After Yin Xiu disappeared from the altar, the villagers kneeling by the sea slowly raised their heads, but their faces were no longer joyful.
"I told you he would definitely find the way to that door, right?" Ye Jia walked slowly over from one side of the beach, with her dark-skinned younger brother beside her.
The torches at night and the silent crowd made the atmosphere at the seaside particularly eerie.
"Why would he save us? I can't understand it." The dark-skinned little boy crouching beside Ye Jia suddenly twisted his body and turned into a small black cat.
The villagers who were offering sacrifices on the beach also instantly lost their human form and turned into monsters.
Sending Yin Xiu back to the past in Hai Village is impossible. A copy is just a copy; no one has the ability to change the past. Everything that has happened is set in stone. However, if they were to restore everything that happened back then for Yin Xiu, they could still do it.
Ye Jia, now known as the Night Goddess, looked up at the empty altar.
Many years ago tonight, she was the one sent to the sacrificial altar. There was no change or hope, and no one would save her. She became the sacrifice, and with fear, she became a monster.
But after presenting everything to Yin Xiu in its entirety, he chose to intervene and save Ye Jia, who was about to become a sacrifice, thus changing everything.
The black cat paced around the Night Goddess's feet, seemingly unhappy and impatient.
"I told you he's changed a lot, right?" Lady Night smiled as she stared at the cat at her feet, her eyes full of meaning. "He's no longer the uncontrollable god of death he used to be. Now he's someone we can cooperate with."
"Meow...meow meow..."
"Don't be afraid, my dear brother. We are no longer human. No matter how bad things get, they are nothing compared to what happened then."
The sea village successfully offered a new sacrifice and gained a new life. They then continuously sent people from the sea village who could not resist to the altar. First, it was a girl without parents, then her brother who could not resist, then... some old people, and finally... some women.
But what the people of the sea village did not expect was that one day, the black fog that had not appeared for a long time once again rolled out of the sea. This time, however, those who had been sent to the altar returned from the fog. Their bodies were twisted and they were no longer human. In every pair of eyes, there was extremism and revenge.
The mutation began to spread among the people like a plague. As the villagers fled in panic, the mutation was carried to farther places and became even more uncontrollable.
Those who returned as sacrifices knew very well that the god they worshipped had become an evil god beyond his control due to Haicun's twisted mind, and that change had taken the believers to even more distant places as they scattered and fled.
The evil god continuously gains power through the mutations brought about by its followers, constantly growing and spiraling out of control, spreading darkness and mutations in all directions.
Those who were initially sacrificed knew very well that if things continued this way, the danger would only continue to spread, turning everyone into monsters.
Thus, the Black Cat Party was born.
"We are the beginning of disaster, we are the moving source of change for others, and we must stop what is happening now and solve the problem at its source."
"Let this evil god we created... no, monster, disappear. We must make it, the source of the mutation, disappear in order to stop everything."
The Black Cat Faction advocates killing the monster and destroying the god they created to stop the spread of the mutation.
Meanwhile, the opposite rises.
"I can hear the voice of God… It is not that kind of monster. It is not yet formed and cannot even control itself. It is instinctively seeking companions, so the mutation turns the people around it into monsters. It has no murderous intent. It is craving its own kind."
"This is an existence we created. We exploit it for profit, and after it gets out of control, we want to erase it. The so-called god is just a twisted creature born from human desires. It itself is not at fault. The fault lies with us. If it is only to eliminate the danger it brings, we tend to seal it away so that it can no longer spread mutations to the surrounding area."
The Black Cat faction angrily retorted, "The seal won't last long. Sooner or later, things will change. Killing it is the most direct and fundamental solution! It will continue to grow and become even more uncontrollable. Who will clean up the mess then?"
The White Cat faction countered, "Seal it, and then we will guard this seal, maintain the seal, and pay the price for our actions! This is what we should do. Why is it that we are the ones who caused all the cause and effect, while the one who must disappear is a god who doesn't even know why it exists? It is indeed dangerous, but it is conscious, and it should not bear the consequences for us."
"That's naive of you! You shouldn't have any sympathy for monsters!"
"You are believers too! Can't you hear its voice? It has been yearning for companions! It is not a monster! It is a god we created! Why didn't you call it a monster when you offered sacrifices to it and made demands?"
The Black Cat faction still maintains that "killing it is the most fundamental solution."
"No, sealing it and protecting the seal is the price we must pay."
The two factions continued their dispute until the very end, and no solution was reached. So, on the day God was formed, the believers began to kill God, wanting to erase his existence.
But they were powerless to kill the god. The first thing that powerful and twisted being did after taking shape was to come to the sea village to see them.
It brought endless darkness to the sea village, shrouding it and lingering there for a long time.
It may have wanted to meet the believers who fed it, but upon arriving in the sea village, it was met with the hostility and rejection of countless people.
The dark, eerie entity stared at its followers, sensing their murderous intent.
It couldn't understand why, now that they were so similar, they wanted to kill themselves.
The plan to kill the gods failed, but the gods did not kill them either. Instead, they retreated to the sea area at the edge of the sea village and secretly watched their followers.
If the attempt to kill the god fails, then the seal must be placed.
Unable to drive the god back into the sea, the villagers of the sea village had no choice but to give in, turning the entire sea village into a sealing place. As a result, they left the sea village one after another, leaving only emptiness and desolation for the god.
God appeared on the sea and by the altar day after day, but he could no longer see his followers.
Until one day, when it tried to leave to find its followers, it discovered that a sealed gate blocked all its way.
It was abandoned here all by itself.