Chapter 228

Such things cannot be rushed.

One can only proceed step by step.

Or rather, it depends on luck.

Maybe.

Any moment, a nightmare beast might appear before him.

A thought stirred in his mind.

He arrived at the City of Deities.

……

The City of Deities seemed eternally ancient.

Time itself could leave not the faintest mark upon it.

One deity after another walked the streets like ordinary mortals.

On either side, countless shops exuded gloom, sharpness, vitality, or heaviness like a mountain…

One half-god after another sat on the ground, setting up street stalls.

No one shouted out their wares.

The deities simply waited in silence.

As deities.

Setting up street stalls is not shameful.

But to shout and beg for customers like a mortal would be disgraceful.

The entire marketplace was remarkably quiet.

He wandered east and west.

Li Yue passed through three hundred and twenty-five alleys.

Finally, he arrived before a villa.

"This is it."

Looking at the house number displayed beside the villa, Li Yue murmured softly.

He gently pointed.

The bell hanging on the door immediately swayed slightly.

But strangely,

not a single sound emerged.

Li Yue was not in a hurry.

He waited in silence.

Not long after,

the Bieshu Sect door opened.

An elderly deity clad in a black robe, dressed oddly, scanned Li Yue from head to toe:

"Lei Ting, the Thunder God?"

"I am."

Li Yue nodded.

"Come in."

The elderly deity curled his lips into a faint smile.

He turned and led the way.

Li Yue followed.

The villa gate closed automatically.

The villa felt dim and heavy.

Tables, chairs, and benches beside it had grown limbs and stared curiously.

In the courtyard,

fruits and vegetables were cultivated.

Yet—

they were all profoundly strange things.

Each one misshapen, with hands and feet.

"Living alone here for so long,"

"one relies entirely on these little ones for company."

The elderly deity did not turn around.

But his faint voice drifted over.

"Fine taste."

Li Yue smiled.

His expression showed no change.

The deity before him was named "God of Illusions."

He was also a member of the "Hunting True Deity" organization.

Yet—

according to the God of Mists, Temple,

this God of Illusions had lost all his faithful on the Immortal Continent.

Fortunately, the divine office was peculiar.

He turned the ancestral shrine where his divine domain resided into an ordinary stone.

Only then did he manage to survive.

But—

This one dared not reveal any divine marvels on the Immortal Continent again.

Because the place where his divine domain lay

Had been entirely covered by the enemy's divine domain.

Once discovered,

There was no path but annihilation.

He could only live long-term in the City of Deities.

Of course.

This was not his true body.

His true body had always remained within his divine domain.

This made Li Yue marvel and grow intensely wary.

Divine offices are countless.

No one knows whether the enemy they encounter

Might possess those strange divine offices.

Not long after,

The two arrived at a room.

Inside the room,

There was a round table.

At this moment,

Five deities sat quietly.

The instant Li Yue arrived,

Those five deities

All turned their gazes sharply toward him.

From their bodies,

They unleashed powerful, terrifying auras without concealment!

Each one…

Was no weaker than those outside the Godhood Tower.