Malin returned to Tianjin two days later, during which he made several transactions with that Lady of Pain — she gave Malin some intelligence about the deities of faction duties, and Malin helped her wipe out a few camps outside the city. There were demons, devils, and two camps of gray dwarves with unclear minds. Speaking of gray dwarves, these fellows whose height can’t compare to their waistlines are iron idiots within the Evil Faction. Malin feels he has nothing to say to these guys, and as for the demons, Malin killed them with relish. However, there was a bit of a problem with the devils; just as Malin arrived, a devil slipped all the way over and started kissing Malin’s boots. Malin recognized him, damn, isn’t this the guy who values money over life. Since it’s someone he knows, Malin initially didn’t intend to fight, but couldn’t prevent the leader of the devils from insisting on becoming a dead fool. With no choice, Malin punched this bastard to the ground and killed half the camp of idiots before they realized the seriousness of the situation — this seriousness meant that all of them combined weren’t enough to challenge Malin. So that devil appeared again, and after some confrontation, Malin felt these guys weren’t unjustly dead — they developed some ’excellent employees’ from the city of the Lady of Pain. Heh, even Ails wouldn’t dare to do this in Mark City. Malin could only tell them this mess was caused by developing excellent employees, hence let this devil take the rest and scram — after all, this guy is Malin’s blemish witness and a double agent developed by Malin, so in the future when something goes wrong on the lower planes, Malin relies on this guy to inform him first. Knowing Malin intended to let them off, this devil expressed they would leave immediately and gave Malin a way to contact him — a small bone. "This is my talisman; you just need to call my true name to it, and I’ll rush over immediately." After saying this, the devil actually handed his true name to Malin. Malin was first puzzled, then immediately understood — this guy is also seeking a path for himself; just in case he gets cornered someday, Malin only needs to call his name to shake him loose. This is a good thing, as this is currently Malin’s only little brother in the devil realms, and if he gets hacked to death by someone else, Malin wouldn’t know where to develop the next one in a short time. Letting him scram, Malin went to the Lady of Pain to settle things. This lady apparently knew Malin hadn’t exterminated the devils, but considering Malin’s relations and his straightforwardness in killing the other three camps, she ultimately completed the transaction. The intelligence she provided further solidified Malin’s certainty — deities who feed on faith and establish divine thrones ultimately become ’twisted’ by the divine duties they represent, turning into spokespersons for the duties rather than actual deities. Unlike external deities like the Nameless God, who even retains his humanity, as it was confirmed by what he said at the bar before. This is purification, not formatting. Indeed, this is what a deity in Malin’s mind should say, like the Noble God Malin knows. Though newly ascended, his essence has already been twisted, and Malin doesn’t want to become such a god, because such deities are more like slaves representing faction divine duties rather than true deities; ultimately, the deity becomes a ’monster’ defending its divine duty. Such deities aren’t who Malin wants to see, let alone become. Thus, once again firm in his path, Malin decided to return — wandering around the outer planes day in and day out is no solution. Jin Weili has been the busiest person in Tianjin’s army camp these days. Every day before dawn, he leads the recruits to inspect the district he is responsible for, purifying the wandering Wraiths or hanging those escaping Chaos remnants on gallows. By night, he barely returns to the camp, and Jin Weili still attends night school. He needs to teach the captains and commissars how to analyze traces left by a Wraith to determine if it’s manageable by them, or requires confronting a Legendary. After all, this matter concerns human lives; unlike children’s games where they can restart, what they lose is just a brief period afterward. However, when soldiers mess up, they lose their own lives. A week in, Jin Weili feels somewhat weary; after all, he’s not a Legendary known for physique, but many soldiers have already completed their studies successfully. The three-day rotation teaching has proved very effective — the loss rate in missions for each hundred times was reduced to 2.97. In other words, a troop of mortal soldiers equipped with Jin Weili’s knowledge, during every hundred missions, faces a loss rate of less than three. Compared to before, without such detailed systemic learning where the loss rate in missions was always as high as twenty, this is exceedingly outstanding. Thus, today Jin Weili received an Excellent Service Medal awarded by the Sages for him. Normally speaking, even a Legendary must personally fight a Lich and survive a round at least to earn this medal. If they die, they’ll receive only the Hero of the People Medal.