Chapter 1651: Chapter 1651

The magpie was overjoyed, performing eight consecutive backflips! Its huge wings stirred up a gust of wind that blew away several nearby tents.

Master Sun comforted the magpie, while the National Master and Little Princess stood silently on the side. The Little Princess seemed a bit listless—having been hit by the stumbling stone every day for the past few days, she was on the verge of becoming withdrawn. When would her great dream come true so that her elder brother would only recognize her as his one and only sister, and kick the chubby stumbling stone away!

The Little Princess didn’t have the same thought process as normal people, but she was somehow confident in this idea, although she didn’t know where this confidence came from.

The National Master looked at Little Princess, and then at the magpie, and then back again at the Little Princess, and then at the magpie again... A bad suspicion crossed his mind: were there two birds around Master Sun? Perhaps Master Sun had some peculiar preferences? However, since the National Master was from Sang Island, he had witnessed various oddities and had a high level of tolerance for peculiar preferences, after all. In fact, he even recalled an exquisite garment he owned, made of dozens of beautiful feathers from high-ranking divine birds, which allowed him to fly and control clouds and fog...

The National Master frowned secretly: Why did he, a six hundred-year-old National Master, suddenly remember this garment?

Master Sun returned to Hamilton City with the Magpie. The new soldiers in the camp were unaware of what happened, and even General William had forgotten that he had once cooperated with a powerful Demon Beast. Any minor issues within the new recruit camp were quickly covered up, and everything proceeded smoothly without any chaos due to the Magpie’s disappearance.

Only poor Boundary Flower, who was nicknamed "Death Bonsai," was still drifting across the vast ocean, waiting day and night for Master Sun to remember her.

The magpie transformed into a small bird and stood on Master Sun’s left shoulder. After a while, it would suddenly jump over Master Sun’s head and land on his right shoulder. And after another moment, it would jump back again—truly jumping, relying completely on the strength of its legs. If the magpie moved its wings even slightly, it would consider it a loss.

Master Sun’s face turned a bit blue from annoyance. Did he look like a hurdle for the bird to jump over?!

At first, Little Princess didn’t have much of a reaction towards the magpie, thinking that her brother having one more bird was no big deal. But as the magpie continued to bounce around playfully, Little Princess’s eyes started to light up, and she gave a cheerful laugh that resembled the sweet tinkling of silver bells. In her excitement, she pleaded, "I want to play too..."

Master Sun quickly held her back, his face now turning from blue to an iron-cold expression!

The Little Princess started to tear up, feeling wronged. "Mean brother, you’re biased! You’re bullying me! Why can she play, but I can’t?" Master Sun grabbed the magpie as well. "Both of you, calm down!"

"You can play, but the price is that once we enter the city, you have to behave and live in a birdcage!"

Of course, Master Sun couldn’t feel at ease leaving the magpie outside, as he knew she might impulsively cause trouble. He couldn’t put her in the All-Encompassing Small World either, as the magpie would most likely resent it, since he had accidentally left her in the Red Clan Barbarian Continent for so long that he felt guilty.

Little Princess immediately raised her claw, "Deal!"

No way would the Magpie agree! Silently, she gave up her spot on Master Sun’s shoulder, and Little Princess cheered, occupying the position and starting to jump—jump—jump—

But after playing for a while, Little Princess felt that there was no challenge. She began to entice the magpie to play along: "Come on, come on, let’s each take a side and do a double-jump!"

Master Sun cursed under his breath, because the fierce glint in the magpie’s eyes betrayed its eagerness to give it a try!

Whoosh, whoosh—Swish, swish - bam!

Two silly birds collided above Master Sun’s head, their eyes spinning with stars as they slammed into his forehead together.

Before entering Hamilton City, Master Sun had refined two magical bird cages that could seal the Seventh Realm, trapping both silly birds in them! Verna cheered and snatched the one holding the Little Princess from her elder brother’s hand. "Elder Brother, let me help you carry this."

Little Princess deeply regretted it and wished she could bang her head to death. She used a magic spell to shrink herself to the size of a grain of rice, hiding in the gap between the birdcage’s bars: this way, Stumbling Stone wouldn’t see her.

After the Fire Bathing Festival, millions of believers returned to their respective hometowns, and at the same time, they brought back the influence of Master Sun’s Spirit power. They worshipped and praised the grace of Father God, True Water Lord, and his divine might to everyone around them, who believed without skepticism.

Divine Temples in various places also received notifications one after another, placing the statue of the True Water Lord in the main hall, temporarily standing side by side with the Eternal Divine Fire.

Moreover, both the Old and New Faiths had surprisingly consistent attitudes on the issue of the True Water Lord, and there were even signs of the Old and New merging by using this opportunity!

In the Holy Fire Temple, the tall statue of the True Water Lord had already been erected, with the statue of the Eternal Divine Fire making way to the side, indeed "temporarily" they stood together.

The statue was crafted by the first sculptor of the Boneset Country, who worked urgently with the help of the believers from the Seven Mountains Power. This sculptor was deeply influenced by the Spirit power and proclaimed the divine power of Father God he felt while carving the statue was as vast and profound as the Star Sea. He was just short of claiming that it surpassed the Eternal Divine Fire.

The Pope was reluctant, but he could not resist the tide, so he gave the order to open a new living room in the Holy Fire Temple, making sure it was up to the same standard as his own and provided it for the Saintess to live in. This formed a situation in the Holy Fire Temple with the Saintess to the left and the Pope to the right.

However, after this new living room was built, the Pope went to take a look, and his nose was almost crooked with anger: there were many unremarkable places where the design had clearly surpassed his side! The Pope’s everything was still within the category of "human," while on the Saintess’s side, there was already the embryo of a "demi-god."

The Pope couldn’t vent his anger openly, so he investigated in secret, but the responsible Cardinal Bishop blamed the craftsmen, and when they were questioned by the Judgment Court, they insisted that they felt the God Eternal Divine Fire’s intention descend upon them while redecorating the living room, and it was God who instructed them to do so!

The Pope cursed vehemently, how could the Divine Grace still appear, did he, as the Pope, know any lesser than them?

But the Judgment Court used all kinds of severe punishments and even powerful truth-detecting Divine Artifacts, but they all proved that the craftsmen were telling the truth! The Pope was frightened: what does this mean?! It was self-evident.

He wanted to kill and silence them, but he dared not do so. Instead, he offered them tremendous benefits and asked the craftsmen to keep their mouths shut. Then, along with their families, they were sent off to remote parishes.

National Master moved into the living room without a single servant. She declared to the outside world that her soul would go to the Divine Kingdom to serve Father God, and only her body remained in the human world. Unless there was a divine decree from Father God, she would not appear easily, nor would she allow idle people to enter her living quarters and disturb her. Then, she left a clone of herself behind and followed Master Sun away.

This time, returning to her quarters, National Master clearly felt the change in her clone: with the rapid expansion of the True Water Lord’s faith, the clone, acting as the "Divine Power Transfer Station," suddenly possessed a special ability - every believer’s eyes and ears were also the eyes and ears of the clone.

Strangely, this was the power of the clone, and the main body couldn’t "share" it! Because it had to stay in the living room constantly, soaking in the faith power transmitted from various places in Boneset Country. Even now, if this clone were to leave the living room for too long, it would lose that ability.

However, National Master could transfer her consciousness into the clone and use that ability. Curiously, National Master tried it and immediately felt countless images flashing before her eyes and countless voices ringing in her ears, almost losing her mind!

Fortunately, a power was transmitted from a certain scale, shielding her from this overwhelmingly large amount of information. National Master gradually adapted to it and learned to filter valuable information from the mix. With this attempt, National Master discovered an anomaly.

Someone had infiltrated Hamilton City; he was clearly not a Red Clan Barbarian, but somehow, either through magic or a treasure, he went "unseen" by the people around him. The images sent to National Master’s eyes, however, were immediately noticed.’

"Master," National Master immediately transmitted a message to Master Sun, "There is a strange spy."