My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit

Xue Dili didn’t even need to say much to the Mimic Venerable King; at this point the entire Mimic Venerable King had already taken this place as a reference point and started searching for all similar regions, while also beginning to lock onto the traces of the Seventh Apostle.

This time Xue Dili honestly felt like he was carrying an ultimate hard‑carrying teammate; it had never been this easy before. The Mimic Venerable King handled intel, and Xue Dili only needed to try poking at the mechanics—maybe he wouldn’t even need to bother with those.

They could just speedrun the whole way through.

As an old speedrunning hand, Xue Dili absolutely loved this kind of stat line. He didn’t嫌弃 low numbers; in fact, he felt his stats weren’t low enough.

With stats in hand, there was no need to follow any plot. He could just brute‑force all the way to the end.

Right then he instantly caught a piece of information that interested him—something called "Eerie."

The vibe was just too right. Xue Dili naturally thought of all those weird things from Susu’s hometown, and they were here in the first place because the corpse his mom fished up was connected to the Demons from Susu’s hometown, so they came over to take a look.

In that instant, the faces of these veteran tourists all showed expressions of fear. Even the three‑row‑toothed guy doing the explaining had terror on his face that didn’t look faked at all.

"All I can say is, that is a kind of Demon’s symbol. They come to slaughter us, and will do everything they can to stop us from completing our mission. But Heaven never completely shuts people out—there are rules in the dark that will restrict the Eeries’ slaughter, and those are our only way out. Alright, that’s all I can say, I have nothing else to add." He just gave a brief explanation, then stopped talking about the Eeries.

The other newbies all looked troubled, and the guy who’d been gagged was now purple in the face.

Rules... why does this sound so much like those freaky things from Susu’s hometown...

Right now Susu wasn’t playing on her phone either. She seemed to have just realized the "smell" here—it was very familiar...

"Brother Li, where the hell did you end up this time?" Susu asked.

"I might have found the origin place of the Demons." Xue Dili tried to put it in words Susu could understand.

"Huh? Aren’t Demons born in Hell?" That one line from the girl left Xue Dili speechless, but he still patiently explained his earlier speculations together with the Mimic Venerable King.

Susu instantly wasn’t sleepy anymore. She immediately said, "Brother Li, Brother Li, catch an Eerie for me to take a look at!"

She felt like she was back in business. Against other enemies she just felt bound hand and foot, with no way to handle them. But when it came to this kind of thing, Susu suddenly felt the clouds part and the rain stop—her current self was truly strong and invincible.

Against Demons, Susu could be called an absolute hard counter. Her Pure Land could eat any Demon like a little snack and digest their traits.

Even those Demon Kings back in Hell, like the Death Demon, Dark Demon, and the rest, went silent after being eaten by the Pure Land—though they all took a stacked storm blast right after being swallowed.

This ability was completely useless in the vast majority of places, but here it might actually produce some miraculous effect.

However, Xue Dili was also a bit confused. Counting the newbies, they only had nine people now. A whole Death cruise ship had only this many? Was the Seventh Apostle really that much of a good guy? As an Apostle, it only killed this few people each time?

Xue Dili felt like there was something wrong with his own way of thinking. He actually found himself thinking an Apostle that only killed a few people each run was "too kind." It was just that the previous bastard breeds were too many; faced with this kind of Apostle that "simply" killed people, Xue Dili even thought it looked pretty clean and delicate.

Besides, going by what that old traveler said, they only needed to do a Death cruise mission once every three months. Even if half the people died every three months, that was only five people. This kill efficiency was way too low. For all he knew, the Seventh Apostle’s KDA might not even be higher than his.

Xue Dili was silently roasting it in his heart; he even wanted to pick up the mirror again, activate the Divine Purification Demon Eye and check the tens of billions of heads currently hovering over his own.

"Don’t overthink it. Using this Death cruise ship as a reference, I probed the entire shallow layer of Subspace, and sure enough, I found countless regions hidden in the cracks." the Mimic Venerable King said at once.

Xue Dili: "Godlike."

Map hack?

He felt like he was in a MOBA match and some Old Deng had suddenly said, "Let me clear all the fog of war on the entire map for you."

This cheat was being toggled right in his face.

"It’s not as ’kind’ as you think. I found one Nightmare City, a dozen or so nightmare towns, over a hundred Hell Districts, more than three hundred eerie apartments, and several thousand weird scenarios like slaughter cinemas, Death cruise ships, nightmare trains, and so on... The Seventh Apostle’s raw strength is only so‑so, but it has practically taken control of all the cracks in the shallow layer of Subspace."

The Mimic Venerable King’s voice was very serious.

Subspace was just that kind of strange place. Without the corresponding coordinates and reference points, even if the Mimic Venerable King was right next to the space of this Death cruise ship, it might not sense that there was a strange region here at all.

So without anyone noticing, the Seventh Apostle had occupied a huge part of the area closest to the real world, turning it into its personal killing grounds. It dragged other people in and then triggered their fear, thereby satisfying the demands of its Authority.

Even the people who died weren’t wasted—they became fertilizer for the Divine Tree. You could say this Apostle achieved a two‑for‑one deal, making these people provide both fear for it and fertilizer for the Divine Tree.