Although Li Wei could go back and ask now, he decided not to. For the sake of his mental health, he chose to let the matter drop-whatever answer he got from the Night Goddess probably wouldn't make him happy.
As for the circumstances in which the Night Goddess had said those things, Li Wei wanted to think about that even less.
After all, this goddess really was... ah, forget it. What was the point of talking about that now?
Still, the High Priest did follow the Night Goddess's orders, obeying Li Wei without question. And after witnessing the miracle the Night Goddess had wrought with their own eyes, the believers behaved themselves too—that was one good thing about believers. Once their god manifested, they would do whatever the god demanded, regardless of what they had thought before.
Yes, that was why Her Majesty the Queen suppressed the Holy Lord Church, and why no unified nation could emerge in the Second Sanctuary World.
In fact, before coming to the Third Haven, Li Wei had discussed this with Her Majesty the Queen. She was deeply dissatisfied with the gods and religious orders in the Second Sanctuary and had asked Li Wei to weaken those gods as much as possible.
Li Wei could only promise to do his best. After all, the Empire wasn't yet powerful enough to replace the gods entirely. Once the Empire possessed the strength to take them head-on, dealing with them wouldn't be much of a problem. But that wasn't possible yet. Much of the time, when the sky fell, they still needed the tallest people to hold it up.
The Empire was still growing, wasn't it?
Forget it. That wasn't important, at least not right now.
What mattered was that Li Wei had achieved his goal and found