Chapter 491: Cause and Effect

Su Mu slowly turned around, looking at Wuming and Huangquan.

"Is the Primal Angel inside?"

"That has nothing to do with you. Your task is to break the illusion array. Ask no further questions," Huangquan said expressionlessly.

Su Mu smiled faintly. He had naturally asked because he could sense the Primal Angel's power radiating from the illusion array; that vast, holy energy was far beyond anything a few fanatical believers could emit.

It came from a true deity. The actual body of the Primal Angel!

Just as he suspected, the Primal Angel's true body was inside the illusion array.

Strangely enough, this illusion array had not been erected to seal the Primal Angel, but rather intentionally designed to block anyone on the outside from getting in.

"Since you refuse to say more, then... farewell." Su Mu offered a polite smile and turned to leave.

He had already memorized the frequency required to enter the Primal Divine Domain. The next time he came, he would not need a guide from the Temple of God Slaying at all. The technique was not difficult; he simply needed to adjust the frequency of his own divine power to match the Primal Divine Domain, allowing him to step inside effortlessly.

The only prerequisite, of course, was possessing divine power oneself, or being brought in by someone who did.

"Wait," Wuming called out, stopping Su Mu.

"Will this help break the illusion array?"

Su Mu smiled and nodded. "This is not a simple illusion array. It is fused with the Primal Angel's power. Breaking the array is not difficult; the difficulty lies in how to deal with the Primal Angel's power."

Wuming fell silent for a moment before finally speaking slowly. "Then let the Warrior Monk tell you."

The moment his voice fell, a flash of deep crimson fire flared into existence, carrying the Warrior Monk's booming voice from within.

"Huangquan! You actually threw me into the sea! I almost drowned!" The Warrior Monk glared at Huangquan.

Huangquan remained expressionless, clearly too lazy to acknowledge him.

Su Mu felt a stir in his heart. To sense the Warrior Monk's arrival in advance from across dimensions—such incredible perception was something even he did not possess.

The master of the Temple of God Slaying was extraordinary indeed.

"Warrior Monk, explain this illusion array to Pride," Wuming said calmly.

Hearing this, the Warrior Monk immediately perked up and appeared beside Su Mu in a flash.

"Well, this is a long story. It all starts thirty years ago..."

Su Mu: "..."

After enduring a full hour of nonsense bombardment, Su Mu finally managed to extract the information he wanted to know from the Warrior Monk's words.

The true body of the Primal Angel was indeed inside the illusion array, and it was currently in a deep slumber. Furthermore, it was not just the Primal Angel; all the True Gods in this world had fallen asleep.

The word "all" was a bit of an exaggeration. The Warrior Monk said as much, but he also said that the Temple of God Slaying had not actually seen every True God—they had only encountered a portion of the slumbering True Gods.

Because the dimensional frequency of each Divine Realm was different, locating a True God's actual body was no easy task.

However, since the True Gods had not appeared in the world for a very long time, a rough deduction suggested that they were all asleep.

And the true work of the Temple of God Slaying was not actually God-Slaying, but rather... keeping the Gods from waking up. Simply put, coaxing them to sleep.

Whenever they detected signs of a deity stirring, the Temple of God Slaying would perform this coaxing service, using various methods to seal the deity's consciousness and make them sleep a little deeper.

It was not that the Temple of God Slaying wanted to coax them to sleep, but that they simply could not kill a True God. They had tried countless times to strike at the slumbering True Gods, but the gap between a True God and the Demigod Realm was simply too vast. Even in a slumbering state, they could not kill a True God.

The feeling was akin to a mosquito and a sleeping person. Even if an ordinary mosquito gorged itself to bursting, it could never drain a person's blood and kill them. Furthermore, continuous biting might even wake the person up.

This was the current relationship between the Temple of God Slaying and the slumbering Gods.

Thirty years ago, while continuously scouring dimensional frequencies, the Temple of God Slaying successfully uncovered the Primal Divine Domain and laid eyes on the slumbering Primal Angel. At the time, the Primal Angel was already showing signs of awakening, so the Temple of God Slaying followed standard procedure and applied seals to stop it from waking up.

Originally, everything proceeded normally without any accidents. However, a member of the Temple of God Slaying, Heilong, clashed with the others at this time.

The cause of the conflict was simple. Heilong believed everything was a futile effort. Just as a person could not sleep forever without waking, the same applied to Gods. Even if a God fell into a deep slumber for some reason, they would inevitably wake up one day.

The Temple of God Slaying's work was like patting a sleeping baby's back. It could only make the baby sleep more soundly, but once day broke, no matter how much they patted its back, the baby would still wake up.

He said that if they could not seize the opportunity to kill a God while it slept, then it would be even more impossible once it awoke.

Everyone in the Temple of God Slaying agreed with his words, but the problem was that they could not kill a God.

Heilong, however, said they could perhaps attempt to kill the Primal Angel. Because the Primal Angel was different from the Gods they had discovered before; its power was holy and pure, lacking the domineering harshness of other Gods. They could take advantage of its slumber to continuously steal the Primal Angel's power, ultimately devouring the Primal Angel entirely!

Later, the members of the Temple of God Slaying made the attempt, and they indeed successfully stole the Primal Angel's power. But, just as mentioned before, even a mosquito gorging itself to death could not drain a person dry.

However, this cruel reality did not dishearten them; instead, they saw the dawn of hope!

Just as the old man removes the mountains, as long as everyone persistently stole the energy, no matter how small the amount, they would one day succeed.

And so, this persistence lasted for thirty years, and then came the inevitable point where, true to form, an accident occurred.

The people of the Temple of God Slaying discovered that the more of the Primal Angel's power they stole, the more an uncontrollable faith toward the Primal Angel grew in their hearts, becoming increasingly fanatical.

The Temple Master, Wuming, called a halt to the operation, but... it was too late, because... Heilong had defected.

Heilong's divine authority was devouring. This resulted in him stealing the most power out of everyone, and consequently, his faith was also the deepest.

Everyone discovered that Heilong had already become a believer of the Primal Angel several years prior. He had just been hiding it, pretending nothing was wrong as he continued to steal power, while secretly colluding with the Primal Divine Cult. Finally, half a year ago, coordinating from the inside while the Pope of the Primal Cult attacked from the outside, they ambushed the Temple of God Slaying.

The Temple of God Slaying suffered heavy losses, and the Primal Divine Domain was occupied by Heilong and the Pope. The illusion array before them had been set up by the Pope using an eyeball-like divine taboo object, precisely to prevent the Temple of God Slaying from retaliating.

Upon hearing this news, Su Mu immediately realized that the eyeball-like divine taboo object was likely not a divine taboo object at all, but rather one of the pieces of the Xuantian Origin!

"Now that you know the cause and effect, can you break the Illusion Technique?" Wuming suddenly asked. "Currently, Heilong and the Pope are inside the Primal Divine Domain, attempting to awaken the Primal Angel. If we do not deal with them, humanity will be in danger once the Primal Angel wakes.

"Even if only a single God appears in the world, it is not something humanity can resist."