Heavenly Deity: Tide-Swallowing Clan (2/3)

Because Xiluo does not allow Hanging Silk Lady to approach Flying Peak.

So Hanging Silk Lady waited until almost sunset, when faint dark clouds began to appear on the horizon.

She then saw Li Boyang and Li Jingshu slowly walking down the mountain path.

Li Jingshu has now reached the state of "overflowing vital Yuan Qi" and has begun to try to cultivate the Divine Ability of "Riding Clouds and Driving Mist".

However, due to personal habit, Li Jingshu still preferred to walk back to the village with Li Boyang.

This exhilarating feeling of running and jumping through the mountains and forests.

It's far beyond the speed of Riding Clouds and Driving Mist or flashing by.

As for Li Boyang?

He didn't actually have any particular requirements regarding how he returned to the village.

Since Li Jingshu enjoys wandering through the mountains and forests, Li Boyang naturally doesn't mind spending some time with her to relax.

After all, to be honest, Li Boyang's training and demands on Li Jingshu over the past few years have been anything but low, even bordering on devilish.

"Prophet!"

Upon noticing Li Boyang, Hanging Silk Lady immediately approached him.

Driven by her own emotions, Hanging Silk Lady selectively ignored Xiao Gui, who was clinging to Li Jingshu.

"You got useful information so quickly?"

Slightly surprised, they looked up at the enormous Spider Queen.

Li Boyang clearly hadn't expected the other party's "interrogation" to proceed so quickly.

He had thought he would have to wait several more days to get the information he wanted from Qingfu.

The priest's defenses were much weaker than I had imagined.

"It must be because witnessing you kill Green Wood Clan caused her immense psychological trauma."

"Just a simple hallucinogenic venom was enough to make her reveal almost everything."

It must be admitted that Hanging Silk Lady was also somewhat surprised by the fragility of Qingfu's psychological defenses.

Just thinking about what the other person had been through, Hanging Silk Lady felt that it seemed quite normal and understandable.

For the priesthood, who valued the gods more than themselves.

Witnessing the death of a god was no different from the collapse of the sky for them.

Hanging Silk Lady even thought that Qingfu's series of stubborn and irritable reactions were most likely a form of stress response.

"Then tell me, what exactly is the situation in the Guifang Kingdom right now?"

"Why would Green Wood Clan risk his life to find Deception Rabbit? What is his purpose?"

With a strange expression, Hanging Silk Lady opened her mouth and whispered something under Li Boyang's odd gaze.

"Well—actually, the truth isn't as complicated as you think—"

"Or to be more precise, it was only after the Green Wood Clan's death that Qingfu realized that his god might simply have come to escape disaster."

Three years ago, Li Boyang, in the form of Yang God, defeated the Gods of the Five Directions.

Among them, Roaring Heaven Clan was the most seriously injured, and was once thought to be dead by the Guifang Kingdom.

Under normal circumstances, the Gods of the Five Directions are of one mind and share the same fate, so such a thing is not worth making a fuss about.

Once Roaring Heaven Clan recovers, everything will naturally return to stability.

However, the crux of the problem is that the Guifang Kingdom launched a revolution against the Roaring Heaven Clan at this very moment.

Human revolutions are nothing but a joke in the eyes of the gods.

Even the weakest of the Gods of the Five Directions, Green Wood Clan, could easily wipe out those laughable fellows.

But at this moment, Qingfu unexpectedly discovered the true identity of Chongming, the ruler who was leading this revolution.

That was not a true ruler at all.

Instead, it was Xuan, the priest candidate who should have been confirmed dead three years ago!

He joined forces with Blood Demon You Chong and personally overthrew the divine position of the Roaring Heaven Clan.

It was at that time that Aoki realized that the Green Wood Clan Guirong Clan clan was behind this revolution against the gods.

Realizing this, the Green Wood Clan immediately chose to adopt a wait-and-see attitude while awaiting the resurgence of the Roaring Heaven Clan.

To the Green Wood Clan's surprise, the outcome was...

However, Tide-Swallowing Clan, one of the Gods of the Five Directions, regained his humanity first and began to take revenge on her.

Tide-Swallowing Clan was a powerful Heavenly Deity who annexed and assimilated the Guifang Kingdom during its thousand-year expansion.

In order to truly make Tide-Swallowing Clan the god of the Roaring Heaven Clan Guifang Kingdom, it took hundreds of years to weaken his humanity and strengthen his divinity, turning him into a god whose symbolic meaning outweighed his actual existence.

What Green Wood Clan didn't expect was that when Tide-Swallowing Clan returned...

The Guirong Clan, who had been hiding behind the scenes, seemed to have been stimulated by something and suddenly accelerated the pace of the revolution.

Left with no other choice, Green Wood Clan had to abandon the idea of continuing to observe and planned to forcibly awaken Roaring Heaven Clan to take charge of the overall situation.

And then... that was it.

Green Wood Clan was the least skilled at Heavenly Deity among the Gods of the Five Directions.

Faced with betrayal from both the Tide-Swallowing Clan and Guirong Clan, the Green Wood Clan ultimately chose to abandon the Guifang Kingdom and temporarily retreat to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, a forbidden zone of the Gods of the Five Directions, to avoid trouble.

"So, even Qingfu doesn't know the truth about the Great Flood?"

With a slight frown, Li Boyang threw out the Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron in his hand once more.

Li Boyang was naturally aware of You Zhong's You Chong, who was delivering Lu Suiniang.

Especially the "great flood" they mentioned.

This caused Li Boyang's innate spiritual sense to throb violently, as if some monstrous calamity was quietly brewing. However, that guy was running too fast.

By the time Li Boyang had finished dealing with the Green Wood Clan, he had already made his escape.

In order not to alert the enemy, Li Boyang decided to let the matter rest for now and find out what the "great flood" the enemy was talking about was.

"She really didn't know anything about a great flood."

She shook her head decisively; Hanging Silk Lady didn't believe that Qingfu could still hold back anything in her hands.

However, although they were unable to obtain any useful information from Qingfu, they also did not know why Li Boyang was so convinced of the existence of the "Great Flood".

But as an extremely ambitious old monster, Hanging Silk Lady understood very well what "subjective initiative" meant.

Through constant subtle probing and meticulous questioning, Hanging Silk Lady also developed her own guesses about the so-called "great flood".

According to the legends of the Guifang Kingdom, before Tide-Swallowing Clan ascended to become Heavenly Deity, he was a powerful water god who migrated from the sea.

"His power comes from the tides; it peaks when the tide rises and declines accordingly when the tide falls."

"I believe that the sudden awakening and return of the Tide-Swallowing Clan may not be a coincidence."

"The Guirong Clan stepped into the limelight openly and honestly, following the Tide-Swallowing Clan— "

After a slight pause, Hanging Silk Lady looked at Li Boyang seemed to be deep in thought, and shared her guess.

"The Great Flood may mean exactly what it says; an unprecedented flood is about to strike."

"The Tide-Swallowing Clan, influenced by this, reached the power of the rising tide, and the Guirong Clan also realized the crisis and began to accelerate the progress of their plans."

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