Chapter 157
“Ah? The garden was created by He Jianzhu?” Xia Feng was surprised.
“Yes, this was a small experimental base before, and He Jianzhu used it for some secret research. Green Bone Glaze was one of her research projects.”
“You know what happened later, one of her ‘clones’ entered the orphanage and angered some dignitaries. Someone started investigating all her information, and that’s how this experimental base was discovered. As for where her main body went, it’s unknown.”
“Later, the Archbishop probably took a liking to the hallucinogenic and recording effects of Green Bone Glaze, so he remodeled and greatly expanded this experimental base, including the forest behind the sea of flowers within the scope of the ‘garden’. After that, the garden gradually became a place for dignitaries to play.”
Listening to Mu Qingtong’s slow narration, Xia Feng felt quite shocked. This Archbishop was also something else, to turn such a good experimental base into a brothel!
“Okay, I understand.” Xia Feng nodded. “Then I’ll listen to you. We’ll go to the place you mentioned later!”
Seeing Xia Feng agree so readily, the Black-dressed Woman shook her head. “If you have a better place to go, you don’t have to worry about me. We can find the materials for promotion to the third-stage later.”
“…” Xia Feng’s eyes twitched slightly. Later? There wouldn’t be another chance later!
Today, he was determined to help Mu Qingtong advance to the third-stage! Not for any other reason, he simply enjoyed helping others!
“Alright, Miss Mu, you don’t need to be polite with me.” Xia Feng raised the corner of his mouth. “No matter what, I’ll help you collect the third-stage materials today!”
“Little Feng, me too.” Cha Nai Xue blinked and suddenly spoke up. “Miss Mu said that place also has a fourth-stage Spiritual Material that suits me.”
Xia Feng glanced at her, lost in thought. “I remember your Spiritual Nature is the same as mine, water, right? Then you need what I need.”
“But Miss Mu said there might be a double portion of the fourth-stage materials there.”
“Oh, those are all mine too.” Xia Feng smiled slightly. “There’s none for you.”
“You—” Cha Nai Xue’s delicate eyebrows twitched. She was annoyed and was about to say something, but seeing Xia Feng’s kind smile, she quickly stopped.
Fine, very good, just bully me!
She shut her mouth and turned her head. The probability of being punished if she argued with Xia Feng now was almost 100%. It was better to keep a low profile for now.
She would develop in stealth, and sooner or later, she would find an opportunity to get back at Xia Feng harshly.
What she needed to do now was to endure, and enduring was what she was best at!
*
Deep in the forest, in a magnificent building in the European Vatican style.
Faint sunlight shone through the gaps in the sky grid, illuminating the dim hall.
In the center of the hall was a huge, pitch-black round table. In the dim light, three high chairs were placed in a perfect triangle around the table.
At the easternmost seat sat an old man wearing a black and gold wide-sleeved divine robe and a priest’s hat. His pupils were light brown, and he was lowering his head, diligently flipping through a thick book in his hand.
This person was Archbishop Aus.
On the other two seats of the round table, the right seat was empty, and the left seat was occupied by a Black-robed Person wearing a blood-red mask.
He took off the mask and casually placed it on the table, revealing a plain face, but his pupils were serpentine vertical pupils. His dark green eyes narrowed slightly, gazing at the Archbishop opposite him.
Behind him stood two other Black-robed figures. One of them said unhappily in a deep voice, “Lord Viper, the Eternal Day Envoy is so late, clearly showing no respect for us! Do you need me to urge him?”
“Heh~ Who do you think you are?” A golden circle materialized out of thin air from the darkness, and a Black-robed Person stepped out. He also wore an eye mask, but it was golden.
He sneered sarcastically, “Even if your Heavenly Gift’s representative arrived, they would have to wait for me obediently.”
The Black-robed subordinate immediately became enraged, “Eternal Day Envoy, how dare you be so insolent!”
“What, are you going to fight me?”
“Fight? I’m not afraid of you!”
“Heh~ You have guts, a mere third-stage dares to be arrogant with this envoy. Come, come with me to the training ground outside, and I’ll beat the crap out of you!”
“You damn—”
“Enough! Everyone.”
Just as the conflict was about to erupt, Archbishop Aus, who had been lowering his head to read a book in the darkness, looked up. His aged voice was calm, “You are all part of the same organization, why bicker over such trivial matters.”
“Heh heh~ Who is in the same organization as this lowly fellow?” The Golden-eyed Masked Man pulled out a chair, crossed his legs, and said, “Disgraceful.”
“!” The Black-robed subordinate clenched his fists, his footsteps stomping as he was about to advance again, but the Viper next to him tapped the table. His tone was devoid of any emotion, cold and sharp, “Alright, Groundhog, stand down.”
The Black-robed subordinate regretfully stepped back as instructed.
Seeing that the two sides were irreconcilable, Archbishop Aus shook his head and couldn’t say much more. He knew that although the Burning Heaven Sacred Hall was a cult, there were internal factional struggles, and they were not unified, but divided into two major forces, called the Burning Heaven Cult and the Goddess Hall.
The one wearing the blood-red mask was the Burning Heaven Cult, and their backing Nightmare God was the Heavenly Gift Great Calamity.
The one wearing the golden mask was the Goddess Hall, and their backing Star God was the Eternal Day Goddess.
“Everyone, please set aside your grievances for now.”
Archbishop Aus closed the book and said calmly, “The Burning Heaven Sacred Hall sent you to help me complete the plan. If anything goes wrong, I don’t think that’s something you would want to see.”
“Fine, old man, hurry up and say what you need to say.”
The Eternal Day Envoy crossed his legs. “But by the way, the garden is so safe, what problems could arise?”
Archbishop Aus briefly explained the Seven-eyed Level Calamity Realm that appeared in the glasshouse, and the Peach Organization.
“According to the current intelligence, the recently emerged Peach Organization is deliberately targeting the garden for unknown reasons. However, it is estimated that this organization will come knocking soon and obstruct our plan.”
“Therefore, to ensure the successful implementation of the plan, I would like to request the projection of Gong Changyi to descend and protect us.”
“Old man, you dare to call the Goddess by her name, are you seeking death?” The Eternal Day Envoy’s eyes darkened, and he said coldly.
“…”
The narration was suddenly interrupted, and Aus felt a little helpless. Gong Changyi was the Eternal Day Goddess’s real name. Apart from believers, outsiders generally called her by her name or respectfully as ‘Hall Master Changyi’.
The old man couldn’t be bothered to argue with the Eternal Day Envoy any further, staring at the void in the darkness, his brown eyes narrowed.
“Now, all the materials needed for the descent formation of the Eternal Day Goddess have been prepared, but unfortunately, the last core material, ‘Star Bone Glaze’, has a problem. I didn’t expect that the Saintess I sent to retrieve the Star Bone Glaze was a member of the Peach Organization.”
“Furthermore, three hundred ‘Lost People’ were sucked into the Seven-eyed Level Calamity Realm and are probably in the Saintess’s hands.”
“Alright, I understand.”
Viper, who had been silent all along, raised his dark green vertical pupils. “Your Excellency wants us to go and capture the Saintess for you, to retrieve the ‘Star Bone Glaze’ and the ‘Lost People’.”
