On the other end of the phone came a faint "Mm," and then the call was cut off.

This meant the task assigned to Di Asura by the head of the Sequence had officially begun!

And sending the Empress out of Huaxia and handing her over to the Sequence was only the beginning of the mission!

What came next was the real centerpiece of the show!

Di Asura looked down at the Empress, slowly exhaled a turbid breath, then tapped his fingers on the armrest of the wheelchair a few times and said darkly, "Empress, do you know that your beloved Ye Huan broke my spine and destroyed my entire life?"

"You brought it on yourself, didn't you?" The Empress let out a soft laugh tinged with mockery.

"Yeah, I brought it on myself."

"If I hadn't made an enemy of Ye Huan, how would I have ended up like this?"

"Honestly, I really regret it. I regret provoking that kid. I am absolutely no match for this heaven-defying freak. Offending him is no different from digging my own grave."

After Di Asura lamented a few sentences, the corners of his mouth suddenly twisted into a hideous grin. His tone flipped as he roared, "But I, Di Asura, never admit defeat. I will not sink into oblivion like this! As the saying goes, 'A great calamity survived brings future blessings.' I will do my utmost to work for Ye Huan's enemies, seize a chance at rebirth, truly kill Ye Huan, complete my revenge, and wipe out my humiliation in one stroke!"

"To tell you the truth, I've already accepted a mysterious mission from a certain organization. The mission is to use you to step by step destroy the relationship between Ye Huan and the Di Family, make them kill each other, and then lure Ye Huan into a sure-death situation."

"And you are the bait!"

"Empress, I'm going to use you and Ye Huan, the two dogs' lives, to reshape my own life, fulfill my dreams, and truly stand at the pinnacle of the world…"

"No!!!" the Empress suddenly shouted. She gripped the iron bars with both hands, eyes brimming with tears, and pleaded, "Di Asura, you can take my life, but I beg you, don't use me as bait to hurt Ye Huan, okay? I'm really begging you!"

"Heh, what you say doesn't count."

Di Asura gave a derisive smile and raised his palm.

"Bang!!"

With that palm, striking through the bars like a mountain-cracking blow, the immense force crashed into the Empress's face through the iron grille. She was sent flying backward, slamming into the uneven wall behind. A large mouthful of blood spurted out, the back of her head smashed against the wall, and she passed out on the spot.

Di Asura waved a hand and ordered Xiao Yu behind him, "Take her away!"

Xiao Yu's face was full of reluctance and heartache, but thinking of Di Asura's threats, her body still trembled as she opened the gate of the cage in despair and carried the unconscious Empress onto her back.

"Remember what I said. Do the job properly. If there's any mistake in the plan, you're finished." Di Asura threatened again, then gave an address and told Xiao Yu to get the Empress there as fast as possible!

Taking advantage of the thick night, Xiao Yu left quickly with a heart full of tangled emotions and eyes full of tears.

Watching her and the Empress's departing backs, Di Asura's face showed the look of a plot succeeding. He sneered inwardly, "Ye Huan, just you wait. Your retribution will come soon enough! You were able to casually wreck the Di Family's thirty-year plan, and it's true your IQ crushes mine, but I want to see how you survive the sure-kill trap that the head of the Sequence personally prepared for you!"

"Your doomsday is almost here!"

Di Asura threw back his head and laughed loudly.

Little did he know, a kilometer away, a woman hiding behind a giant tree had witnessed this scene. Her expression was playful, and the curve at the corner of her lips was vicious to the extreme.

At the same time, the enchanting pink in her eyes was slowly dimming…

After she gave Di Asura a deep look, she twisted her voluptuous body and vanished into the night…

Half an hour later, a woman sneaked out of the Taihang Mountain forest and came to the door of a tile-roof house in a small town at the foot of the mountain.

"Mom, it's so late. Where did you go?" Hearing the sound of the door opening, Xiao Mingxuan rubbed his sleepy eyes and asked in confusion.

"Nothing, Mom had some business to take care of. Be good, go back to sleep."

Huang Yueshuang smiled dotingly. Her voice, full of seductive charm, seemed to carry a kind of magic.

Listening to her, Xiao Mingxuan drifted off into a dazed sleep.

Huang Yueshuang slowly stood up and walked to the window. Her gaze turned toward the East, and a strong playful look once again surfaced on her face…

...

"Ye Huan, that Robert from the Divine Hall of Wisdom under Athena, the one who led the raid on the Celestial Prison in the Capital City last time that you asked me to investigate—I've already dug up all his personal data. It's all in here. Take a look yourself."

Huaxia, Capital City, Eastern District.

Ye Huan was currently driving a Mercedes, taking Ling Shuang back to Tingxiang Pavilion, when a Hongqi sedan suddenly accelerated and pulled up alongside his Mercedes.

Then the window of the Hongqi rolled down. Ye Tiance, wearing sunglasses, said that line and then tossed a folder stamped with the words "Top Secret" through the window into Ye Huan's hands.

"Thanks." Ye Huan said, then shifted the topic and blinked. "By the way, can you convert part of the Celestial Prison into a laboratory, and help me contact those top-tier scientists you know so they can go study those monsters' physiology and all aspects of them? That'll help us a lot in understanding these creatures."

"Leave it to me."

Ye Tiance flashed an "OK" hand sign, rolled up the window, and slammed his foot on the accelerator.

The Hongqi shot forward in a sudden burst of speed and disappeared from sight in an instant.

The power was absolutely solid.

Domestic cars are just awesome!

While driving, Ye Huan opened the top-secret file bag, took out one of the documents, and began to read it carefully.

On this document, Robert's name, date of birth, and the major events of his life from childhood onward were prominently recorded.

Name: Robert Cullen.

Age: 29.

Sex: Male. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Besides the basic personal information, what followed was Robert's personal history.

But the "personal history" section was clearly a synthesis of intel gathered from various sources by the special services, from which key points were extracted and condensed.

The special services used a god's-eye view to detail Robert's path of growth!

Robert's past was extremely tragic. He was born in a low-income family in a small border town of a certain Western country, and his parents were cruelly exploited by unscrupulous capitalists in a sweatshop. They worked themselves to death at a young age, and in the end, the heavy responsibility of raising him fell on his grandmother.

His grandmother survived by scavenging and begging, raising Robert with unimaginable difficulty, but when Robert was fifteen, because of her years of hard toil she developed all sorts of chronic illnesses as well as cancer!

Her condition was critical, and she didn't have even a single extra penny for treatment!

Robert, who had extremely deep familial feelings for his grandmother, was plunged into utter despair and frantically took on odd jobs.

No matter how low the pay was pressed, he did it. He let the heartless businessmen exploit him, and after getting his wages, he went to help other poor people, because he knew this little money couldn't possibly save his grandmother. So he naively hoped to move the heavens with his kindness and make God spare his grandmother's life.

Unfortunately, it was completely useless. His grandmother's illness continued to worsen rapidly!

At this critical moment, a woman suddenly appeared and saved his grandmother's life!

This woman was none other than the Goddess of Wisdom—Athena!

In her youth, Athena had gone through a down-and-out period. In the Western Dark World, she was besieged by assassins, badly wounded, and fell unconscious. It was with the money Robert's grandmother earned from picking up trash that she was able to cling to life in the hospital.

So after learning of Robert and his grandmother's plight, Athena—by then already the Goddess of Wisdom—immediately stepped in to help, lavishly spending a fortune to invite the most skilled doctors to stabilize Robert's grandmother's condition, though she could only stabilize it.

Cancer is an incurable disease; it cannot be eradicated!

A few years later, Robert's grandmother passed away and left this world. Before she died, she entrusted Athena with looking after Robert!

Athena then brought him into the Divine Hall of Wisdom, training him with all her might, giving him the best treatment and resources, and in the end, she forged him into the Number One Divine General of the Divine Hall of Wisdom!