Chapter 1731: Bitter Fruit (20)
So it wasn't?
Although no clearly viable method of purification had yet been found for cases involving the offspring of gods, physically purifying Sala along with it was still entirely worth trying.
However, Fu Qian didn't rush to use such a crude and straightforward method.
The further he got into this mission, the more suspicious things became.
The famous doctor, who warmly welcomed outsiders, had displayed inhuman abilities right away and intended to turn the others into his tools.
The saint who clung to her faith had, in truth, long since become mentally twisted, trapped in an almost hopeless cycle of self-torment.
And the helpless apostate had genuinely called down the favor of another Higher Being. Her will was on the verge of collapse, while her body had already twisted into some kind of vessel.
Even the Higher Being who favored Sala had managed, with just a trace of its power seeping through, to lower the Sanity Value of someone who had already reached the Second Order. The ease of it brought home once again the gulf between gods and mortals.
All in all, almost everyone he'd encountered so far had another side beneath the persona they presented, making the "Bitter Fruit" he was searching for increasingly elusive.
Could it be some mutation in one of the locals?
That was certainly the easiest answer to think of.
And when it came to Sala at the end of the line, the situation even felt somewhat familiar.
"Bitter Fruit" and "child"—honestly, it was hard to say the two had no connection at all.
A Divine Son was indeed gestating, and he needed to stop the Bitter Fruit from coming to maturity.
From that perspective, the most obvious thing to do seemed to be to confirm that something