Chapter 1023: Uninvited Guests

After the Ranking Game had passed, Lingyun spent another period of peace.

"I'm back..."

On this day, Lingyun was reading a book in his hands, and streams of light were gathering around him, weaving into brilliant trajectories. Upon hearing this voice, Lingyun's brow furrowed sharply, because the voice of Asia, who had spoken these words, carried a hint of decadence, as if she had suffered some kind of blow.

Lingyun put down the book in his hand and looked toward Asia's direction. There were some scars on the clothes of Tachiro Shirone, who was beside Asia, as if she had fought with someone.

"What happened to you two?" Seeing the state they were in, Lingyun could not help but stand up, a flash of anger appearing in his eyes.

"It's nothing, we just ran into two rude people on the road earlier!" Thinking of this, Tachiro Shirone subconsciously clenched her fists, her tone carrying a hint of resentment.

"Rude people?"

"Are you the one who took in that witch?" Just at this moment, a brash voice rang out from behind Asia and the other girl.

"Witch?" Seeing Asia's body tremble violently after hearing this word, with tears constantly welling up in her eyes, it was clear that this title was a great blow to her.

Lingyun looked behind Asia and the other girl; following behind them were two young women.

"Who are you people?" Lingyun stepped forward a few paces and directly pushed Asia and Tachiro Shirone behind him.

"They are from the Church!" Tachiro Shirone said.

"The Church? So these are the people from the Church? Heh, it was clearly you who coveted Asia's ability before, arbitrarily pushing her onto the altar to become a Saintess to collect faith. After learning that Asia's ability could heal Devils, you denounced her as a witch—is this the style of the Church? No wonder that in so many worlds, the Church ends up being an object of extermination; from top to bottom, it's just a bunch of brain-dead existences, so it's no surprise! It is only natural that a god who does such things would be dragged off the altar and thoroughly killed, with their head becoming someone else's trophy!" A hint of coldness had already appeared in the gaze Lingyun directed at the two young women.

"You..." Hearing Lingyun say this, the two young women could not help but be furious, and then they suddenly drew the Long swords from their backs and aimed them at Lingyun. "Damn blasphemer, how dare you desecrate the gods!"

"Desecrate the gods? Sorry, the so-called gods I have killed are probably more than the people you have ever seen!" A cold smile appeared on Lingyun's face.

In an instant, the two young women felt as if the space around them had twisted, and they seemed to have arrived in a world full of blood-red color. In this world, there were corpses kneeling on the ground everywhere, and these corpses had died in extremely miserable ways, while the young man in front of them was standing in the center of this world, looking at them with an extremely disdainful gaze. And the aura emanating from those kneeling corpses clearly told them that these corpses were all the corpses of gods.

A terrifying killing intent rushed toward them, making the skin of the two young women feel a series of stinging pains; they felt their blood turn cold in an instant. A warm current suddenly surged from beneath them, wetting their pants.

Seeing the terrified appearance of the two young women, Lingyun withdrew his killing intent. And the moment Lingyun withdrew his killing intent, the two young women collapsed to the ground almost simultaneously, gasping for breath, with even the weapons in their hands falling to the side.

"You, you..." Xenovia's voice trembled uncontrollably, as if she wanted to say something, but she could not utter a single word.

"Get lost!" Lingyun waved his hand casually, and a hurricane rose up in front of him, directly sweeping the two young women away; as for where they would fly to, that was not something Lingyun needed to worry about.

"Mr. Lingyun—" Asia lowered her head and walked to Lingyun's side.

"Asia, you don't have to be like this!" Lingyun reached out and touched Asia's head. "You must remember, it is not that they abandoned you, but that you abandoned them! Besides, you should still remember our last conversation; it is a good thing for a person to have faith, but if the faith is too intense, then it is not a good thing!"

"That's right, if even a devout nun like you hasn't received the favor and blessing of the god, then that god is either dead or not a good god! After all, I have basically never seen a nun as devout as you, Asia!" A voice suddenly came from behind Asia.

"Miss Xia Yin..." Looking at Yese Xiayin standing behind Lingyun, a hint of hesitation appeared on Asia's face.

"If such a god really exists, my choice would be to thoroughly destroy that god!" Xia Yin walked up to Asia and said.

"Destroy a god?" Tachiro Shirone looked at Xia Yin, a hint of confusion appearing on her face.

After all, in this world, gods were extremely great existences; for Xia Yin to speak of thoroughly destroying a god, how could Tachiro Shirone not be surprised.

"If Asia really wants to believe in a god, then why not treat Teacher as the god to believe in!" Xia Yin winked at Asia.

"Eh eh eh? This kind of thing... this kind of thing..." Hearing Xia Yin's words, Asia could not help but let out a shriek.

In Asia's eyes, Xia Yin was a very mysterious existence; even if Xia Yin said she was an Angel, she might believe it. And now, Xia Yin had suddenly told her to treat Lingyun as a god to believe in, which was something Asia had never thought of at all.

"Mm, you will know why later!" Xia Yin gave Asia a mysterious smile.

Tachiro Shirone looked at Xia Yin, a hint of confusion flashing in her eyes. Her intuition told her that Xia Yin must have her own reasons for saying such things, but why Xia Yin would say this, she was truly a bit puzzled for a moment. Could it be that Lingyun had some identity she didn't know about?

Thinking of this, a bitter smile could not help but appear on Tachiro Shirone's face. After all, she still did not fully understand what Lingyun's identity was, but judging from some information that Tokisaki Kurumi and the others had revealed intentionally or unintentionally, Lingyun's identity must be very astonishing. When Lingyun fully revealed his identity, she wondered if she would still have the courage to stand in front of Lingyun.

"Actually, you don't have to think so much; no matter what Teacher's identity is, you can stand in front of Teacher openly!" Xia Yin seemed to have seen through Tachiro Shirone's hesitation.

"Mm, Miss Xia Yin really does look like an Angel!" Looking at Xia Yin in this state, Asia could not help but let out a sigh of admiration.