Deity.
The word exploded in Jiang Qiao's mind.
Fuck!
I'm only Rank Two right now, and without any mental preparation, a deity just got dumped right in front of me?
He stood before the altar.
Nothing in the surroundings had changed.
Yet in his perception, it was as though he had arrived in the depths of the boundless cosmos.
The connection between the Dual Pupils and the blue eye continued.
Gray light and blue radiance intertwined into a bizarre bridge.
And at the end of that bridge—
That gaze fell upon him, devoid of any emotion, yet it nearly froze the blood throughout his body.
Vast.
Endless.
It was like the weight of an entire universe pressing down on his consciousness.
"Something's wrong."
"It... isn't quite right."
It wasn't as if Jiang Qiao had never dealt with a deity before. The "Chou God" had even resided within him for quite a long time.
Deities were incomprehensible.
Yet he could still catch certain subtle details.
At that moment—
He could clearly sense it.
The other party did not seem to exist within this spacetime.
It was as though It had crossed the river of history, traveling along the axis of time. It just happened to pass by here, just happened to notice the existence of the Dual Pupils, and just happened to... cast a glance his way.
"Fuck..." Jiang Qiao gritted his teeth. "Where are there that many coincidences?"
"This fucking thing..."
"It was probably waiting for me."
He cursed under his breath.
The next second—
The world suddenly spun.
He felt something violently yank at his consciousness, as if an invisible hand had reached into his mind and crudely stuffed something inside.
It could not be described in words, nor could it be explained in any way.
It could only