Chapter 469: Chapter 165: Slaying the Great Revered One! Another Skill Upgrade! (10,000-word Mega Chapter - Please Subscribe)_6
——Because that meant he, as a Divine Envoy, was already dead!
At that moment, the elder had thought it was just a little joke played by the Divine Envoy, whose mana reached the heavens.
For in the elder’s eyes, the Divine Envoy was no different from a Terrestrial Immortal.
How could such an existence die?
But...
The elder felt an unbearable dryness in his mouth, and he could only feel the talismanic symbols on his skin becoming hotter and hotter. It had even become so scalding that it felt as if boiling water had been poured over his body.
The elder’s entire body trembled frantically, and unable to endure the agony, he collapsed to the ground and let out successive screams.
The intense burning sensation forced him to extend his hands and tear his clothes into shreds.
"So hot, so hot!" the elder cried out in shock and horror, pain and fear: "Divine Envoy! The Divine Envoy’s joke is real! So hot! Water, I... I need water!!"
The sudden violent reaction of the elder startled the crowd around him.
They watched with wide eyes as the elder tore his clothes into pieces, revealing the twisted talismanic symbols on his body. Even in the pitch-black night, they could see these symbols emitting a faint glow, like the light of fire.
And they also heard the painful screams coming from the elder’s mouth.
For a moment, the people present were at a loss.
Because... this elder was the pillar of their group. If something happened to their pillar, they didn’t know what to do.
While writhing in pain, the elder tried to crawl towards the riverbank.
The screaming sounded extremely chilling.
It was then... the bystanders finally realized what was happening. One of the more astute people hurriedly shouted, "The Village Chief has a problem! He says his body is burning! He wants water! Quick... hurry and fetch water from the river for the Village Chief!"
Upon hearing this, those with containers capable of holding water rushed toward the river.
As they bent over with their tools, attempting to scoop up water from the edge of this section of the river,
They suddenly froze.
A believer of The Great Revered One with a bucket bent down to scoop, and then watched in disbelief as the river water actively retreated, leaving his scoop empty!
The rest of them.
It was the same!
"What... what’s going on?" While the elder continued to struggle and scream behind them, the river seemed to be alive, actively withdrawing from them. This incredibly eerie scene caused everyone present to shiver with fear.
"Look at The Great Revered One’s idol, quickly!" With a terrified shout, no one cared about the screaming elder anymore, as they all cast their panicked gaze upon the already shattered idol of The Great Revered One.
Then, they witnessed with their own eyes the idol with a shattered head suddenly crack open with fissures.
And the cracks on the body of The Great Revered One’s idol grew bigger and more numerous in a very short time.
Boom!
With a crisp sound, The Great Revered One’s idol burst into pieces.
Pieces of the idol scattered all around.
Everyone present was stunned.
They were all dumbfounded.
They had never encountered such a bizzare situation before. They had not anticipated that such an event would occur tonight. Fear began to spread uncontrollably among the crowd.
"Punishment! This is punishment!" A believer of The Great Revered One screamed in despair: "This is the punishment from The Great Revered One! We accidentally shattered the idol’s head; this is His divine retribution!"
"So... so does this mean the Village Chief is now suffering the punishment from The Great Revered One? But how could The Great Revered One, that merciful and compassionate deity, inflict such punishment on His believers?"
"Will it be our turn next? Could The Great Revered One, might He... He wants to punish all of us?"
"Hiss! The water in the river is receding on its own. Why can’t we just throw the Village Chief into the water?"
"Yeah!!"
"So who’s going? I... I’m too scared to go, I don’t want to be punished by The Great Revered One, not at all!"
"..."
While they were hurriedly discussing with a sense of panic, suddenly, the old man who had fallen to the ground screaming abruptly stopped. His screams were cut short because the mana scripts on his body had caught fire, the flames enveloping his body!
As everyone watched in stunned silence, the old man turned to nothing but bones within less than the span of five breaths, consumed by the fire.
The fear suffusing their surroundings nearly became tangible.
Until someone seemed to have seen something.
"Under...under the Village Chief, there seems to be...there seem to be words..."
Despite the presence of so many people, most of whom could barely recognize a few characters, they found to their astonishment that they could understand the few characters before them!
They were blood-red characters, each one sinister, as if written with the old man’s own blood!
—Desecrate my temples, smash my icons, collude with heresy, worship the Evil God, intend to usurp my divine power with the Evil God and his followers.
—Death is too good for you!!!
The bloody characters frightened all the followers of The Great Revered One to the point of pallor.
"Run!!!"
No one knew who it was, but someone screamed in utter terror, and then took off running. The rest, like ants in disarray, started running in all directions.
They even discarded the tools in their hands and no longer cared for the building materials brought for temple construction. The shattered icon of The Great Revered One on the ground was no longer a concern to them.
Because... an endless wave of terror, at that moment, had seized every fiber of their being.
There was only one thought in their minds.
And that was to flee!!!
...
The next day.
Noon.
The commotion near Rat Immortal Cave hadn’t gone unnoticed, especially with so many followers of The Great Revered One running away wildly. This kind of news was even more impossible to conceal.
The local Heavenly Inspection Agency apprehended a few crazed followers of The Great Revered One, and the words spilling from these deranged people seemed significant.
Therefore, the Heavenly Inspection Agency, through a mixture of threats and inducements, made them reveal what exactly had happened.
After learning about the previous night’s events and their identities from these followers of The Great Revered One...
The local Heavenly Inspection Agency was furious and terrified.
The fury was because there were followers of the Evil God causing trouble so blatantly! The terror was because the other party had been acting right under their noses, and they, the Heavenly Inspection Agency, had only just found out, which was no different from neglect of duty!
The local Heavenly Inspection Agency immediately gathered about twenty or thirty members.
They first checked the spot where the old man had died the night before, and cast a glance at the spine-chilling blood characters on the ground.
Then, based on the descriptions from those followers of The Great Revered One, they stepped into the desolate area near Rat Immortal Cave.
When they arrived at the site of last night’s magical duel.
All of them were struck dumb!
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