Chapter 46: Scarlet Moon (Seeking Recommendations)

"Lord... no response!?"

Although Olivia knew that the Spirit of Delusion only responded to believers occasionally, could it really be like this in such a critical situation?

Her heart couldn't help but sink: "Is this... what a god is?"

At this moment, the words a believer had previously used to describe the god suddenly surfaced in her mind—'The god has no desires, no cravings, no love, and no hate; it overlooks the Mortal World and does not care about the rise and fall of ants...'

"We are all just ants. What does the life or death of ants matter to such a great existence? Perhaps... the previous responses were just some persona of that terrifying existence, just a virtual personality, just a facade..."

"My Lord... are you punishing me?"

Lin looked at this scene, yet a smile remained on her face: "No matter how you treat me, I still believe in you..."

Countless flesh and blood wrapped around her, seemingly like an embryo gestating life; blood vessels rapidly spread onto Lin's face, covering most of it like a mask, leaving only one eye exposed, which was still constantly shrinking...

Just then, Olivia suddenly felt that some terrifying existence... had descended!

A tear flowed from Lin's single eye.

"I..."

Aaron Sotos looked at this scene, not knowing what to say: "I just went offline to eat a meal, and my fanatic is about to be finished?"

He stared at the flesh and blood on Lin's body, knowing that the situation had reached an extremely dangerous moment.

"Fortunately, Olivia has already used the Ritual..."

Aaron quickly connected to the Ritual, his own Mysterious energy pouring out like a tide, falling onto Lin's body.

"This Lin, how could she be so severely corrupted?"

After the connection was established, Aaron felt a chill in his heart.

The corruption and fleshly mutation on Lin's body were simply shocking; it even seemed that every inch of her flesh was filled with another powerful and insane will!

"The Mother Tree of Flesh?"

Aaron's Mysterious energy was constantly annihilating these wills, and one could see the flesh mask on Lin's face stop its spread.

But Aaron's heart was very solemn; he even felt a trace of terror!

As the corruption was eliminated, he could feel that the insane will began to manifest Wrath.

Outside the window, in the sky, the Crimson Moon became even more Scarlet, and even... vaguely turned into a crazy and evil eye, hanging high in the sky, overlooking the Mortal World...

"Scarlet Moon, Terrifying Great Mother, Mother Tree of Flesh that gestates the myriad!"

A segment of an honorific name surfaced directly in Aaron's mind.

He even saw that on the surface of the meatball in front of him, countless cysts were being born, seemingly containing countless embryos, and even attracting the surrounding spirits...

'If I were to drill inside, I wonder if it would give birth to me, thereby giving me a real physical body in this world? No...'

Aaron came back to his senses, his consciousness jolting: "I was slightly affected by the corruption... even if it could give birth to me, I would likely be controlled by the Scarlet Moon, living a life worse than death, right?"

"Get out!"

He had previously only used one Mysterious Unit; at this moment, he shouted angrily, and his previous reserves poured out.

Two Mysterious Units...

Three Mysterious Units...

Ten Mysterious Units!

Finally, the huge meatball split open, revealing Lin's figure inside, with countless flesh and blood curling up.

Lin seemed to see a blurry humanoid figure, with a warm, large hand stroking her head: "Leave!"

Snap!

A mass of flesh detached from her body, crawling on the ground like a mollusk, eventually devouring a chair, actively combining with it, and beginning to take shape...

Branch after branch and root after root grew from the chair, as if bearing fruit, generating a crimson cane.

It was entirely crimson, as if formed by the entanglement of branches and tentacles; the head of the cane was forked, with countless tiny branches forming a canopy, looking like the head of a ferocious wood dragon.

"Do not gaze at the Moon again."

Aaron said to Lin.

If ordinary evil believers were just radiated by the power of the source's terrifying existence along their Taoism path, and the previous Lin had a constitution particularly suited to it and was corrupted by a bit of power, this time it was even more serious—she had directly entered the gaze of that terrifying existence!

She had been noticed by the source of her own Taoism path! If she were in a Cult that worshipped the Scarlet Moon, she would immediately be canonized as a Saintess.

However, her later performance would likely be that of a standard double agent; if she were noticed again, the outcome would certainly not be good.

"Thank you for your Jiusu!"

Lin's head throbbed with pain; Aaron had only expelled the corruption in her body but had not sealed her knowledge.

She knelt on the ground and thanked him sincerely.

"Beware of the dangerous knowledge in your mind!"

Aaron reminded her again.

The existences at the end of the Taoism path are the source of the Mysterious, or even the Mysterious itself; they represent the most profound Occultism knowledge!

Ordinary Cults only piece together insignificant bits of information from their ravings.

And Lin had essentially looked directly at the 'Scarlet Moon'; she might even know more high-level Mysterious knowledge than the High Priest!

Aaron would certainly not miss this opportunity to fleece her.

He glanced at Olivia again, incidentally helping her expel a bit of Secrecy corruption left behind by the Scarlet Moon, and only then did he end the response to the Ritual.

"Phew..."

Only then did Olivia breathe heavily, glaring at Lin: "What dangerous thing did you do? Lin?!"

Lin laughed sheepishly, taking Olivia's hand: "Sister Olivia, I won't dare to do it again."

"There won't be a next time. If the Lord hadn't happened to respond to the Prayer, you, me, and everyone in this building would be dead!"

Olivia said crossly.

"I will never do it again."

Lin also replied with lingering fear, understanding that her path of fleecing had reached its end.

The Scarlet Moon had already remembered her; perhaps next time it would directly descend with divine punishment!

"Sigh... this time it really was... how are you?"

Olivia let out a sigh.

"Aside from my head feeling a bit swollen, everything else is fine..." Lin closed her eyes, and many forbidden and terrifying pieces of knowledge surfaced in her mind.

Knowledge about how to advance after being a "Blood Overflowing One" was the most insignificant part.

There was also knowledge on how to build a Blood Pool, use the fresh blood of young girls to absorb Spirituality, and even how to make one eternally youthful...

And, how to use flesh, blood, and bones, combined with Rituals and sacrifices, to forge Strange Objects of terrifying power.

Even... some even more cruel and Weird sacrificial Rituals...

Olivia swept her gaze over, landing on that blood-red cane, and could not help but sigh again: "This is my first time seeing the formation of a 'Strange Object'..."

Lin opened her eyes: "Sister Olivia, you said... it is a 'Strange Object'?"

"Not only a 'Strange Object', it might even be of the extremely terrifying kind, after all... it comes directly from... a True God!"

Olivia sighed, and for some reason, her gaze was involuntarily drawn to the cane; those Scarlet lines were as perfect as a work of art, and the arc of its branches made one involuntarily intoxicated...