Chapter 742: Five Questions

Humans, too weak and too indecisive; they lose their heads at the slightest fright. He Lingchuan remembered the fear he had felt facing the sand leopard and couldn't help but shake his head: "That's deception!"

"Call it what you will," the old temple attendant gasped for breath. "Secondly, the higher quality the skin, the stronger the divine soul, and the stronger the resistance to the Heavenly God. It is already very difficult for a Heavenly God clone to descend into the human world; spending ten parts of effort for only one part of gain, and then having to consume energy to suppress the skin's original owner, to suppress an unwilling divine soul, is very troublesome."

It coughed: "So there must be a mark... with a divine seal mark, one can easily suppress a mortal's soul!"

He Lingchuan smiled slightly: "After saying so much, it turns out it's not that easy for a Heavenly God to forcibly suppress a mortal's divine soul."

It turned out that in this respect, Heavenly Gods weren't that powerful, and humans weren't that weak.

Shinan gave a 'chi' laugh: "That's because we are blocked by the barrier between the two worlds and simply cannot display our true power! Otherwise—"

Otherwise, how could ant-like creatures be in their eyes? He Lingchuan immediately asked: "Then, how can one remove the divine seal mark?"

Shinan giggled: "You want to remove the mark?"

"Of course." He found that this fellow was smiling with ill intent. "The things you offered are not enough again."

This wild god was very greedy; it wanted to calculate fees even for things that were just moving its lips. He Lingchuan said without hesitation: "Then forget it, we'll meet again."

"Really not asking?"

He Lingchuan nodded to Dong Rui, and the two turned and left.

"Hey, wait!" Shinan probably hadn't had business in a long time, and the only big sucker who had come to the door recently was He Lingchuan, so it became exceptionally easy to talk to. "How about this, you take my token. When I choose something I'm satisfied with, or have valuable intelligence, I will naturally tell you."

He Lingchuan refused even more decisively this time: "Forget it."

Carrying Shinan's token was equivalent to wearing a tracking locator, and it probably had monitoring and eavesdropping functions.

He Lingchuan had too many secrets to let it be close to him. Shinan looked at He Lingchuan for two more moments, then suddenly said: "How about this, I'll let you overdraw three more questions."

"Why are you suddenly so kind?"

"Consider it an investment; I've always been good at judging people," Shinan chuckled. "In return, you must send me another used Punishment Dragon Pillar within a year."

He Lingchuan also smiled back: "Five questions."

"Four."

"Five, or forget it."

The old temple attendant held up five fingers: "Fine, five questions, think them through."

He Lingchuan thought seriously: "Still the previous question, how can one remove or cover up the divine seal mark?"

Shinan chuckled: "I knew you still wanted to ask this... give up, unless the god who planted the mark takes it back, it cannot be removed or covered."

He Lingchuan's expression finally changed.

Was there truly no way?

Shinan couldn't see his expression, but it seemed to be able to appreciate his panic: "Obediently wait for Naluotian's descent; this is your destiny! Mortals, in the end, must accept their destiny."

Dong Rui said from the side: "Hey..."

Before the next word could come out, He Lingchuan suddenly raised his hand, interrupting him.

The room was quiet, and both the man and the god watched He Lingchuan, who had a gloomy expression and was lost in thought.

Shinan grew impatient, and only four fingers remained of the held-up hand: "Four questions left."

He Lingchuan took a long breath: "How many clones can a Heavenly God send down?"

"To the human world?" Shinan didn't hesitate: "At the same time, only one. This is an iron rule!"

"You..." He Lingchuan hurriedly retracted the question, otherwise it would count as another one. "I see some gods can manifest miracles in various places."

"You think divine descent is child's play, descending one whenever there's nothing to do?" Shinan glared. "Manifesting miracles doesn't necessarily use a clone."

Three questions left.

"Can a skin that has been marked with a divine seal be lent or transferred to other gods for use?"

"What kind of question is this?" Shinan shook his head. "No!"

With the last two questions left, He Lingchuan thought for a long while: "Are there any examples of a skin successfully resisting, causing the divine descent to fail?"

The old temple attendant's eyelids drooped, and it was two breaths later before he said: "As far as I know, no."

The answers to these two questions were too short; Dong Rui felt it was a loss just listening from the side.

Only He Lingchuan knew their weight.

This was very likely the basis for his future actions; of course, the simpler and clearer, the better! Shinan urged him: "What about the last question?"

This temple attendant was old and weak; even if not descending, just using him for communication and messaging was a bit too much for him to bear.

"I want all the information on the Bilu god, that is, Naluotian!"

"..." This kid, he saved a big move for the end?

"How can this count as one question?"

"Strictly speaking, all the questions I asked earlier about divine descent only count as one," He Lingchuan patted the offering table, the Glazed Gold still translucent in the dim light. "You're the one who made a huge profit."

The old temple attendant sighed long: "Fine."

"Naluotian was originally just a minor god, Bilu; its divine status was about the same as mine. There are countless minor gods like us in the divine realm."

He Lingchuan listened without saying a word. Countless? This guy was exaggerating.

General Hong had said that there were only about 100,000 Heavenly Gods in the divine realm, divided into several tiers.

"That fellow also experienced the ancient war, but it had always been reclusive, and most residents of the divine realm hadn't heard its name. Later we found out that it had been quite active, but not in the divine realm, but in the human world!"

He Lingchuan's expression stirred: "How so?"

"Your question quota is used up, you can only listen to me," Shinan said unhurriedly. "It quietly built quite a few temples in the human world, developed many believers, and let the believers collect evil energy for it everywhere!"

Evil energy! He Lingchuan was slightly startled; could it be? "Yes, it used the Punishment Dragon Pillar to collect it," Shinan sighed. "One hundred and sixty or seventy years ago, the Punishment Dragon Pillar suddenly appeared in the human world. At first, not many Heavenly Gods knew how to use it, but Bilu had already secretly obtained quite a few Punishment Dragon Pillars, letting its believers roam the human world, collecting evil energy for it everywhere."

"It seized the initiative like this, and relying on massive amounts of evil energy, it quickly ascended to a righteous god in just over a hundred years!" Shinan smiled bitterly. "By the time other gods reacted, Lingxu City and the Heavenly Gods above it had already begun strict investigations and searches for the Punishment Dragon Pillar, and many wars broke out because of this."

The pioneers ate meat, while the latecomers couldn't even eat the dust and could only get beaten.

It sighed: "In short, Bilu rose too fast, and in the end, all the Heavenly Gods had to acknowledge its promotion to a righteous god. Such luck truly makes other gods envious."

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