Chapter 54 The Sacrifice: Its Secret.
Enraged by her unwarranted slander, the agent of the psychic god, who always represented holiness and dignity, flew over and attacked. The bloodstains that had been on him had been cleaned up, and his pristine white robe billowed in the wind with his movements.
Believers who firmly believed they were protected by God no longer concealed their true nature, and in a daze, they were like a wild beast that had gone out of control, their eyes turning bloodshot.
As if some instinct had been unlocked, he attacked Chu Jue with fierce killing intent.
[…Really? Help!]
[This person is so fierce! Has he mutated? He's acting like he's going to silence them. Be careful when executing him!]
[That's hilarious, who would believe that?]
If you believe this, you'll be set for life; when you're old, they'll come to you selling health supplements.
Chu made no attempt to resist, and even had the leisure to read the comments. Upon discovering that someone had broken down despite the screen, he continued to educate the poor believer:
"A psychic god? No, a thief. It's not a benevolent father god, but a laughable thief."
"It steals the power of the Mother Goddess, yet it covets the woman the Mother Goddess favors. Therefore, it deliberately makes use of you who are of the same status as it, that is, men."
【What the hell are you spouting?!】
Chu Jue smiled.
"What innate preference, what superior physique? They're nothing but unwilling thieves."
"Fabricating such lies is nothing more than a way to suppress women and satisfy their twisted psychology that they themselves cannot create. These defective products seem to have even fooled themselves by stealing."
She attacked all defective products equally.
"Only women have ever been able to practice the scriptures."
"The benevolent Mother Goddess bestows spiritual power upon every woman from birth."
These words were laced with sarcasm, striking at the man's sore spots at every turn. The white-robed man gritted his teeth, his attack speed increasing even further. Chu Jue's gaze was finally drawn to him—she caught a fleeting glimpse of something unusual about him.
[Side quest completed, reward issued immediately.]
[You have received the task reward: [Its Secret]]
In the fleeting notification from the system, Chu Jue immediately realized something. His earlier anomaly, and "its" secret... the vague sense of familiarity he had felt upon first meeting overlapped with this instant.
Perhaps the system's rewards can validate this question for her.
He finally seized the perfect opportunity! Taking advantage of her momentary distraction, the man suddenly unleashed all the spiritual power bestowed upon him by the gods—
Almost at the cost of its own existence, a vast and mighty divine power poured forth, its fierce attack destroying everything the man could see.
His consciousness became hazy, his soul screaming silently within his body, as if breaking free of a cage, only to be imprisoned by a new entity the next second. In that instant, the man felt as if he had lost something important, but it was too late for regrets.
The spiritual energy and mental energy collided violently, producing a loud bang.
Although Chu Jue paused for a second, she remained calm and composed. As the source of all things, she possessed the ability to be immune to attacks from defective products.
She observed the man closely during the confrontation, not missing any of his changes, and carefully considered how to mobilize just the right amount of mental energy.
The pure primordial power enveloped the inferior counterfeit, gradually devouring the man's every breath. The external force constantly pulled against his own body, plunging him into endless rage and ferocity.
Chu Jue's breathing was steady; compared to the man who had fallen into madness, the difference in their abilities was immediately apparent.
This "evenly matched" situation lasted only a short while.
The man's spiritual energy, lacking any further support, gradually weakened. He struggled to his senses and realized that the woman had unknowingly laid a trap—
He didn't know when it started, but he became one with the spiritual power.
The man's consciousness and body were blurred, yet he could feel himself being consumed by her.
His divine power was seemingly drained by her offensive, and Chu Jue approached step by step with an endless stream of life force.
The spiritual power of the church gradually dimmed, like a deflated balloon, until only a small clump remained.
She looked at the men who dared not keep quiet, and surprisingly, no one dared to step forward to gain experience points.
Chu Jue glanced at it casually, and the candle-sized flame burned out in its struggle.
The outcome is already decided.
Even after the light completely went out, her eyes still held a coldness that had not yet returned.
"It's still a defective product after all."
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To everyone's surprise, the death of one white-robed bishop led to the deaths of everyone in the church.
As the white-robed man unleashed astonishing spiritual power, the men sensed a tyrannical divine force demanding their own. Their spiritual power was being stripped away, and they were completely powerless to resist.
That was the will of God from above, an irresistible force.
As the bishop struggled in his death throes, they could also feel his life force fading away, but his body was completely out of control, and he was hanging by a thread in a daze of pain.
"Didn't you say... only... those, the lowly people?"
When exactly did it begin—when did they become "sacrifices" to spiritual power?
Those who have always been self-important and arrogant finally realize that they are also objects that those in power can discard at any time.
Could it really be as this woman said... that the God of psychic powers isn't the creator of psychic energy, and that His only skill is stealing? He fabricated this lie, and we are merely the flawed products of His lie...
Fortunately, after they lost consciousness, they no longer had to think about these things.
The men's souls and bodies perished, leaving them with no place to be buried.
Only the women who were still in shock remained.
The truth has been revealed, and the cleanup at the scene was completed much more easily than expected.
Without time to check the reactions on the StarNet, Chu Jue immediately went to handle the next matter. She only had time to say "It's up to you" to Zhu Xi before disappearing from the spot.
Zhu Xi was still in shock when she was surprised to discover that Chu Jue had somehow learned teleportation.
She noticed that Chu Jue's gaze lingered on the archbishop's corpse before he left—Zhu Xi also looked at the archbishop, who was now almost dead, and the thieves lying on the ground, before she felt the belated joy of victory.
Zhu Xi composed herself, but still couldn't hide her joy. She laughed heartily without regard for her image, until her muscles started to ache, before turning back to do what she was supposed to do.
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Ji Linyuan received Chu Jue's call from his sea of consciousness, and the two quickly gathered together.
"What is it?" She was busy cheering in the forum, celebrating the victory after many years. But when she saw Chu Jue's expression, she realized that this sudden summons was more urgent than celebrating the death of the defective product.
"I've unlocked the reward," Chu Jue said succinctly. "Its secret."
She had already roughly seen the "reward" given by the designer during the battle, and she reviewed it again on the way. This reward was almost exactly what she had in mind.
"Um?"
The system-unlocked reward popped up at the right time, and Chu Jue shared it with Ji Linyuan, his expression complicated:
"It, the secret of the false god."
The system seemed to have extracted the false god's "spiritual power," directly informing them of its secret through mental energy.
The false god's power did not come entirely from theft—that was what he did first.
Just as Ji Linyuan deduced, it exploited the believers, plagiarized the previous order of humanity on this planet, and prepared for its own future plans.
It does not want to stop at being a false god.
If it wants to become a true god, it must do things that only a true god can do.
With the men's provisions and the women's faith, the false god's plan quietly took shape. It secretly transformed the pious men in the church into its own kind—the men in the church, like the white-robed bishops, were still rejoicing in having gained "divine power."
Since the form has been transformed, the consciousness belonging to humanity will naturally be extracted as well. The disappearance of consciousness is exactly the same as the annihilation of the soul, but the false god doesn't care about this at all.
All it needs are good believers.
The new followers are considered "evolved beings" by the planet, part of its evolutionary plan. It aims to "evolve" from a newly ascended god to a true god, and therefore needs these evolved beings to help it acquire more "divine power" in different star systems.
Ji Linyuan's translation from Imperial language: "Uh, that is, turning defective products into 'evolved forms' without self-awareness, so they can continue to be thieves who help him steal divine power."
"right."
The thieves were driven by a single will: to travel to more star systems and steal more things for their "father."
"Do they even have brains?"
"Probably not." Chu Jue shook his head. "It wasn't there before, but it's even harder to assess now that it's become those things."
"Those things?" Ji Linyuan gleaned some information from her complex expression and a bold idea formed in his mind.
"Yes, the so-called 'evolved form' also appears on our home planet."
No wonder there are such abnormal upgrades; it's because they don't rely on their own abilities, but purely on theft.
"Ha—this damn thing!" She knew what Chu Jue was talking about. After all, over the years, they had been constantly eliminating these persistent intruders who seemed to come from nowhere.
“Interstellar alien beasts,” Chu Jue said, “are the original racial form of the false gods.”
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"Damn it, I didn't expect the starship's coordinates to be correct—I stumbled into the right place by accident." Ji Linyuan slapped his thigh and cursed, "Back then... sigh, I was investigating the alien beasts back then."
However, the existence of these strange beasts is completely random, with no discernible pattern.
"The commander-in-chief assigned me to investigate this matter in secret, but two years have passed and I still have no clue."
Fortunately, she finally caught a glimpse of the beast during one of her missions—and then she arrived here.
"A defective product of Heavenly Eunuch. I never thought that the alien beasts were the evolved forms of these things."
Chu Jue nodded; this was why she wanted to meet up with Ji Linyuan immediately.
"What do you plan to do?" Ji Linyuan asked.
“Kill it.”
After Chu Jue absorbed the mutated spiritual power of the white-robed man, her mental strength was fully restored.
At his peak, Chu Jue never paid any attention to any defective products, and the same was true for the pseudo-gods that grew from defective products.
The timing is perfect.
The false god's lies were exposed, and the church's faith ceased to exist. All the men in the central district died suddenly, following the man in the white robe; these flawed individuals could no longer serve the false god.
The faith power contributed by women, who are the true "believers" providing spiritual strength, will also disappear after Chu Jue exposes the false god incident.
This is equivalent to the entire Psionic Kingdom ceasing to provide power to the false gods.
Aside from the beasts that are still stealing, now is the time when the false god is at its weakest.
This is an opportunity that should not be missed; it is a perfect storm of favorable timing and location.
The two looked at each other and saw the same thought in each other's eyes.
—Kill it.
—Right now.
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Author's Note: ...I miscounted, so the main text won't finish until tomorrow [Clown]. I'm really sorry, the next chapter will be released after midnight.
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