What really made the high priest angry was that Zhuge Chengxi's behavior was tantamount to a provocation, and it was a provocation to the gods. The gods cannot be insulted. Zhuge Chengxi was guilty of heinous crimes and deserved to die!
"You want to drag me in front of the statue?" Zhuge Chengxi continued to wave his folding fan with one hand, stroking his chin with the other, and pondered, "Is it true that the deity is more likely to manifest itself after contact with the statue?"
The high priest said coldly: "That's right."
Zhuge Chengxi smiled and said, "Then, take me over."
High Priest: ???
He suspected that Zhuge Chengxi had a problem with his brain.
However, since the other party took the initiative to come to him, the high priest had no reason to refuse. He snorted coldly, "Follow me."
Zhuge Chengxi walked behind him and said with a smile: "My purpose in coming here is to face the gods directly. If you had told me earlier that I could find the gods in front of the statue, I would not have killed so many people."
Of course, this statement was definitely a lie. The more people Zhuge Chengxi's Burning Heart Flame killed, the more powerful it would be. However, he was the city lord's nephew and it was impossible for him to wantonly kill the cultivators in the city, otherwise it would cause dissatisfaction among the independent cultivators. So he could only occasionally sneak out in disguise, casually glance at the street, use the Burning Heart Flame to kill some people, and then quickly escape.
Because of this, a rumor began to spread within the city, claiming that too many people died daily in the Living City, and the excessive slaughter had caused the resentment of the dead to linger and regularly attack the living. All those attacked suffered a painful death, their internal organs burning. To prevent this from happening again, it was suggested that everyone practice harmony and wealth, and stop talking about fighting and killing every day...
Of course, rumors were just rumors. The cultivators of the Living City had long been accustomed to killing. The living thought, "Well, the resentment hasn't been retaliated against me, so why should I be afraid? Besides, there are so many people in the city. If I don't kill others, they will kill me... If disaster really befell me, I can only blame myself for bad luck, and no one else... Besides, maybe it was the Dark City's doing!"
The Abandoned City is divided into two parts: the Living City and the Dark City. The Living City is inhabited by living people with flesh and blood and sound thinking and consciousness. As for the Dark City... it is inhabited by souls, zombies, the living dead and other creatures.
The Living City and the Underworld City originally had a non-interference relationship, but occasionally creatures from the Underworld City would come here to cause trouble. Ten years ago, a "buried ghost" from the Underworld City came here, killed 100,000 practitioners, and refined these 100,000 undead souls into his own ghost servants, causing a sensation in the whole city.
At that time, several ancestors of the Lei family, one of the ten major forces, were awakened from their slumber and saw the bloody waves in the city. Twenty descendants of the Lei family with good blood talents were also refined into "ghost servants". They were furious and joined forces to defeat the "Burial Ghost", captured it, and handed it over to the City Lord's Mansion for suppression.
Later, the Hades City was quiet for two years, and then some "dead people" sneaked into the city to cause chaos. In addition, the Living City itself was a city that advocated fighting, and the way the Burning Heart Flame killed people was relatively concealed. It burned the internal organs, but if the stomach was cut open before the person died, the flames would go out instantly, and only the internal organs would be as if they had been cut with a knife. The incision was smooth and neat, half of the internal organs disappeared, and the other half remained in the body. It was impossible to tell that they had been burned like this. Therefore, many people did not associate it with the "Heart Tribulation Flame". They just thought that some demon cultivators had practiced strange evil magic, or that the "dead people" in the Hades City were causing trouble.
In the final analysis, it was because Zhuge Chengxi was too restrained and did not dare to kill people in large numbers, which led to the slow progress of Burning Heart Flame. However, the Compassionate Clan in the Ci Guang Swamp met Zhuge Chengxi's hunting conditions very well. This made Zhuge Chengxi start to wonder whether he should "keep" all the Compassionate Clan members in captivity?
Let the number of the Compassionate Clan continue to increase, and then kill a group of people from time to time, without worrying about the news leaking out, because the Compassionate Clan restrains practitioners.
Thinking of this, Zhuge Chengxi's eyes suddenly changed when he looked at the high priest.
The high priest noticed that the person behind him was so quiet, so he turned around and saw Zhuge Chengxi looking at him. Their eyes met, and Zhuge Chengxi's eyes were bright and passionate...
The high priest shuddered, feeling the other person's gaze was terrifying. He immediately became alert and shouted, "You...what do you want to do?"
"Nothing. I suddenly felt that I was so bad, so inhuman, that I killed so many of your tribesmen. To express my apology, how about I send you a batch of sacrifices regularly in the future?" Zhuge Chengxi said eagerly.
The high priest was suspicious at first, then suddenly realized and said, "You must be scared, right?"
Zhuge Chengxi: "..." What am I afraid of? I have never been afraid of anyone in my life!
The high priest sneered, "Weren't you very proud when you killed someone just now? Now you are afraid after following me into the mountain? This mountain is easy to enter but difficult to leave... You have no way out now. You will either become a sacrifice or become a follower of the gods."
Zhuge Chengxi was shocked. "I killed so many of you, and yet I'm still a follower of the gods?"
It's outrageous.
The high priest looked at him with a mixture of love and hate and said, "I just thought about it on the way here. What you just did wasn't entirely a bad thing. Perhaps this was sent by the gods to test us."
Zhuge Chengxi was filled with questions. "What kind of test is this? How come I don't know about it?"
The high priest explained, "Among the believers you just hurt, some were praying for divine protection, some were begging me for help, and some were begging you for mercy... Those who prayed to the gods were the most loyal believers. The two who prayed to me were my good-for-nothing sons. As for those who begged you... that's unforgivable. Why would they ask you? You're our enemy, and they're humbly praying to us. This behavior is disrespectful to the gods..."
Zhuge Chengxi was speechless.
The high priest continued, "However, your previous actions were also a provocation to the gods. But if you sincerely repent, perhaps the gods will forgive you. After all, you are a talented person... Moreover, I have seriously reflected on myself while walking on the road and found that I am not a qualified believer either."
Zhuge Chengxi felt that he couldn't keep up with the other party's train of thought at all, "Why did I fail?"
The high priest said, "The gods have mercy on all living things, and we, their believers, should always maintain a clear mind and compassion for the world. But I suddenly realized that when my people died, I not only didn't feel any sadness, but I even thought it was a good thing, because they could enter the kingdom of God sooner after death... But after thinking about it carefully, I feel that this is wrong, because death itself deserves my compassion. Even if they will have a good destination after death, I should still feel compassion..."
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