"Alright, you can all leave now." The old woman raised her hand to stop the quarrel.
"Yes." Everyone in the hall bowed and slowly left.
After the crowd left, Zhi Hui immediately walked up to the old woman and whispered, "Grandma, the insects are indeed scary, but it's not like we don't have a solution. If we really can't, we can ask the High Priestess for help, or ask Her Eminence to descend. There's no need to ally with the humans."
The old woman didn't say anything. Her murky eyes stared at Zhang Wenqian without moving. Her expression was strange, as if she was thinking about something.
Zhang Wenqian was a little scared. She tightened her grip on the sword in her hand. Threads of green light flowed around the blade. This old woman's cultivation had clearly reached the point where she could see through people's minds. She had captured the thoughts that had just appeared in Zhang Wenqian's mind.
"Little girl, can you tell me how you met Luo Kai?" the old woman asked.
Zhang Wenqian shook her head. "I've only seen him before. I'm not familiar with him."
"Oh … Alright."
The old woman didn't delve into the matter. She lowered her head and fell into deep thought. Her spiritual cultivation had indeed reached the point where she could see through people's minds, but she couldn't see through people's deeper memories.
Zhi Hui pointed at Xiao Fan. "Grandma, this little girl is seriously injured. Can you save her?"
The old woman looked at the unconscious Xiao Fan and frowned. "Come with me."
From the looks of it, these people who claimed to be from the Wood Tribe weren't like the infected people outside. Zhang Wenqian let down her guard and asked, "Grandma, can you really save Xiao Fan?"
The old woman shook her head. "The radiation has already seeped into this little girl's bone marrow. The only way to completely cure her is to be reborn. I can't do it, but our God can. You've come at the right time. In order to deal with the Fiend Demons, I'm preparing to awaken our God!"
"God?" Zhang Wenqian was stunned.
"That's right, our great God of Nature."
The old woman led them into the back of the hall. Her face was filled with reverence as she knelt down in front of a blooming flower.
Zhi Hui also knelt down. The two of them closed their eyes and began to chant, as if they were communicating with some unknown existence.
…
Liu Hou hurriedly knelt down as well. Only Zhang Wenqian stood there, not knowing what to do.
God represented omniscience and omnipotence. He could see through the universe, past and future.
She didn't know if there was a god in this world, but it must be a creature that was beyond her understanding. In other words, it was a creature, not an omniscient and omnipotent god!
Just like the technological civilization, when the biological civilization developed to a certain point, it was actually a journey against God.
When the Primal Chaos was still unknown, people revered the heaven and earth and deified all natural phenomena. When these phenomena were no longer a secret, gods were naturally no longer gods.
Currently, humans had deified some high-level and terrifying creatures, but that didn't mean that they recognized them as omniscient and omnipotent gods. Or rather, they believed that gods were just living beings and were essentially no different from other creatures.
Mayflies could see life and death from day to night. They seemed inferior and insignificant, but in truth, in the life of a mayfly, the concept of time was completely different from that of other species. Their "short" lives were equally magnificent and rich.
In short, everything was not based on external factors, but on the soul!
She wasn't the only one who doubted the gods. The fat old man kneeling beside her, Liu Hou, was also the same. Although he was kneeling, he was actually staring at the stamen from the corner of his eyes.
Wisps of faint green light were emitted from the stamen. The green light gradually condensed and turned into a human figure. A clear and gentle aura spread out.
Everyone in the city felt incomparably peaceful and comfortable. It was as if all their worries and desires had disappeared.
They all stopped what they were doing and bowed towards the flower palace in the sky.
"Miss Zhi Hui!"
As the figure gradually condensed, Zhang Wenqian couldn't help but let out a low cry. This was because this figure looked exactly the same as the beautiful woman in front of her.
This low cry attracted the attention of the figure. "Her" pair of incomparably gentle eyes looked over.
A gentle frequency touched Zhang Wenqian, making her want to open up her heart and share the memories in the depths of her consciousness with that frequency.
She wasn't the only one who felt this way. Everyone in the city couldn't help but open up their hearts and minds. They shared their emotions, worries, desires, and everything else with their "god"!
The entire forest quieted down. Just like humans, plants also had likes and dislikes. It was just that they didn't know how to express themselves, and they couldn't express themselves. At this moment, they seemed to be affected by some kind of will. They all gathered their branches, and an incomparably vast amount of pure life energy gathered. The figure became even more solid. It was almost no different from a normal body of flesh and blood.
"Her" expression seemed to be very comfortable, and she seemed to be enjoying it. She stretched her graceful body and gently floated down from the stamen. She walked in front of Zhi Hui and looked at her carefully. After comparing, a pleasant voice came from her mouth. "Seems like it's about time."
Then she walked to Zhang Wenqian's side and stared at her for a while. She murmured, "This body is also not bad. The combination of water and wood can create a holy body."
Everyone in the palace was immersed in a wonderful spiritual pleasure and couldn't extricate themselves. They didn't respond to "her" words.
Only Xiao Fan on the ground was not affected. She was awake and asleep. She could no longer distinguish between reality and dreams. She said in surprise, "Sister, why do you look exactly the same as Sister Zhi Hui?"
"She" turned her head and said with a smile, "I am Zhi Hui."
Xiao Fan was stunned. She looked at Zhi Hui, who was kneeling on the ground. She shook her head and said, "You are not Sister Zhi Hui."
"She" was curious and said, "Why? We are exactly the same. I have all of her memories. Our personalities and habits can also be exactly the same. What's the difference between us?"
Xiao Fan tilted her head and thought for a while. She said, "I don't know. In short, you are not Sister Zhi Hui. She … she has a very good heart."
"Haha."
"She" chuckled and said, "My heart is also very good. I can help you cure your illness, and I can also help you become stronger. In the future, you will have no worries, no worries, no pain. Only happiness, comfort, and satisfaction!"
However, Xiao Fan frowned. "That's not right. Happiness is built on pain, and satisfaction is built on desire. These are opposites to begin with."
There was yin and yang in the sky, and there was good and evil in people. Everything in the world must be opposites, including the human heart. Desires and emotions were a lot of distress, but they were also the only bridge to promote the progress of civilization. For example, the evolution of living things was the desire for power and eternal life.
Such a simple truth was suddenly understood by the little girl. The utopian world that "she" had painstakingly built suddenly collapsed.
"Her" expression changed. The essence of the gods was not just power, but a kind of spiritual will that could affect and control the world in all aspects. Humans were the spirits of all things, and they were the oddities of the heavens. In order to control the world, one must first control the human heart. There was no better way to control than to establish a belief or belief.
"She" immediately became angry. "Damn girl, if that's the case, I will let you taste the taste of pain!"
However, Xiao Fan was not afraid at all. Instead, she smiled and said, "I told you that you are not Sister Zhi Hui. I am not even afraid of death. What is there to be afraid of? You can do whatever you want."
"Hmph, I have countless methods that are more terrifying than death. For example, I can extract your soul and make you unable to reincarnate forever!"
"She" smiled coldly and slowly walked over.
Xiao Fan was scared to death, but her head was held high.
At this moment, "she" suddenly stopped and looked up at the sky. A hesitant expression appeared on her face. In her perception, a figure as fast as lightning was passing through the space outside the weather layer.
The weather layer was hundreds of thousands of meters above the ground, but for high-level life forms, there was almost nothing that could be hidden from them. Under the powerful telepathy ability, distance was no longer an obstacle.
Just as she looked up, the figure also noticed her. It suddenly changed direction and shot straight at her.
"She" snorted coldly, and the figure collapsed on the spot. When it reappeared, it was already ten thousand meters in the sky. The physical body was restricted by the physical space, but the illusory energy body was not restricted by space and could travel through the void at will.
Luo Kai stopped and looked at the beautiful woman who had suddenly appeared in front of him. The woman's appearance overlapped with a certain image in his mind. It was on his way to Higashimogami Province. In the underground stream of Chongjun Island in the Thousand Islands Sea, he, Su Chengbo, and the other two were fighting the Inviting Moon Willow.
This woman was the Wood Elementalist who had led them there.
He was a little surprised and said, "Miss Zhi Hui."
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that something was wrong. The woman in front of him had an extremely obscure aura, and her body was not solid. It was completely composed of pure Wood Energy.
The evolution of living beings was roughly divided into three levels. They were the liquid form made of carbon, the solid form with an infinitely compact body, and the gaseous form made of particles.
The figure in front of him was a gaseous life form made of particles. In other words, it was possible that she was a god!