Once, I wanted to be a good person

Accompanied by a wave of pain, the Rakshasa noticed that her arms, fleshy wings, and legs were severed as if by an invisible blade, dropping onto the ground.

But it didn't stop there. Once her arms and wings were cut off, the giant foot behind her, with nothing to impede it, stomped on her again!

In that instant, the Rakshasa genuinely felt as if her internal organs were being stomped out! Darkness swam before her eyes, and she almost fainted.

This alone was tolerable, but as her injuries worsened, her strength rapidly weakened, along with her perception and control over the Power of Laws!

This sudden change left the Rakshasa with almost no hope of turning the battle around!

Although she didn't know where she currently was, she realized that the enemy obviously had planned this: at least three Mortality-Shedding rank adversaries, all prepared to ambush her, striking with ruthless precision, leaving no room for escape!

In such a situation, if she had descended in her True Body, she might have coped, but in her Clone form, it was entirely impossible to overturn this!

However, for this very reason, waves of humiliation from being calculated against and ambushed surged within the Rakshasa's heart!

The sensation of being dragged out of bed in one moment and beaten like a dead dog the next nearly drove her mad!

Before she became a demigod, she was the Clan Leader of the Rakshasa Tribe, accustomed to luxury and adoration, never having suffered such disgrace. And after becoming a demigod, even though she was relatively weaker among them, since demigods are immortal and indestructible, their status was relatively equal, and she had never suffered such humiliation!

Therefore, at that moment, the Rakshasa's mind was entirely filled with Fury, and a thought surfaced in her heart like never before: They truly were bullying a god! Why not just summon her True Body's power and blast them?

This thought, once born, lingered in the Rakshasa's mind. However, just as she was about to act on it, she hesitated: after all, summoning the power of her True Body was too costly, and given the current state of her Clone, even with that power, it might not last a minute.

Moreover, since she awoke, she had been pinned down without even a moment to assess the surroundings.

In such a scenario, if she summoned the True Body's power and the enemy scattered or teleported elsewhere, her power and lifespan would truly be wasted.

Thinking this, the Rakshasa hesitated even more.

While the Rakshasa hesitated, the enemy wouldn't wait for her to ponder slowly. So shortly after, she heard a soft exclamation by her ear, "Detain!"

With that sound, the Rakshasa suddenly felt an overwhelming terror descend upon her!

It was a feeling she hadn't experienced since her world shattered—a dreadful fear of complete and utter downfall!

In that moment, the Rakshasa's eyes widened, and finally, she hesitated no more, desperately trying to communicate with her True Body far in the Outer Realm, wanting it to descend and eliminate these treacherous attackers!

But...it was too late.

In that brief second of hesitation, a flash of white light severed her newly established link with the True Body, and all her powers, whether ability, Power of Laws, Positional Grid, or communication with the True Body, were sealed!

Once she regained awareness, she found herself in a pitch-black room. The room measured about six or seven square meters, furnished with instruments of torture including branding irons, chains, whips, candles, and more.

As soon as she appeared, four iron spikes shot from the corner of the room, piercing her shoulders and waist, pinning her against the wall!

"Ah!" The excruciating pain made the Rakshasa scream aloud.

Once the pain subsided, the Rakshasa struggled hard, only to realize she was completely immobilized.

What was even more terrifying was that she discovered, in this space, she couldn't even self-destruct and return her consciousness to the main body!

This realization, like the last straw that broke the camel's back, utterly shattered the Rakshasa's defenses!

With her hair disheveled, she shouted hysterically in the prison, "Ahhh!" "Get out here!" "Who are you all!" "What do you want to do!"

.....

Meanwhile.

Late-Night Investigation Room.

The scene wasn't its original appearance but had been arranged by Fang Ze into a barren hillside.

There, Fang Ze stood on the hillside, chatting softly with Lan Bing, Black Bull, and Hei Po.

Lan Bing spoke little, Hei Po was astute, and Black Bull was the simplest thinker, staring curiously at the spot where the Rakshasa disappeared with his big bovine eyes, buzzing, "Young Master, where did that demigod go?"

At Black Bull's words, Fang Ze tilted his head and explained, "I used an Extraordinary Artifact to trap her. You know how it is."

Hearing Fang Ze's words, Black Bull blinked his bovine eyes cluelessly but then suddenly understood, recalling the God-Imprisoning Method!

That was the scenario when Fang Ze first formally met them. At Fang Ze's request, Hei Po had narrated the God-Imprisoning Method, a miraculous ability researched by an ancestor of the Si Family, leading Fang Ze to assign Hei Po the task of creating God-Imprisoning Method tools before the Si Family's Transformation stage experts. Thus, Black Bull knew of the God-Imprisoning Method's existence.

However, since it was the family's highest secret, Black Bull and the others only knew Hei Po was tinkering with it but didn't know the specific progress, merely that the progress seemed unsuccessful: even Dahei Jialuo had self-destructed to escape.

But in this view, the great weapon probably had just been completed!

With this thought and feeling he had grasped the truth, Black Bull shut his mouth, refraining from further questioning.

Black Bull had "understood" Fang Ze's hint, so did Hei Po even more so. Thus, the only one slightly confused on the scene was Director Lan Bing.

However, being a cold person with little curiosity, she didn't ask further seeing Black Bull staying silent.

Fang Ze had observed all three's mental activities thoroughly. It was his first time summoning so many people to the Late-Night Investigation Room and hearing so many inner voices simultaneously. Truthfully, it was slightly unsettling.

Additionally, he was eager to see the successfully imprisoned Rakshasa, so he told the three, "Thanks to you all tonight. With your help, we've successfully imprisoned the demigod Rakshasa. I will remember your contributions!"

With that, Fang Ze paused and continued, "But it's too late now, and Sister Bing needs to return to the state capital, so I'll send you back now."

This assassination attempt was a bold experiment by Fang Ze. During his planning in the Sacred Reform Room, he realized he was caught in a dilemma.

Firstly, to target the Rakshasa, he had to summon her into the Late-Night Investigation Room.

After all, the Rakshasa constantly staying with other demigods made luring her to an isolated area too challenging. Any failure would likely expose Fang Ze, and even if he managed to lure her out, the commotion would probably attract other demigods. In such circumstances, an assassination attempt on the Rakshasa in reality was entirely infeasible.