“Damn it, where did that demon go? What’s going on? There’s not a single trace?!”
Directly above the Mist, the Divine Sense of the Goddess of Life continuously swept across the entire Mist, but found no sign of the Blood Demon at all.
She only saw Omili inside the Great Pit along with her Ninth Saintess, and not far away, a panicked White Snake fleeing with all its might…
‘That little snake… What is it doing here?’
The Goddess of Life watched Little Mist for a while, then silently breathed a sigh of relief:
“Good, good. At least I didn’t accidentally blow it apart with that attack. Otherwise, I wouldn’t see it again for another hundred years…”
… ‘Come to think of it, I haven’t even had a chance to establish a friendly connection with the little snake. But now that I’ve blown its Mist to pieces like this, it probably doesn’t want to see me for a while…’
“Alright, for now, I need to protect my Saintess first.”
After confirming safety, the Goddess of Life gradually withdrew her Divine Domain and commanded Omili, “Bring Truth back to the Cathedral in the city. I need to give her a full examination.”
The Goddess of Life was worried that the Blood Demon might have left something bad on her, like various demonic marks or curses…
With an instant teleport, Truth was carried by Omili back inside the Church of the Goddess of Life.
Seeing this, Tia quickly came downstairs to fuss over Truth, while Ka Rui stood by, watching silently, seemingly preoccupied with something.
Everyone looked at Truth’s panicked face in Omili’s arms, their hearts uneasy. If the Goddess hadn’t intervened in time, Truth would have been in grave danger today!
Tia was also filled with a thousand questions.
What exactly was the relationship between that Blood Demon, Truth, and the Hermit?
The Hermit had done nothing about Truth being kidnapped by a demon… and had even allowed the Goddess of Life to bomb Her own Mist…
…That was completely unlike the Hermit’s style!
Or was all of this within the Hermit’s control?
Including the Blood Demon kidnapping Truth, and the Goddess of Life being able to rescue Truth from the Blood Demon with absolute certainty?
Could it be… that the Hermit possessed some kind of ability to foresee the future? Had She already foreseen this outcome?!
Tia showed a slightly shocked expression. Foreseeing the future…
At the same time, Omili was also looking shaken.
She had almost screwed up today.
If the Goddess hadn’t arrived in time, she would have really fallen into the hands of that Blood Demon!
A King Rank demon! Wasn’t it said that all demons in the world had been restricted to the Nine-Rank?
Then why had a King Rank demon suddenly appeared out of nowhere? That was too terrifying!
And this Blood Demon had even forced the Goddess to call for help—its combat strength was monstrous!
“But at least the Blood Demon didn’t go for broke with us. It also threw Little Truth down and ran away in time. Otherwise, a few days from now would have been Little Truth’s head-seven…”
[Note: “head-seven” is a cultural reference to the seventh day after death; I will preserve this as is.]
Omili breathed a slight sigh of relief.
“Relax your mind.” Then, the statue of the Goddess of Life emitted a soft radiance that enveloped Truth’s whole body.
Omili slowly let go of Truth and took a few steps back, letting Truth bathe alone in the radiance of the Goddess of Life.
A King Rank demon… That was not good for the whole world… Omili felt a lingering fear.
But why did that King Rank Blood Demon insist on kidnapping Truth?
Truth was just a new little Second Rank Saintess. Weren’t the other Saintesses more important?
And with the Blood Demon’s ability to match the Goddess of Life and its extremely high innate Stealth talent, if it wanted to go to Wangdu, who could stop it?
So… why did it choose Truth? Omili looked solemnly at Truth surrounded by the radiance. Could it be because of her Herbalism knowledge?
Just then, Omili suddenly noticed that Truth’s previously terrified expression had disappeared.
Her slightly pale little face was faintly showing…
…a fierce expression.
‘Damn it!’ Truth gritted her teeth internally. ‘It seems the gods still have some power. I guess I can’t burn bridges with the Goddess of Life just yet.’
As everyone knew, angering one of the Three Desires was dangerous.
If she wanted to defeat this Goddess of Life before her, she would have to overcome one of those Desires.
Otherwise, facing the Goddess of Life’s sudden outside-the-box moves, Truth really couldn’t handle it!
‘Shit! I knew it. Before I transmigrated, I should have gone to the party with everyone instead of playing games. Then I wouldn’t have ended up like this, just looking at a breast, and I’d feel dazed. It’s really a bit oppressive.’
……
But fortunately, everything was going according to plan.
The original plan was simple: have the Blood Demon show up, mess with Little Mist, cut it off, and then find an opportunity to swap their identities.
But then things got a little out of hand.
‘Since I’m already here, I might as well force the Goddess of Life out and see what she’s made of.’ The result was that both sides got heated.
The Goddess of Life lost all her dignity, and Truth prematurely revealed her King Rank strength, almost unable to wrap things up…
Now that she had swapped identities back with Little Mist, she needed to find a way to avoid going to Wangdu.
So Truth had long thought of a simple and practical method, one she had often used in school, and it had never failed—playing sick.
Just as the Goddess of Life’s Purifying Radiance brushed across Truth’s collarbone, suddenly, a pitch-black radiance belonging to the Blood Demon burst forth from Truth’s collarbone!
“Ugh! It hurts!”
Truth shouted, her whole body began to tremble violently:
“That demon… seems to have left something bad on me! It hurts! It hurts so much!”
“Truth!” Tia, seeing Truth’s pained expression, panicked and wanted to do something, but Omili stopped her in time:
“Don’t worry. The Goddess is here.”
The Goddess of Life also snorted coldly: “A demon is a demon! Even after running away, it leaves some disgusting thing to annoy me. So what is this? A mark or some weird curse?”
The Goddess of Life sneered at it. Whatever it was, in the face of her Purifying Holy Light, it was nothing. She just needed to erase it!
With a flash of Holy Light, a warm sensation instantly spread throughout Truth’s body.
The Goddess of Life directly suppressed the strange thing on Truth’s collarbone, then slowly erased it.
‘Heh! It can be erased after all. Not bad, Goddess of Life. She does have some skill.’ Truth thought coldly inside. ‘But what if I… release it again?’
Just as the Goddess of Life’s Purifying Holy Light was about to finish, Truth moved with her mind!
The next second, the Blood Demon’s pitch-black aura burst forth again from her collarbone!
“Ow! Goddess, save me!” Truth let out another “pitiful” cry, looking very miserable, as if she was suffering greatly from the Blood Demon.
“Why can’t it be purified?!”
The Goddess of Life was shocked. Could it be that she couldn’t purify the King Rank Blood Demon’s Skill? Impossible!
Even if the Blood Demon was Twelfth Rank, she was still a whole major rank above it.
There was no way she couldn’t purify it!
So the Goddess of Life increased the purification intensity. This time, the Blood Demon’s aura was completely erased by her in just a few seconds!
But as soon as it was erased, the Blood Demon’s aura burst forth again in the next instant!
“That’s impossible!” The Goddess of Life was getting a bit anxious.
She performed purification four or five times in a row, but each time after purification, the Blood Demon’s pitch-black aura emerged again from Truth’s collarbone!
“Ugh… Goddess…” Truth’s pitiful voice echoed in the Cathedral. The more anxious the Goddess of Life became, the happier Truth was, and she cried out even louder:
“It hurts! My whole body is numb. I feel like I’m dying. I feel like my bones are cracking. I feel like my heartbeat… my heart is about to stop! My ribs… my ribs are about to break all over! I feel like all the nerves in my teeth… are trembling… I feel like…”
“It hurts! My whole body is numb. I feel like I’m dying. I feel like my bones are cracking. I feel like my heartbeat… my heart is about to stop! My ribs… my ribs are about to break all over! I feel like all the nerves in my teeth… are trembling… I feel like my period is coming!”…
The two of them kept pulling back and forth—one purifying, one releasing the Skill—throwing everyone present into shock again.
What was going on? Why hadn’t the Goddess been able to purify the demon’s aura for so long? Was the Goddess of Life’s power insufficient?!
Wasn’t it said that gods are omnipotent? Why now…
……
The Goddess of Life was also anxious. She had no idea what was happening!
‘Could that Blood Demon be Twelfth Rank? No way! If it were Twelfth Rank, I would have been heavily injured by a sneak attack by now. It’s at most Eleventh Rank!’
‘But then what’s happening now… I can’t completely remove this residual aura of the Blood Demon!’
No way. She absolutely couldn’t lose face in front of so many Disciples!
“Hmm… It’s a bit strange.” The Goddess of Life’s voice carried a hint of majesty:
“I can feel a familiar power of nothingness supporting the demonic aura on Truth. It seems that behind that Blood Demon, there’s a troublesome existence… But that’s all. A trifling trick.”
“Then it seems Truth needs to rest in my Fountain of Life for a while. The Fountain of Life can purify any curse and filth in the world. No need to worry.”
Having said that, the Goddess of Life’s face suddenly darkened, revealing a faint, icy killing intent that only Truth could detect.
In truth, the “Fountain of Life” didn’t have much purifying effect—it was weaker than what she could conjure by hand.
She just wanted to take Truth back for a thorough study. If she really couldn’t resolve the Blood Demon’s aura, then she would have to…
The Goddess of Life couldn’t accept her image of omniscience and omnipotence being shattered, nor could she accept the Blood Demon using Truth to mock her in the future—just like Mary.
So, just in case, if things really reached that point, she would directly turn Truth into a collection piece and announce that “the Ninth Saintess was killed by a demon’s ambush.”
After all, she was an omnipotent God! If she couldn’t solve the demonic aura, she could still solve Truth!
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