Once, I wanted to be a good person

Thinking this way, Fang Ze directly sat on the chair made of black jade, then began to ponder and organize his demigod capture plan.

Within the demigod capture plan, the most important aspect is, of course, the selection of the demigod to capture.

Among the seven enemy demigods, excluding the three whose true bodies have descended and the successfully captured Dahei Jialuo, Fang Ze's choices are left to three demigods who sent avatars: Liu Shui, Rakshasa, and Suo Luo.

Among these three, Suo Luo's true form is an Ascension demigod, with a clone strength of Yang Transformation Peak. Liu Shui and Rakshasa's true forms are Mortality-Shedding demigods, with clones of Yang Transformation level strength.

Comparatively speaking, for the first capture of a demigod, it is safer to choose one with a bit lower strength. So, Fang Ze's choices are narrowed down to Liu Shui and Rakshasa.

As for the intelligence on the demigods Liu Shui and Rakshasa, Fang Ze gathered some insights from Dahei Jialuo.

The demigod Liu Shui is somewhat akin to Dahei Jialuo, belonging to the type of demigod who uses their brain. This is apparent from his name.

Others have real names or names of significance, but Liu Shui's name is just a code... and this code is completely contrary to his abilities.

Though he is called Liu Shui, his abilities are all related to fire and are always shrouded in mystery.

Dahei Jialuo has known him for many years and worked with him several times, yet he has only ever seen Liu Shui use three abilities.

The first ability is a circular fire power. When a creature is burned by the fire, its body turns into a doll. However, what Liu Shui does with the dolls remains unknown because he never displays his subsequent abilities publicly.

The power of this ability also lies in the fact that it is not a single-target skill but can be used on groups.

During the last world destruction, Liu Shui's true form descended and used this ability to set fire to a city, turning hundreds of thousands of citizens into dolls, showcasing the might of this power.

Apart from the first ability, Liu Shui's second power is an auxiliary type.

Upon using this ability, Liu Shui's nose can spray out two fire dragons that capture and burn the scent of nearby creatures.

As long as the creature appears in the area within a day, Liu Shui can acquire intelligence related to it through the scent burned by the fire dragons.

The third ability is an offensive power. Once this ability is used, Liu Shui can transform into a Fire Person, burning the surrounding Power of Laws and souls to enhance his strength.

When in the Fire Person state, he has no vulnerabilities, physical attacks are ineffective, and his strength can continually increase. Given enough time, his power can grow to rival an Ascension tier demigod.

Aside from these three abilities, Dahei Jialuo and the others are unaware of any of his other powers.

Indeed, Dahei Jialuo and the others have speculated that considering Liu Shui's character, the three abilities he revealed might not even be his true abilities, or at least not all. It's highly possible that these abilities are disguised with Extraordinary Artifacts.

Ultimately, although Liu Shui is clearly one of the weakest demigods within the Yuan Gu lineage, he remains hard for them to understand fully.

In Dahei Jialuo's words, he doesn't understand why Liu Shui joined their lineage, as they act quite openly and candidly.

Upon hearing Dahei Jialuo's query, Fang Ze nodded without emotion, expressing agreement: Hmm. Your lineage is indeed very open and honest...

Compared to Liu Shui, Rakshasa is much simpler.

According to Dahei Jialuo's explanation, Rakshasa is a Martial Combat demigod. Although she possesses extraordinary beauty and alluring grace, it's all a facade. In truth, she is like a nimble leopard, full of explosive power.

She is not only proficient in various Martial Skills and weapons but her abilities are all related to close combat, enhancing her physical attributes, combat power, and defensive power. It can be said that her body is her most formidable Artifact!

Among Rakshasa's seven abilities, the most crucial one is named Six-Armed Rakshasa.

This power can be combined with her Dharma Aspect. Once activated, her body will rapidly expand to about two meters, grow six arms, and her speed, strength, and defensive power will be significantly enhanced.

Though Rakshasa has never brought her true form into the Real World due to her strength limitations, she has demonstrated her power on the Spirit Realm battlefield.

Once she initiates close combat and bursts forth, even two or three same-tier demigods need to avoid her.

However, this aggressive approach results in her combat strength being unsustainable and makes her particularly vulnerable to being kited...

After recalling the details of the two targets, Fang Ze began considering whom to confront first.

Actually, from a safety perspective, Fang Ze is more inclined to choose Liu Shui. After all, most of Liu Shui's powers are auxiliary types, and his direct combat ability is average.

Even the "Fire Person" mode relies on time accumulation, so its immediate combat power is limited.

However... from a safety standpoint: Demigods like Liu Shui, with unfathomable abilities and deep concealment, are indeed too dangerous.

If his abilities are special or he has some kind of life-saving trump card, the situation could become extremely troublesome.

In contrast, the Martial Combat demigod Rakshasa is more straightforward. If choosing her, as long as she can be defeated in direct combat, other worries aren't necessary.

With three or four trustworthy Mortality-Shedding tier experts by Fang Ze's side, defeating a demigod clone of only Yang Transformation tier strength remains relatively easy.

Moreover, Fang Ze himself has also stepped into the Mortality-Shedding tier, possessing the defensive-power MAX Golden Bell Dharma Aspect, effectively countering close combat, making Fang Ze lean more towards choosing Rakshasa.

However, selecting Rakshasa isn't without drawbacks.

The main downside is, given Rakshasa's Martial Combat nature, would she in a desperate moment recklessly burn her clone to borrow the true body's power?

As a last resort for demigod avatars in the Real World, summoning the true body's power is not something demigods would use lightly.

While this method permits temporarily borrowing the true body's strength, the consumption incurred is extraordinarily significant.

Power cannot be born out of nothing, nor can it vanish into thin air. When power penetrates layer after layer of space barriers to be transmitted to the Real World, it will inevitably decay rapidly. Therefore, to borrow the power of the True Body, besides directly consuming the Demigod's Clone, each unit of power borrowed in the Real World requires the Demigod to "pay" nearly fifty times the power in the Outer Realm. That's a fiftyfold consumption!

The result of this is that once power is borrowed, the Demigod's True Body will enter a period of weakness in a short time, greatly increasing the danger and significantly reducing the lifespan.

It is precisely because of these limitations that Dahei Jialuo chose to self-destruct rather than summon the True Body's power when surrounded by Fang Ze: the cost of summoning the True Body is far greater than self-destruction. Fang Ze also has teleportation abilities, and even if the True Body's power were summoned, it might not catch him.

However, Dahei Jialuo's choice stems from his cunning and shrewdness, which does not mean the Rakshasa would make the same choice.

If the Rakshasa loses its head in battle or becomes bloodthirsty, willing to pay any price to summon the True Body's power and win the battle, then Fang Ze would truly suffer a great loss...

After all, Fang Ze aims to imprison these Demigods to preserve their complete combat power and their ability to summon the True Body's power, which can be used to deal with the Demigod's True Body when it descends.

For this reason alone, Fang Ze must not allow the Rakshasa to burn its Clone and summon the True Body's power. Furthermore, he must do his utmost to prevent the Rakshasa from self-destructing.

Even if the Rakshasa self-destructs, Fang Ze can still trap her. However, once the Rakshasa self-destructs, she becomes a "waste" like Dahei Jialuo.

The weakened Divine Soul post-self-destruction cannot summon the Demigod's True Body power, so besides acquiring another Demigod consciousness, Fang Ze would still be unable to execute his plan.

Thinking of this, Fang Ze, sitting in the black jade chair, closed his eyes and began to recall the powers he mastered, piecing together a perfect method to solve these two issues...

Just like that, time passed second by second.

Two hours later, Fang Ze slowly opened his eyes, filled with confidence and determination!

.....

Rakshasa is not a name or just a name. Strictly speaking, it is actually a race.

The Federation's "Outer Realm Creatures Compendium" once recorded this race: Rakshasa, also known as evil spirits. Males are extremely ugly, females are very beautiful, they all consume the flesh and blood of living creatures. They can fly in the sky, move on the ground, have multiple arms, and are astonishingly swift and terrifying.

In worlds unknown in number, prior to the Human Race's world, Rakshasa was also one of the eras' protagonists, living in the Real World of their time.

Later, when that world was breached by Outer Realm Demigods, the world was destroyed, and 99% of the Rakshasa lineage perished with the world. Only "Rakshasa," this Demigod, survived with her followers. Therefore, on the day the world was destroyed, she changed her name to "Rakshasa" to remind herself not to forget her race and to do everything in her power to end the reincarnation cycle, allowing her race to live once more in this world.

However, though the wish is beautiful, the reality is harsh.

The passage of time is even more unforgiving than reality....

With each world reincarnation, with each failure, with the passage of hundreds and thousands of years, Rakshasa gradually realized she had changed.

Achieving Godhood is too difficult... ending the cycle of reincarnation is too difficult; reviving her race is too difficult. She struggled to survive in the crevices of time and worlds, sinking into the destruction of other creatures' worlds, time and again...

After hundreds and thousands of years, whenever she occasionally recalled her hometown or her world, she found she had already forgotten what it was like. Even her parents and children had become mere vague impressions...

Thus, gradually, she became weary. She stopped actively descending and fighting, preferring to slumber in the Yuan Gu Demigod's secret realm, consuming her lifespan of unknown years, draining her endless, curse-like lifespan...

Occasionally, with the descent of a new world, Yuan Gu would awaken her, asking her to exert her strength. At those times, she would send down a Clone, indulging in the new world, enjoying, killing—these moments were both her happiest and emptiest.

This time was no exception. After conquering Taihe City, she indulged in a binge of slaughter and indulgence!

But after the indulgence in slaughter, she became infinitely empty once more. So she had her Believers find her a luxuriously decorated mansion to reside in and then... fell into a deep sleep.

Unaware of how long she slept—a few minutes or perhaps a few hours—Rakshasa suddenly jolted awake from her dream! Her thousands of years of battle experience instinctively triggered a strong premonition in her heart!

Without even clearing her mind, she reflexively flipped up, bent down, and roared angrily. Her two wide flesh wings tore through her clothes at the back and sprang out, enveloping her entire body!

Simultaneously, a massive Ice Crystal Phoenix descended from the sky, striking her flesh wings fiercely!

In that instant, Rakshasa felt a sharp pain rush over, but the pain came quickly and left quickly as well, for in just one second, her entire body was encased in ice, rendering her immobile and senseless!

For a fleeting moment, even the battle-hardened Rakshasa felt a flash of panic. However, the ordeal was not yet over. Along with her freezing solid, a thunderous cow's moo resounded from behind her!

"Moo!"

Along with that moo, Rakshasa only felt a giant foot slam down on her!

A terrifying power, accompanied by pulsating waves, transmitted through her body!

In that moment, though her entire body was frozen, her spine seemed to bear pressure beyond its limit, emitting cracking sounds!

Before she could even react, her spine fractured inch by inch! And this breakage, carrying that tremendous force, spread to her other bones!

Rakshasa knew she couldn't wait any longer.

Any longer, and this Clone would certainly be left behind here! So, she gritted her teeth against the severe pain and suppressed the nearly extinguished cold that overtook her body before shouting and using her Dharma Aspect and ability, "Six-Armed Rakshasa!"

The moment she activated her ability, she finally regained sensation in her body. Her clothes burst apart piece by piece as her body soared over two meters tall, sprouting four sturdy arms on the sides before staking against the giant foot with her original hands and wings!

A powerful Dharma Aspect combined with her ability finally gave Rakshasa a moment to breathe!

But it was at this moment that a sudden whistling sound split the air. Before Rakshasa could discern what was happening, she felt a sharp pain shoot through her six arms, wings, and legs!

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The next chapter, Chapter 246, will be updated around 2 AM on January 7th in the "Starting Point" app. Looking forward to seeing you all~