In the Cancerous Universe, life had no end. After death, all things remained.
But was there really no way to kill certain people completely?
The answer was no.
Here, endless life came from the blessings of the Old Ones. It was the love they bestowed upon all living beings.
And if they wanted to deal with someone, they only needed to return that love to its giver.
Put simply, they just had to round up the monsters they wanted dead and collectively sacrifice them to the deities lurking within the Old Shadows.
The gods of Chaos were not particularly picky. If someone offered them a gift, they would accept it, then randomly grant something in return to the sacrificer. It might be a blessing, or it might be a curse, though more often than not, it was a curse called a blessing.
Su Ming did not want the Old Ones' blessings. Even if Doom and Professor Xu were the ones carrying out the procedure, he did not want anything to happen to them.
Although Doom often managed to fleece the Eye Demon while remaining lucid and sane, luck would not always stay by one person's side.
As for Xu Xian, although her Elemental Form was useful, it was still not enough in the face of the Old Ones.
If they sacrificed living beings to Old Ones like Cthulhu or Hastur and those beings sent back some kind of "benefit," that would be bad. After all, no defensive spell had been designed to ward off buffs.
There was only one safe target for sacrifice that Su Ming could think of, and because of that, he had long seen through the other party's entire scheme.
Was he merely watching the show? No, it was more like colluding with outsiders to steal from