Three years later.
The capital city, the temple.
A blinding golden light flashed, and the goddess's divine essence fell to the ground with a "tick".
Nan Guangyu and Meng Ji nervously stepped forward to pick up the divine object, but the priest bent down and picked it up first.
"Father, how is it?"
Nan Guangyu asked aloud.
Meng Ji frowned, wanting to reprimand him for being disrespectful.
With that tone, someone who didn't know better would think he was someone on par with a priest.
However, there are more important matters to attend to right now, so Meng Ji will hold off for the time being.
The priest took the goddess's divine essence back into his arms, shook his head at the two of them, and left the hall in sorrow without saying a word.
Nan Guangyu also lowered his head, looking dejected.
Seeing this, Meng Ji felt it was ironic: "What are you pretending for? If it weren't for you, the Goddess would be perfectly fine right now!"
"Are you really going to let your incantation magic control you so easily?"
Nan Guangyu looked up at Meng Ji. When their eyes met, Meng Ji was startled by the undisguised coldness in the other's eyes and almost subconsciously answered, "How did you know?"
Fortunately, he didn't speak that quickly.
Meng Ji looked towards the door to avoid Nan Guangyu's gaze: "I don't know what you're talking about!"
"If she weren't under your control with your incantation magic, would the goddess have helped you block the demon god's cone?" Nan Guangyu poked Meng Ji's chest with his sword sheath, a gesture brimming with contempt.
He said, "Without the art of incantation, you are not even qualified to step into the temple."
"You demon, how dare you judge me!" Meng Ji used his divine power to blast open his sword sheath. "Listen to me, one day I will expose your tricks before the priest!"
After saying that, Meng Ji didn't linger and turned to leave.
Behind him, Nan Guangyu's sinister and terrifying gaze remained fixed on him until his figure disappeared.
Meng Ji's tense back finally relaxed.
Spending every day with a demon was very stressful for him.
Meng Ji took a deep breath and stood still, looking towards Xiaoniu Mountain.
Three years ago, the goddess vanished into nothingness, and he and Nan Guangyu were taken back by the priest.
Nan Guangyu insisted that Qingwu killed the goddess. He said he took the goddess away because he liked her and because he was a thief crying "stop thief!" to frame himself as a demon spy. He just didn't want the goddess to fall into the hands of the demons.
Meng Ji was so angry he almost vomited blood. Nan Guangyu was truly a master at turning the tables.
Doesn't he feel guilty at all?!
Meng Ji then recounted how Nan Guangyu had activated demonic energy to use the Demon God Cone, and asked the priest to examine Nan Guangyu's soul.
To demonstrate his innocence, Meng Ji closed his eyes and opened his mind, allowing those present to test him at will to prove his innocence.
Not to be outdone, Nan Guangyu followed suit and opened his soul as well.
No one knows what method he used, but his soul was completely devoid of any demonic energy.
"Then why did you go to the prison to find Qingwu before the incident, and then release her!"
Meng Ji remembered asking that question, and he also remembered Nan Guangyu answering in his hoarse voice, as if his throat had been slit: "I just feel depressed and can't vent my feelings. In the end, I just feel that Qingwu and I are in the same boat when it comes to relationships."
If you don't believe me, you can call the prison guards and ask me what I said to Qingwu!
The prison guards were brought up.
The two men stood guard at the door, having overheard Nan Guangyu and Qingwu's conversation clearly. Naturally, they recounted everything to the priest, and Meng Ji's face grew darker with each word.
In particular, when the phrase "which man at the pinnacle of power in the world doesn't have a few women" was mentioned, Meng Ji was startled and hurriedly knelt down to explain.
Whether the priest believed it or not is unknown, but Qingwu is dead and the truth cannot be found. He and Nan Guangyu are evenly matched again.
If it weren't for the goddess's divine status saving their lives, they would have been sent by the priest, who had lost his beloved daughter, to reunite with the goddess long ago.
All three races know that the divine status of the gods cannot be obtained without active effort.
In other words, if you want the divine status of a god, unless that god willingly gives it to you, neither force nor coercion will work.
Otherwise, the divine essence would dissipate the moment it was taken out.
For the next three years, the priest, Nan Guangyu, tried many times to summon her soul using the goddess's personality, but all attempts failed.
That was the 108th time.
Meng Ji also became increasingly hopeless.
The goddess has vanished, and the priest has no other daughter to share his destiny with.
It was actually a bit awkward for him and Nan Guangyu to stay in the capital.
The priest didn't trust him, nor did he trust Nan Guangyu.
With the goddess gone, all those who had fawned over him distanced themselves from him.
Now he can only pretend to be deeply in love with the goddess in order to barely have a place in the temple.
He was truly unwilling to accept it.
He was just a hair's breadth away from winning the goddess and gaining the power and status he desired.
The goddess clearly handed over her divine status to him before she turned into ruins; it's all Nan Guangyu's fault for causing trouble!
A fierce rage ignited in Meng Ji's eyes. If he still couldn't summon even a trace of the goddess's divine soul after another six months, he would leave.
Before I leave, I will make sure Nan Guangyu is torn to pieces!
Meng Ji looked back at the temple, then at the Goddess Temple next to it, and the resentment in his eyes turned into a complex emotion.
The goddess shielded him from the demon's cone. Was it because of the incantation technique, the inexplicable six-pointed star, or perhaps, because she liked him?
Imagine a stunningly beautiful woman in a wedding dress standing before you, dying for you, and then offering up her divine status. Even the most hard-hearted person would be moved by such a sight.
Moreover, Meng Ji had always coveted the goddess.
Meng Ji thought to himself that he probably liked it.
He knew perfectly well that his incantation technique did not have such power.
Goddess, if only you could be resurrected.
The beauty's body and soul, her power and influence, all belonged to him...
We should think of other solutions.
Meng Ji stood there pondering for a long time before turning and leaving.
......
Before Meng Ji could come up with a solution, Nan Guangyu resigned from his post with the priest.
“I want to go to Lord Bai Ze.” Nan Guangyu knelt on the ground with a firm gaze. “Father, Lord Bai Ze knows everything in the world. He must know how to resurrect the goddess.”
Bai Ze disappeared after the goddess was abducted to the demon realm.
Upon hearing this, the priest's expression changed, and he became more alert: "He's probably in Caesars."
Nan Guangyu didn't ask the priest how he knew Bai Ze's whereabouts; he simply bowed to him and left.
He first headed west, searching the vast western marshes but could not find Bai Ze.
When I asked the local indigenous people, they said that Bai Ze had left long ago.
"Could you please tell me where Lord Bai Ze is? I have important business with him."
Nan Guangyu asked questions very patiently.
"It seems to be heading east... He said he was going back to Shendu to drink the goddess's wedding wine."
"No, he went to the village entrance and said the goddess had turned into ruins, then he went south."
"No, it's to the north..."
Several indigenous teenagers started arguing and then got into a fight.
Finally, a reliable old man told Nan Guangyu that Bai Ze wanted to cleanse the world of evil spirits, so he should look in places where there were many evil spirits, and he would eventually find them.
After thanking him, Nan Guangyu hurried off to the area where evil spirits were said to be numerous.
Even at his speed, it took him a year to search every possible place in the land of the gods where evil spirits might reside...
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