Transmigrated As A Cannon Fodder Sacrifice, I Tricked An Evil God Into Becoming My Live-In Husband - Chapter 9

The words struck Zheng Qiuyu like a thunderbolt, exploding in her mind. The color drained from her face with alarming speed, leaving her pale as death.

It’s over.

Only those two words echoed in her mind, buzzing like a swarm of bees.

The secret she had most feared, most dreaded, and most desperately avoided had been exposed before Zhuohuo in the most brutal way imaginable.

A chilling sensation, as if stripped bare and exposed on a judgment platform, crawled from the soles of her feet to the crown of her head. Her fingertips turned icy.

The Divine General, his eyes burning with fury, locked his gaze on Zheng Qiuyu. He completely ignored the silver-haired man, whose aura was fading.

In his understanding, Mo Yuan, the War God’s guardian beast, obeyed only the War God himself. Yet now, this fiercely loyal beast was showing such affection toward a mortal woman, even defying the gods for her sake.

And this woman still carried the aura of Zhuohuo, the World-Destroying Evil God.

A terrifying thought began to take shape in his mind.

It’s her!

This vile Demoness must have used some dark, forbidden magic to steal the relics left behind by the fallen Lord of War.

She has defiled the War God’s aura and colluded with the sealed World-Destroying Evil God, plotting to seize control of Gui Xu for her own nefarious purposes!

At this realization, the Divine General’s chest burned with grief and rage, threatening to consume his reason entirely.

She was the War God he had worshipped, followed, and would have gladly died for!

Audacious Demoness!

His furious roar shook the entire Gui Xu to its core.

The golden spear in his hand erupted with divine flames, its tip aimed directly at Zheng Qiuyu.

What dark magic did you use to defile the residual aura of the War God’s Divine Soul?!

And you dare ally yourself with this World-Destroying Evil God?!

Today, I will act as Heaven’s executioner and obliterate your Divine Soul!

Overwhelming killing intent, like a tangible tidal wave, crashed toward Zheng Qiuyu.

The two words struck her Divine Soul like scorching-hot branding irons

War God!

Boom!

The searing pain in her mind instantly surpassed any she had ever endured.

Countless fragmented images flashed wildly through the depths of her consciousness

Hatred, as she sat high upon a divine throne, worshipped by countless gods.

In an endless sea of flowers, there was an unspeakable love for a blurred figure.

And the searing pain of a familiar golden spear piercing his chest.

Love, hatred, betrayal, slaughter…

All these emotions churned together like boiling magma, threatening to tear his Divine Soul apart.

He tried to grasp something, but found nothing to hold onto.

Ugh… ah…

Zhuohuo clutched his head, letting out a muffled groan of agony as he dropped to one knee.

He was trapped in an unprecedented torment, his body curling into itself, silver hair spilling across the ground, his entire frame trembling violently.

Zheng Qiuyu instinctively cast a desperate glance at him, her only lifeline.

But all she saw was his face contorted in pain, his eyes completely drowned in bl00d and chaos.

He couldn’t spare her a moment’s attention.

Zheng Qiuyu’s heart sank, bit by bit.

For the first time, she felt that this protective charm she had tricked him into becoming might fail.

Just then…

ROAR—!

Mo Yuan, the Void Devouring Beast who had been silently crouching at Zheng Qiuyu’s feet, sensed the Divine General’s undisguised murderous intent toward her.

It unleashed a furious roar, its mountain-sized body rising abruptly to shield Zheng Qiuyu behind it. Hundreds of compound eyes glowed crimson as it locked into a fierce confrontation with the Divine General.

Vile beast! the Divine General sneered, a flicker of pain crossing his eyes. Even you have betrayed the Lord of War?

His divine power erupted in a blinding golden radiance, somehow managing to suppress Mo Yuan’s terrifying aura with sheer force.

The two clashed in a battle of equals.

Meanwhile, the other divine soldiers behind the Divine General showed no hesitation.

Well-trained, they bypassed the terrifying battlefield and swiftly formed a deadly encirclement, converging from all directions on Zheng Qiuyu, whom they considered the mastermind.

A chilling killing intent sealed off all her escape routes.

Zheng Qiuyu’s limbs turned icy there was nowhere to run.

Almost instinctively, she activated every item the System had rewarded her with in a desperate flurry

Purification Formation Disk, Vajra Talisman, Substitute Straw Doll…

Lights flared one after another, only to shatter moments later.

Under the relentless assault of the divine soldiers, she fought desperately, her defenses crumbling under the onslaught.

A searing divine beam finally pierced through her last defenses.

The divine light expanded rapidly in her pupils, and for the first time, the shadow of death loomed over her with terrifying clarity.

She stood on the razor’s edge between life and death.

In the instant before the divine light was about to annihilate her on the spot,

Zhuohuo, curled up on the ground and writhing in agony, caught a glimpse of the scene from the corner of his eye.

He saw the petite figure about to be devoured by the divine light.

He saw the terror and despair that lingered on her face, too late to fade.

The overwhelming hatred for the War God still raged in his mind.

But within his body, a more primal, more profound, utterly irrational instinct erupted, violently overriding everything else!

Protect her.

No one is allowed to harm her.

This thought wasn’t born of reason it surged savagely from the deepest recesses of his shattered Divine Soul.

Don’t… you dare…

Each word was forced out as if squeezed through clenched teeth.

…touch her!

A roar, suppressed to its breaking point, erupted from Zhuohuo’s throat like a thunderclap echoing from the abyss.

His berserk rage wasn’t fueled by the Divine General’s accusation of betrayal.

Nor was it driven by the laughable resentment of a cuckold.

It was a primal, uncontrollable instinct—one even he couldn’t comprehend—to protect her from anyone who dared use that name or her past to harm her.

Accompanying this furious roar, a deafening, crystalline crack echoed from within his body.

The sound seemed to pierce through the ages.

The first of the Heavenly Dao Shackles that had bound him for millennia shattered.

An aura of terrifying power erupted from him, far surpassing anything he had ever unleashed before—enough to darken the heavens and shake the earth.

The shattering sound didn’t originate from the outside world.

It came from within Zhuohuo’s very being, piercing through his Divine Soul and reverberating through eternity.

The oppressive force, no longer a mere trickle, surged forth like a dam bursting.

The entire Guixu Divine Prison trembled violently under this unleashed power.

The ground, as unyielding as divine iron, cracked inch by inch.

The air, stagnant for ten thousand years, was whipped into a raging hurricane.

The divine soldiers, who had formed battle formations and were about to strike Zheng Qiuyu with lethal force, froze mid-motion.

Their faces still contorted in ferocious battle grimaces, but their eyes were now filled with an incomprehensible terror.

Like ants caught in the gaze of a predator, even their Divine Souls seemed to freeze under this overwhelming pressure.

Zhuohuo didn’t even rise to his feet.

He remained kneeling on one knee, curled up in agony.

Slowly, he lifted his bl00d-red eyes.

The clarity and confusion that had lingered after his training were gone.

The turmoil and struggle triggered by the title War God had vanished.

Only an absolute indifference remained, a gaze that regarded all creation as mere dust.

His gaze swept lightly over the divine soldiers attacking Zheng Qiuyu.

In the next instant, golden Divine Fire ignited silently upon them.

They didn’t even have time to scream.

Within that pure, annihilating flame, they were reduced to ash without a sound, leaving not a trace of their existence.

The Divine General, locked in combat with Mo Yuan, turned back in horror.

He witnessed a scene he would never forget for the rest of his life.

The silver-haired man still knelt in the distance, while his comrades, his proud battle companions, had become drifting dust.

This was no longer the Crippled God, sealed for ten thousand years with a shattered divine core.

This was no longer the prisoner who needed a woman’s life force to survive.

This was…

This was the World-Destroying Evil God from the ancient era, the one who single-handedly slaughtered an entire pantheon!

He had returned.

Your… your seal…

The Divine General’s voice trembled, his words incoherent with terror.

The divine flames burning on his spear dimmed to a flicker.

His will to fight had been utterly crushed.

Zhuohuo ignored him, as if the once-invincible Divine General were nothing more than an annoying speck of dust.

He staggered to his feet.

One step.

Another.

He moved toward Zheng Qiuyu, who stood unharmed but paralyzed with fear.

In his eyes, the madness of utter destruction and an obsessive, singular devotion to her swirled into a chaotic crimson vortex.

Zheng Qiuyu watched him approach, her heart pounding so hard it felt like it would stop.

She had no idea what Zhuohuo, in this state, would do to her.

Zhuohuo stopped before her.

His voice rasped, each word deliberate and strained.

The voice seemed to be forced out from the depths of his shattered Divine Soul.

I told you… no one… will take her.

Before the words had even finished echoing, he disregarded Zheng Qiuyu’s reaction and swept her up into his arms, carrying her horizontally.

The movement was rough, filled with an undeniable possessiveness.

Then, he turned.

Facing the Guixu Divine Prison’s most impenetrable spatial barrier—the ten-thousand-year-old cage that even a God-King could barely shake.

With swift, decisive force, he threw a punch!

BOOM—!!!

The entire Gui Xu shuddered, groaning under the unbearable strain.

The indestructible spatial barrier shattered under the force of that single blow, leaving a colossal breach.

Beyond the breach lay another world.

For the first time, the light of the Human Realm pierced through into this eternally desolate land.

Fresh air, carrying the scent of earth and vegetation, surged into this prison of despair for the first time.

Zhuohuo, still holding Zheng Qiuyu, paused on the threshold of the breach.

He turned and cast a cold glance at the Divine General, who stood frozen in shock.

The look contained no threat, no warning.

Only a pure statement of fact

Appear again, and you will die.

Having forcibly broken the first Heavenly Dao Shackles and unleashed that world-shattering punch, he had exhausted all the power unleashed upon his release.

The moment he stepped into the Human Realm, Zhuohuo could no longer sustain himself.

Darkness enveloped his vision, and he plummeted from the sky, Zheng Qiuyu still clutched in his arms, falling into a deep, injury-induced slumber.

Ah—!

The sudden weightlessness made Zheng Qiuyu let out a sharp cry.

She clung tightly to the unconscious man in her arms, letting the gale tear at her hair and clothes.

Finally, they crashed heavily into an unfamiliar mountain forest, snapping countless branches in their descent.