Chapter 28 The Love-Brained God 28: Slaying the Gods
Cang Yu... He is a dignified god of the heavens, how could he be swallowed by a demon beast?
The raging monster devoured Cang Yu's body like a madman, and she could only stand by and watch helplessly, completely unsure of what to do.
It shouldn't be like this. How could Cang Yu be attacked by such a lowly demonic beast? This is impossible...
Jinxia should have stepped forward to rescue Cangyu. Even though the two had a bad breakup, they had once truly loved each other.
That was her former lover. Even with so many demonic beasts around, even if she herself would get hurt, she should rush up to protect Cang Yu.
But she was just a little flower fairy, and her power as the flower goddess had been taken away by a strange force. She was just a little fairy who had lived for more than four thousand years. She couldn't do it.
Jinxia staggered back a few steps, looking at Cangyu, who was surrounded by layers of demonic beasts, with panic and helplessness.
"Cang Yu, wait a moment, I'll get someone to rescue you right away..."
Jinxia knew that she was not strong enough. Even if she rushed forward, she would only provide some food for the monsters and would not be able to rescue Cangyu.
If this drags on, Cang Yu might soon perish at the hands of the demon beasts. After a great internal struggle, Jin Xia finally made a decision.
She called out to Cang Yu, then turned and ran away without looking back.
Jinxia felt that Cang Yu was still the Dragon God, and even if he was injured, he was still a Supreme God. There were only a handful of Supreme Gods in the Four Seas and Eight Deserts, so how could a few demonic beasts possibly hurt him?
Cang Yu may be injured, even seriously injured, but he will definitely not be killed by these lowly demonic beasts.
As long as she goes looking for him quickly, and as long as she finds him and rescues him soon, Cang Yu will definitely be alright.
Cang Yu's body had been torn apart by the demonic beasts, leaving him covered in wounds and on the verge of death.
The Dragon God's body was clearly incredibly tough, something that no mere demonic beast could break through, but for some unknown reason, those demonic beasts easily sliced open his scales and torn skin, devouring his flesh and blood.
It hurts, it hurts so much.
Cang Yu was in unbearable pain, but he couldn't even faint. He could only consciously endure the agony of the monsters devouring his flesh.
What caused him even more pain and despair was that the woman he loved, upon seeing the monster charging towards him, instinctively retreated without even making a move to save him.
She just kept crying, calling his name as she cried.
In the face of life and death, Cang Yu could no longer remain as calm as before, feeling that Jin Xia only needed to stand obediently to the side and that she didn't need to do anything else.
His life force was rapidly draining away, and even if Jinxia tried to cast a few spells at this moment, Cang Yu could convince himself to accept it all.
But no.
After Jinxia cried for a while, a demon beast seemed to have noticed her and wanted to rush towards her, but then realized that Cang Yu's body was not enough to share, so the demon beast turned back halfway and started gnawing on Cang Yu's body again.
But even that one demonic beast terrified Jinxia. She hurriedly cast a spell and ran away without looking back.
"Cang Yu, I'm going to find someone to rescue you, hang in there..."
At the critical moment of life and death, his life hung by a thread, but his lover ran away without looking back...
Cang Yu let out a silent scream. Before the bone-chilling hatred could spread, his brain was devoured by the demonic beasts.
Cang Yu's consciousness was completely plunged into darkness.
But how could Qi Wang let him die so easily?
Being torn apart by the monster was only the first step.
Qi Wang collected Cang Yu's soul. Some of the souls had been eaten by the demon beasts, but Qi Wang didn't care much.
Eating a little won't hurt.
There is more than one human realm. There are six human realms connected to the celestial realm. Cang Yu is the Dragon God worshipped by all six realms. He went into seclusion for three years, and all six human realms also suffered a three-year drought.
Qi Wang sliced Cang Yu's soul into pieces and threw them into six human realms.
The gods who sit high on their altars are unaware of human suffering and only care about their own love and affections. Why not let them go down to the human world and experience it for themselves?
He keeps claiming to be acting for the sake of all living beings, believing he has never wronged them, only that they have wronged him. So why not switch roles and experience the lives of those people he claims he has never wronged?
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Cang Yu thought he would die a miserable death in the mouth of a monster; he never expected that he would still be able to open his eyes.
However, when he opened his eyes, he found himself lying inside a pot.
Cang Yu: "????"
The water around him was murky, filled with mud, sand and pebbles, and he was in this murky water.
He is a mighty dragon god, who dares to boil him?
Cang Yu instinctively reached out to use magic, but when he stretched out his hand, he found that his hand had become thin and black, looking like two charred chicken feet.
His hands were covered with deep and shallow scars, and dark brown stains covered his entire hand. Cang Yu rubbed them with his hands in disgust, but the murky water did not clean the black grime off his hands at all. Instead, it made his hands look even dirtier and more disgusting.
This must be a hallucination.
Cang Yu's face turned extremely ugly. He scrubbed the dirt off his hands almost self-destructively, as if cleaning the dirt would restore his magic power.
However, the commotion quickly attracted the attention of others, and before long, someone came over.
"Oh my god, how did it come back to life?"
"How are we supposed to eat this? No, no, a dead person is a dead person. The food in the pot can't be alive."
The two people's voices sounded very strange; although their voices were weak and feeble, they carried a kind of eerie aura.
Cang Yu's expression changed drastically, and he suddenly looked up.
Two raggedly dressed people were slowly walking towards them. One of them was carrying a stone, and the other was carrying a rusty iron fork.
When they saw Cang Yu wake up, the two men's eyes flashed with malice as they strode toward Cang Yu.
"The food in the pot is dead."
"The food in the pot cannot come back to life."
Their expressions turned extremely crazed, and after saying those words, they simultaneously hurled the objects in their hands at Cang Yu.
"presumptuous!"
Cang Yu only had time to utter those two words before their attack arrived.
They were two lowly humans, and even before he became the Dragon God, he could have easily pulverized them with a wave of his hand.
But now, facing their attack, Cang Yu was powerless to resist. He had just woken up when he was beaten to death by the two of them.
This must be an illusion. How could the Dragon God, who is high above the heavens and revered and worshipped by all people, be killed by two lowly humans?
Yet, within what he perceived as an illusion, Cang Yu experienced incredibly real pain.
He was beaten to death by those two men, and to prevent him from reviving, his body was cut into pieces.
"The food in the pot couldn't possibly be alive..."
"Food, food, it's just food..."
"If we eat him, we can survive..."
"The offerings for the Dragon God must not have been enough. New offerings have been sent to the Dragon God Temple. Once the new offerings are placed on the altar, the Dragon God will surely send down sweet rain..."
"The Dragon God protects all living beings and blesses all people; he will surely answer our prayers..."
"We need to eat our fill, eat a lot, eat enough so that we can survive until the day the Dragon God responds to us..."
Cang Yu's body was dead, but his soul clung tightly to that shattered body, and the omnipresent pain tormented him.
He could clearly hear the two people talking.
These two lowly people, how could they be his followers?
His followers killed him.
His followers ate him.
His followers are like this, simply waiting for his coming.
How absurd, how laughable!
But Cang Yu, who had already become food on the plate, in the mouth, and in the stomach, could do nothing about it.
He could only consciously bear all of this.
Even after being a dragon god for hundreds of thousands of years, his soul was still not strong enough. He was killed once, and his soul became somewhat unstable.
After finishing the last sip of broth, the lingering pain finally disappeared, and Cang Yu once again sank into darkness.
He thought it was all over, but he never expected that he would open his eyes again.
When he opened his eyes again, he was a little boy who had fled with his mother.
Without magical protection, humans face all sorts of dangers, and their escape route is fraught with peril. Every time night falls and day breaks, someone disappears without a trace.
Panic gripped the people, and fear spread everywhere. The displaced people, gathered together, were wary of one another, yet they had no choice but to stay together.
The frail human mother guarded him closely, striving to protect his safety.
Despite the perilous situation and the difficulty of survival, she still did everything she could to give him everything she could.
But this woman, who tried so hard to protect him, disappeared one night when darkness fell.
Cang Yu searched frantically, but what he finally found was the woman's mangled body.
She became food in other people's mouths.
Cang Yu desperately tried to take her body, but he ended up becoming another dish of food.
He clearly had the ability to save everything, but he was powerless to do anything about it.
"We must survive. As long as we live, we can wait for the day when the Dragon God brings rain..."
"It's been three years, a full three years. Lord Dragon God will surely appear again."
"The Dragon God will never abandon his followers..."
The dragon god they worshipped became their food, their mouths, and their bellies, yet they dreamed that the dragon god would descend again to protect all living beings and save them from suffering.
How could he have such a depraved follower?!
The dual torment of his body and soul nearly drove Cang Yu mad, and his soul let out a painful wail.
But he was powerless to stop it, unable to change it, and could only watch helplessly as it all happened.
Cang Yu died once again.
Cang Yu woke up once again.
Every time he regained consciousness, he was a miserable mortal. He encountered all sorts of people: his parents, his friends, his children. Each time, they all ended up in the same pot, becoming someone else's food, someone else's meal.
They said they wished the Dragon God would show them mercy again.
Those were his followers; they ate them, just to wait for the Dragon God to reappear.
Cang Yu went from being angry at the beginning to becoming numb in the end.
And he finally remembered why these things had happened.
It all started because of him.
He learned about Jinxia and Yuanheng's relationship, and also learned that because he cared about the well-being of the people, he only focused on fulfilling his duties and disregarded Jinxia's feelings.
So Jinxia left him.
Unable to accept Jinxia's departure, he chose to retreat into seclusion for three years, no longer concerning himself with worldly affairs.
"Is this the dragon god I want to be? For the sake of all living beings, I even lost my own lover. Why should I care about them?"
So he abandoned his duties and stopped caring about the people.
They believe in him, and his power comes from their faith. He protects them, and they give him faith, which in turn becomes the surging power within him.
The Dragon God, seated high on his altar, is unaware of the suffering of the common people. Since he occupies the position of Dragon God, there will never be a second Dragon God.
The gods and human beliefs are firmly bound together, and the power of the laws is under his control.
Therefore, only after we stop interfering in human affairs will the human world become a purgatory.
That's why he lost his power, that's why he was devoured by the monsters, and that's why he was repeatedly reincarnated in the human world.
He couldn't see the suffering of the world without experiencing it firsthand. Only by repeatedly experiencing the lives of ordinary people could he understand regret.
However, it was all too late.
Cang Yu regretted it. He prayed to the unknown being, begging it to let him return to the Heavenly Realm.
“I really know I was wrong. I shouldn’t have forgotten my duty. From now on, I will definitely be a good Dragon God and I will definitely protect the people.”
"Please give me a chance to make amends. Only I can make up for such a colossal mistake."
He thought that if he sincerely admitted his mistakes and promised to change, he could return to the heavens and continue to be the high and mighty dragon god.
However, harsh reality told him that it was all just wishful thinking on his part.
He died repeatedly and woke up repeatedly, each death leading to the same end.
Because of the countless lives he caused to die, he will be reincarnated for a certain period of time until his sins are cleansed, at which point he will have the possibility of being reborn.
Should I return to the celestial realm and continue being the Dragon God?
Qi Wang scoffed, "He's really delusional."
Having committed so many wrongdoings, how could he possibly return to his position as the Dragon God after only receiving a little punishment?
That's wishful thinking.
Seeing Cang Yu being attacked by a demonic beast, Jin Xia dared not step forward. Fortunately, she still had a little conscience and thought of finding someone to save Cang Yu.
However, not long after Jinxia ran away, she encountered Yuanheng, who had come looking for her.
The moment Jinxia saw Yuanheng, she stopped in her tracks and abruptly stepped back.
Yuan Heng hadn't noticed Jin Xia at first, but her actions caught his attention.
Having lost the power of the Flower Goddess, Jinxia no longer possessed her former beauty; she now only bears three-tenths of her former appearance.
Yuan Heng's gaze fell on Jin Xia, and when he saw her face, his brows furrowed sharply.
"Yuanheng, I am..."
After what happened with Cang Yu, Jin Xia knew they might not recognize her, so her first thought was to explain her identity.
However, Yuan Heng's temper was even more volatile than Cang Yu's. With a wave of his hand, powerful magic swept over, completely destroying Jin Xia's physical body.
"ah!!"
Jinxia let out a shrill scream, her soul transforming into a stream of light as she tried to escape.
How could the person she loved so deeply be so cruel? He destroyed her physical body; if her soul didn't escape, she would likely be beaten to a pulp.
However, Jinxia, with her weak magical power, was no match for Yuanheng. In fact, if it weren't for Qi Wang's power protecting her, Jinxia's soul would have been torn apart by Yuanheng's demonic energy just now.
Upon discovering that Jinxia's soul had not disappeared, Yuanheng became interested. He raised his hand and waved his hand, and the demonic energy transformed into a large palm, grabbing Jinxia's soul.
When Jinxia possessed the power of the Flower Goddess, her soul emitted a seven-colored light, which had a fatal attraction for people like Cang Yu.
Now that she no longer possesses the power of the Flower Goddess, her soul is ordinary and even dim, showing no extraordinary qualities whatsoever.
Yuan Heng frowned as he looked at Jin Xia, a rare moment of curiosity about him.
"How could your fragile soul withstand my demonic attack?"
The female immortal in front of him had a face that resembled Jinxia's by three points, which aroused Yuan Heng's interest. Her strange soul also made Yuan Heng curious.
"Guess how much power I used to crush your soul?"
Jinxia's expression changed drastically, and she let out a shrill scream: "Yuanheng, it's me, Jinxia! Don't you recognize me?"
She hurriedly revealed her identity, but before she could explain why she had become like this, the irritable Yuan Heng increased the force in his hand.
"Shut up! How dare you, a lowly servant, impersonate my beloved? You're not worthy!"
Jinxia used to really like the special treatment Yuanheng gave her.
Apart from her, Yuan Heng was cold and impatient with everyone else.
But now that she has lost the power of the Flower Goddess, Yuan Heng doesn't recognize her and treats her in the same way he used to treat other female immortals.
At that time, Jinxia would try to persuade Yuanheng, but he would say that he did this only to make her happy.
"Xia'er, you are so beautiful, how can I allow a fake to exist?"
Jinxia was very happy, but she couldn't bear to see Yuanheng harm the other female immortals. She said, "Don't take their lives, it's not right..."
Because of her persuasion, Yuanheng spared the lives of those female immortals who resembled her in some ways.
However, while the death penalty may be avoided, punishment is inevitable.
He gouged out her eyes to resemble her fairy eyes, cut off her ears to resemble her fairy ears, and burned her hands, which resembled her fairy arms, until they turned to ashes.
Although Jinxia once thought Yuanheng was somewhat cruel, she only offered him a few words of advice because he did it out of love for her, and then stopped interfering.
At least their lives were saved, which is a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.
However, now that she has lost her original appearance, she was captured by Yuan Heng and treated in the same way that he treated those female immortals. Jinxia found it hard to bear.
"I am your Xia'er..."
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