Because he couldn’t perceive anything from simply standing outside the cave, Chen Mo tried to send a Skeleton Monster inside.
As the Skeleton Monster stepped onto the strange, red-glowing Array...
The Heavenly Path’s Hint immediately sounded.
[Heavenly Path’s Hint: Your summon has come into contact with the Xiensa Evil God’s Array, you have obtained relevant information...]
As a flood of information rushed into his mind, Chen Mo realized that this Array was a connection to the Xiensa Evil God’s Holy Spring.
The previous Bishop of Xiensa Evil God had teleported the Xiensa Evil God’s Holy Spring through the Array, infiltrating it into the well water of Qiluo Town from underground.
As a result, everyone who drank the well water turned into meatball monsters.
However, according to the information, the Xiensa Evil God’s Holy Spring is the Xiensa Evil God’s bathwater, containing the mighty Divine Power of Xiensa. It offered immense benefits to those who consumed it.
It could turn those who drank the Holy Spring into divine disciples of the Xiensa Evil God and allow them to gain the Xiensa Evil God’s Body.
If they were talented enough to retain their consciousness for a long time, they would have the opportunity to be directly taught by the Xiensa Evil God in the future. They could gradually master Divine Power and approach a divine position!
This was the information left by the Xiensa Evil God, though its authenticity was unknown.
The Bishop of Xiensa Evil God was originally a human. Like the Priest in the shrine, he possessed strong willpower. He retained his self-consciousness for a long time after transforming into the Xiensa Evil God’s Body.
Because of this, he was favored by the Xiensa Evil God, who then gave him more of the Xiensa Evil God’s Holy Spring and even a portion of the Xiensa Evil God’s blood.
This allowed him to grow to such a formidable level.
The Priest in Qiluo Town had also been favored by the Xiensa Evil God.
However, this Priest has remained loyal to the Goddess of Harvest from beginning to end. Regardless of his current form, he refuses to abandon his faith.
So, no matter how the Xiensa Evil God tempted him, it held no attraction for the town’s Priest.
Otherwise, this Priest might have already become another Bishop of Xiensa Evil God.
After learning some information about the Xiensa Evil God’s Holy Spring, what Chen Mo most wanted to know now was a way to counteract it.
While Chen Mo was checking the information, the pieces of burnt meat on the ground began to eerily wriggle.
Chen Mo’s pioneer perception ability had been active the entire time, so he immediately noticed this strange phenomenon.
Seeing these lifeless chunks of meat wriggle so unnaturally and frantically gave Chen Mo goosebumps.
I’ll avoid dark-themed dungeons from now on if I can. I don’t know about the difficulty, but they’re definitely a huge strain on one’s Spirit.
Suppressing his revulsion, Chen Mo reached out and grabbed a piece of the frantically squirming meat.
He felt as if the chunk of meat was being drawn by something, trying to move in a specific direction.
Chen Mo followed this pull and walked in that direction.
The meat, it turned out, was trying to move towards the center of the Array.
Curious, Chen Mo placed the chunk of meat on it.
As soon as the first chunk of meat was placed on it, the Formation began to glow with a strange red light. WHOOSH! A terrifying suction force suddenly filled the cave. In the blink of an eye, all the scattered pieces of meat on the ground were sucked onto the Array.
It’s not going to resurrect, is it?
Chen Mo was already prepared for a fight.
However, as the chunks of meat gathered, Chen Mo watched them wriggle continuously, slowly reforming into a human shape.
Once the transformation was complete, Chen Mo saw it was a middle-aged man. However, he couldn’t detect any sign of Life from him. He wondered how the man could still speak.
"Are you the Bishop of Xiensa Evil God from before?" Chen Mo asked curiously.
"Yes. I was lost in desire and eventually became a puppet of the Xiensa Evil God, completely losing myself..."
"Are you free from the Xiensa Evil God’s control now?"
"Yes. You killed me, and in doing so, you did me a great service. You helped break the slave contract I had with the Xiensa Evil God. Had I not died, I would have remained enslaved by him until I completely lost myself and was ultimately devoured by him."
"But didn’t he favor you precisely because you hadn’t lost yourself?"
"Indeed. However, his only intention was to acquire better disciples. Disciples who retained their selves could accumulate power faster and strengthen their Xiensa Evil God’s Body more effectively, making them better for him to devour."
"I see. When did you realize this?"
"I only realized this as my sanity began to fade, but by then, it was too late..."
"To have grown so strong, you must have absorbed a considerable amount of the Xiensa Evil God’s blood. Did you gain any information from it? For instance, how to undo the Xiensa Evil God’s Body?"
"True, absorbing the Xiensa Evil God’s blood does provide some related information. However, I never learned how to undo the Xiensa Evil God’s Body. But I do know that the Xiensa Evil God has always been terrified of a certain Grand Sage. Perhaps that Grand Sage has a solution."
"Oh?" Upon hearing a lead, Chen Mo immediately asked, "Where can I find this Grand Sage?"
"He lives in Sage’s Village, about ten thousand meters east of Qiluo Town."
"Then I’ll set off to find him immediately."
"Sage’s Village isn’t a place just anyone can enter. The Xiensa Evil God has wanted to eliminate this Grand Sage for a long time. However, every disciple he sent there ended up lost in the Forest of the Sage surrounding Sage’s Village."