Chapter 1654: Chapter 1654
As for the identity of the "Father God," the Pope himself had deep doubts. Upon seeing the evidence the adventurers obtained from the [Da Luo World Gate], the Pope no longer hesitated and decided to take action immediately!
After two days of preparation, the Pope sent his trusted Cardinal Bishops to bring the five adventurers into the Holy Fire Temple. He personally sealed the Saintess’s living quarters, and they all joined forces. The Saintess was indeed powerful, but the adventurers used a special artifact capable of killing a Seventh Realm with a single strike! After succeeding, everything went according to plan. This time, only hundreds of thousands of people in Hamilton City witnessed the miracle of the Great River outside the city, which was far less than the scale of the Fire Bathing Festival. However, this was enough for the Pope to be satisfied with his monopoly on power. As expected, the so-called "True Water Lord" did not descend with the "wrath of the deities" because of this.
The adventurers then began to investigate the clues regarding the Saintess’s identity, tracing her origins back to a remote fishing village in Boneset Country.
They left Hamilton City and swiftly headed to the birthplace of the Saintess. They speculated that the existence secretly supporting the Saintess was likely a deity who had been slumbering at the bottom of the sea, and with the arrival of the Origin Resurgence, this deity was on the verge of awakening.
They carefully searched the fishing village and, following the tracks of the Saintess before she left the village, discovered a beaded seabed. They then found a massive underwater rift in the rocks and discovered a magnificent underwater temple inside, which was indeed the relic of a deity.
However, the deity had already perished and was now in a moment of striving for rebirth. It took great effort for the deity to gather its divine power, which was nearly exhausted after supporting the Saintess in her appearance in Hamilton City and the miraculous rescue of the Holy Fire Temple.
The adventurers captured the ancient deity, completed their adventure, and then activated the Square Ring on their fingers to request a "return" to the [Da Luo World Gate].
Throughout this whole process, only their "return" request was genuine! By sending the request, they triggered some rules of the [Da Luo World Gate]. The ever-concealed Master Sun closely monitored the situation and finally captured a faint fluctuation in the rules!
Faithe and the other four adventurers waited for half a day, but the [Da Luo World Gate] had no response. They were at a loss: "What’s going on?" They made another request to return. The first time they asked the [Da Luo World Gate], they received some response, but they were not taken back; this time the gate was silent!
The five of them suddenly felt an indescribable pain throughout their bodies, from their primordial spirits to their physical bodies. This torment surged in, emanating from the realm forcefully infused and elevated by the Da Luo World Gate!
The five of them simultaneously spat out blood, Faithe convulsed and curled up on the ground, and the others were in a similar state. Faithe gasped and shouted: "We’ve been abandoned by the Da Luo World Gate, why!?"
As they approached their final moments, their pupils, which had already begun to dilate, saw that everything was dissipating in front of them. They weren’t in that underwater temple capturing the ancient god ─ they were in the Holy Fire Temple, in the Saintess’s living quarters!
"It was all an illusion..."
"Someone used us to trace back the [Da Luo World Gate]!"
"Who is it that the [Da Luo World Gate] would hesitate so little and abandon us, cutting off the traces? The gate is quite fearful of the other party..."
They would never know the answer. Master Sun had no intention of letting them become "enlightened ghosts."
Meanwhile, the Saintess had already invited the Emperor of Boneset Country and the Eight Cardinal Bishops to "witness" the Pope’s actions. The accusation of the Pope plotting the murder of the Saintess was established!
Although the Pope believed everyone in the Holy Fire Temple was on his side, he had misjudged their loyalty. Therefore, he would be judged, and then the Saintess would take over both powers in the era of carrying the dual responsibilities of the two sacred offices!
The Pope wanted to monopolize divine power – coincidentally, so did Master Sun and the National Master.