The white bones emitted a faint glow, reflected in Muxuan’s golden pupils.
What truly made Muxuan’s heart tremble was… the spine of the bones was missing.
“I told you before… because I died long ago.”
After the Goddess spoke these words, the space violently trembled, black cracks spreading like dying veins at the edges.
The Goddess’s pale little hand brushed against Muxuan’s cheek, its touch icy cold without a trace of life.
Muxuan’s gaze was fixed on the faintly glowing bones, especially the missing spine.
The confusion in her mind suddenly became clear.
Past memories surfaced constantly…
Zi Luo Mo’s words pierced into Muxuan’s brain like a sharp awl.
The Church had only two divine artifacts… the crosier that had always been in her hand…
Was the Goddess’s spine.
This absurd thought turned out to be the truth…
Muxuan fell silent for a moment.
“You’re not the Goddess reborn… you’re the Goddess’s obsession, right?”
Almost all of that Faith Power gathered into the crosier, never directed toward the Goddess.
She should have realized it sooner.
The Divine Core was probably the key to maintaining this space, and also the key to sustaining this lingering obsession of the Goddess.
After giving the Divine Core to her, the Goddess never pulled her into this space again.
Her perception wasn’t wrong… this space was built upon the desolate bones.
After the Divine Core merged with her, this space inevitably headed toward collapse, and the Goddess inevitably weakened.
The Goddess fell silent because of Muxuan’s words.
“You and Qiansitelin are still hiding something from me… right?”
Muxuan’s voice was a bit hoarse.
She also recalled the conversation between Qiansitelin and the Goddess.
Thinking back now, perhaps it wasn’t that the Goddess feared Qiansitelin.
The Goddess just slightly raised the corner of her mouth, tilted her head, and looked into the distance.
“My little Saintess… do you want to know how I died?”
Muxuan shook her head, frowning deeply as she looked at the weakening Goddess.
She didn’t want to know.
And if she remembered correctly, the Goddess had said from the beginning that she was betrayed by someone named Wei Li Er.
Besides… Lutherch had also said that a lot of knowledge carried corruption.
Even if it came from the Goddess… from an obsession, Muxuan dared not listen.
However, the Goddess seemed not to see Muxuan shaking her head.
She opened her mouth to continue.
The next second, Muxuan’s finger gently pressed against the Goddess’s lips.
“Shh, don’t speak. You’re very weak now.”
Muxuan’s voice was very soft, carrying an undeniable tone.
The Goddess’s golden eyes widened slightly, as if she hadn’t expected Muxuan’s action.
The violent tremors of the space subsided a little for the moment, but the pervasive decay and icy aura did not diminish at all.
“My little Saintess…”
The Goddess persisted in speaking, though her voice was even weaker, with an indescribably complex emotion.
“Time… really is running out. There are some things you must know.”
Then the Goddess tilted her head, avoiding Muxuan’s finger, and continued speaking.
“Do you still remember Wei Li Er, whom I mentioned before?”
Muxuan nodded.
Of course she remembered that… it was the first time she met the Goddess.
“He is a Demon God.”
“So he killed you?”
Hearing Muxuan’s guess, the Goddess smiled slightly.
“No, he didn’t kill me.”
“Moreover, I was not born in the Age of Gods… I never experienced the Destruction of Gods.”
“Wei Li Er is the only god who survived the Destruction of Gods.”
When the Goddess said “Destruction of Gods,” Muxuan could clearly feel the entire space turning colder and darker, as if the light was shrouded in an eerie gray.
“And what about Zi Luo Mo?”
Although she had some guesses, Muxuan still asked.
She remembered what Theodore had said… the God of Greed and Conspiracy.
Even the Great Artisan God, who had reached the peak of the Moho Layer with a Holy Relic, couldn’t match him.
Without a doubt, the other party definitely possessed strength at the Gutenberg Layer.
That was the level Muxuan had assumed belonged to gods.
“Him… just a petty thief who stole Authority.”
“I was born in the Second Era. He achieved godhood in the Third Era.”
“But… in the Third Era, there were only False Gods.”
False Gods!
Muxuan’s heart trembled.
Though she had expected it, hearing it directly from the Goddess, she inevitably had all kinds of thoughts.
Zi Luo Mo was not a true god from an ancient era.
He was merely a thief of Authority, a False God born in the Third Era.
“He occupies thirty percent of the Authority. The reason he wants to seize the Holy Relic is to complete his own Authority.”
“As for Wei Li Er, the only god who survived from the First Era…”
“Wei Li Er entrusted one third of the Authority to me for safekeeping, but in the Sixth Era, he went his own way, leading to the destruction of the Sixth Era.”
“It was also at that time that Wei Li Er pushed me into the place where the gods perished.”
As she spoke, strange black lines spread across the Goddess’s body, and her voice became somewhat hoarse.
“There… it was dis… mem… ber… Auth… or… ity… black…”
The next moment, the Goddess’s body convulsed violently.
Black instantly covered her entire body, causing a bizarre distortion.
A somewhat rough force suddenly pushed Muxuan away.
Muxuan’s body uncontrollably rolled backward.
When she looked up again,
the Goddess’s body had transformed into an unspeakable horror.
Just one glance, and Muxuan felt as if tens of thousands of needles stabbed into her brain simultaneously.
Her consciousness was struck like a giant hammer, pain and chaos nearly tearing apart her mind.
The space trembled wildly.
Black cracks spread like a spiderweb, and the entire Sea of Light space was on the verge of collapse.
“Kalibo… combine some Authority with the Holy Relic…”
“Hurry… kill me…”
At almost the same time, the distorted “Goddess” lunged at Muxuan, bringing darkness and madness that consumed everything.
Muxuan instinctively raised her hand, and pure Lightforce condensed into a shield of light under her mental command.
Boom!
The violent collision on the level of consciousness was silent, but Muxuan felt her soul vibrating.
The light shield flickered violently, barely blocking the attack.
But the cold, filthy force clung like a stubborn disease, constantly eroding the shield, trying to corrupt the source of her consciousness.
Without the Divine Core, it was already on the verge of collapse… and on top of that, touching the taboo.
The Goddess… could no longer maintain her form.
Muxuan’s expression was somewhat pained, as if she was still digesting the information the Goddess had just conveyed.
Corruption.
But one thing Muxuan could be sure of now: this corruption had existed since the First Era!
The Goddess’s fall was caused by this corruption… and now, the Goddess’s obsession was also being eroded by it.
She couldn’t think anymore!
She quickly dismissed all thoughts in her mind.
The “Blessed Golden Markings” on her body also emitted a bright light.
While she was thinking, Muxuan could clearly feel a chill constantly rising from her brain, flowing through her entire body!
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