Chapter 33: The Fox Woman Blushes, the Maiden

In the newly built temple of the Fox People tribe, flames ignited.

Below, the Fox Woman Qing Ling and the girl Meng Ying stood with hands hanging down.

Both women's faces were filled with reverence.

For that flame represented the deity.

Yes, after meeting the girl Meng Ying, the Fox Woman Qing Ling learned that on the Continent of Gods, a deity's true form could not descend easily.

Deities usually sent down their consciousness to grant revelations to believers.

Or they sent down power to execute heavenly punishment.

To the current Fox Woman Qing Ling, the flame upon the altar was the consciousness descended by the deity.

She did not know that it was actually Lin Yan.

Lin Yan had been burning through the Misty Mountains for a full month.

He had burned away nearly half of the Misty Mountains!

Of course, the forests he burned were on the side near the Beastman Kingdom.

At this stage, Lin Yan had no intention of stepping into human lands, nor of inviting humans to come.

His panel had changed completely.

【Host: Lin Yan

Flame Core Level: Sixth-Tier Heavenly Fire

Flame Layers: Eighteen Layers

Maximum Temperature: 4300 degrees

Evolution Points: 881

Energy Points: 238 KW

Current Income: 0 points/second

Current Consumption: 100 points/second

Skills: Rampant Burning, Gaze of Inspection

Resistances: Water Resistance 35%, Ice Resistance 5%

Items: Virtual Divine Core

Others: None】

After reading his own panel, Lin Yan turned to the Virtual Divine Core's panel:

【Divine Name: Lord of Flame

Temple: 1

Holy Maiden: 1

Faith Power: 380,000

Divine Power: 0

Skills: Blessing, Heavenly Punishment, Divine Art Grant】

By burning nearly half of the Misty Mountains, Lin Yan's energy points had reached over two billion.

Yet evolution points remained precious; over the past month, Lin Feng had earned just enough evolution points to raise the Flame Core from First-Tier Heavenly Fire to Sixth-Tier Heavenly Fire!

There was still a long way to go before the next stage.

His flame layers had also reached eighteen.

His energy consumption seemed enormous, but that was only because he was not restraining his energy—if he did, the consumption would not be so terrifying.

The greatest change, however, lay in the Virtual Divine Core.

The increasing number of Fox People over the past month had provided Lin Yan with vast amounts of faith power; his faith power had now accumulated to 380,000.

And Lin Yan's Virtual Divine Core had gained a new skill.

Divine Art Grant!

That was why Lin Yan had summoned the Fox Woman Qing Ling and Meng Ying, who were preparing for battle.

In the temple, the faces of the Fox Woman Qing Ling and the girl Meng Ying were lit red by the sparks.

If one looked closely, one would notice that the Fox Woman Qing Ling's face was even redder…

For some reason, recently every night before sleep, Qing Ling dreamed of the Great Lord of Flame.

Though she had frequently received revelations from the Great Lord of Flame lately,

she had not seen the Lord of Flame upon the altar for a long time.

Well, actually, she had seen him only once.

No, she could not even say she had seen him.

Because she had never raised her head, nor dared to glance even with her peripheral vision.

So now, seeing the Great Lord of Flame—even if only his descended consciousness and power—she could not help but blush.

Why did she blush?

She could not explain it.

Subconsciously, she felt perhaps it was because she had fallen in love with the Great Lord of Flame.

He was a great deity; she was his Holy Maiden; of course she could love her deity.

But such thoughts must not be revealed!

The Fox Woman Qing Ling suppressed her curiosity, striving not to look at the face of the Great Lord of Flame.

At that moment, both she and Meng Ying received the Lord of Flame's revelation.

Then, both of them began to pray.

Before long, a strange energy enveloped the two of them.

Immediately after, the two of them discovered that they had naturally learned a powerful magic.

This magic required no study from them at all — they only needed to cast it.

"A divine art — this is a divine art."

Both women's faces lit up with joy.

This was a divine art that could directly borrow the power of the gods.

Of course, how much power could be borrowed depended, first, on the gods' generosity, and second, on their spiritual strength and the level of their attunement to magic.

The fox-woman Sister Qing Ling was simply purely happy.

Because she did not understand the meaning of divine art.

But the young girl Meng Ying knew.

In the human kingdoms, even within the churches of low-ranking gods, generally only the Pope and a very few Holy Maidens knew divine arts.

Those figures were usually people of Sixth Rank Archmages or above.