Chapter 401 It Hurts
After Li Mo finished speaking, Yin Xiu fell silent. He slowly turned his head to look at Ye Tianxuan standing on the summoning platform, and mourned for him with an expressionless face.
The high priest was still immersed in his own grief, unable to accept the fact that the God of Immortality would never return. "God has an infinite lifespan... God will not die easily..."
"You must be lying... You... You are all liars!!"
She pointed at Ye Tianxuan and shouted hysterically to Yin Xiu below. Although it was an unconscious resistance and attack, she was really right.
"Really?" Ye Tianxuan calmly accepted the high priest's scolding, pretending to be calm and said, "Your immortality can no longer be maintained after the gods disappear, right? Your appearance is also changing rapidly, and it requires many lifespans to maintain. These are all proof that the gods have disappeared. The gods can no longer protect you, so you are aging rapidly."
Reminded by Ye Tianxuan, the high priestess quickly raised her hands to cover her face in panic. She still had the face of a pretty fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, but she was filled with panic. "Have I changed? Have I grown old?!"
Ye Tianxuan raised his voice in a melodious voice, "You thought you hid it well, but in fact, everyone saw your changes, they just didn't say anything."
The high priest was stunned for a moment, his whole body frozen. "I can't change... I... I want to stay like this until God returns..."
She kept touching her face and turned around, wanting to escape back to the main city, back to her ivory tower, but when she turned around and met the gazes of countless people, she covered her face and stumbled back.
"High Priest... Is what Ye Shen said true? Has our God of Immortality disappeared?"
"Has the High Priest's immortality also vanished? Are you rapidly aging?"
"Then haven't you been using the lifespans we've given you to maintain your appearance? We've given you our lifespans for the sake of Changsheng City!"
"Do you still have any stored life left? Aren't you using it all to maintain your appearance?!"
Faced with the townspeople's inquiries, the high priest collapsed, his face wet with tears. He lowered his head helplessly and bewilderedly, "I can't do anything... I don't have a long lifespan, I'll soon die of old age... I must live and wait for the gods' return..."
"God said... she had lived too long, and she hated the constant change around her that she was powerless to reverse. God said, at least my appearance won't change... at least I'll always be by her side...
"Changsheng City has changed... I can't change anymore. I have to wait for her to come back. At least when she sees me... she'll see a little bit of the old days..."
"But God is dead." Ye Tianxuan's cold words instantly made the high priest feel like he was falling into a cold pond.
"No... God must not be dead yet, you must be a liar! You can't fool me!" The high priestess refuted vigorously. Although she was stubborn, her helpless and bewildered attitude showed everything. She just couldn't accept the disappearance of God.
"What happened to God's disappearance?" People are still confused.
Yin Xiu, who was standing by, quickly stepped forward and said, "The ritual of summoning gods is to summon back the old gods. If the old gods are no longer around, new gods will be summoned to manage the area again. It seems that your gods are no longer around."
The evidence of Yin Xiu's appearance was a real blow to the high priestess. Even the high priest of another god had said so. It seemed that the god she had been waiting for would never come back...
"It's all your fault!! It's because of you that God can't be summoned! It must be because of you!" The hysterical high priest rushed towards Ye Tianxuan in a rage, grabbing his shoulders and shaking him, crying, "My God will never come back! My God has disappeared!!"
"I have nothing left in this world to look forward to!!"
She looked desperate, but Ye Tianxuan, who was grabbed by the shoulders and shaken, also looked desperate.
It hurts so much!!
"Calm down first..." Ye Tianxuan raised his hand to push the high priest away, covering his left shoulder and frowning.
The high priestess who was pushed away shed tears while noticing the abnormality of the person in front of her. She sniffed and stared at Ye Tianxuan's forehead with red eyes, "You have injuries... Could it be that you also participated in the operation to eliminate the disaster with God?"
Since some gods disappeared in the action that caused all the gods to leave together, some gods must have been injured.
Even though the high priest denied it, he was certain that Ye Tianxuan, who came out of the summoning ceremony, was a god. He just seemed a little different from other gods. Gods would not be easily hurt, so it must be related to the action to eliminate the disaster.
"Huh?" Ye Tianxuan was startled. What do you mean by eradicating the disaster? He had just been manipulated by the ignorant Li Mo.
He thought that letting the invisible tentacles float in the air would make it look like a god descending. After all, it is impossible for a normal person to float in the air. However, he did not know that the monster was so powerful that it almost made him unable to hold on before he even landed on the ground.
Ye Tianxuan was completely unaware of the nonsense that Yin Xiu had made up. He simply asked Yin Xiu and Li Mo to trick the high priest into starting the ceremony to summon God, and then used Li Mo to disguise the arrival of God, leaving them to their own devices.
Ye Tianxuan glanced at Yin Xiu in confusion. Yin Xiu was also silent, not knowing where to start explaining.
There was silence for two seconds. Ye Tianxuan immediately turned around and continued, "Yes, I also participated in the operation to eliminate the disaster as a god... This wound on my body was left at that time..."
He raised his eyes and looked at the high priest sincerely. "Originally, I should have come out of the summoning ceremony, but the situation in the City of Eternal Life is far worse than I imagined. I couldn't wait for the summoning ceremony. For the sake of the people of the City of Eternal Life, I came here on my own. But the price I paid for crossing space is far greater than I imagined."
"My injuries worsened, and I was forced to possess a human. That's why you see anomalies in me compared to other gods."
His brief explanation just filled in the gaps in the high priest's mind about his doubts.
As a god, he came here on his own initiative and deliberately concealed the disappearance of the God of Immortality in order to prevent his believers from being too sad. He even had to possess humans because his injuries worsened because he did not appear through the correct summoning ceremony.
He is such a kind and gentle God, but he has always been rejected by her.
The high priest stared at Ye Tianxuan and took a step back helplessly. Even if she cried in despair, it was of no use. The god who should disappear had already disappeared. No matter how much she rejected the coming of the new god, she could not change anything. It would only bring troubles to the people of the City of Eternal Life and the new gods.
Now she is the only one in this city who refuses to accept the disappearance of the old god and the arrival of the new god.
"God is right..." The high priest lowered his eyes and murmured slowly, "Everything is constantly changing. Even God can't save anything, so how can I possibly do it..."
But she never thought that God was also in the changes of all things, and the one who would bear this burden would be her who was still alive.
She accepted the disappearance of God, but was still devastated and confused.
The ivory tower that had always favored and protected her disappeared, leaving her alone living high up in the main city, facing the expectations of the entire city.
She had been the high priestess for so long that she had forgotten how to be a human being.
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