["User 'God of Emotion' sent a gift: 'Emotional Divine Sense' ×1"]
["God of Emotion": Ten balls, now!]
With a thought, Diyi Hong released the slots.
Ten giant stone balls dropped and began to roll into the hundred-meter-deep pit.
Tang San and the others were quick to react, dodging the incoming stone balls with ease—at first.
The ten balls crashed into each other, their momentum canceling out, piling up at the pit bottom.
Diyi Hong merged them into the ground, clearing space again.
["God of Emotion": Dropping them all at once is too predictable. Send them down one by one, staggered—they might even bounce back up!]
'Got it.' Diyi Hong shrugged. 'Next time, I'll keep that in mind.'
["User 'Phoenix God' sent a gift: 'Phoenix Divine Sense' ×1"]
["Phoenix God": Do it their way—ten staggered drops!]
Diyi Hong randomly released slots, sending the balls down at irregular intervals. Tang San's group had to scramble constantly just to avoid being flattened.
The balls began bouncing around chaotically, turning the pit into a deadly pinball machine.
Tang San found himself boxed in—three giant stone balls cut off all escape.
Tang San chose one and charged, attempting to lift it from below.
No way he was getting away that easily.
A small stone suddenly jutted up in the path, bumping the rolling ball into the air.
The airborne stone ball slammed right into Tang San, who couldn't dodge mid-lift.
Luckily, he reacted in time—Jade Hands and Controlling Crane Catching Dragon helped him absorb the impact and redirect the force, letting him tumble away safely.
"This is ridiculous!" Tang San glared upward. "You're obviously targeting me!"
Was he accusing Diyi Hong of rigging the field?
'Bosses, looks like ten balls aren't enough. Want to up the stakes?'
["User 'Nine-Colored Goddess' sent a gift: 'Nine-Colored Divine Sense' ×1]
["User 'God of Speed': ×1]
["User 'Rakshasa God': ×1]
Another 30 giant stone balls rained down.
The chaos reached new heights. Tang San barely dodged, but Oscar and Dai Mubai—who had no dodging skills like Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track—were mercilessly flattened again and again.
["God of Speed": Haha! Crush his little legacy!]
["Nine-Colored Goddess": Whoa! The classic "double-balls-to-the-face" combo!]
["Rakshasa God": The pathing needs optimizing. Add some bumps and traps to make dodging harder.]
["God of Emotion": Good! More! Crush him! Smack him till his ancestors feel it! Hahahaha!]
The gods were having the time of their lives.
As soon as a stone ball was spent, another replaced it, maintaining the 30-ball chaos.
But after half an hour…
["God of Speed": Getting boring now. Do something new.]
["Nine-Colored Goddess": Yeah, I'm tired of watching meatballs roll.]
Barely 30 threads of Divine Sense earned, and they were already bored?
'Alright, warm-up's over. Time for the real show.'
'Let's bring these three up first.'
He stopped the barrage, giving the trio a moment to breathe.
Then, with a few gestures, he raised a maze of twisted tunnels beneath the pit. A live projection of the setup filled the gods' view.
'Bosses, I'll divert the nearby river and flood this tunnel maze.'
'Only one path leads upward. Place your bets—who escapes alive?'
—All to earn more livestream gifts, Diyi Hong truly pulled out all the stops.
["Nine-Colored Goddess": Oh, this is fun. I bet none of them make it. Ten divine sense.]
["Phoenix God": No way all three fail. Tang San has Purple Demon Eye. I'll bet five on him making it.]
["Rakshasa God": Oscar has decent luck. I'll bet two threads.]
["God of Emotion": Ten on Oscar! Ten on Dai Mubai! I'm all in on Tang San FAILING!]
["God of Speed": You're a menace. I'll bet five on Oscar failing too!]
["God King of Destruction 002": I wager ten threads that none escape. God of Life: ten that all escape.]
Only one god stayed silent:
["God King of Destruction 001"]—the classic freeloading lurker.
Diyi Hong didn't call him out—lurkers had potential too.
He broke the seal to the river.
A raging current poured into the twenty tunnels like cascading waterfalls.
Tang San's group sprang to alert.
At first, they thought more stone balls were coming… but it was just water.
"I swear…" Oscar muttered, "He's really going to flood us, isn't he?"
"Huh? No way," Dai Mubai frowned. "Maybe he wants us to escape through the waterfall exits?"
"Impossible," Tang San shut that down. "The pressure's too high. We'd need the pit full of water before there's any buoyancy."
"So… wait and see," Oscar sighed.
They were the unlucky few chosen for the underground route. What else could they do?
Oscar didn't think so. He was just a support, and had no beef with Diyi Hong.
Frankly, he didn't even think he was important enough to be targeted.
Fate was already dumping a debt from ten thousand years in the future onto him today.
The roaring of falling water faded as the pit filled. Water levels rose steadily.
Fortunately, all three knew how to swim. They clustered at the center, floating near the top, nervously watching the ceiling close in.
Even with resurrection available, dying wasn't a pleasant process… right?
"Hey Tang San," Oscar asked hesitantly. "What does dying feel like?"
Dai Mubai glanced over too.
He didn't expect to be giving a TED Talk on death mid-trial.
After a moment's thought, he answered:
"The first time, it was fast. I didn't even feel pain before blacking out."
"The second time… I don't remember anything."
"I came to, and I was already revived."
Oscar and Dai Mubai let out a breath.
At least… it didn't sound painful.
But they didn't know—
Just ten meters above their heads, Diyi Hong was watching everything with his spiritual sense.
The livestream chat exploded.
["God of Emotion": This guy's really chill about dying, huh?]
["Phoenix God": Next time you kill him, make it terrifying. Really drive it in.]
["God of Speed": Yeah, now those two think dying's no big deal either.]
["Nine-Colored Goddess": From now on, make it clear that resurrection is hard. That'll keep them cautious.]
["Rakshasa God": Tell them only one resurrection per day is possible. If more than one dies in 24 hours—tough luck.]
["God of Emotion": Brilliant! Tang San'll definitely stab someone in the back!]
["God of Speed": But what if more than two actually die? Are we really not reviving them?]
["God of Emotion": Then set a price! If you revive a second, make Tang San owe you big time—perfect for future leverage!]
["Nine-Colored Goddess": You never disappoint. Your methods of tormenting Tang San are truly one-of-a-kind.]
["God of Emotion": It's not like I enjoy this—he's literally beating me up while trying to sweet-talk me into becoming his loyal mutt.]
["Nine-Colored Goddess": …]
["Rakshasa God": No offense, but… what does your wife— his daughter—think of all this?]
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