Chapter 3683: Conflict

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Fang Heng carefully examined the game mission prompt.

The triggering of the mission proved that the elder’s judgment had been correct.

In the end, he had been mistaken from the very beginning.

The reason the divine statues shattered because they could not withstand his strength was only a surface phenomenon.

Even if he later found higher-tier divine statues, he would still be unable to complete faith binding due to the conflict between Hell power and divine power.

Fang Heng felt somewhat relieved.

Fortunately, he had met the elder in time, allowing him to return to the right path.

"Thank you for your guidance, senior."

The elder waved his hand and said, "It is nothing. Princess Willow was someone I watched grow up. She is kind-hearted and has great ambition. If she encounters trouble in the future, this old man hopes you will look after her."

"This book should be useful to you."

[Hint: The player obtained special item: Book—Ritual for God Core Advancement.]

Fang Heng took the book, flipped through a few pages casually, and nodded. "Thank you. I will do my best."

The book recorded methods related to the condensation of the god core.

Once one’s strength reached a certain level, one could perform the rituals described in the book to condense faith power and gather a god core, thereby advancing to the False God level.

There were three main requirements for advancement.

Academic strength at the False God level, a large number of fanatical believers, and one divine authority.

Currently, Hell Studies had already reached Super-God level, so his academic level was definitely sufficient.

Next was divine authority.

Even elementary divine authority was enough.

The earlier trip around Sea God Island had not been wasted; he already had divine authority in hand.

The problem lay with believers.

Condensing a god core to advance to False God required at least one hundred devout believers to perform the ritual together.

Moreover, according to the book, the ritual magic array could only be used in this world, and teleportation passages could not be opened here...

This made it somewhat troublesome to gather one hundred believers.

It seemed he would have to use some clever methods.

Fang Heng pondered silently.

Psychic suggestion combined with vampire bloodline control—gathering a group of fanatical believers in a short time was not impossible.

...

In the past two days, the entire Oz Empire had fallen into a state of turmoil.

The King had handed over all responsibilities for receiving the Sea God Island delegation to Duke Windy.

At first, Duke Windy had hoped to use this opportunity to suppress hostile forces within the Empire.

He had indeed succeeded.

But he himself had also been greatly affected, and even the entire Empire was rapidly declining.

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A trusted subordinate hurried in to report to the Duke.

"My Lord Duke."

Duke Windy rubbed his swollen temples and asked, "What is it?"

"Reporting to you, my Lord Duke. People from Sea God Island are carrying out a ’purge of heretics’ within the Empire under the name of cleansing. They are forcing others to believe in the Sea God Island deity. Many innocent people have been slaughtered, and they have already begun to affect the Empire’s foundation."

"I understand."

Duke Windy took a deep breath.

Sea God Island!

Those demons!

He did want to expand his own influence, but he did not want the Empire to fall.

"Additionally..."

Eliot hesitated for a moment and said quietly, "Sea God Island has proposed extremely harsh compensation terms. Besides demanding a large sum of compensation, they also require us to fund the reconstruction of Sea God Island, promote their faith within the Empire, and become a subsidiary of Sea God Island."

"Dream on!"

Duke Windy slammed his wooden chair in fury.

If it had not been for the Princess’s intention to protect Fang Heng, how could the Empire have fallen to this state?

Eliot trembled and did not dare to anger the Duke further, retreating to the side with his head lowered.

Duke Windy calmed himself and asked, "What about the Princess and Fang Heng?"

"The Princess is currently under house arrest by His Majesty and cannot leave the palace. As for Fang Heng, he has been making some moves these past two days. The Chamber of Commerce secretly recruited over a hundred people. They seem very urgent. This group has entered a hidden stronghold in the Feilong Mountains. We also found out that the Chamber of Commerce urgently purchased a batch of important materials, which were all transported to the Feilong Mountains stronghold this morning."

Duke Windy frowned.

The Feilong Mountains stronghold had originally been one of the military’s secret bases, provided by Princess Willow for Fang Heng to hide in. This matter was originally confidential.

He had previously sent people to track them and only then discovered the Chamber of Commerce’s hiding place.

But the more he listened, the stranger it became.

What was Fang Heng doing?

Stockpiling supplies and recruiting fighters in the Feilong Mountains stronghold?

Strengthening defenses?

What a joke—did he really think these recruited people could contend with Sea God Island?

Ridiculous!

Eliot said, "My Lord, should we..."

"Go ahead. Give Sea God Island a hint and let them discover Fang Heng."

Duke Windy took a deep breath.

The Empire could no longer afford further losses.

At this point, Fang Heng would have to be sacrificed first.

"Yes, my Lord!"

...

Sea God Island quickly received intelligence from various sources suggesting Fang Heng was located in the Feilong Mountains.

One of the god servants, Lyanna, was sent by Tobias to investigate.

"Yes, Lord Oracle. Recently, we have discovered many strange people in this mountain range, very suspicious. I suspect they are heretics, so I reported it..."

"You also investigated this area two days ago and found nothing."

"But last night, a villager got lost and accidentally entered a cavern, personally seeing people inside worshipping an Evil God."

Listening to Eliot’s report, Lyanna felt somewhat disdainful.

Sea God Island had indeed heard about abnormalities in the Feilong Mountains these past two days.

But after divine perception, she confirmed there were no anomalies.

"It’s right ahead."

Eliot said with a forced smile, leading the Sea God Island team to the cavern entrance where Fang Heng was hiding. He pointed and said, "This is the cavern. We’ve received many reports these past two days saying there are suspicious activities here."

Lyanna examined the cavern interior and released her perception, then her expression shifted slightly.

Oh?

There really was something strange!

It felt as though the cavern was devouring her perception completely.

It was possible that the lost divine authority really was inside.

"Interesting."

Lyanna murmured, signaling five Sea God Island guards to remain outside while she personally led the rest of the team into the cavern.

She took two steps forward and looked at Eliot at the entrance.

"What? You’re not coming with us?"

"No, no, I’ll just wait here for you, Lord Oracle."

Eliot quickly shook his head, pretending fear. "You must not know, rumors say this cavern eats people. It’s absolutely forbidden to go deeper."

Seeing this, Lyanna became even more disdainful.

"In that case, stay at the entrance."

"Yes! Thank you, Lord Oracle!"

Eliot repeatedly thanked her, watching as Lyanna led the Sea God Island team into the cavern, a cold smile curling at the corner of his lips.

Fang Heng!

Let’s see how you survive this time!

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