Chapter 33 Love-Brained God 33 Slaying the Gods
Many people left after learning they hadn't been selected, and now that Qi Wang was sending off those who had been selected, the huge hotel quickly became empty.
With so many nominees gone, the angels would definitely investigate. To avoid alerting them, Qi Wang created many puppet figures exactly as they were, and then implanted insects imbued with the aura of the female immortals into their bodies, making the puppet figures completely indistinguishable from the real thing.
After doing all this, Qi Wang returned to the room where Hong Zhao and the others were.
Iris was in much better condition than before. The two were talking together when Qi Wang came in. Hong Zhao immediately stood up, and Iris also sat up straight. The two looked at Qi Wang at the same time.
"Sister Lan Qi, how are things? Those people..."
Qi Wang nodded and said, "They also have those worms in their bodies. According to my speculation, all those who passed the preliminary selection should have those worms in their inner palace."
Upon hearing this, the two men's expressions grew even more grim. Iris was only about a hundred years old, and she hadn't been in human form for many years. How could she have experienced something like this?
Her face turned pale and then flushed, and her tone became increasingly agitated.
"What should we do next? Sister Lanqi, Sister Hongzhao, I'm scared..."
As she spoke, her voice became choked with sobs, and her body trembled uncontrollably.
Hong Zhao's expression was also very ugly. Judging from the current situation, it was obviously the Heavenly Palace that had done something. These strange insects appearing in their inner palace could not possibly be there to replenish their cultivation, could they?
The situation is now critical, and the two have no idea what to do.
Iris didn't know what to do, so she looked to Qi Wang and Hong Zhao for help, hoping they could come up with a solution.
Hong Zhao was older, but she didn't have much life experience. To them, the Heavenly Palace was a behemoth, completely unshakeable.
She had no desire for revenge, nor would she even think about investigating the truth. Now that she knew there were problems with the selection of female immortals in the Heavenly Palace, she had only one thought in her mind.
"Let's go, let's not go to the selection of the female fairy. Anyway, the worm has been removed, so there won't be any problems if we don't participate in the second selection."
The selection of female immortals will be officially determined in the second selection. It is true that they passed the first selection, but they don't need to go to the second one.
Hong Zhao held Iris's hand and said, "We go to the Heavenly Palace to become female immortals to increase our cultivation. If we cultivate on our own, it will only be slower, and we won't encounter any danger."
She also realized that even if they didn't go to the Heavenly Palace, they could survive on their own.
Iris naturally listened to Hongzhao and nodded, saying, "I'll listen to Sister Hongzhao; we won't participate in the second round."
As she spoke, she suddenly remembered something, turned her head to look at Qi Wang, and asked uncertainly, "Sister Lan Qi, are you coming with us?"
For some reason, even though she felt that Qi Wang would choose to go with them, she was now a little unsure.
They were all ordinary, grassroots fairies with no powerful backgrounds, yet Qi Wang could discover things they couldn't, and even get the other female fairies to open their inner chambers for her to see...
Hong Zhao felt that Qi Wang might make a different choice.
Her guess was correct.
"You all go, I'm going to the Heavenly Palace."
Qi Wang naturally wanted to go to the Heavenly Palace. He needed to find out why these insects were implanted into the bodies of female immortals, and more importantly, to investigate where the female immortals who had been recruited into the Heavenly Palace over the past ten thousand years had ended up.
Qi Wang's intuition told him that if he found out these things, he could get to the core of this world.
Whether Hong Zhao and Iris go or not makes little difference to him. If they go, Qi Wang can protect them conveniently; if they don't go, Qi Wang will just avoid a little trouble.
"Sister Lan Qi, are you still going to the Heavenly Palace? But, but the Heavenly Palace is so dangerous. What if something happens to you if you go?"
If we're going to leave together, why does Qi Wang still want to go to the Heavenly Palace?
"The Heavenly Palace is inhabited by powerful gods; we can't defeat them. We should just live our lives peacefully and not go there..."
Hong Zhao patted her arm to soothe her emotions.
"Iris, everyone has their own ambitions. If Sister Lanqi wants to go, we can't stop her, right, Sister Lanqi?"
Hong Zhao said the last sentence to Qi Wang.
Qi Wang nodded: "I know what I'm doing. If this matter isn't clarified, my Dao heart will be damaged, and I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to make any progress in my cultivation in the future."
Seeing that Qi Wang insisted, Iris didn't say anything more.
Time was of the essence, and staying here might cause further complications, so Hong Zhao gave Iris some of her treasured elixirs to help her recover some of her energy.
"Sister Lan Qi, we're leaving now."
"Sister Lan Qi, be careful. Don't fight head-on. If you really can't handle it, then leave first..."
The two were very grateful to Qi Wang for his help. If it weren't for Qi Wang's intervention, they would not have been able to separate the insects from their bodies on their own.
Knowing that Qi Wang was determined to go to the Heavenly Palace, the two did not continue to persuade her, but instead gave her their life-saving magic treasures.
"Sister Lanqi, these things are for you. I hope they can protect you and keep you safe."
If they face a fatal threat, Qi Wangliu's backup plan can save their lives.
The three then parted ways.
After leaving Xiangyuan City, the two headed west. The Western Wilderness was the territory of beasts led by the Xuanwu clan, and they decided to go there to avoid trouble.
However, after the two left Xiangyuan City, their memories of Qi Wang became increasingly faint.
When they reached the edge of the Eastern Wilderness, the two completely forgot about Qi Wang.
Although she had forgotten the memories of that time, Hong Zhao vaguely felt that something was not quite right.
"Iris, do you remember why we went to the Western Wilderness?"
She remembered that the once-in-two-hundred-years selection of celestial maidens was about to begin, and the two of them went to Xiangyuan City together to participate in the selection.
Iris blinked: "Didn't we lose the election? You said the Eastern Wilderness is ruled by the Bird Clan, and you want to take me to see the Western Wilderness."
Iris are magpies, and their clan has no particularly outstanding talents; the entire magpie clan has little status in the celestial realm.
Her aptitude was considered good among the magpie clan, which is why the clan members allowed her to participate in the selection of celestial maidens.
It was a pity that she was not selected. Iris was also afraid of seeing the disappointed looks in the eyes of the elders in her clan when she returned, so she simply went to the Western Wilderness with Hong Zhao.
But she's still young. Even if she fails this time, there's always next time. Next time she can...
For some reason, the thought of participating in the Heavenly Palace's selection of female immortals next time made her instinctively feel repulsed.
"Sister Hongzhao, I don't know why, but I don't really want to participate in the fairy selection anymore..."
Hong Zhao glanced at her: "Me too. There's nothing good about becoming a female immortal in the Heavenly Palace. Our magical powers are weak, and we'll just be lowly immortals serving others in the Heavenly Palace."
They are free and unrestrained outside, doing whatever they want without any restrictions. If they were to go to the Heavenly Palace to serve as female immortals, they might not be able to adapt.
She used to really want to become a female immortal in the Heavenly Palace, but for some reason, after failing the selection this time, she completely gave up on the idea.
It's better not to go to the Heavenly Palace. It's a den of dragons and tigers; once you go, you'll never come out. You'd be better off just being a carefree immortal.
A strange figure suddenly appeared in Hong Zhao's mind, but before she could even get a good look at the figure, it had already vanished without a trace.
"I think I just remembered something..."
"Me too, but I forgot again."
"They probably aren't anyone important."
A strange feeling flashed through their minds, but they didn't think much of it and stepped into the Western Wilderness together.
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Qi Wang passed the second round of selection smoothly. After a short rest, he left Xiangyuan City with the two angels.
Accompanying him were three thousand female immortals, some of whom were puppets created by Qi Wang, and others were female immortals living in other places whom Qi Wang had not yet replaced.
The difference in strength between the two sides was too great, so Qi Wang checked their internal organs without alerting them.
These people were in the same situation as Iris Red Zhao; their golden cores were entwined with those strange insects, which clung tightly to their golden cores, almost merging with them.
After obtaining the sphere, Qi Wang examined it carefully. The sphere was filled with countless transparent insects in a dormant state, their serrated mouths not open.
These insects have not yet been activated. Qi Wang speculates that they will only grow those serrated teeth after coming into contact with the female immortals' bodies, and then invade their bodies.
To prove his suspicions, Qi Wang captured the two angels and allowed the insects to come into close contact with them.
Strangely, the insects, after landing on the angels, did not enter their bodies.
Even if Qi Wang moved the insects into their inner palace, those insects would not take root on their golden cores.
The insects had absolutely no interest in the angel.
Is it because Angel T possesses something that counters them, or is it simply because they are not interested in them?
The former is unlikely, since Qi Wang knew everything about their magical artifacts from their thorough search, and they couldn't hide their secrets at all.
To verify his suspicions, Qi Wang separated two puppets and used them to capture several male and female immortals who were committing evil deeds.
These male and female immortals took pleasure in human lives. One male immortal, in order to force a female immortal to admit that she loved him, mercilessly slaughtered an entire city.
Another female immortal, in order to force a male immortal who was unwilling to love her to say that he loved her, killed countless low-ranking immortals. She said, "If you save one, I will kill one. If you do not admit that you love me, I will kill all the mortals in this city."
There are also two immortals, a male and a female, who are in a love-hate relationship. In order to prove their importance and uniqueness to each other, they use an array to drag a city with tens of thousands of mortals into an infinite loop.
They used various methods to destroy this human city, then reversed time to resurrect all the humans in the city.
They wanted to see if ordinary people who retained their memories would abandon their hatred and accept the people who had killed them.
The high and mighty immortals treated the human world as a hunting ground. They were all noble gods, and the humans were their followers.
But they didn't care.
Qi Wang didn't care about them. When he passed by and found them committing evil deeds, he simply packed them up and took them all away.
Since these immortals only acted strangely because they felt their lives were long and empty, let's just let them shine in Qi Wang's hands and give their cruel, ruthless, cold-blooded, and shameless lives more meaning.
Through his experiments, Qi Wang discovered that these insects would not invade the bodies of male immortals; only female immortals would be eroded and assimilated by the insects.
Qi Wang placed them into mustard seed spaces with different time flow rates.
He wanted to see what these insects would eventually evolve into after assimilation.
It took half a month to travel from Xiangyuan City to the Heavenly Palace.
Qi Wang didn't know what the angels were thinking. Anyway, they said they wanted to temper the character of these female immortals, so they dragged out the journey that should have taken half a day to fifteen days.
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