The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle

Its hoarse voice reached everyone's ears, ghostly and haunting.

But it seemed it hadn't spoken in a long time, and its fragmented sentences did not make sense to the crowd.

It seemed to realize this as well.

Then,

a mark on everyone slowly began to flicker, and each person was slightly startled.

"What's wrong?" Su Qi paused slightly.

Ethan Dawn murmured, "There's a voice in my head, it's communicating with us."

"..."

As the only person not marked, Su Qi raised an eyebrow.

Was he excluded again?

He looked towards the figure in a yellow robe at the center, although he could see the information above its head, the refresh timing was constant and the information random.

He had to watch it in segments.

[It... is seeking help]

[It... wants to break this vast ceremony]

[It was once one of the Evil God's priests...]

The last line caused Su Qi's eyes to twitch slightly.

Wait.

What had he seen? The Evil God?!?

Ominous!

Or rather, endearing.

"It's just that..." Su Qi's eyes drilled into the existence clad in the yellow robe.

This guy wasn't the Yellow-robed Master.

But why was there a connection with the Evil God?

And the word 'priest' meant it had served the Evil God.

It was known that the strongest being under a deity was generally called a bishop...

A deity usually has fewer than ten bishops, divided into archbishops and ordinary bishops, who preside over the realms in place of the divinity.

Next in line were the priests.

Priests were the bishops' right hand, maintaining faith in the divinity, managing the realms, also often appearing in public and holding a very high position.

Those priests who followed the archbishop were also known as Great Priests.

Broken down, their status was that of the highest in their class.

"This guy... is actually a priest."

But there was more.

Other information refreshed on the display.

[It was once one of God Gurbha's priests....]

Really now?

You have a second profession?

Thereupon,

[Now it is one of the Yellow-robed Master's priests...]

"....."

Su Qi fell silent.

He couldn't easily comment on this person's complexity; he could only describe it in four words.

That is... a Three Surnames Servant!

The information was somewhat overwhelming.

This guy wasn't the Yellow-robed Master; all the aura, strength, and the sequence of twisted transmissions, although not illusions, were clearly achieved through other means.

At this moment, the players trembled slightly, and slowly came back to their senses, their eyes filled with disbelief and excitement.

"Why do you all look like you've seen something racy, starved for it? What did that guy say?" Su Qi asked.

"How dare you refer to the great being before us as 'that guy,'" Ethan Dawn's tone was somewhat excited. "This entity... is a genuine Divine!"

"..."

Su Qi, unfazed, said, "Go on, I'm listening."

Ethan Dawn, still thrilled, began to recount what he had just heard.

"All of us just now received its reply through the mark."

"It's a great Divine, an extraordinary being, but now it's sealed here!"

"If we can help this great being communicate with the Temple, it can break free from this vast ceremony, and we will not only be without worries, but we can also become its followers and gain unimaginable benefits!"

This was the first time the players had encountered such a terrifying, high-ranking entity, and they were naturally extremely excited.

Because in Paradise... many people had already pledged to the religions and powers of the Ten Thousand Realms, starting typically from the lowest level of believers, it was almost impossible for minor figures to have real contact with a divine being.

At most... they would circle the shrine, holding hands and singing prayers.

But now!

The Divine was right in front of them!!!

How could they not be excited!

Su Qi: "..."

Why does this pitch sound so familiar, am I Emperor Qin Shi Huang? Give me two thousand, and I'll make you the National Guardian General?

"So, what are you guys going to do next?"

Penelope Bloom's eyes also sparkled with excitement as she spoke gravely, "Naturally, we're going to break all of this ceremony in front of us and then help it escape from its binds!"

Su Qi couldn't easily make a judgement.

But from what he could tell, his and this guy's goals were the same: they both wanted to break the ceremony.

The ceremony covered vast areas of land and was also the true fuse to the impending destruction; Su Qi didn't believe he alone could stop its progress.

After all.

From the dangerous zone all the way here, hundreds of Seventh Rank monsters were maintaining the ceremony, and the City had more dangerous beings guarding it.

Unless he summoned the Evil God.

But Su Qi wouldn't resort to that move until it was absolutely necessary.

In any case.

Su Qi didn't stop the players' actions.

"Divine Being! Lord! Great Master!"

The players knelt on one knee in a sacred circle like pilgrims, solemn and thrilled.

A mark flickered above each of them, ancient whispers emerging through these marks into their minds, spoken by their mouths.

As they continued to recite, it became incomprehensible!

"#￥@!&...#*"

The language was obscure, the pronunciation strange, filled with oddity.

The people also fell into a stupor, eyes closed, lips moving incessantly as if entranced.

And Su Qi, watching this scene, was the only one not participating, since he didn't have the mark.

"It seems to be some kind of ceremony... related to the Anxious Land mentioned by it? The Temple?"