On the planet of the God of Shaman Spirits, the phantom of the God of War flashed past and disappeared. When it reappeared, he had already returned to the Starry Universe.
A phantom followed by his side. Seeing this, he imdiately asked: "My Lord, have you found anything?"
"No clues at all. The Host of the Helt has disappeared. I'm afraid he has already left this planet." The God of War's face didn't look very good.
Capable of killing the God of Fury, capable of instantly killing his projection avatar, and possessing the ability to erase a Divine Spirit's existence from the root.
It was truly very difficult for him to screen out a target with such Strength... Or rather, apart from the other eleven Councilors, it was very difficult for him to screen it out.
But the other Councilors had no reason to protect this God of Death, otherwise, she wouldn't have been in a fleeing stage all this ti after inheriting the Divine Power for quite a while.
Could it be...
His expression moved slightly, and a guess surfaced in his mind: The Old Ones?
This organization, like psoriasis, made these Councilors both love and hate them.
They loved that if they were ever pulled down from the Councilor's seat one day, they would still have a place to go and could find many people in the sa boat.
They hated that their goal was precisely to pull them back down.
"But this doesn't look much like the Old Ones' style of doing things..." The God of War was also sowhat uncertain.
The Old Ones always hid in the dark and used treacherous thods to solve problems. Facing things head-on wasn't their style.
"How is the investigation into that God of Death's Identity going?" He asked again.
"Still investigating, but we can't find any data from before she beca the God of Death," the phantom beside him reported.
Although these Councilors all had so of their own tentacles outside.
But they were ultimately just Domain-Bound Spirits, their influence was limited. In addition to the constant changing of Councilors, Councilors capable of establishing large-scale organizations in the outside world were extrely rare.
Gathering ordinary information wasn't a problem, but wanting to search for deeper level information, or information deliberately hidden by people, was relatively troubleso.
This sudden accident made the God of War sowhat To Hold Back For Fear Of Collateral Damage. He didn't know whether this was the sche of so Divine Spirit.
If he continued investigating, he might very likely fall into a Trap.
But if he didn't investigate, the death of the God of Fury was a huge loss to him.
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Stone Rain Village, this was the na of the village located beside the dense forest, far away from the city.
This na sounded sowhat elegant, very much like a na a passing bard wracked his brains to co up with when staying at a roadside inn without money to pay the bill.
But in reality, this village's na was just thought up by so villager slapping his head, because it was backed against a mountain range and there were often rockslides, with crushed stones falling like rain.
Although this village was remote, it wasn't considered too small, and didn't look very poor.
Perhaps it happened to be located exactly on the border line between two principalities.
Occasionally, travelers would pass through the dense forest and mountain roads from here, and the small village thus maintained a just-right level of prosperity.
There appeared to be about a hundred households here, with houses scattered neatly on both sides of a small river passing through the village.
In front of the village was a forest, and behind the village stood a seemingly quite imposing high mountain.
The terrain on both sides of this mountain gradually sloped, and then abruptly rose again. It should be part of a mountain range.
And that small river passing through the village ran parallel to the mountain range, taking a turn in the distance leading into the mountains. It looked like it should be snowlt flowing down from the mountain.
Backed against high mountains, facing a wild forest, even the river flowing through the village ca down from the mountain.
It could be said this was quite an isolated place. If one wanted to find a place to retire, they probably couldn't find a better location anywhere else.
When Li Yu and Mo Duo arrived here, it was already more than half a month after obtaining the Helt.
"Three Gods Church..." Li Yu looked up at the other two exceptionally obvious planets and the already extrely dazzling sun, muttering: "The dozens of Star Systems nearby are all the territory of this Three Gods Church?"
"Yes, this is the target Xia En prepared to attack." Mo Duo nodded: "The Three Gods Church is composed of the Blood Mist God, the Battle Goddess, and the Wondrous Dance Goddess. They are Neutral Deities."
"The three gods have not weak Strength, each of them being a High-Rank God. They can be considered Amiable Fellows, and never take the initiative to provoke trouble."
"Amiable Fellows..." Li Yu wore a faint smile: "In other words, Pushovers."
Hearing this, Mo Duo also revealed a slight smile: "Saying it like that is about right. This target was selected before Xia En encountered the attack, but because he was suddenly heavily injured by the Old Ones, it could only be temporarily shelved."
"Then let's stay here Waiting for the Rabbit." Li Yu laughed.
He had no influence extension in the God Council, let alone intelligence channels, making it very difficult to find Xia En's location.
At the front of the village was a burly man. Although his muscles were fierce, he was actually quite honest and straightforward.
The talkative Man quickly mingled well with the other party.
The burly man led the two onto the cobblestone road in the village. This village didn't even have a surrounding wall, only a ring of fences outside to guard against wild beasts serving as a boundary.
Let alone a village entrance gate, walking onto the man-made road was considered entering the village. Even that ring of fences didn't seem to be taken seriously by the villagers.
At least four or five households built their houses hundreds of ters away from the fence outside the village, living in isolation like otherworldly experts.
Because it was next to the forest, the houses in the village mostly used local materials and were basically all wooden structures.
These houses looked a bit like those old wooden cabins in Europe.
Coarse thick wooden planks were nailed together to form walls without even clearing much of the bark. Hemp ropes and black mud were stuffed in the middle to block the wind. The houses were mostly two-story, with a few wooden stairs for entering and exiting the ho.
So houses with courtyards were probably wealthy households, but they were also casually squeezed together with the surrounding old wooden cabins, unable to show any distinction between noble and lowly.
Almost every household had dried skins and dried at hanging on the eaves in front of the house.
One could also see so tools placed under the windowsills whose functions couldn't be discerned but clearly had nothing to do with farm work.
Those were related to hunting or leather crafting. There wasn't much land around this village that could be used for farming, so hunting should be the main source of livelihood for the villagers.
This village was so simple and unadorned. At this ti, the setting sun was descending on the horizon.
It was precisely the ti for every household to start a fire to cook. Cooking smoke curled upwards in the village, and the fragrant sll of food drifted everywhere, although one couldn't tell what it was, the sll was not bad.
On the road, one could see villagers strolling in twos and threes, mostly n waiting for the food at ho to be ready after finishing a day's work.
On the surface, this seed to be a scene of peaceful and quiet tis.
The three didn't walk far before hearing a burst of noise.
"Execute the heretic, execute the heretic!"
The many villagers were also like having heard a signal, quickly putting down the work in their hands, and then advancing towards the center of the village.
Their originally sowhat kind expressions instantly turned into loathing and disgust.
Even the burly man leading the way was the sa. His original honest smile turned into Gnashing Her Teeth, and he said in a muffled voice: "You two guests, you ca at the right ti, just in ti to see the scene of executing a heretic."
The three quickly arrived at the center of the village. There wasn't the expected church or any other special building, this was just the largest Clearing in the village.
It seed to be the place where the villagers gathered for activities.
A Divine Statue of a Goddess was placed high up on a circular stone platform right in the center of the Clearing.
That was a statue carved from ordinary mountain stone, looking to be the sa height as a real person.
Although the material was simple, it was very refined and ticulous. Clearly, the craftsman who carved it had a devout and cautious heart when wielding the knife.
The Divine Statue depicted an exceptionally beautiful and refined woman, her long hair draped over her shoulders. Her deanor was loving yet majestic, wearing a gorgeous suit of armor.
This was exactly the Battle Goddess!
The Divine Spirit worshipped on this planet.
And beneath the Goddess Statue, there was a young man wearing a black robe and covered in black patterns. He was tied to a wooden stake, with dry straw piled up around him.
He roared without the slightest trace of fear, angrily shouting: "The Nightmare God will eventually descend, and the entire world will fall into the embrace of the dark night!"
"The Nightmare God is Xia En..." Mo Duo explained for Li Yu.
"It seems he has already sent people to secretly spread his Faith. With a Faith Anchor, he will be able to quickly bring this place under the Night Pantheon."
"Nightmare... the minion and Weapon of the dark night. The Lady of the Night's degree of importance placed on him is not low."
Li Yu watched the scene before him with great interest.
The fundantal reason why the Council's Divine Wars were Long and protracted was precisely because of this Faith chanism.
After conquering a planet, it was very difficult to directly turn it into one's own Faith. One had to spend ti to reverse the Faith on the planet.
Experienced Divine Spirits could roughly complete this process in three to five years on an ordinary Divine Spirit planet.
Those slightly more inexperienced would take even longer.
This was the core Star System of the Three Gods Church, the Faith was extrely firm, yet even Xia En's Believers appeared here.
Then the situation on other planets was probably even less optimistic.
"That's right, Xia En originally followed the Seventh Saintess — Hel to be active in the Divine War, but a year and a half ago, he suddenly rose to prominence, and Hel recomnded him to enter the Night Pantheon." Mo Duo agreed with Li Yu's statent:
"And then he quickly achieved illustrious rit, and his Status in the Divine Pantheon also rapidly advanced."
"Burn him to death!"
"Burn him to death!"
The many spectating villagers shouted angrily, their eyes filled with fury, as if they had seen their Sworn enemy.
However, through so sporadic conversations, Li Yu was able to learn.
This young man covered in black patterns was also a person from this village of theirs.
Perhaps yesterday everyone was still greeting each other with smiling faces, but today they were already angrily wanting to burn him to death.
Even the parents of this young man were among these spectating villagers, equally shouting to kill him!
Presiding over this ceremony was the village chief. He wore a majestic expression, Grumbling for a while, before abruptly throwing out a torch and saying: "...May the Goddess watch over us..."
Boom!
Flas erupted, and the Man let out shrill laughter in the flas.
Li Yu quietly watched this scene, brilliant firelight reflecting in his pupils.
In this kind of war between Divine Spirits, it was very difficult for surrenders to happen.
Once surrendered, the lifeforms of the Faith itself would be re-divided, which was no different from death.
Since this was the case, then why surrender, unless discussed well in advance.
Unfortunately, this Three Gods Church clearly didn't have the qualifications to negotiate with the Night Pantheon.
And right at this mont, Mo Duo suddenly let out a soft exclamation. Wisps of milky-white radiance suddenly surfaced on the surface of her body, and a thin white thread pierced into the Void.
"Why am I hearing the prayer sounds of Believers? At least over a hundred thousand Zealots. I haven't preached at all, where did so many Believers co from?"
Her expression was sowhat puzzled, and then she seed to realize sothing, her expression changing: "Not good, soone is using the Power of Faith to locate my position!"
Li Yu's eyes narrowed slightly, and the Space-Ti Gem moved in unison, forming a mbrane on the surface of Mo Duo, instantly severing the connection of the Power of Faith.
Only then did Mo Duo's expression ease slightly, hesitating: "This thod of locking onto a Divine Spirit through the Power of Faith is only effective within a short distance."
"But I just sensed that the distance of those Zealots from my position is hard to estimate."
"More crucially, who could cultivate so many of my Zealots in a short period of ti."
"The God of War, Xia En. Other than them, who else could it be?" Li Yu directly listed two suspects.
"It shouldn't be the God of War. If he had this kind of thod, he would have used it long ago." Mo Duo shook her head.
"Then it's only Xia En..." Li Yu looked at the wooden stake not far away. The flas had already gradually extinguished, leaving only a scorched black dried corpse that almost rged into one with the wooden stake.
The surrounding villagers let out excited cheers.
"But... his timing to act is a bit too late." Mo Duo hesitated, her lips slightly pursed.
"Forget it, no matter who it is, just pin it on Xia En. We have to make a move on him anyway." Li Yu didn't make useless speculations, directly tossing it to Xia En.
"Although the connection was only for a split second, the other party should have also locked onto my position. This place is already exposed, let's move." Mo Duo said with so worry.
"No need to move..." Li Yu vetoed this proposal, adding: "If it is Xia En, then he definitely won't easily co here again, perfectly locking onto his suspicion."
"If it isn't him, he will still co, just act against him according to the plan."
Staying here without moving, there would be gains no matter what.
"Won't it be too dangerous? If the Lady of the Night descends..." Mo Duo was still sowhat worried. Li Yu's Identity was too sensitive. If exposed, it would cause high tension in the entire God Council.
"If it's just her alone, there won't be a problem." Li Yu wasn't worried about this.
Unless the Lady of the Night lost her mind, paid a huge price, and invited three to five Councilors to co catch a God of Death at this juncture of the Divine War.
Moreover, even if she could invite them, whether people would believe her or not was another story.
(End of this chapter)
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