The appearance of cracks in Wushan signifies that the gods' anger has reached an unquenchable level, and they are about to unleash divine punishment.
...It’s over!
No one can save them now!
This witch god ritual is beyond saving, even if it continues!
Quan Gongji and the others all faced the shrine, knelt on the ground, and kept kowtowing, muttering words of repentance to the gods.
Yan Sizhan looked up at the shrine above, stretched out a hand towards Su Deng, and asked in a cold voice, "Run away?"
Su Deng stood on the sedan chair, dressed in the gorgeous attire of a witch. The wind blew the white veil over her head, like a bride's veil, and the red tassels on the edge of the eerie mask swayed gently.
Hearing the sound of the world collapsing and being destroyed, she looked up at Yan Sizhan, who was also wearing a celestial fox mask, and saw his outstretched hand, but she couldn't see his face clearly.
She asked, "Where can you take me to escape to?"
Yan Sizhan paused.
Su Deng smiled faintly: "You don't even know where you can take me, yet you want to take me away. What will happen after I run away with you?"
A look of confusion flashed in Yan Sizhan's eyes beneath his mask as he said, "Wherever you want to go, I'll take you there."
"The reason?" Su Deng looked at him calmly and without expression: "Before this, we didn't seem to know each other. Why did you take me away?"
Yan Sizhan was silent for a while, then withdrew his hand: "I don't know either, but that's the choice I made in my subconscious and in my heart."
"Heart?" Su Deng chuckled. "Do you have a heart?"
Yan Sizhan grasped her hand and placed it on his chest, his voice clear and cold: "They say the heart is here."
Even through the clothes, I could feel the slight movement inside.
It's so light that you can barely feel it.
Su Deng's fingertips curled slightly. "Unfortunately... this isn't your heart..."
His body remained icy cold. Su Deng withdrew her hand from his and smiled faintly, saying, "Yan Sizhan, you don't even know why you took me to escape. You don't even know if this heart is your own. And have you really seen me somewhere before?"
"I..." Yan Sizhan wanted to answer, but he couldn't.
"You yourself don't have the answer, so why should I believe you?" Su Deng turned around, looking up at the mountain that had begun to tilt. "And can you really betray the gods?"
"Since I can't stop this destruction whether I'm a priestess or not, I'm giving up. I'm going to find my child."
Su Deng removed her mask and smiled at Yan Sizhan: "Goodbye."
She jumped off the palanquin, ignoring everyone and disregarding any semblance of elegance of a priestess, and ran towards the village where the demons lived.
Everything around her was collapsing and crumbling. She ran into the destruction, her red and white figure becoming the brightest color in the world, shrinking and receding into the distance in Yan Sizhan's pupils.
Yan Sizhan stared blankly, his hand touching his heart, feeling the almost imperceptible heartbeat in his chest, his eyes filled with confusion.
On the night of the fireworks display, wasn't it she who first called out his name in the crowd and said she knew him?
She was the one who asked him first if he knew her.
He doesn't know him.
But his subconscious told him that he must have seen her somewhere before, and that she was very important to him.
But he couldn't remember where he had seen her before.
He was busy at the time, so he didn't linger to talk to her much.
"Who...who exactly are you..." Yan Sizhan murmured. In the next second, with the tremor of Mount Wu, the mask on his face suddenly cracked open from the middle.
As the mask fell away, dark green lines climbed up his fair and handsome face, which was so beautiful that no flaw could be found. They burned like flames, and his body gradually became transparent in these flames.
Finally, it dissipated.
*
The world seemed to be on the verge of destruction, with everything collapsing and people kneeling on the ground, crying out to the gods.
Su Deng ran nonstop until she reached the village where the ghosts lived. The thick fog dissipated, and the village was in ruins.
"Su Muye!" Su Deng shouted as she ran.
"Hello!"
After searching half the village without finding Su Muye, Cui Tai came out of a dilapidated house and called out to her.
Su Deng looked over.
Suita said, "I know where that human child is."
He led Su Deng to the dilapidated shrine on the mountain deep in the village, a place that remained stable even as the world collapsed.
Two stone statues have been added to the courtyard, which hadn't changed much. One of them is a human-shaped fox, resembling a five- or six-year-old child.
The other one is a cat, right at his feet, its fur bristling as if it had been attacked by something before being sculpted by the stone, and it was baring its teeth in a defensive posture.
"Hey! Wait a minute..."
"Bang--!"
Seeing Su Deng run over quickly, Cui Tai didn't even have time to stop her. Just then, an invisible light barrier appeared outside the dilapidated shrine, sending Su Deng flying.
Seeing Su Deng fly backwards, Cui Tai covered her eyes, feeling a pang of pity.
Su Deng steadied herself, frowned as she looked at the transparent protective layer, and asked Cui Tai, "What is this?"
Midori lowered her hand from her eyes: "It's a monster's barrier!"
He said that this shrine used to enshrine a celestial fox spirit.
According to legend, female ghosts who die in this land will become fox spirits, seeking revenge on humans and demanding their lives. Foxes are the most abundant creatures in this land.
People are afraid, so they build shrines to them and express their reverence and worship.
The term "Heavenly Fox Demon" does not refer to a specific fox demon, but rather to all foxes in general, and this place is called the "place of worship."
Later, the ghost tribe built a village here and settled down.
The demons and humans hated each other, and as time passed, the place gradually fell into decline due to the lack of worshippers.
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