Over the next few days, all of Jialing Pass underwent an earth-shaking transformation.
The military stronghold that had stood for ten thousand years, a symbol of iron, blood, and war, was forcibly transformed by Shrek's craftsmen and soul engineers into a religious city suffused with a sacred aura.
The parade ground at the center of the fortress had been completely leveled, and the foundations of seven majestic divine halls rose from the ground.
It was like the imposing City on the Mountain Summit.
Around the central main hall belonging to the God of Gluttony stood seven enormous statues, each dozens of feet tall.
However, none of these statues had faces. Not only did they lack facial features, even their contours were as smooth as mirrors.
After all, gods had no fixed form.
How could mere mortals imagine the world-stunning beauty of the gods? That would undoubtedly be disrespectful.
That evening, Xuan Zi came alone to the Gluttony Divine Hall, which was beginning to take shape.
She stood beneath the statue, which still had no face but could vaguely be seen holding a large bowl, put aside her usual lax and casual manner, and, for once, pressed her palms together and began to pray with a convincing show of solemnity.
As the God of Gluttony's representative in the mortal world, she could receive the god's divine decrees through the divine trial's one-way connection as long as she was inside this hall.
Meanwhile, far above in the Divine Realm, inside the Gluttony Divine Hall...
The God of Gluttony was sprawled without a shred of dignity on the bed in his Divine Realm villa.
He held a golden-fried chicken in one hand and a cup larger than a person in the other, filled with sparkling water, then began chomping away...
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