Great Sage, Great Thief!

"How could this be?!"

The two ghost deities let out despairing wails. They tried to withdraw the soul fragments they had sent out, but it was already too late. White Impermanence's gaze had locked onto them, and the passage piercing through the void was rapidly taking shape.

The void began to crack apart layer by layer, and the boundary between the shadowy space and reality grew blurred.

The tall figure clad in white became clearer and clearer, as though the gaze of the Ancient Underworld deity would descend upon this place in the next second.

Yellow Wind Little Sage also realized the gravity of the situation.

When he had obtained the edict earlier, he had vaguely sensed that White Impermanence was in some kind of slumber or sealed state.

But now, it seemed that because the two ghost deities, Fu Ming and Hui Yuan, had tried to steal the divine rank, part of White Impermanence's consciousness had been forcibly awakened and cast its gaze upon this place.

This was no good thing.

As one of the Underworld deities, White Impermanence certainly knew the importance of the Mount Luofeng Deity Tablet.

Once White Impermanence's consciousness fully descended and discovered the Mount Luofeng Deity Tablet enshrined within this temple, all of Yellow Wind Little Sage's painstaking schemes would become a Bridal Robe for someone else.

By then, let alone taking the tablet away, whether he could leave alive would be a question.

At that thought, Yellow Wind Little Sage's scalp went numb. He turned and glared furiously at Fu Ming and Hui Yuan, demanding in a stern voice,

"What have you done?!"

The two ghost deities, Fu Ming and Hui Yuan, were pale with terror. They desperately shook their heads, trying to explain, but under the crushing pressure of White Impermanence's terrifying divine aura, they had even lost the ability to speak.

Their ghostly divine bodies trembled violently, producing cracking sounds as though they could no longer bear the strain.

Seeing this, Yellow Wind Little Sage knew this was not the time to assign blame.

He gritted his teeth, spun around, and transformed into a pale yellow gale that shot toward the very center of the temple hall.

The only option now was to take the Mount Luofeng Deity Tablet and run before White Impermanence's gaze fully descended!

As for whether the two idiots Fu Ming and Hui Yuan lived or died, he no longer had the leisure to care!

A faint breeze swept into the hall. Yellow Wind Little Sage did not slow down, instead directly reaching out his little claws toward the ancient, battered tablet atop the offering table.

Perhaps the rules had already taken effect when White Impermanence's Edict entered the Northern Yin Mountain Temple, or perhaps the two ghost deities were pinned in place by White Impermanence and unable to stop him. Yellow Wind Little Sage encountered no obstruction whatsoever.

He easily touched the Mount Luofeng Deity Tablet and swept it into his arms.

But the instant he made contact, Yellow Wind Little Sage's expression changed drastically.

The tablet did not look large, yet it weighed as much as a thousand jun!

That weight did not feel like a piece of wood at all. Rather, it was like a mountain compressed to the utmost limit. With Yellow Wind Little Sage's current physical strength, he could not shake it in the slightest.

He tried to lift it with all his might, but the tablet did not budge, as though it had taken root in the offering table.

Yellow Wind Little Sage immediately changed tactics. He opened Greedy Mouth and swallowed toward the Mount Luofeng Deity Tablet.

Greedy Mouth, which had previously displayed endless greed upon seeing Mythic Materials, as though it could swallow anything, had finally encountered a true obstacle.

It was clearly only a tablet, and Greedy Space had more than enough capacity to contain it. Yet in the actual process of devouring it, it felt as though he were swallowing a real mountain.

The feeling was impossible to describe. It was like forcibly stuffing a towering mountain into a tiny pocket, every inch of progress demanding an enormous Cost.

The divine rank of Greedy Mouth seemed utterly incapable of bearing the Mount Luofeng Deity Tablet!

Yellow Wind Little Sage's eyes widened, a fierce glint flashing through them. His two little claws clutched the Mount Luofeng Deity Tablet tightly as he opened his mouth wide and stuffed it into Greedy Mouth with all his strength.

The sound of the void splitting behind him grew ever clearer. White Impermanence was descending faster and faster.

At this moment, Yellow Wind Little Sage had only one thought in his heart:

I've come all this way. I can't go back empty-handed!

Far away at home, Zhou Yao's gaze narrowed slightly.

As the original body, he could clearly sense that with Yellow Wind Little Sage's contact with the Mount Luofeng Deity Tablet, the potential from the Great Sage Thief Fate within his body had been stirred awake!

Under Greedy Mouth's desperate devouring, the Mount Luofeng Deity Tablet truly began to be stuffed inside inch by inch. Though the speed was extremely slow and the process incomparably difficult, it was indeed moving.

In a daze, Yellow Wind Little Sage's status panel appeared before Zhou Yao.

[Incarnation: Yellow Wind Little Sage

Rank: Scavenger Tier Two

Fate: Great Sage Thief (Comprehension Progress 0.58%)

Talents: Inner Threefold Samadhi, Greedy Mouth

Spells: Flying Sand and Rolling Stones, Square-Inch Artifact Refinement Art]

Zhou Yao focused on the Fate entry.

These past days, they had seized quite a few Mythic Materials, accumulating a fair amount of Fate progress. But since the Fate had never displayed anything special, Zhou Yao had not paid it much attention, treating it merely as an ordinary growth value.

But today, when Yellow Wind Little Sage tried to forcibly devour the Mount Luofeng Deity Tablet with Greedy Mouth, the comprehension progress of Great Sage, Great Thief began rising madly at a speed visible to the naked eye!

0.68%, 0.78%, 0.88%, 0.98%...

In merely a few seconds, the comprehension progress of the Great Sage Thief Fate stalled at 0.99%, while nearly half of the Mount Luofeng Deity Tablet had been stuffed into Greedy Mouth.

At the same time, a certain premonition in Zhou Yao's heart grew stronger and stronger, as though Yellow Wind Little Sage were undergoing some kind of special transformation.

The next moment, the comprehension progress reached 1%!

Almost instantly, Yellow Wind Little Sage swallowed the Mount Luofeng Deity Tablet completely into Greedy Space.

The instant the ancient tablet landed in Greedy Space, the entire space underwent earth-shattering changes.

Greedy Space, originally only the size of an ordinary bedroom, expanded more than a hundredfold in an instant!

The space stretched outward wildly. The ground continuously widened, and the ceiling climbed higher and higher. In the blink of an eye, the space had changed from a small room into a massive warehouse.

Greedy Mouth had always possessed the characteristic of expanding its space by storing treasures, but no matter what Mythic Materials it had stored before, the expansion had been extremely limited.

Yet the hundredfold growth brought by the Mount Luofeng Deity Tablet far surpassed the sum total of all the other treasures!

The Mount Luofeng Deity Tablet stood firmly at the very center of Greedy Space, occupying the most central position. A faint halo radiated from the tablet, dyeing the surrounding space a shadowy purple.

As for the other Mythic Materials, including the various materials collected earlier and the newly acquired [Name Beyond Life and Death], they were all squeezed into the far corners of the space, dim and lusterless.

The instant the Mount Luofeng Deity Tablet completely vanished, the entire Northern Yin Mountain Temple began trembling violently.

"Rumble!!!"

Thick beams crashed down, smashing into the ground with deafening booms. Roof tiles fell like rain, crushing many of the stone statues within the hall.

The entire hall teetered on the verge of collapse, as though it would completely cave in the next second.

Yet the two ghost deities, Fu Ming and Hui Yuan, who had originally worn despairing expressions, now seemed to have found a sliver of life and revealed wild joy.

These two ghost deities were not true ghost deities at all, but manifestations of the Northern Yin Mountain Temple's rules.

Now that the Mountain God Tablet had been lost and the Northern Yin Mountain Temple was collapsing, their ghostly divine bodies could no longer continue manifesting and would return to Lost Mythology.

The sliver of divided soul that had stolen a magpie's nest would likewise return to their original bodies, allowing them to escape White Impermanence's lock.

This was the rule of Lost Mythology. Not even deities could defy it.

Their ghostly divine bodies rapidly crumbled, turning into countless motes of spiritual light that merged into heaven and earth. The two soul fragments that had gained a sliver of life drifted before Yellow Wind Little Sage.

"Many thanks to Little Sage for saving our lives!"

"This karma has yet to be settled. If Little Sage should visit Jade Capital City in the future, you may go to the Ten Offices of the City God. We will certainly repay Little Sage's kindness!"

After leaving behind those two brief statements, the two soul fragments vanished together between heaven and earth.

White Impermanence's descending gaze paused, as though it had lost its target.

Though the boundless shadows manifested layers upon layers of shadowy space, without an anchor, they ultimately could not break through the Celestial Circuit Realm. In the end, they dissipated between heaven and earth, leaving behind only a slip of paper.

Yellow Wind Little Sage picked up the slip. Most of the aura of its Mythic Trait had dissipated, and the crimson character for approval had vanished as well, leaving only Xie Bi'an's blurry true name.

Seeing this, Yellow Wind Little Sage prepared to swallow the edict into Greedy Space. But considering that the Mount Luofeng Deity Tablet was inside, he chose to keep it in his hand instead.

Looking around, the Northern Yin Mountain Temple had already collapsed. Yellow Wind Little Sage could clearly sense countless figures rushing toward the mountain temple ruins from every direction.

"The treasure is already in hand."

"Now, this little mouse has to run for his life!"