Chapter 147 I'll make the good die and the bad grow... (Patricide)
After explaining so much, Mo Bei gradually grew bored. He yawned, stretched, and then casually waved his hand. The thousands of silver threads connecting to Yu Li's body pierced even deeper, entering her flesh, bones, meridians, and spiritual channels...
Yuli let out another painful groan, tilted her head back, and stiffly spread her limbs.
Mo Bei used silver threads as a medium to easily transfer divine power into Yu Li, greatly increasing her cultivation level. He could also drain the divine power from her body in an instant. A dignified god was so easily manipulated by him, which shows that his cultivation level was several levels above theirs.
"Lord Yuli, please throw them both into the incense burner and burn them to ashes," Mo Bei ordered casually.
Yu Li's body was once again infused with immense divine power, giving her the ability to suppress both Yun Tianjiao and Zhiwei simultaneously.
This is the method of the God of Joy. He bestows great power upon her, yet he cannot enable her to protect those she wants to protect. Like a well-honed butcher's knife, she is only meant to create the good show that the God of Ink Sorrow wants to see.
Yu Li looked up at the sky and suddenly recalled that distant life that she had deliberately forgotten.
Her given name was An Li. Because of a mole under her eye, she was rumored to be unlucky in marriage and destined to have difficulty finding a husband. However, the truth was that she was the only daughter in her family. The matchmaker wanted to take advantage of the family line and married her off to her own nephew. But she knew that her good-for-nothing nephew was not good enough for her, so she deliberately ruined her reputation so that no family of equal social standing in the surrounding villages would dare to propose to her.
Everyone thought she would compromise, but she directly used her family's assets to establish Ji'an Hall, which not only cut off the delusions of those despicable people who coveted her family's property, but also gave more women another way to make a living besides getting married.
After Ji'an Hall gained prominence, the women she sheltered became coveted reproductive resources in the eyes of others. They wanted to destroy Ji'an Hall, and to destroy Ji'an Hall, they had to destroy her first. They succeeded; she was falsely accused of having affairs with men, and the women of Ji'an Hall were also disgraced. Condemned by thousands and cursed by all, she had no way out but to prove her innocence with her death.
But back then, An Li, whether she was timid, retreated, or ran away, never truly allowed herself to be manipulated by anyone! She never fulfilled those people's wishes!
However, once she ascended to godhood, she found herself constantly hampered by others.
She didn't know how she became a god, nor did she remember who she was. After regaining consciousness, she went to the heavenly realm in a daze to report for duty. When the heavenly official in charge of registration asked her name, she only remembered that her name contained the character "Li".
At that time, Yuan Si, who was still the crown prince, was in charge of managing the positions of the gods. He glanced at her casually and said, "You are a goddess. There is currently a vacancy for the position of god in charge of childbirth. Why don't you become the god of childbirth in the future, and be known as Yu Li?"
She never married in her life, and she fought to the death to prevent women from being reduced to mere reproductive tools. In the end, she became a goddess of childbirth and even used "nurturing" as her title.
When she regained her memories, she found it all both ironic and ridiculous. She was afraid that others would find out that she was An Li, the one who founded Ji'an Hall. So she covered up her true face and erased all her records, and settled down to be the goddess of fertility.
Perhaps because her true appearance had been concealed for so long, even An Li's temperament had become clouded. In a celestial realm filled with male gods, her words carried little weight, and her existence was negligible. Day after day, she became cautious and timid, meticulously crafting herself into the image of a gentle and submissive goddess as everyone expected her to be...
Even the only ray of light she could feel in the heavens, the Desire Dream God, was extinguished because of her cowardice.
But she shouldn't be like this!
An Li, though living a miserable life, was unrestrained and free.
Yu Li watched helplessly as her hands formed hand seals, like the puppet bride in the Ascension Ceremony's secret realm, step by step, according to Mo Bei's will, trapping Yun Tianjiao and Zhiwei, then igniting a fire spell to throw them into the incense burner. Forced by circumstances, manipulated by others, having lost herself, she finally couldn't help but scream in anguish under the reflection of the rolling flames!
The goddess roared to the sky, destroying her divine essence. The powerful force that Mo Bei had given her to destroy others was now fully unleashed by the impact of the self-destruction of her divine essence, shattering the formation that covered Joy City in one fell swoop.
The worshippers in the temple square, who had been kneeling and kowtowing like zombies, finally stopped. Their eyes regained their clarity, and they looked at each other, seemingly not understanding where they were.
Yu Li's divine robes fluttered, her high bun came undone, and her long hair danced freely in the wind. The divine energy at her chest burst forth with a scorching light, making her body, suspended in mid-air, shine like the blazing sun.
Mo Bei was also affected by the backlash of this powerful force, falling from mid-air and landing awkwardly on the ground.
"Yu Li! Are you crazy?!" He spat out the blood in his mouth and jumped up to curse incredulously.
He couldn't understand why she would choose to seek her own death when all she had to do was accept his manipulation and become his assistant, enjoying the glory and power of the Heavenly Realm. How foolish she was! Did she really think that this was all it took to kill him?
However, Yu Li did not continue to attack Mo Bei with the power of her divine self-destruction. Instead, she exhausted all her divine power, making her voice a heavenly sound, so that all the world could hear it.
"Evil God Mo Bei! You murdered your own father, and to cover up the truth, you have bewitched Lin Shen's mind for many years, causing him to develop inner demons and make one mistake after another. Not only did you kill your father and usurp the throne, but you also forcibly broke through your cultivation using the Heavenly Pillar, ultimately leading to the destruction of the Heavenly Pillar! In order to rapidly increase your cultivation, you practiced evil arts, bewitched cultivators, devoured the souls of mortals, and even drained the divine essence of the God of Remembrance! In order to ascend to the position of Heavenly Venerable, you not only seized the Heavenly Venerable Temple in Lin Shen for yourself, but also instigated local governors and kings to build temples and burn incense for you, sparing no expense and causing hardship to the people."
Yuli's voice was like a divine chant, echoing between heaven and earth, penetrating the ears of every mortal.
Enraged, Mo Bei threw the glass lamp in his hand, striking Yu Li hard.
However, the colorful glass lamp passed straight through Yu Li's body the moment it touched her.
It turned out that Yu Li's body had already turned into dust along with the self-destruction of her divine essence. At this moment, she was just a lingering phantom floating in mid-air.
The self-destruction of a Divine Venerable's divine essence could destroy the Demon Fiend together. As Mo Bei's glass lamp pierced through the remaining phantom of his body, the billions of light fragments representing Yu Li's divine essence drifted further away. Each speck of light carried Yu Li's stern question.
"Mo Bei! In order to seize the offerings of Gongxin, you did not hesitate to create the plague to frame others, causing the world to be plagued and starving to the point of death. You also defied the laws of heaven, using illusion arrays to bewitch mortals, manipulating them into becoming your fanatical followers, and stealing offerings! You are so utterly devoid of conscience, causing havoc on the world, no different from demons and evil spirits. How can you still be worthy of being called a god?"
Mo Bei initially tried to stop Yu Li's voice from spreading, but he failed even after Yu Li exposed all his crimes. In the end, he simply gave up and stood still on the Mo Bei Temple, his eyes dark and deep, like two cold abysses, with a cryptic smile on his lips.
"It's alright. Since you've told others my secret, I'll just kill everyone who knows it. Once they're all dead, no one will know..."
Mo Bei's glass lantern rose into the sky, splitting into two, then four, then eight... and so on, increasing in number until it hung high in the sky like a sky full of stars.
Most mortals in the world would probably never witness such a magnificent miracle in their entire lives. They stared in disbelief at the countless glass lamps in the sky.
After Yu Li broke through Mo Bei's formation, Gong Xin, Shen Qiongzhi, and Zhu Jing regained their senses. At this moment, they were the only ones in the crowd who understood how dangerous their current situation was.
"Immortal Lord Zhu Jing, Miss Chen, please help me set up a protective barrier!"
As soon as Gong Xin finished speaking, the glass lamp suspended in the air burst into flames, transforming into fireballs that crashed to the ground with long trails of fire, like a meteor shower.
When Yun Tianjiao and Zhiwei broke free from the fire cage, they witnessed this terrifying natural disaster.
A tiny, shimmering speck of light gently landed in her palm, warm and comforting.
Yun Tianjiao's eyes stung, and he called out, "Yu Li..."
The light flickered, as if it were a little unhappy.
Tears streamed down Yun Tianjiao's cheeks. Looking at the glint of light, she immediately smiled and corrected herself, "I misspoke, it was An Li."
The light flickered twice excitedly, seemingly very happy, but it quickly went out completely and disappeared.
“An Li…”
Anli Anli, meaning peace and happiness for all people under heaven. What beautiful wishes must her parents have had when they named her that? How could they have foreseen that their precious daughter would suffer such injustice in the future?
Yun Tianjiao clenched his fist, but grasped nothing.
In this world, there is no longer the Goddess Yuli, who held a flowery paper umbrella and showed a gentle smile to the world.
"Your Highness, we must hurry and help the new God Venerable. His barrier is about to collapse."
Zhiwei's voice drew Yun Tianjiao's attention back. She looked in the direction of Gong Xin, where his round earthenware jar was continuously sprinkling grains out.
The five grains intertwined into a net, covering the sky above the temple square, protecting mortals from being struck by fireballs falling from the sky. However, the devil is always one step ahead; for every inch his protective barrier expands, the number of fireballs created by Mo Bei multiplies.
Yun Tianjiao and Zhiwei rushed over to help, but even with the combined efforts of the five, they still couldn't protect everyone. Countless worshippers were hit by fireballs, either crushed to death or burned to death. Cries of agony rose and fell, and there was no way out in the world.
Some families came together, with men sacrificing their lives to save their wives and mothers to save their children, only to end up separated from their spouses and children, with the living suffering more than the dead. Others, in order to survive, used their loved ones as human shields at crucial moments, successfully hiding within Gongxin's barrier, and looking at their charred bodies with expressions of relief.
The high and mighty god of joy, observing the myriad aspects of human life, seemed to find it amusing and clapped his hands with delight.
"See? Whether people are good or evil has nothing to do with whether they can live. Who says good deeds are rewarded and evil deeds are punished? I'd rather the good die and the bad live long!"
Mo Bei shouted loudly to the mortals below, "Hey! If you kill just one person, I will spare you from the fireball punishment and let you leave here safely!"
Yun Tianjiao glared fiercely at Mo Bei: "Mo Bei, you are heartless and insane, aren't you afraid of divine retribution!"
"Divine retribution?" Mo Bei pretended to think, then snapped his fingers as if suddenly realizing something, and chuckled, "Am I not divine retribution?"
沈琼枝恨得牙痒痒，她本来就与墨悲有血仇，如今知道自己的死竟然也与他有关，更是恨不得将墨悲拆吃入腹，大骂道：“你这人是有什么毛病？受过多大刺激啊？你小时候肯定很缺爱吧，你爹是不是天天揍你？不然也不能把亲爹都给杀了！”
Mo Bei's ever-present smile vanished, replaced by a ferocious expression: "You're talking nonsense! I didn't kill my father! He was just a beast. I killed a beast."
In his rage, he unleashed a spell at Shen Qiongzhi, yelling, "You brat, die! I should have annihilated your soul back then!"
Yun Tianjiao and Zhu Jing were both startled. They couldn't help Gong Xin maintain the barrier, so they withdrew their power and reinforced Shen Qiongzhi's protection.
Mo Bei's spell struck the protective barrier that the three of them had worked together to support, but it did not bring the expected impact.
Yun Tianjiao narrowed his eyes and sneered, "His power has weakened! Take advantage of this opportunity!"
Mo Bei was also startled. He belatedly realized that it was Yu Li's words that had taken effect. At this moment, the number of his worshippers was decreasing significantly, and correspondingly, his divine power was also rapidly weakening.
"Damn it, it's all that stinky woman Yu Li's fault!" Mo Bei still looked childish, his voice filled with anger and resentment. If one hadn't witnessed what he had done, it would have been difficult to feel any ill will towards such a young man.
At Yun Tianjiao's command, the five of them rushed towards Mo Bei and surrounded him. Mo Bei had no choice but to put away the glass lamp and focus on dealing with the situation.
"Hey, five against one, that's so unfair!"
Fireballs stopped falling from the sky, and mortal pilgrims screamed as they fled the temple.
After exchanging a few blows with the five men, Mo Bei gradually felt overwhelmed. He knew that the current situation was the most unfavorable for him, so he decided not to fight them head-on, but to leave the place first and then make further plans.
Suddenly, he waved the glass lamp, and a raging fire instantly engulfed the main building of the Temple of Joy. The fire spread rapidly in all directions, chasing after the mortal pilgrims and blocking their way.
In order to save people, Yun Tianjiao and the others had to be distracted and put out the fire first, so Mo Bei took the opportunity to escape.
The magnificent Temple of Joy in the main city of Jiangzhou was thus reduced to ashes overnight.
The entire city was shrouded in black smoke, which rose with the wind, and black wood chips and paper scraps that had not yet burned flew everywhere.
The city of Joy, which had been immersed in jubilation during the day, was completely exposed, revealing its true nature. The locals were impoverished, living in dilapidated houses with numb eyes; the homeless slept on the streets, some injured, some seriously ill, and all facing expulsion by local officials.
The city of joy has turned into a city of despair; laughter is nowhere to be seen, only cries can be heard.
Yun Tianjiao and Zhiwei once again disguised themselves as medicine merchants, distributing medicinal herbs along the streets to treat the sick and save lives. They were busy until late at night when she suddenly felt something floating down from the sky. Looking up, she saw an open oil-paper umbrella slowly descending towards her.
This is Yuli's ritual implement, except that the pink peach blossoms on the original umbrella surface are gone, and it has become a plain white umbrella.
Yun Tianjiao gently grasped the umbrella handle, closed the paper umbrella, and hugged it to his chest.
Logically speaking, when a magical artifact loses its master, it will sever its connection with the master and become an ownerless object. Even if it has a spirit, it is difficult for it to regain its own consciousness until it welcomes a new master.
But a moment after Yun Tianjiao put the paper umbrella away, it gently broke free from her embrace, opened its canopy again, and flew into the air as if spreading its wings.
“Yu Li…”
Yun Tianjiao couldn't help but call out softly.
However, the paper umbrella did not respond to her. It flew into the sky without looking back and disappeared into the night, as if it had only come to Yun Tianjiao to say goodbye, and not to find a new master for itself.
It simply came to tell her that it was about to embark on a long journey to a place it was going to.
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