A ghost story.
An absolutely terrifying ghost story.
No matter how you looked at it, Nu Wa suddenly popping out with a "whoosh" was truly too much of a test for anyone's nerves.
She had frightened ordinary mortals.
Even major figures of the divine level had been scared witless.
—Especially those with guilty consciences!
Here was the question.
Jieyin... did he have a guilty conscience?
Of course!
He had done something shameful, and now a ghost was knocking at his door in the middle of the night... He was still very timid about such things.
If he had not possessed a strong heart and been able to adjust his mindset quickly, he probably would have been too frightened to speak by now.
"I came back to life, and you... don't seem very happy about it? You're even stammering."
Nu Wa narrowed her eyes and swept her gaze up and down Jieyin, smiling faintly.
"What are you talking about?" Jieyin took a deep breath, forcing an even brighter smile onto his face. "I was merely so shocked that I temporarily lost the ability to express myself properly... Your return truly came as a delightful surprise. The Human Dao Beings are saved!"
"Ah!"
"In this age when the demonic calamity runs rampant, in this age when all the saints have withdrawn, your revival and return are like a dazzling ray of light from the Human Dao, piercing through the darkness!"
Jieyin brought the Human Dao Beings to his lips and enthusiastically showered Nu Wa with praise, hoping to use flattery as sugar-coated cannonballs to corrode her keen nerves.
If he could fool Nu Wa into leaving Mount Sumeru, that would be even better!
—That was what Jieyin thought.
Unfortunately.
Today, those who came had no good intentions, and those with good intentions