Chapter 32 The Love-Brained God 32: Slaying the Gods
"Sister Lan Qi, what exactly is this? I have it in my inner palace, do you have it in yours?"
After the initial shock, Hong Zhao quickly recovered and hurriedly asked.
Qi Wang naturally didn't have these things in his inner palace, but he still nodded and said in a solemn tone, "I just checked, and I have the same things in my inner palace."
Hong Zhao's face was very pale. She wanted to reach out and touch the strange insects, but she was afraid that they would crawl back into her inner chambers.
She had never seen such insects before and didn't know what they were, but since they had appeared in her inner palace and were entangled on her golden core, their purpose was certainly not to increase her cultivation.
“Hongzhao, go and call Iris over. I suspect she has something like this in her inner chambers as well.”
Hong Zhao then realized what was happening. She nodded hurriedly and ran out quickly.
After Hong Zhao left, Qi Wang looked down at the insect in his hand.
After leaving Hong Zhao's inner palace, the insects turned pinkish-red, a color similar to skin, making them difficult to notice unless you looked closely.
After leaving the inner chamber, the insects' serrated mouths gradually closed, and their faint life force began to dissipate.
Once the anger completely dissipates, the lives of these insects will come to an end.
Qi Wang frowned slightly, separated one of the worms, and sealed the rest in a closed space.
Time seemed to freeze for those insects, and the life force on the separated insects vanished rapidly. In just a few breaths, its mouth closed completely, and once its life force was gone, the insect turned into a wisp of gray mist.
This thing is planted in the inner palace of a female immortal, making it extremely difficult to find. Even if it is found, it may not be possible to peel it off completely and intact.
Even if it is separated, it will immediately disappear once it leaves the inner palace environment.
If it weren't for someone as bug-level as Qi Wang, it would be almost impossible for others to uncover them.
Hongzhao quickly brought the iris over.
“Iris, have Sister Lan Qi check if there’s anything wrong with your inner body. Sister Lan Qi and I are both in trouble, and you might be in danger too.”
Iris trusted Hong Zhao. After thinking for a moment, she opened her inner chambers and gestured for Qi Wang to come in.
Iris is a magpie fairy. The golden core in her inner palace is black and white, and the whole space is shrouded in a misty gray-white.
Unsurprisingly, her golden core was also entangled with black and white insects. Perhaps because Iris's magic power was weaker, her golden core was not very solid, and the insects had already eaten away a part of it.
Her golden core was pitted and uneven, no longer as smooth as before.
But perhaps those insects released something that numbed Iris's senses, and she didn't realize from beginning to end that there was something wrong with her golden core.
Qi Wang separated the insects from the iris's inner chambers.
Her golden core was severely damaged. After the insect separated, Iris coughed up a mouthful of blood and collapsed.
Hong Zhao was surprised by Iris's strong reaction. She quickly supported Iris's body and saw blood flowing from the corner of her mouth. Hong Zhao said urgently.
"Sister Lanqi, what happened to Iris? How did she get so badly injured?"
When those insects separated from her internal organs, her reaction wasn't this strong. Why would Iris react so strongly?
"Sister Lanqi, what happened to Iris? She's badly injured."
Hongzhao supported Iris's body and asked anxiously.
She tried to heal Iris's wounds, but to no avail. Hong Zhao had no choice but to turn to Qi Wang for help.
Qi Wang imprisoned the insects, then went over to check on the iris.
The insects had gnawed at the iris's golden core, creating small holes in it. Her vital energy was constantly draining away from these holes, which was the culprit behind her weakness.
Qi Wang simulated the power of the iris to patch up the small holes. Once her power is regenerated, Qi Wang's power will dissipate.
Iris felt herself come back to life. She exhaled a long breath and gave Qi Wang a weak smile.
"Sister Lan Qi, thank you. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would have regressed to my original form."
The situation just now was extremely dangerous. Although Iris didn't know what Qi Wang had done, she knew that if it weren't for Qi Wang, she would probably have died here today.
"It was nothing, don't worry about it."
Qi Wang comforted Iris with a few words, then had Hong Zhao help her to bed.
Of the three, Iris's magical power was the weakest, and her injuries were the most severe. Although Qi Wang had treated her, her damaged vital energy was not so easy to recover.
"Sister Lan Qi, what exactly is that thing? What's wrong with me?"
Recalling what had just happened, Iris felt a little scared; she still didn't know what had happened.
Qi Wang took the items he had taken from her inner chambers and presented them to Iris.
“I found these insects on your golden core; they were also eating away at it.”
Upon hearing Qi Wang's words and seeing those ugly and terrifying mutated insects, Iris's face turned deathly pale.
Her voice trembled as she asked, "What the hell are these things? How did they get into my inner chambers?"
The inner palace of an immortal is extremely important, especially the golden core, which is the repository of all their cultivation. If there is a problem with the golden core, they will not only revert to their original form, but also have all their years of cultivation destroyed.
Because the Golden Elixir is so important, every immortal sets up layers of protection within their inner palace to prevent their Golden Elixir from being damaged.
How could these things have entered her inner chambers without her knowledge or awareness?
Hong Zhao suddenly remembered what happened yesterday. She bit her lip and whispered.
"Do you remember yesterday's selection?"
Hong Zhao spoke softly.
When Hong Zhao went to participate in the selection yesterday, she felt something was wrong. Compared with the selection two hundred years ago, this time there was an extra procedure. She raised objections back then, but the angel's attitude was not good, so she did not dare to ask any more questions.
Moreover, when she placed her hand on the sphere, her palm was clearly pricked by something, and she then sensed something peering into her inner chambers.
But the feeling of being spied on quickly disappeared. When asked, Iris said she hadn't noticed anything, and Hongzhao also thought it was just her imagination.
But now it seems that the insect was probably planted in his inner chambers yesterday.
It was only because of her profound cultivation that she was able to hold on for a while longer, but Iris only had a hundred years of cultivation, how could she possibly hold on?
"It was yesterday..."
Hong Zhao lowered her voice and recounted what had happened.
Iris paused for a moment, then stammered, "But, isn't that the Heavenly Palace's selection process..."
How could the Heavenly Palace selection process be rigged?
They were all minor fairies with limited magical power, so why would the Heavenly Palace resort to such roundabout methods?
Iris subconsciously looked at Qi Wang: "Sister Lan Qi, do you also think that yesterday's selection was rigged?"
Qi Wang nodded: "I'm afraid that's the case."
Qi Wang had previously felt that the Heavenly Palace was selecting female immortals too frequently. Immortals have long lifespans, so there was no reason to select them every two hundred years.
"Don't you find it strange that the Heavenly Palace selects female immortals only once every two hundred years? Where did all the female immortals who were selected in the past go? Does the Heavenly Palace really need so many female immortals?"
Hongzhao was stunned, and Iris didn't react.
"If they stay in the Heavenly Palace, where can they go?"
When did the Heavenly Palace begin selecting female immortals? How many female immortals were selected each time? Have any of the female immortals who served in the Heavenly Palace returned to the Four Seas and Eight Deserts?
"Among the people you know, are there any who, after becoming celestial maidens, still maintain contact with you?"
The answers to many questions are right there in front of them, but they hadn't thought about them in detail before.
But now, upon closer reflection, it turns out that everything was foreshadowed all along.
"You mean, all those female immortals are dead?"
Qi Wang nodded, then shook his head.
"It's probably not as simple as just death."
To confirm his suspicions, Qi Wang asked Hong Zhao to stay in the room to take care of Iris, and then he went to find some female immortals who had passed the preliminary selection.
Unsurprisingly, the inner cores of these female immortals were covered with those strange insects.
Qi Wang separated the insects and then gave the female immortals a psychological suggestion, making them believe that they had not been chosen. Under Qi Wang's psychological suggestion, they decisively chose to leave.
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