CH 294

The humans’ possessions included clothing, weapons, and food. The men took these possessions with them, and the women took their young children with them, following Dijia deeper into the dense forest.

Dijia’s leadership and decision-making had benefited them in every way, and they had come to completely trust him.

The deeper they went into the forest, the faster Bai Lixin’s heartbeat.

It was noon, but the sky was already completely dark. Lightning and thunder were flashing, a storm was coming.

A child of about seven years old was holding an object that reflected a white light in the dimness and it shot onto Bai Lixin’s face.

Bai Lixin did not care at first, but as time passed, he looked over and his heart snapped.

The child was holding the dagger he had thrown into the water.

Bai Lixin walked over and grabbed the child’s wrist while asking, “Where did you get this dagger?”

“I fishing by the river this morning when I suddenly saw a sparkling light in the river. I went over to take a look and found this treasure. Look Xin, it is beautifully and magnificently carved. It must be a treasure left there by the gods! ”

The boy’s voice was loud and clear in the panicked silence of the crowd.

A small chatter began among the crowd, growing louder as the black clouds built up in the sky.

Someone suddenly shouted, “This must be divine punishment! The gods must be angry to see us living in peace and no longer worshipping them! This is divine punishment! ”

There were many voices, and some stopped in their tracks. People’s frightened voices came from the darkness.

“No! Is this divine punishment? ”

“Are the gods punishing us because we have forgotten them?”

“It’s all our fault! We have made the gods angry! ”

“No, it’s Dijia’s fault! It is he who taught us everything that we no longer need God and brought down His wrath. It is Dijia who is the greatest sinner of all! ” Another low man’s voice resounded through the darkness, and the cacophony of the crowd grew even heavier.

The crowd could no longer move forward, and Dijia had to stop in his tracks.

Bai Lixin narrowed his eyes and gazed around in the darkness.

Suddenly, a cold light flashed in his eyes. With a sharp lift of his foot, he rushed straight over and swept a tall man to the ground.

“Nonsense! Quite a good talker. I have never seen you before. Who are you? When did you appear in our crowd? ”

The man Bai Lixin had knocked to the ground let out a brutal laugh, “I am a divine ambassador. Hasn’t it crossed your mind that you are already undergoing divine wrath? The Lord God is angry. Can you human beings, who are like mere ants, withstand the wrath of the Lord God? ”

The strange man turned into a cloud of black mist and slipped through Bai Lixin’s fingers. He gathered in mid-air and reverted to his human form while laughing loudly, “You are already turtles in a jar. Do you think you can escape? It is because you foolish humans trusted that man and forgot God’s favour to you. Blame it on that man! If you want God’s forgiveness, then use that exquisite dagger to stab that man in the chest! ”

With those words, the man flew towards the darkness in the sky and disappeared in the air.

Bai Lixin looked aghast. The humans had already been shaken by the simple few words of that black shadow, and their hearts were already in turmoil.

Could it be that he had already entered the pseudo Lord God’s trap? Whether the pseudo Lord God told him to persuade Dijia to advance towards the cliff or to give him the dagger, it was just a means of the pseudo Lord God.

Wouldn’t that… make me the promoter of this sin?

Bai Lixin’s heart was beating violently, and he lowered his head to look at the ground. He did not dare to face Dijia.

His conviction to help Dijia was so strong that the Lord God took advantage of it.

The warmth of a large palm silently held onto Bai Lixin’s shoulder, “Stand up.”

Bai Lixin was in a trance. He quickly turned his head, apologizing, “I’m sorry… …… Dijia, I, I..”

Don’t worry, I’ll be fine. Isn’t the Lord God always calculating against me? Besides, my soul doesn’t disappear? Otherwise, you wouldn’t have appeared here?”

Bai Lixin’s eyes grew wide, “You knew?”

“What you know and what you don’t know, I’m afraid I know.” Dijia bent down and kissed Bai Lixin’s forehead. In the darkness of the forest, his body shone with golden light, gradually transforming into his original form.

He lowered his head and helped Bai Lixin up from the ground, his voice gentle and soothing, “My life will not end, nor will yours. I don’t know what the end will be, but if the future me remains the same as the present me, I must have already figured out a way to change the end. You are a treasure given to me by Chaos, not a sacrifice.”

Bai Lixin stared into the familiar eyes with panic in his heart, “What are you planning to do? Why don’t you just kill the pseudo Lord God and the rest of them here and there won’t be so much pain in the future!”

“Kill them, watch you disappear, and then live alone for billions of years? Brewing on the memories I got from you? Living on like a formal skeleton? ”

“You did it on purpose?” Bai Lixin looked stunned.

Dijia only smiled softly, “We’ll talk about this later. For now, it’s better to think about how to save these humans.”

As he said this, he floated up into mid-air with Bai Lixin in his arms. He looked down at the crowd and said, “What have the gods who have bewitched you for so many years given you? A few short decades of life? Or a life of emptiness? You can talk; you are more intelligent than animals; you can use tools; you can even think and create; you are the ones who should be in charge of this world. ”

The crowd on the ground trembled and looked at Dijia in amazement. “I am a god too, so I know more about the inferiority of gods. They rule over you, suppress your thinking and bind your spirits.” Dijia’s hands flashed with golden light, extraordinarily dazzling in the darkness.

Bai Lixin only saw these golden lights floating down like snowflakes and falling into the minds of the people.

“What is this?”

“It’s hope. I have shown them the world to come. Whether they can change their fate of being deceived by the gods or not is up to them.” Dijia didn’t seem worried about the coming storm, saying, “The Lord God is not willing to kill these humans if he doesn’t have to. After all, their faith supplies them with energy. Controlling humans is easy, but repopulating highly intelligent humans who are both wise and dumb is very difficult. As long as the Lord God’s plan succeeds before the storm hits, these humans will suffer little damage. ”

Dijia held Bai Lixin in his arms and made a slight fist at the young boy with the dagger, and it flew into his hands.

Dijia placed the dagger in Bai Lixin’s hand. Bai Lixin’s heart trembled so violently that he almost dropped the dagger.

“Don’t worry. I won’t make you do such a terrible thing.”

Dijia placed his forehead against Bai Lixin’s, and a voice reached his mind: [Since this object can hurt me, it can also hurt the pseudo Lord God. I will use my divine power to create the system and place the dagger in it. The system will surely find you no matter how many years it takes. When the right time comes, the system will unlock this dagger in the exchange interface. Trust me, everything will end.]

A golden light appeared and faded from Dijia’s body.

“Oh my dear god of love! You have done well! If you had not led Dijia here, we would not have captured him so easily. ” The pseudo Lord God’s voice fell through the dark clouds.

Dijia smiled softly and pushed Bai Lixin away.

Dijia was suddenly enveloped by a circle of black mist and the Pseudo Lord God plus eleven Sub-Gods descended from the sky to surround him.

When Bai Lixin came to, he only saw the scene of Dijia being hurt by the gods……

The sky thundered, and rain fell from the sky in torrents.

Tears and rainwater made his face wet.

Bai Lixin bit the corner of his lip as he watched Dijia’s body being destroyed, as he watched the false gods divide his soul into twelve parts and divide it between him and the other eleven sub-gods.

“What is going on here? Dijia sealed his divine power!” The eleven sub-gods were overjoyed and ready to leave when they heard the Pseudo Lord God roar out in anger.

“Without divine power, there is still the power of faith.” Bai Lixin whispered the words through clenched teeth, “As long as the humans return to their knees, we can still live for a while. The power of faith is enough to give time to the Lord God to break Dijia’s seal.”

The Pseudo Lord God came to Bai Lixin with his fragment share. He lifted him by the neck, “Don’t think that you can make up for your sins by saying that. Your account will be settled when we get to San Tuo Mountain!”

The pseudo Lord God threw Bai Lixin to the other Sub-Gods like a sack, “Lock him up in the dungeon. No one is allowed to see him without my permission.”

He flew off in the direction of the humans as he said that. Bai Lixin looked at the slowly clearing sky, his fading conscious sighing in relief that the humans were saved for now.

Bai Lixin woke up again to find that he was surrounded by a circle of black barriers.

S419M’s voice came into his head: [Lord host, you are awake]. Unlike its usual playfulness, S419M’s voice was now solemn and in low spirits.

Bai Lixin looked down at his empty hand and he heard S419M say: [The other me has left the divine realm with the dagger. I think it will reunite with the future you shortly, and that is where the story begins].

Bai Lixin laughed hard: [And then the story will keep going in this cycle?]

[Of course not! The Lord God of the future has known about this cycle for a long time, so he asked me to bring a message to the Lord God of the past before he left the parallel world.]

[What message?]

[The time has come!]

As soon as S419M’s words fell, Bai Lixin felt his soul begin to stir as if he was being summoned somewhere.

[The Lord God of the Future is summoning you, Lord Host. We are now transversing to the future Divine Realm! There will be physical discomfort during the process, so please close your eyes, Lord Host.]