At this moment.
The priests standing atop the city walls were all stunned.
They stared dumbfounded at the city lord's corpse that had been thrown up.
One priest lunged forward.
"Ah, city lord!"
"How did you die?"
"Didn't they say a divine son couldn't be killed by mortals?"
"It's over, it's over—he's dead!"
"We failed to notify the deity in time to save his son. We'll all be punished!"
The minds of some priests went completely blank.
Like novice drivers who had just gotten into a car accident.
They had no idea how to react.
Because what had happened today was something they had never imagined.
They had never considered that the city lord could actually die!
The priests went mad.
Wenren Sheng looked down.
It had to be said that people were different.
Some of the priests were shrewd.
They froze for only three seconds.
Then they immediately threw away all the miscellaneous things on them, stripped off their robes, and turned to run down the city wall.
Wenren Sheng really wanted to know what had gone through their minds in that instant.
So he looked.
He directly scanned their thoughts.
"The city lord is dead?"
"He's really dead. According to the laws, if the city lord dies, the priests failed to protect him and must be buried with him."
"Run!"
These people really were talented.
Some other priests went even madder.
"Kill them! Kill them all!"
"Only by killing them all can we earn the deity's forgiveness!"
They rushed down from the city wall and charged straight at Mi Heng.
But everyone knew that even if they killed them all, these priests would inevitably be buried with them.
Even the entire city would be buried with them!
As priests, their greatest responsibility was to notify the deity to