuary.

Requesting the Sanctuary to allocate experts, technicians, and some high-level Fourth-order Catastrophe-evolvers to jointly study this region.

To discover the secrets of the origin of the "Boundless Heart Sea," the source of Catastrophe Power.

And also... to investigate whether human catastrophe-evolvers could control regions like evil gods, enhancing their own powers!

Although all the major Sanctuaries had been researching this topic for the past two years, due to the rarity of opportunities like the one presented by Xinjie City, progress had been consistently slow.

The higher ranking Sanctuaries with stronger capabilities could even establish a foothold in the "Boundless Heart Sea" amidst evil gods to conduct research.

But the lower ranking Sanctuaries had absolutely no chance at all.

And now, the chance had come for the Eighth Sanctuary!

The second version of Qin Shuman's report was both bold and feasible,

Keenly seizing this once-in-a-millennium opportunity.

So when Qiu Tu arrived at the Investigation Bureau the next day, and read Qin Shuman's report in his office, he was immediately impressed by her ingenious idea.

However, he clearly identified two key issues with the plan.

So after carefully studying the report, he set it aside, locked his office door, and then took out a specially made Communicator to phone Qin Shuman.

"Beep.... Beep..... Beep....."

Qin Shuman was obviously busy on the other end, so the phone kept ringing seven or eight times without being answered.

Qiu Tu was not in a hurry; he knew that after the incident of Zhao Ji's nocturnal raid on Xinjie City last night, Qin Shuman, as the head of the Security Department's intelligence system, must be extremely busy now.

So he hangs up the call, patiently waiting for Qin Shuman's response.