My Human Identity Was Exposed by an Evil Spirit Wife

Chapter 137: Chapter 137: This Is a High-Stakes Gamble

The people on the outskirts were still confused, everyone kept pulling away from those around them, gravitating toward others with the same color wristband.

As they moved, Jiang Che watched a small orb form right in front of him, shimmering with some strange energy. He even sensed there was an unknown skill embedded in the orb.

The orb appeared out of nowhere—so bizarre that even Hua didn’t notice it.

Jiang Che felt that if he just reached out, he could absorb it, taking its energy into himself.

The first person Jiang Che thought of was Ning. He looked at the orb, didn’t hesitate, and reached out to take it.

The instant he touched it, the orb melted into a stream of mysterious energy that rushed straight into his body.

He stayed calm; he knew Ning wouldn’t harm him.

In the void, Ning watched Jiang Che absorb the orb—her lips curling upward ever so slightly.

The Rabbit-man saw her strip away Dark Star’s energy and hand it over to Jiang Che, couldn’t help but snark, "You’re peeling off Dark Star’s power like this—if he fuses with the seed later, you’ll be the first he takes revenge on."

"If he still had SSS Lord strength, I couldn’t use the mirror to find his real body and transfer him here."

With Dark Star banished, the round table now had nine Lords.

While the Rabbit-man talked, the other seven Lords were already on guard. It wasn’t that they couldn’t beat Dark Star now; just as the Rabbit-man said, no one really knew what Dark Star’s strength would be if he recalled all his seeds.

If he could really wield power over everyone, whoever acts now would be the first to get wiped out in the future.

Nobody expected Ding Ning to make such a decisive move—just because Dark Star plotted against Jiang Che, she promptly swapped his avatar illusion for the real body using the mirror.

They watched Ding Ning warily, scared she’d swap their real bodies next.

At this critical moment, every Lord had their own agenda, and none of them wanted to lose power here.

"Heh, who says Evil Spirits don’t have a soft spot for love? What was that human saying again?"

"Haha, flying off the handle for a beauty, right?"

"Who says you can’t go nuts for a handsome guy?"

...

Everyone kept their guard up, but their mouths were relentless, still riffing about Ding Ning snatching Dark Star’s energy.

This kind of devouring is super common among lower-level Evil Spirits—devouring.

Evil Spirits sometimes grow stronger by absorbing other Evil Spirits’ energy.

From all the Lords’ perspective, if Ding Ning took this energy and used it herself—

—they wouldn’t bat an eye.

But the issue is: Ding Ning gave that energy to Jiang Che, to that human.

The essence of a SSS Lord’s energy, even though that Lord’s power had dropped to SS due to nurturing seed clones.

Still, SS to S-level energy essence is enough to raise a human from first rank to the fourteenth.

Sounds epic, like a mortal skipping straight to the top.

But that’s reality: a leap to the top.

Because no Lord is willing to share their power with any human, or with any other Evil Spirit.

Two SS-level powers combined only equal SSS-level energy.

And two S-level energies together add up to SS-level.

So they say Dark Star’s effort to raise seeds is massive—he used half his own power right away to cultivate a so-called human, and one of them’s been promoted to fifteen ranks.

Fifteen ranks—they can already fight against SS-level. That’s why everyone kept joking, in the end Dark Star probably won’t be able to wrap it up.

Now Ding Ning drained him even more. No one can predict what’ll happen to Dark Star in the end.

"Tell me, are there humans with sixteenth rank?" A quiet voice spoke up by the round table.

"Wasn’t fifteen ranks just raised by that dumbass Dark Star?"

"Humans want sixteenth rank too?" One Lord couldn’t help but mock.

"Maybe, maybe next sixteenth rank gets raised by some other Lord."

...

As they talked, they kept their eyes on the shadowy mist where Ding Ning was.

Their meaning was clear—they were hinting Ding Ning might be the next Lord to take a human to sixteenth rank.

Fifteen ranks is already SS-level; sixteen could totally go toe-to-toe with SSS-level.

Ding Ning stayed silent. She just wanted to help Jiang Che get a bit stronger, that’s all.

It’s way too hard for humans to level up.

When it comes to solo-killing Evil Spirits, humans can only watch as the energy disperses after the spirit dies.

Right now, humans don’t have the capability to absorb that energy.

She’d seen some human-world stuff—like in online games, killing monsters gets you XP, but right now humans can only watch their XP drift away, disappearing into thin air.

But clearing dungeons is different—that process keeps sculpting their bodies with Evil Spirit Realm energy, letting their bodies hold that power, moving from ordinary people to super-powered.

So now, connecting the Human Realm and the Evil Spirit Realm is just like that. The transformation has benefits, but risks too.

But humans’ biggest strength is insane adaptability and resilience.

The ones determined to break through, basically gamble that before humanity dies out, someone in the Human Race can adapt and step up as a powerhouse.

Use pressure to force rapid human evolution.

The human hierarchy guesses, once their bodies adapt to and get transformed by Evil Spirit Realm energy, they’ll be able to absorb energy from the air to cultivate.

They could even be like Evil Spirits, devouring other humans or spirits for energy and growth.

All of this is just theoretical—human upper management speculation.

Only real-world testing will show results.

But for humans now—there’s no turning back.

The Evil Spirit side always had Lords scheming to merge the human world, and the human leadership only sped the process up.

Compared to slow death, they had no choice but to gamble everything—

All-In!

When Jiang Che collected the orb, Hua didn’t notice—she, Zhou Ang, and Tuantuan were all focused on the chaotic crowd.

Hua’s eyes were full of mockery—this scene to her was nothing but a good show.

But Xiong Jie saw it. He kept watching Jiang Che, and even with Hua by his side for protection, he still kept an eye on Jiang Che.

He’s not like Zhou Ang—he had his own mission: when Jiang Che’s in danger, Xiong Jie’s job is to shield him.

He wouldn’t let Jiang Che out of his sight.

So he saw it—saw the orb appear in front of Jiang Che, and after Jiang Che touched it, the orb merged right into his body.

What’s this?

Xiong Jie was stunned. To hand the orb to Jiang Che without anyone noticing—there’s only one person he knew capable of that.

The Master.