10.4

When Zhou Yunsheng stepped out of the trial pool, the black pool water automatically receded and did not stain his clothes or skin. He put on his robes and slowly came to the bishop and vice bishop and found that the two had twisted expressions, living as if they had seen a ghost.

“Lord Bishop, Lord Deputy Bishop, what is the matter with you?”

“Just now we saw ……” The bishop’s mouth opened and closed but could not make half a sound, he paused and said again, “just now …… “But where he intends to mention the man in the party, the voice will automatically disappear, this is the forbidden speech art, and it is permanent.

Was that man really the God of Light? The bishop’s heart turned over, and he looked at his righteous son in a completely different way than before. He had once heard the former bishop say that a thousand years ago, there were divine ambassadors who descended on the continent to collect beautiful teenagers for the Father God. They had a fondness for white-haired, blue-eyed and black-haired, black-eyed teenagers, and would immediately take them away as long as they had outstanding looks, making teenagers with these two features very popular and especially valuable during that period.

But after a short while, God the Father seemed to get tired of it, and stopped sending divine ambassadors down, and also rejected the youngsters that the major pantheons were offering. Slowly, it was never mentioned again.

Looking at the righteous son in front of him, the bishop felt as if he had discovered the truth.

Joshua was sixteen years old, the tender age of a flower. He was slender, with a delicate face and ankle-length platinum blonde hair that cascaded down like a waterfall. Wherever he stood, it was as if a brilliant light shone, banishing all darkness.

He was clean, pure, childlike, and beautiful, and after his trials proved more than ever that he possessed a most devout heart and a most penetrating soul. It did not seem so strange that he should receive the favor of God the Father.

Thinking like this, the bishop’s churning mind slowly calmed down, and felt happy for the future of the Sakya Empire. Nowadays, the priests of light rely on prayers to obtain the divine power of light, whoever is pious will be powerful, in fact, to put it bluntly, it’s just comparing to the favor of God the Father. The look that God the Father gave Joshua just now was not simply favor, the next Pope will probably come from the Sacajawea Empire, and the center of the Holy See will also be moved to Gagol.

The more the bishop thought about it the more excited he became, and he looked at his righteous son with loving eyes.

The vice bishop, on the other hand, was filled with fear and disbelief. He didn’t want to admit that the blonde man just now was the Father God, how could the Father God show up in the mortal world for the sake of a small priest and kiss his forehead so lovingly! But the power of light that had suddenly disappeared from his body and the skin that had been burned through by the power of God told him again and again that the most unlikely possibility was precisely the truth.

He tried to force the death of God the Father’s beloved favorite, so God the Father himself came to the mortal world to inflict punishment on him.

A priest who suddenly loses his power of light proves that he has committed the sin of blasphemy against God the Father and will be excommunicated by the Church and reviled by the world. Starting today, he was finished, all finished!

The Vice Bishop fell to the ground with a thud, while the Bishop did not even look at him squarely, summoning martial artists to carry him away.

“I declare that the Imperial Pantheon of Sagaya banishes Colin Gale for blasphemy, takes back all property and honors once bestowed upon him, and orders him to leave Gagor within the hour, never to return in this life.”

Immediately, a clerk recorded the bull and reported it to the king. As for the demon, there was no longer any need to continue the search, with God the Father himself coming, all demons would be reduced to smoke in an instant.

The voice of the deputy bishop crying for mercy faded away, and only then did the bishop lead his righteous son out of the room, saying something to show his closeness and apology.

A group of maids and martial artists were kneeling in the outer hall, murmuring prayers with expressions of adoration yet awe on their faces. Their eyelids rolled up, as if they wanted very much to look towards the statue behind the offering table, yet they felt a sharp sting when their eyes touched the statue. If they kept looking against the sting, they knew they would become blind.

The true face of the God of Light is not something anyone is qualified to look at directly.

God had sent down miracles in the Sacajawea Empire, allowing them to appreciate God’s transcendent elegance, an honor that the shrines of the entire continent had never received! If the Pope who resided in the temple at the center of the continent were to know about it, he was afraid that he would be jealous as well!

These people were filled with joy and pride, and their prayers became more and more devout.

The Bishop walked around to the offering table and looked towards the refreshed statue for just a second before bowing his head respectfully and closing his stinging eyes hard. Though briefly, he still recognized the face, gorgeous in the extreme, that whoever looked at it would never be able to forget it for all eternity; he was the same blonde man who had appeared earlier, the true God of Light.

“The God of Light is above, please accept the repentance of the believers ……” Surprisingly shouting Demon King to the Father God, the bishop was so scared that his legs and feet were weak, and he immediately knelt down to ask for forgiveness.

Zhou Yunsheng was the only one still standing in the great hall. He wasn’t there to show his maverickness or to insist on the so-called equality of all people, he was subdued by the glorious and gorgeous image of Father God.

A tall man was seen sitting on an ornate throne, his hands folded in his jaws, a compassionate and seemingly careless expression on his face.

He had wavy, curly blonde hair and eyes as deep and sparkling as the starry sky, and he wore an ornate and unusual robe of pure white with gold trim, with a belt made of gold and precious stones loosely tied around his waist, and a half-open lapel that failed to hide his sexually-charged collarbones and powerful body.

His true form was so handsome that it surpassed the limits of what humans could imagine.

Hypnosis would produce aftereffects, and if it was severe it would also interfere with the hypnotized person’s sanity, especially psychological suggestion, and the effect deepened by one layer with every cloth. In other words, every day that passed, Zhou Yunsheng’s level of brain damage deepened by one point. But he wasn’t worried about this, because the energy he received after completing the mission was enough to help him heal this after-effect.

Right now, however, the deeply brainwashed man was on the verge of going crazy. Knowing that this was the true face of Father God, he actually had the urge to jump on his knees and lick it. He held back and held back, and only after he had pinched his palms did he not make a public spectacle of himself.

All he could do was stand dumbfounded, mouth slightly open, staring at the statue with a burning gaze that could burn a hole through stone.

The God of Light left a trace of divine thoughts in the statue, and what the statue could see, he could also see, and what the statue could feel, he could also feel. When the little devotee stared at the statue with such a revealing gaze, he actually felt hot all over as well, and his heart was filled with an unprecedented sense of pleasure.

Yes, my child, my baby, look at me, keep looking at me, keep looking at me, never look at anyone else the same way again! He stretched out his fingertips and fed the same burning power of light into the little believer’s brow.

Zhou Yunsheng was scalded, but he couldn’t even blink his eyes, just reaching out to cover his forehead, his obsessed and dazed look looked silly, but it was also very cute.

The God of Light laughed lowly in pleasure, and the long-lost laughter echoed in the empty temple, surprising all the divine messengers and divine servants. Who could make Father God so happy? This was truly a miracle!

When the bishop finished his confession he saw that his righteous son was tilting his head and staring intently at the statue.

“Joshua, don’t you feel your eyes sting?” He asked tentatively.

The teenager still looked at the statue and didn’t answer.

He asked a few more times, and finally had to step forward and tug on the hem of his righteous son’s coat.

Only then did Zhou Yunsheng return to his senses and said with a red face, “My eyesight is good enough to see and engrave the glorious image of Father God in my heart.”

The Bishop smiled, realizing that God the Father really did treat Joshua differently, and that his true face was something only Joshua could see straight through.

“My child, then stay by Father God and pray well.” He reached out to stroke the soft top of his righteous son’s hair, and before he could touch it he felt a sharp pain in his palm.

He didn’t move and withdrew his hand, took the idlers out, walked to a secluded corner and turned over his palm to take a look, and found that the skin and flesh had indeed been burnt to a charred black color by the divine power. He shook his head and secretly sighed: even the high and mighty gods are so incomprehensible when it comes to favoring someone.

With everyone gone, the great hall became very quiet. It was Zhou Yunsheng’s usual prayer time, and he should have knelt down to pray, but he couldn’t continue after just saying the beginning. His mind was filled with the gorgeous face of Father God, and whether his eyes were open or closed, that face could not be erased, and was even getting deeper and deeper.

His mind boiled over, bubble after pink bubble popping up. There was no way for him to quiet his mind, and he didn’t want to do anything else at all except gaze at the Father God. Although the statue was made of stone, because of the divine thoughts contained within, both the touch and texture were the same as the real body.

He tilted his head, his fond and burning gaze sliding from the deep eyes of his father’s god to his chipped lips, and looked at them steadily for a long time, two blushes rising in his cheeks, and he didn’t know what he was thinking.

The God of Light above the Nine Heavens felt his lips a little numb and itchy, and couldn’t help but stroke them with his fingertips, and then went to stroke the lips of the teenager on the water mirror, suddenly feeling very thirsty.

He didn’t shift his gaze, but only slightly raised his hand, and a divine messenger placed a cup of golden-colored agar by the divine throne. He picked up the cup and sipped from it, and instead of being soothed, that parched feeling became worse.

Zhou Yunsheng could not restrain himself from imagining what it would be like to kiss the Father God, but in the end he did not dare to do so, just a small step by small step, knee to knee to the statue, his hands hanging in mid-air for a long time before he carefully embraced the Father God’s legs. The warm, soft touch startled him, and he immediately let go, taking a few steps backwards, folding his hands and placing them flat on the ground, his forehead resting against the back of his hands in fearful repentance.

How could he entertain thoughts of blasphemy against God the Father? That would be horrible.

The God of Light put down his wine glass heavily, a frustrated expression on his face. He couldn’t stand the fact that the little devotee viewed himself as so humble. He had to make him realize that he was his dearest child, his unique treasure.

He was about to inject a wisp of divine power filled with love into the body of the little devotee to appease his inner trepidation when he suddenly straightened his back and looked around like a thief, then walked quickly on his knees to the statue, kissed its instep, and ran away like the wind in a whirlwind.

The feeling of butterfly wings caressing the back of his feet caused the God of Light to tremble uncontrollably. He covered his face, not wanting his dismayed and excited expression to be noticed by bystanders, while the roots of his ears slowly turned red.

“My precious, how can you be so adorable?” Whispers filled with doting feelings spilled out from the cracks of his fingers, and it wasn’t long before the bright laughter of the God of Light once again resounded within the great hall.

Zhou Yunsheng flew back to his bedchamber, giggled and burrowed into the big bed and covered his head with the quilt, his cheeks like a thick layer of rouge. He hugged the pillow and rolled over with a silly grin for two hours, and when the moon climbed over the treetops, his silly expression became hideous and twisted in an instant, smashed the pillow hard on the ground, and while undressing, he walked into the bathroom and jumped into the hot springs with a flutter.

Crap, you made a little face exactly like yourself as a sacrifice! Crap, you went so far as to stare at a statue in heat and almost got hard! Crap, you were so obscene as to kiss the statue’s instep! Do you want to be shameless or not?

In his head, the little man with the devil’s tail poked the little man in the priest’s robes one at a time, cursing furiously. He realized today what a horrible creature Brainiac was, and the stupid things he did every day just screamed at him to think back.

Smashing the water surface into one big pit after another, straight after several minutes, he finally calmed down, extended his index finger, and radiated an extremely strong ray of golden light. The invisible light slowly dispersed and transformed into many golden swords, spreading over the hot springs, as long as they found a target they would whistlingly attack and blast it to pieces.

The powerful force of light propped up a few cracks in the ceiling of the bathroom.

Zhou Yunsheng’s fingertips shifted slightly, and in the blink of an eye, he withdrew all of the appalling power and hid it within his body.

The power of light would dissipate once it was detached from the body, and even those most powerful Light Priests from a few thousand years ago had no way of being able to put it away. Above the Nine Heavens, the God of Light who saw this scene couldn’t help but be taken aback. As far as he knew, in the entire continent, including the Divine Realm, the only being or god who could do this was himself.

Not bad for my little devotee.

He laughed lowly in pleasure, concerned, of course, at the boy’s inexplicable tantrum, and after a moment’s thought, blamed it on the sinister and evil vice-priest.

It was certainly not the style of the God of Light to let the vice bishop disappear painlessly into the heavens and earth. He sent down an oracle ordering that the entire continent must expel this blasphemer. As such, the only place the vice bishop could go was the Dark Abyss, where the demons would treat him well.

Zhou Yunsheng had gained a lot today. He didn’t know how much of a difference in strength he had compared to the protagonist’s subject, but in Joshua’s memories, the power of light could only harm magical creatures, and in order to hurt people, it had to be repeatedly condensed and condensed into a solid entity. In the last thousand years, no Light Priest had been able to cultivate to that level.

That’s why the crowd worshipped him like that when the protagonist was subjected to radiating golden light piercing through Joshua’s shoulder. Without a doubt, he was the most powerful priest of light in the last thousand years.

This was something that the current Zhou Yunsheng could easily do, so it seemed that the gap between him and the protagonist’s sufferings wasn’t that big, and self-preservation was completely enough.

This was all thanks to the blessing of that brainwashed fan during the day. Without him wholeheartedly currying favor with the God of Light, there wouldn’t be this powerful Zhou Yunsheng right now.

Well then, let’s continue to be refined, it’s all worth it! Zhou Yunsheng clenched his fists and every day, he had to cheer himself up like this. Having done his mental construction, he climbed out of the pool, dried his body and put on his bathrobe, and was about to go to bed when there was a knock on the door.

He went to the door in his bare feet and found the visitor to be the bishop.

Seeing that Yoshiko was only wearing a single thin bathrobe, drops of water ran down from his hair, turning the fabric translucent, and it also fit tightly on Yoshiko’s chest, outlining his slim, supple and incomparable figure to the fullest. The extravagant flavor came out with an unstoppable frame.

Before the bishop could react he felt that his pupils were viciously stabbed by some kind of invisible sharp object. He forced himself to hold back the groan that was about to spill out of his throat, sidestepped, and quickly said, “I came to tell you that just now, God the Father sent down an oracle to banish Colin from this continent. Child, your Father God is doing you justice, you remember to thank him properly tomorrow.” As soon as the words left his mouth, the stinging sensation in his eyeballs disappeared.

The bishop was surprised by the intense possessiveness of God the Father. Was this favor too heavy for a mortal? But he would never dare to voice such thoughts, and left after a warm goodnight.

Zhou Yunsheng did not put this matter in his heart. Without the bishop’s command, the brainwashed fans will be hugging the statue of the God of Light tomorrow with gratitude, kneeling and licking the backs of their feet, thinking about it is heartbreaking.

He rolled around on his pillow for a while, and as he slept over it occurred to him in a daze: why is the marble floor hot to step on today? Like the floor was burning.

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The vice-priest was withdrawn from the power of light by the God of Light, which was undoubtedly bad news for the Sagaya Empire. Their temple had become the weakest temple, and when the Dark War broke out, the two Priests of Light were simply unable to hold up the huge boundary that prevented the soldiers from being eroded by the demonic energy, and as such, the Sagaya Empire had to turn to other countries for help.

Paying for countless treasures and wealth is not the second thing, but the fear is that other countries will unite to divide up the country, so that the Sakya Empire will be reduced from a first-class power to the most inferior subordinate country.

The king could not accept that outcome, and he was sitting across from the bishop at that moment with a sad face.

“You don’t have to worry at all, Joshua is strong enough to support the entire empire. He will become the most powerful Priest of Light in the last thousand years.” Having been punished by the Lord God twice in a row, the bishop no longer had any doubts about Joshua’s specialness.

The king raised his eyebrows and pursued, “Why are you so sure? As far as I know, his qualifications are average and his strength is not outstanding.”

After a moment of deliberation the Bishop said, “All I can tell you is that he is well favored by God the Father, uncommonly so. His hair, his eyes ……”

Hinting that this was enough, the king remembered the legend and had a surprised look on his face, after a moment of silence he nodded and said, “Alright, I hope everything is as you predicted. But just to be on the safe side, I will immediately send out my army to search for children with the power of light, it’s still too late to test them at the age of three, I would like to change the age to one year old, and after that, I will test them once a year, all the way up to the age of eighteen, so that I won’t miss any child with potential.”

The Bishop nodded, “Your idea is a good one, I agree with it, the Empire needs more Priests of Light.”

The two reached a consensus, and the next thing they did was to start discussing the matter of the second prince going out on his travels. The vice bishop had been expelled, and the person who could accompany the second prince could only be picked from between the bishop and Joshua.

The bishop was already very old, and going away was a chore for him. Joshua, being rich and strong, and having the God of Light watching over him, was just the man to let him go for exercise.

Thinking thus, he spoke, “Let Joshua accompany the second prince.”

“What did you say?” The king only saw the bishop’s mouth move, but heard no sound.

The bishop realized that this was God the Father’s forbidden speech technique at work. He could understand not being able to speak about God the Father’s manifestation, but why was he not allowed to say even such ordinary words? Could it be that God the Father was not happy to let Joshua leave the temple?

He spoke again while guessing, still unable to make a sound, and sighed helplessly, “Then let me accompany the Second Prince on his travels.”

The king was also more attached to a strong bishop; old age was not a problem, and there were carriages for traveling anyway. He nodded and accepted the offer with pleasure.

Meanwhile, Zhou Yunsheng ended his cultivation in the trial pool, put on his outer robe, and quietly walked to the outer hall. He looked around to make sure that there were no outsiders here, so he locked the temple door from the inside, walked to the statue of the Father God with his poofing heart beating wildly, hugged his legs, and buried his red hot face in his lap.

“Father God, my mind is so messed up that I don’t want to do anything but snuggle up at your feet and be still and feel your body heat. I know it’s wrong, but just this once, okay? Next time I will kneel at your feet and pray with devotion and obedience. You have punished Colin for his evil deeds that have discredited the sacred profession of the Light Priests. But can I see it as Your mercy and care for me?”

He smiled and gently rubbed his cheek against the statue’s knee.

The hot, delicate, soft touch was transmitted to his body through his divine mind, and the God of Light stared at his knees with a trance-like expression. The feeling was too wonderful, countless times more wonderful than he had previously imagined, causing him to think even more greedily: what if it was a real person snuggling at his feet?

He must pick him up and put him on his lap, press him into his broad chest and never let him return to the mortal world. But not yet, he was so timid and fragile, so sensitive and self-absorbed, that he feared he would be frightened of himself. And he was so eager for the light, how would he look when he discovered the other side of Father God?

Surprised? Despair? Even disgusted hatred?

With a sharp stabbing pain in his heart, the God of Light frowned, not daring to think any further. By the time he shook off his depression and looked over again, the little devotee had fallen asleep on the statue’s lap, a sweet smile swirling at the corners of her mouth.

The God of Light guffawed, replacing the statue with his doppelganger, and raised his palm to gently cover the little believer’s head, five fingers plunging – into his smooth hair and rubbing it with fondness.

That’s it. Just be quiet for a while and watch him grow up.

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Zhou Yunsheng was brain-dead during the day and sensible at night, so he had passed two years without realizing it in this refined manner. In the past two years, because of the constant infusion and flushing of divine power, he had already separated from his mortal flesh and blood body and turned into a pure divine body. Of course, this was something he was currently unaware of.

And this world’s 10,000 person protagonist subject was following the second prince and bishop back to Gagor, walking towards the temple with elegant steps after an audience with the king.