"Spare me, True Lord! Please spare me-"
The Earth Goddess frantically bowed and kowtowed, begging for mercy. With her connection to the earth vein severed, she could not even flee.
A minor land deity like her, who had gained a sliver of divine Dao cultivation almost entirely through the incense offerings of country folk, could hardly claim any strong connection to the earth vein.
Since she relied entirely on divine Dao powers, a great deity of the Manifest Holiness True Lord's rank had no need to use any divine ability. The pressure of a higher god alone could render most of this land deity's abilities useless.
Seeing the Land God's panic and feeling the vast, rolling power of that divine voice, even the Snake Demon nearby, who had just been feeling rather pleased with itself, instinctively shrank back, drawing its demonic body into the irrigation channel.
Big Sister was right after all. Better to keep a low profile.
Of course, Yi Shuyuan would not frighten a Land God without reason. The root of the matter was that something was very wrong with this deity.
Though she carried the sandalwood scent of divine incense offerings, she also bore a sinister aura and a shadow, neither of which could hide from Yi Shuyuan's own Spirit Sense and the heavenly eye of the Manifest Holiness True Lord's divine body.
If that were all, it might have been because a spirit monster or ghost had become a land deity without a stable foundation for cultivation. But coupled with her evasive expression over this matter, and her blatant lies, it became deeply suspicious.
As the Earth Goddess kept begging for mercy, her unsettled mind leaked more of her aura. The Manifest Holiness True Lord's eyes widened slightly, and the red light of the heavenly eye