"Truly... useless believers!" The face on the front of the divine statue opened its eyes, and a gleam of light fell over several female priests clad in black divine robes. "War! You fools, you must wage war! Kill your enemies, or be killed by them! It has been a full fifteen years since you launched a large-scale war! And those fifteen years just happened to be my term of duty!"
The irritated statue suddenly twitched at the corner of its eye. The young and beautiful female priests simultaneously let out moans of boundless delight, then golden flames rose beneath their feet and swiftly burned their flesh into wisps of blue smoke that drifted away. Their robes fell intact to the ground; only their bodies had vanished.
Several souls gleaming with dazzling golden light were drawn into the vortex. The statue cried out in delighted admiration, "The souls of fanatics truly are the finest nourishment! Which bastard was it who discovered this secret back then? What incomparably pure soul power! Perfect!"
Opening its huge mouth, the statue swallowed the souls in one gulp. Its body swayed, and it closed its eyes in satisfaction.
Meanwhile, Lady Precious Lotus and the others had already dropped to their knees, crying out themselves hoarse with undisguised ecstasy. "A divine miracle, a divine miracle! Our devout believers have been received by our god into the divine kingdom, where they shall enjoy boundless blessings! This is a divine miracle!"
The believers worshipped and kowtowed in frenzy. Several Supreme Elders at the peak of the demigod realm, whose auras rivaled Lin Huai's, even wept tears of joy as they deliberately smashed their heads against the hardest rocks. They even dispersed the protection of their battle qi, forcefully battering their foreheads into a bloody mess.
"O God, why will