Chapter 197

Seeing the Huansha God's clearly fearful appearance, the other gods naturally launched a barrage of sarcasm, using the words he had just said to retort.

The Huansha God wanted to refute but couldn't find a reason, and in the current situation, he didn't even dare to provoke those people; otherwise, if they got angry and really let the God-Slayer Han Yu in, it would be difficult to handle.

Although this possibility is small, it's not non-existent, and he doesn't need to gamble on this tiny possibility.

Thinking of this, the Huansha God could only swallow his anger; anyway, he is the one wearing shoes, and he is just wary of these barefoot guys.

Once the divine envoys finish collecting the Incense Beads, he won't have to swallow his anger anymore.

Thus, in the Worshiping Hall, the two sides that were just arguing incessantly now became a one-sided verbal abuse by one party, while the other side dared to be angry but dared not speak.

Because the side without divine envoys held the control over whether to let the God-Slayer Han Yu enter or not, if they were completely provoked, perhaps they wouldn't mind flipping the chessboard.

Han Yu didn't know what was happening inside; he was just doing a simple test, and now the test was complete.

"It seems those guys haven't finished collecting the Incense Beads yet; otherwise, they probably wouldn't block me from entering."

Han Yu thought to himself. He actually had another purpose, which was to report his location to the gods of the Worshiping Hall, letting them know which Grotto-Heaven he was in.

This way, if they come to trouble his main body, Xiao Yuyao and the others will be much safer.

Time passed swiftly. While Ji Yanling was comprehending the power of the Fire-system Great Dao here, Mu Bingyao had already taken Liu Ruyan to a suitable Grotto-Heaven to cultivate.

And the other Saints who had surrendered to Han Yu were heading to various Grotto-Heavens to investigate, seeing if they could stop the actions of those divine envoys.

Unfortunately, several Grotto-Heavens these Saints went to were already in a state of deathly silence, and even when they encountered Grotto-Heavens that hadn't suffered a catastrophe, they were half-believing and half-doubting when facing these Saints.

And these Saints didn't waste much breath with them; anyway, they were mainly there to notify them, and it was impossible for them to stay in any one Grotto-Heaven forever.

After all, there were only a few of them, and there were so many Grotto-Heavens; if they kept failing to encounter those few Saint Realm divine envoys, they would be of no use.

So it was better to go to more Grotto-Heavens and try their luck; if they encountered a Saint Realm divine envoy, they would fight them and keep them in the Grotto-Heaven.

It is worth mentioning that the divine envoys who have now surrendered to Han Yu, besides Saint Tianjizi, Saint Fengling, and Saint Qingmu, also include that Saint Xuelu.

He had been forced by other Saints to seal his cultivation that day, willing to fight Han Yu later, but Han Yu did not kill him, instead taking him into his own service.

For Saint Xuelu, not dying was naturally the best result, so he, like Saint Tianjizi and the others, successfully changed his allegiance and became a God Guard under Han Yu.

Now these four Saints were using escape techniques throughout the Fan Ling Jie. Unexpectedly, Saint Xuelu really found an opportunity and encountered Saint Feisha, who was refining a Grotto-Heaven; this guy was a believer of the Huansha God.

Under the operation of the God Sacrifice Array, the living beings of this Grotto-Heaven were rapidly refined; no one could escape Saint Feisha's attack.

His Dao Rhyme turned into overwhelming yellow sand, sweeping everything; every grain of sand hitting a living being would cause even a King Realm powerhouse to be severely injured in one blow.

Saint Feisha looked at the Incense Beads being continuously refined, his eyes full of excitement, and he kept muttering to himself.

"Die, die, hurry up and die. As long as the Gate of the Otherworld is opened, that God-Slayer will die, and this Saint can once again reign supreme in this Fan Ling Jie, hahaha..."

Whenever Saint Feisha thought about being chased and fleeing by the God-Slayer that day, he felt a bit ashamed; at first, he thought it was the greatest humiliation of his life.

However, ever since he saw Han Yu fighting over a hundred divine statues single-handedly that day, he didn't feel such great humiliation anymore.

After all, even those divine statues couldn't deal with that God-Slayer, so what could a small divine envoy like him do?

But at the same time, a strong sense of crisis rose in his heart; there was no help for it, the strength displayed by the God-Slayer was too terrifying.

If they couldn't kill him, the ending would likely be incomparably miserable.

Just as Saint Feisha was letting his imagination run wild, a streak of blood-colored light flew from the horizon, followed by a fierce surge of Dao Rhyme; that blood-red killing power was incomparably rich, and it also made Saint Feisha feel very familiar.

"Saint Xuelu, it's actually you!"

Saint Feisha was filled with shock.

"You're actually not dead?"

"Hahaha, thanks to the generosity of the God Above, he spared my life and even bestowed upon me a new birth!"

Saint Xuelu laughed loudly. For some reason, seeing him so happy made Saint Feisha inexplicably angry.

"Why are you laughing so happily? Having defected to the God-Slayer, you only have a dead end; you might as well abandon darkness for light now, and the gods might spare your life."

"Heh, a dead end? That's not necessarily true. I used to think so too, but I've already betrayed the gods, and aren't I still living well? Saint Feisha, the gods might not be as terrifying as you imagine."

Saint Xuelu was dismissive. Ever since he saw Han Yu helping him change his cultivation path that day, in his heart, Han Yu was already stronger than those gods.

And after changing his cultivation path, he could already faintly touch the threshold of the realm above the Saint Realm, making him realize a problem: perhaps his inability to break through wasn't his own problem, but the problem of the path he was cultivating.

The path he was cultivating was controlled by those gods, and whether he could break through was perhaps all within their single thought.

Perhaps the current gods no longer need God Guards who ascend; guys like them can only serve as abandoned pawns.

This point can be seen from the fact that the gods, in order to refine Incense Beads, are wantonly slaughtering believers in the Grotto-Heavens.

To re-cultivate the believers in so many Grotto-Heavens, how much energy would that take?

Yet these guys chose to refine them all just like that, as if they were raising fields of leeks; they could clearly harvest them crop after crop, but they chose to pull them up by the roots.

Although there is the reason of the God-Slayer, it can also be seen that in the eyes of the gods, so-called believers are just Incense Beads that can be refined at any time.

Since ordinary believers are, then divine envoys like them are no different. Since that's the case, now that there is an opportunity to escape the control of the gods, they must seize it well.

Before, they had no choice, but now that they have a choice, there is no need to say more.

This is the current thinking of the several great Saints. At first, they defected to Han Yu's camp just to survive, but after changing their allegiance, their thinking changed again; they are now gradually becoming firm that following Han Yu might really be able to create a world of their own.

Hearing Saint Xuelu's words, Saint Feisha didn't mock him; he actually had a bit of this thought himself, just without the opportunity.

Seeing Saint Feisha wavering, Saint Xuelu immediately struck while the iron was hot.

"Saint Feisha, if you defect to our side now, the God Above will definitely let bygones be bygones and give you a way to survive."

"Really? Are you sure?"

"I'm sure. Saint Qingmu has already defected to the God Above; didn't you know?"

"No wonder I didn't see him when I returned to the Worshiping Hall to hand over the Incense Beads. I didn't expect this guy to have changed his allegiance too!"

Saint Feisha was a bit surprised. During this period, they had been rushing to various Grotto-Heavens to refine Incense Beads without stopping; there was simply no time for any communication between the divine envoys, and the gods wouldn't give them time to waste.

Now that he learned Saint Qingmu had also changed his flag, Saint Feisha was truly wavering.

He thought about it: if they, the divine envoys, didn't help refine the Incense Beads, the God Guards wouldn't be able to come to the Fan Ling Jie through the Gate of the Otherworld, and the gods wouldn't be able to control this place.

And after he changed his allegiance and became a powerhouse under Han Yu, he could also stand at the very peak of the world.

Saint Feisha doesn't care who the biggest leader is, as long as those people can give him enough power.

"Good, you take me to see that God-Slayer, I..."

Just as Saint Feisha finished speaking, suddenly, a terrifying backlash of power surged from the horizon.

"No! I was wrong, Huansha God!"

Saint Feisha wailed bitterly, but it was to no avail; he was directly refined into an Incense Bead of good quality, with very rich power.

Seeing this scene, Saint Xuelu's expression changed drastically. He didn't expect that the power of those gods could directly influence the Grotto-Heaven; was it because of some change in the Worshiping Hall?

Not long ago, the gods of the Worshiping Hall discovered a problem: the divine envoys seemed to have not returned to provide Incense Beads for a long time; the timing was a bit off.

According to efficiency, they would return to the Worshiping Hall every once in a while, and this time difference wouldn't be too large.

But now there was clearly a problem.

The gods stopped arguing and soon reached a conclusion: either those divine envoys had rebelled, or they had been blocked by the God-Slayer.

Regardless of the situation, their plan to continue refining Incense Beads could only be shelved.

The gods looked at the number of Incense Beads provided by those divine envoys; it hadn't reached the amount they had told the divine envoys, but the gods naturally had more than just these Incense Beads. In the past, they had the divine envoys hand over Incense Beads every year, and this had gone on for who knows how many ten thousand years; even if they had consumption, their accumulated reserves were still very rich.

After all, the leeks in this Fan Ling Jie had been harvested so many times, how could there not be some leftovers?

It was just that at first, they didn't want to use their own reserves.

In the current situation, it seems they have no choice but to use their own reserves.

But before that, they couldn't let those divine envoys defect to the enemy.

Although the gods weren't sure if their own divine envoys had rebelled, this wasn't the most important thing.

No matter what situation the divine envoys encountered, they now needed them to exert their final value.

Thus, several gods didn't hesitate and immediately triggered the final means left in the divine envoys' bodies.

Several divine envoys far away all felt a strong backlash and encountered the same situation as Saint Feisha.

It was just that they were luckier than Saint Feisha; they had decided to defect earlier and had headed to the Grotto-Heaven where Han Yu was.

Thus, in the end, only Saint Feisha died, and the rest luckily escaped a disaster.