Chen Cheng showed those old men no mercy. He directly used Her in his hand as a weapon and swung him at the old men charging forward.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Amid several cries of pain, Chen Cheng knocked all dozen or so old men to the ground with a single swing.
"St-Stop, Your Majesty. Do not harm the venerables."
Her forced the words out from his throat.
Chen Cheng merely snorted.
"Do you really think they care that much about you? Once I pull the Evil God out of your body, you can see whether these old geezers will still care whether you live or die."
Hearing that Chen Cheng intended to remove the True God within Her, these frail old men all struggled to prop themselves up and stop him.
"Your Majesty, if you remove the God-Controlling from within me and the apocalypse truly descends upon the Present World, what will you do then?"
There was almost no struggle visible on Her's face. He merely stared straight at Chen Cheng and squeezed out the question.
"Whether disaster comes tomorrow, whether the end of the world arrives—those are unknowns belonging to tomorrow."
"What I know now is that you are summoning an Evil God. This kind of act of meddling with gods is an absolute taboo. Failing to stop you would be the true stupidity."
Chen Cheng's voice was resolute, because he knew that no matter how wonderful the future might be, if it required people in the present to bear suffering by force without a choice, then such a future could never truly be wonderful.
Her stopped moving. Everyone watched as a deity rose behind Chen Cheng.
The deity wore a kindly expression with its eyes closed, its feet planted on yellow earth. It stretched out a hand and