Potato tilted his head, as if he had only just noticed him, and suddenly began throwing a tantrum.
"Who are you? Why have you come out again? Get back in there, back in there!!"
"Master, protect the Emperor!"
At Potato's shout, Furry Face descended from the sky with a club in hand, while the red color in Potato's other eye faded away.
At the same time.
Below Mountain God Temple.
"...I was trapped in A Yue's memories. In those earliest days, I could still wander around... I saw many things..."
In the dim karst cave, a half-human-tall earthen vat was filled with coarse salt, with only a shriveled head sticking out.
Because of his shrinkage, Wen Yu's skin looked like a balloon that had been inflated and then lost its elasticity. It hung loosely over his face and spread across the rim of the vat. Without looking closely, one might have mistaken it for a bib.
But at least he was speaking much more clearly now.
"...The Deceivers joined forces to create the Abyss entrance, connecting the surface and the underground. That was how monsters came to the surface through the passage.
You once said that the monsters who came to the surface hoped to obtain humanity's faith and remain in the human world through the power of that faith.
But the records say otherwise.
The Deceivers who created the entrance were the first to lie. They were the ones who told the monsters how powerful human faith was.
Jiang You, you carry the aura of a Deceiver. He should be by your side. Don't trust him too much.
The fire seeds are not merely humanity's fire seeds. They are also the monsters' fire seeds.
That fellow may well be using you to gather all the fire seeds. He is