Chapter 463 Gods Dislike Prayers (9.2k, Thank you to Alliance Leader薇娅0205 for the reward!)

"Innovation?"

Repeating the word, Aemon's face showed a dazed expression. He didn't quite understand why his Lord would say this word that seemed completely irrelevant to the current situation at this time.

"Yes, innovation."

Su Zhou answered Aemon's words. He turned his head and looked at the group of people behind him.

Aemon was standing beside him; Yalber, still kneeling on the ground, was mocking the Fire Folk Code; old Chuck was staring blankly at the center of the VIP room; the inspecting priest had a face full of confusion, and the head priest of Qixin City was at a loss, not knowing why he would suddenly appear here.

At the same time, in his personal space, Sarah, who was playing with the Wisdom Tree, and the pirates who were working hard to cultivate the land under the supervision of the Extinction Blade, also heard this word and Su Zhou's voice.

Innovation... what is that?

But Su Zhou did not explain, he did not speak.

Then, the wind began to surge.

In an instant, countless cyan light spots danced. Accompanied by the gentle whistling of the wind, visible streams of wind spirit spread around Su Zhou, like a bright cyan halo. Whether it was Aemon or the head priest, Yalber or old Chuck, even the inspecting priest, everyone in the VIP room was entangled by streams of wind.

It was as if they had a pair of wings out of thin air. The wind came alive at this moment, carrying everyone floating in the air, and then taking the surprised crowd away from the VIP room, flying towards the sky above Qixin City.

And it was not until this time that a burst of exclamations could be heard from the temple not far away.

"Ah, what's going on?"

"The head priest is gone!"

"An attack?!"

The voices of the priests came one after another. They also noticed the figures flashing across the sky, but soon, Su Zhou and the others had crossed the city and arrived directly above Qixin Lake.

Qixin Lake is the largest freshwater lake in the east-central region of the Holy Fire Kingdom. Hundreds of rivers of all sizes converge here. It is much larger than any city on the Holy Fire Continent. Standing on the edge, it is like facing the ocean.

"This, what's going on?!"

The Qixin City head priest had lived here for decades, and he was so familiar with Qixin Lake that he quickly realized that he had gone from inside the city to the lake shore in just a few seconds, and then from the lake shore to an area near the center of the lake. This transcendent, whose figure was a little out of shape, might not be so attentive in his cultivation, but his mind was definitely not bad. Apart from exclaiming at the beginning, he immediately calmed down and easily calculated that his speed had exceeded several times the speed of sound, and the height of his current location was more than four thousand meters.

Moreover, the most important thing was not just that. The head priest found that his Chosen One-level strength could not be exerted at all. It was a power that was originally enough to cause a huge storm in Qixin Lake and bring down torrential rain, but now, whether it was his tyrannical mental power or elemental power, all of them seemed to be afraid and stayed in his body, unable to move.

Especially the two major elemental powers of 'wind' and 'water', the head priest even felt that these two elemental powers in his body were not only motionless, they were even cheering and jumping, wanting to jump out of his body, refuse his control, and swear allegiance to the black-haired young man in front of him.

"I, I apologize!"

After all, he was a local head priest, and the Qixin City head priest was not a fool. He turned his head, his eyes swept across the crowd, and when he saw old Chuck, the head priest suddenly understood. His mind was clear, and he instantly thought of a possibility.

So without any hesitation, he directly apologized to old Chuck, who had not yet figured out the situation: "I'm sorry, Chuck, I went too far this time—I will convene a meeting of the priests to pardon your sins, use divine magic to restore your hand, and compensate you for all the losses of your farms!"

"In addition to that, I will also compensate you with a large sum of money as compensation for the losses you have suffered recently!"

The head priest's voice was so sincere that it was impossible to tell whether he was trying to muddle through or was truly sincere.

"Indeed clever."

Hearing this, Aemon couldn't help frowning slightly.

According to the precepts and oaths in the Covenant Code, at this time, old Chuck should forgive the other party—because the other party had promised to compensate him for things far exceeding his losses, and did not quibble or deny it, but directly admitted his mistake.

"W-what?!"

Even old Chuck temporarily escaped from the shock and fear of flying into the sky. The dark-skinned fisherman turned his head and looked in surprise at the head priest who was smiling humbly at him. Although the other party was fat and found it difficult to bend over, he did lean forward and strike a pose that was almost a bow of apology.

In response, old Chuck couldn't help but waver obviously: "Y-you, are you telling the truth..."

"Alright, I'm not here to judge you this time, there's no need for such an insincere apology."

At this time, Su Zhou, who had arrived in the center of Qixin Lake, spoke. He said lightly, then turned his head and looked at the shrewd head priest.

The young man stared at him, and the overwhelming spiritual pressure stirred spontaneously, causing the head priest, who had originally wanted to say something, to shut his mouth, his body trembling subconsciously. After kneeling for a while, Su Zhou laughed: "To be honest, I still have to praise you a little, the Qixin City head priest, you have done a good job in your duties. Everyone in Qixin City lives and works in peace and contentment, and everyone's life is happy. After careful observation, I found that there are not many grudges in the entire city, which is proof of your achievements."

"T-thank you for the praise..."

In response, the head priest was a little suspicious. He didn't know the origin of the black-haired young man in front of him, but he was obviously incredibly strong, possibly a newly promoted Divinely Favored One—unable to resist, he could only wipe away his cold sweat and smile obsequiously at Su Zhou: "T-this, sir, I know I did wrong, and I am willing to apologize—I swear, my apology is sincere, I am willing..."

"Your evil originates from your heart."

But Su Zhou interrupted him. The young man's tone was calm: "I can hear your heart, so there is no need to lie to me. You are still just annoyed that you were discovered by me, and why old Chuck would meet me, instead of truly repenting. Your evil does exist."

"But the meaning of order, law, and oath is to prevent people's evil from running rampant."

Saying this, Su Zhou turned his head and surveyed the entire Qixin Lake—in addition to Qixin City, there were a total of six cities and villages of various sizes on the lake shore, and further away there were more towns and villages, forming a dense network of towns, scattered like stars.

Watching these cities, Su Zhou said calmly: "No one in the world is perfect in their heart. Who wouldn't have evil thoughts? But you did it, and that's the mistake. Moreover, this is not just your mistake, but also a loophole in the order of this world, a mistake in the laws and oaths."

"In the links where you made a mistake, if any priest went to all the farmers near the lake to promote it, or if there were regulations stipulating that the priests must notify everyone related to the law, you would not have been able to do evil."

"Sir, I..." The head priest seemed to want to say something. His expression was a little stiff. Although he didn't feel that he was in any danger of dying, for some reason, an even more unsettling feeling was spreading.

But Su Zhou shook his head, interrupting him again.

"But the most important thing is, Edmond, you still don't think you did anything wrong in your heart. You feel that using the rules to suppress people you don't like and forcing them into a dead end is procedurally just and not wrong. But what about morality?"

"Oh, I forgot, your love is an obligation, that is the law, not morality."

Speaking of this, Su Zhou laughed instead. He chuckled and shook his head: "First, you must admit your mistakes, and then you can correct them. If you can't admit your mistakes and then apologize, repentance and admitting your mistakes are just perfunctory and deceptive."

Saying this, under the leadership of Lan Zhong, the group had already arrived directly above the center of Qixin Lake, an area seven thousand meters high.

Looking down from such a high place, it could be seen that except for some thin clouds above Qixin Lake, there were no clouds within a thousand miles around. Except for smoke and dust, there was nothing else on the ground that could block the view.

Drought. An unprecedented drought.

This was a disaster that affected the entire world. Su Zhou could see that the cause of all this drought originated from the imbalance of 'water elements'.

Su Zhou stretched out his hand, and spiritual power surged, blessing everyone behind him. He imparted his power to everyone, allowing them to see the changes in the elements like him.

Aemon opened his eyes. He was the first to adapt to the suddenly countless times clearer vision. The gray-haired priest was surprised to find that he could suddenly see with the naked eye the magic power filling the entire world, as well as the elemental factors floating in the magic power, the cyan wind, the red fire, the brown earth, and the blue water. The four major elements existed in every part of the world and were undergoing a cycle of reincarnation.

"This, is this the perspective of a god?"

He muttered to himself, then raised his head and looked in the direction Su Zhou was watching.

Then, the gray-haired priest opened his mouth wide and was stunned in place.

Aemon could see that a mighty blue river was flowing rapidly between heaven and earth, rushing eastward... That was the water element, an almost endless water element was breaking away from every corner of the world, receding. They were stripped of their original elemental cycle, and then just flowed like that.

"This, what's going on?!"

"Why are the water elements breaking away from the cycle and leaving alone?!"

"That's the direction of the sea! Sure enough, Yalber, you pirates are the ones behind this!"

In response, Yalber was neither surprised nor mocked. The great pirate just stared gloomily at the Far East, the direction where the sea was, and then sighed deeply.

"The ritual has indeed been completed, even if I fail, it is completely enough..."

Su Zhou was not surprised by this.

He had long known that all the water elements in the world were rushing towards the sea—just like at the end of the cycle of the Tartarus world in the past, the elemental balance between heaven and earth was gradually moving towards the extreme. If it went further, it would be the final doomsday.

There were more and more such droughts on the entire Holy Fire Continent, so that more than twenty Divinely Favored Ones, all the priest teams, had to try their best to rescue them. Just like around Qixin City, there would be a dozen priest teams coming here to use elemental magic to store water and then go to the distant places to rain and relieve the drought.

The Qixin City head priest, Edmond, as the local person in charge, could plan all the teams and actions well and satisfy everyone. He was indeed capable.

But it was even more terrifying for capable people to do evil, because it meant that few people would discover it.

"Look."

Without saying much, Su Zhou raised his hand and pointed to the blue elemental river, and said lightly: "That is the root of all things."

"In this world, something big is happening. The elements are out of balance, and the world is gradually moving towards a similar doomsday as the previous era."

"And this big event has caused many small problems, such as river siltation, drought, and famine."

"And from these small problems, even more evils will be derived, just like Edmond taking the opportunity to harm old Chuck. In the turbulent situation, one can always find opportunities to do evil that are usually not found."

Saying this, Su Zhou turned his head and looked at old Chuck and the head priest Edmond, and then shifted his gaze to Yalber and Aemon. Even the inspecting priest was glanced at.

"The meaning of order and law is to curb these evils, such as the mistakes made by Edmond. The meaning of the official, the Central Holy Hall, is to solve river siltation, drought, and famine."

"As for bigger things, generally speaking, there is no way to solve them—but isn't there a god in this world? The meaning of god is to solve these big things."

When Su Zhou said this, he was a little dissatisfied: "I really don't quite understand what Elias and the Wind God are doing. Can't they see that the current situation is not right? When the granary is full, people know etiquette; when the world is peaceful, there is no crime. Gods should shoulder their responsibilities!"

But even Su Zhou knew that Elias's current situation must be not quite right, otherwise, he would definitely appear as soon as he descended... It was precisely in order to find out what Elias's current situation was that he planned to go to the Central Holy Hall to see what was going on with him.

"Aemon, if I let you adjudicate the matter between the head priest Edmond and the fisherman old Chuck, what would you do? Afterwards, how would you eradicate the occurrence of such things?"

Hearing Su Zhou's voice, Aemon was stunned for a moment. Soon, he began to think: "Although old Chuck did violate the regulations in law, it is obvious that this was an accident, not intentional... Although there is no distinction between the results of accidents and intentional acts in the precepts of the Covenant, at least we can give old Chuck a chance to 'apologize'. Instead of arresting him for trial at the first time and forcibly imposing multiple crimes and cutting off his hands."

"This is a handling method limited to the Covenant Code, and if it is to eradicate it... I will add a few more codes, for example, if similar decrees appear, the priests must notify everyone and personally go to the place where the decrees are implemented to inform everyone. In this way, things like old Chuck will not happen again..."

"Laughable."

But Yalber on the side spoke as if he was not afraid of death. He mocked: "Is it useful to notify? What if this head priest plays with the time difference? It's not like I don't understand aquaculture, how could I not know how long it takes to clean up these things? I'll notify old Chuck half a day or a day in advance, and then come over the next day to arrest him after he has cleaned up a small part. I can still sentence him!"

The great pirate's expression was full of sarcasm: "There is a sailor on my ship who was forced out to sea in this way. You priests have many ways to exploit loopholes. If you can block one hole, they can find two holes."

"This..."

For a time, Aemon could not think of a way to refute it—in fact, after thinking about it carefully, he found that this was indeed the case. He could also find several loopholes to circumvent various treaties. After all, the rules are dead, but people are alive. As long as you want to screw someone over, there will always be a way.

No matter how he thought about it, he could not reach perfection. Aemon pondered for a long time, and finally bowed his head to Su Zhou with some bitterness and sighed: "I'm sorry, Lord, I can't find a way to eradicate this..."

"No, haven't you already found it?"

But Su Zhou spoke, he smiled and watched Aemon, and said casually: "Didn't the method you just proposed indeed prevent Edmond from harming old Chuck? Although Yalber quickly proposed another loophole, is your method a step further compared to the beginning?"

Saying this, Su Zhou turned his head and looked at the green Qixin Lake, the young man's tone was serious: "Innovation is like this, just one step, going back and then forward is fine, don't be obsessed with 'perfection'."

"Correct mistakes if there are any, and then look for new mistakes. Admit mistakes, recognize mistakes, correct mistakes—the foundation of innovation is like this."

"But the most important thing is to find out where the root of the mistake is, and not treat the head when the head hurts, and treat the foot when the foot hurts."

Closing his eyes, Su Zhou recalled his experiences along the way.

——Starting from descending into Xiguang City, he had witnessed the loopholes in the judgment all the way, noticed the limitations of the Evil Devouring Demon Lord, and then understood that the judgment of the Judgment Dragon was ultimately the source of the tyranny of the majority.

This was his past limitation. Although he had solved many problems with it (the Evil Devouring Demon Lord), and indeed eliminated many evil enemies, he could do better.

Since he could do better, why should he revel in the present?

So... he could not stop moving forward. I must judge myself and carry out an innovation on myself.

Only in this way can I guarantee that I will always be on the path to 'relatively correct'.

——My mistake has been found, my mistake has been admitted, and now it is time to find the root of my 'mistake' and then correct it!

Taking a deep breath, Su Zhou opened his eyes and stared at this world, the spiritual light in his blue-purple dragon eyes was bright, he said frankly: "It is impossible to eradicate evil by killing evil when encountering evil, and killing enemies when encountering enemies—we must find the origin of everything and gradually block the source of all evil."

"Just like the small evil that happened in Qixin City, which originated from a bigger change, if the problems caused by the elemental imbalance are not solved, not only will the order and laws collapse, but even the Central Holy Hall's rule over the Holy Fire Kingdom will collapse."

"Order is the same, now I judge this Edmond head priest, what can I do by punishing him? If the root of the Covenant Code of the Holy Fire Kingdom is not solved, there will be more and more such people."

And at this moment, Su Zhou stretched out his hand and opened his personal space, and took out the Extinction Blade.

In the soul space, the purple-cyan Celestial Soul rotated and alternated. The original structure of the Evil Devouring Demon Lord had been mostly replaced. Sixty percent of the original divine power structure had been modified into a new and better form. Countless huge rune groups surrounded the soul sun, like planets orbiting a star, forming a systematic and complete galaxy.

The red snake spirit lay on the spirit of the Wisdom Tree, and Yala watched this scene with a smile.

"Yes, that's right."

"What Lonely Lord, what Pioneer, what trash destiny, what bullshit correctness—they are all wrong, no one is right."

"There is no need to force perfect correctness—it is enough to be more correct than others."

"Question, question more! Su Zhou, go on!"

The snake spirit's voice echoed in the soul space, and in the real world, Su Zhou held the long knife in his hand tightly, golden-red flames burned on the blade, and the majestic spiritual power turned into a brilliant light, extending from the tip of the knife. It continued to extend and extend, and the golden-red straight line seemed to span the entire sky, dividing the sky into two sides.

Aemon and Yalber were fine, but old Chuck, the Edmond head priest, and the inspecting priest were all shocked to watch this scene. They stared dumbfounded, watching the majestic fire elemental power like a scorching sun freely emitted from the divine knife, causing the high sky to be filled with golden-red light.

"Blazing Holy Sword... You, you are..."

Among them, the inspecting priest, who had long suspected something, softened his knees. He wanted to kneel down, but Lan Zhong stopped him. The Edmond head priest, who was already smart, was trembling even more, his fat shaking like a sieve.

He said the name tremblingly.

"L-Lord of Judgment?!"

"The river is blocked, right? The surrounding area is dry, right?"

Not caring about their shock, Su Zhou said this, holding the divine knife, he chuckled and then waved his arm, swinging it towards the Qixin Lake below him, and the distant river channel.

Then, the brilliant light that extended for who knows how long, just fell towards the ground like that.

Heaven and earth seemed to freeze.

Everything was still, whether it was the wind, the clouds, or the waves on Qixin Lake, everything stopped, motionless.

In this stillness, only the light of the knife flickered.

The Extinction Blade slashed down, it slashed into Qixin Lake, slashed into the blocked river channel, it extended all the way, splitting open the lake that was hundreds of meters deep, and clearing the silt from the bottom of the river—huge waves surged, and under the blazing light of the knife, the entire Qixin Lake was like boiling, steaming out the sky water mist, giving birth to a hurricane that was enough to surge hundreds of miles away.

Violent explosions appeared continuously along the slashed straight line. They evaporated the lake water, and steamed up the clouds and giant waves, causing large swaths of pure white clouds to rapidly rise into the sky, like wings hanging down from the sky.

With one slash, Su Zhou ignored the question of the Extinction Blade which seemed to be questioning 'Why am I used to slash lake water as soon as I appear? Weren't you supposed to use me sparingly?', and sent it back to his personal space.

Then, he stretched out his left hand and activated the Great Cycle of Lan Armor.

Immediately, tens of thousands of cyan Lan seeds rushed into the large clouds of mist with a hazy cyan spiritual power. The hurricane turned into a huge package, wrapping up all these clouds and water vapor, and then rising into the high sky at the fastest speed, turning into dark rain clouds.

In an instant, in Qixin City, which was panicked because of the huge explosion, they saw again that the originally bright world suddenly darkened, and the dark clouds spread rapidly like an illusion, occupying most of the sky in their field of vision.

Immediately afterwards, Su Zhou flipped his left hand.

In an instant, the sound of thunder roared in the rain clouds, and purple lightning shuttled and flashed in the clouds, like dragons calling the wind and rain.

Then, it rained cats and dogs.

After a long time, the rain once again descended around Qixin City... No, it wasn't just Qixin City!

Because a large number of clouds were being transported by the hurricane created by Lan seeds, flying towards the many arid cities in all directions! They were also raining, moisturizing the parched lands in all directions.

"It's raining, it's raining!"

"This is a miracle!"

For a time, although they knew it was likely to be an illusion, Aemon and the others seemed to hear the cheers of the people in many cities and villages.

After doing all this, Su Zhou withdrew his hand.

His expression was calm.

Turning his hand into clouds, turning his hand into rain.

This was the power of a Hegemon-level—a god.

Such power could be used to move mountains and seas, and could also be used to protect the people.

Power itself was something that was freely judged by the heart. In the end, what was needed was to never stop, and to have love in the heart. In this way, whether it was fighting against evil people, or like now, bringing down sweet rain, it all had meaning.

At this time, with Qixin City as the center, the drought in dozens of cities had been temporarily resolved—unlike the priest team using magic to transport water to various places, the rainstorm caused by Su Zhou could at least protect one place for a month's needs, and just now he used the Extinction Blade to chop down a knife with its own laws, which would automatically evaporate a part of the lake water, and Lan seeds would automatically take these clouds to rain.

This was the wonderful use of the Law with Primordial Spirit. In addition to automatic regeneration and repair during combat, it could also be used to set up a temporary magic circle that lasted for a long time out of thin air.

The heavy rain enveloped the earth, and the humid wind blew towards the sky. In just a blink of an eye, the situation around Qixin City had changed.

Powerful beings, if they could, could do these things.

When a civilization gave birth to strong people, but had to exclude the strong people from the civilization, it was a regression of order.

Su Zhou knew that the Holy Fire Kingdom was doing a good job in this regard. Priests and Divinely Favored Ones participated in civilization construction and fought against disasters, but the Fire Lord Elias, as a god, did not come forward.

Perhaps He was working hard for more important things. Su Zhou would definitely ask carefully.

And just as Aemon and the others were shaken by such great power in their hearts, they heard Su Zhou's voice.

"I will use divine power to observe the hearts of the people and listen to all grievances."

With his hands behind his back, Su Zhou descended with the crowd. He walked on the rain clouds he created, and a cloud road leading to the distance was opened up, extending to the end of the sky: "I will issue a divine decree so that all those like old Chuck can pray to me and pour out their grievances and suffering."

"My Lord!"

Listening to this sentence, Aemon's heart was shaking, and his breathing was a little rapid. The gray-haired priest put his hands together, and asked excitedly: "Could it be that you want to completely solve these problems?!"

"Ah?"

And Su Zhou turned his head, he looked at Aemon in astonishment, and asked puzzledly: "How is that possible!"

"These are all problems created by Elias, it's fine for me to help him collect opinions, where does he get the face to let me solve his troubles for him?"

The young man shook his head, his expression with dissatisfaction: "I will find all the cities and villages around here in a while, find all the people with grievances, and then form a 'complaint' team, I will personally take them to the Central Holy Hall to support them, and let them ask the Fire God why he would sit back and watch them suffer!"

In the astonished, even unbelievable eyes of Aemon and the others, Su Zhou said with emotion: "In this world, there are too many people like old Chuck who are wronged."

"Not to mention Sarah, who was judged and died just because she was a Sea Folk."

"It's all because of problems with order and law that there are these dead people."

"In addition to this, the elements of the entire world are out of balance—including me, all the gods, should solve these problems, which is also our responsibility."

Saying this, Su Zhou turned his head with a smile and looked at everyone.

"After all, you respect me as a god, and you bow and pray to me every day, so I always have to do something."

After saying that, the young man lowered his head and looked at the cities around Qixin Lake.

"The natural problems have been temporarily solved."

"Now, it's time to start solving human problems."

Su Zhou muttered to himself, and then closed his eyes.

And at the same time, around Qixin Lake, in all the cities and villages, everyone heard a gentle but grand voice.

【I am the Lord of Judgment, this is a divine decree.】

【Those who have grievances, pray to me.】

【Those who feel innocent, but have been convicted, pray to me.】

Coming from the depths of the heart, the sound that ignored any language, resounded in everyone's heart lake.

Then, ripples arose.

Countless prayers and vows of power resounded through the spirit world.

——Gods do not like prayers.

Because people's prayers and requests represent that the order set by the gods is not perfect and cannot meet people's needs.

Unless this prayer is a greeting, a thank you, a sincere desire to communicate with God.

The prayers of joyful people are sharing, the prayers of loving people are dedication, and the prayers of kind people are empathy. These have the name of prayer, but not the reality of prayer.

——Evil is the lack of good.

Only when people are uneasy, unkind, do wrong things, or are deeply mired in grievances, deeply mired in mistakes, and expect to change their difficult situation, will they pray.

And all of this is proving the incompetence of the gods—He cannot make His children happy, so that all the children can live carefree without pinning their hopes on His power.

【Therefore, change is needed, innovation is needed.】

【It is necessary to become better, from the original foundation, to become better and better.】

【I will bring doubt, I will bring correction, I will admit all mistakes.】

【I will bring innovation.】

Opening his eyes, Su Zhou's gaze was calm.

Countless prayers echoed in his soul space, and were understood, distinguished, confirmed by him... Then, he responded.

【All the wronged people, let's go, let's go to the center of the world.】

Such divine decrees echoed in dozens, hundreds, or even more cities.

On June 29, 307, hundreds of thousands of people in the east-central part of the Holy Fire Continent, in cities around Qixin City, heard the divine decree of the Lord of Judgment.

On June 30, hundreds of thousands of people in the southeast-central part of the Holy Fire Continent, around Tulip City, heard the divine decree of the Lord of Judgment. Nearly a thousand criminals left the criminal village and left for the distance.

On July 2, nearly ten million people in the central part of the Holy Fire Continent, around the Pure Phosphorus, Continuous Light, and Distant Cloud city groups, heard the divine decree of the Lord of Judgment. It was said that the incarnation of the Lord of Judgment showed his true body, and countless people witnessed it with their own eyes.

A few days later, in an atmosphere of devout worship and cheers, a mighty team of seventeen thousand 'criminals' burdened with sins was formed, following in the footsteps of 'God', heading towards the center of the world, the Central Holy Hall.

And in addition to this, there were more people, more criminals who had heard the divine decree of the Lord of Judgment, who were coming from all directions of the entire Holy Fire Continent, gathering towards that team.

And in the place where the miracle was manifested, the arid thunder and rain, the torrential rain, the floodwaters stopped, the swamps dried up, the elements returned to equilibrium, and the world was temporarily calmed.

Seven Seas, Meditation Sea.

A vast fleet consisting of hundreds of large ships was sailing on the calm waters of the Meditation Sea. Fog shrouded the sea, and rugged reefs were looming in the nearly invisible thick fog. Only transcendents occasionally used their power to pass through the fog to see the road ahead.

On the largest ship at the head, the Sea Emperor White Whale suddenly raised his head.

"Someone on the continent is calming the elemental imbalance."

He scratched his head strangely, then reached out and picked up a cup of bitter tea and poured it into his mouth: "Strange, who is so strong? Or have those Divinely Favored Ones suddenly changed their temperaments, and stopped fooling around and really started working together to save the disaster?"

"No way, no way, no way?"

White Whale never drank alcohol, because alcohol was not sweet enough. Of course, the bitter tea he liked to drink was not sweet enough either, but obviously these two things had nothing to do with each other. Chewing the tea leaves, the Sea Emperor laughed, and he said to the other Sea Emperors and Sea Kings beside him: "Do you think our Fire Lord made a move, or did the Divinely Favored Ones join forces?"

"It's unlikely to be the Fire Lord... He didn't make a move during the last rebellion, and he shouldn't be an exception this time."

Another Sea Emperor with messy blue hair pondered for a while, and he shook his head and said: "If the Fire Lord hadn't been inactive all the time, only divine decrees descended, how could our good friends on the shore not have taken action for so long? They don't want the Fire Lord to be active more than we do."

"Then who could it be?"

Shrugging his shoulders, White Whale didn't care about this question. The tall white-haired man looked into the distance, and his deep purple pupils flashed with bright light: "Forget it, keep moving forward—notify the Pioneer Proxy, our plan is about to begin."

He laughed and ordered, and then, the fleet accelerated and continued to sail towards the depths of the ocean.

If they had elemental vision, they could see that at the top of the sky above this fleet, six mighty water element torrents were converging like rivers, and falling towards the center of the Meditation Sea, turning into a huge pillar supporting the sky.

The 'Deep Sea Ritual' was about to begin.

Holy Fire Continent, Central Continent, Central Holy Hall.

July 5, 307.

In the deep precepts leading to the deepest part of the world, he once again welcomed a hurried visitor.

The black-haired, gold-eyed knight, the Divinely Favored One Ishar, walked towards the sea of lava with a worried face.

This time, his purpose was still the same.

He wanted to see God.

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