Mao Tu is an honest person, so whatever Xu Shu asks, she answers, even learning to infer more and add on her own.
It is clear that the death of her eight companions has had a significant impact and deterrent effect on her.
In her detailed description, as soon as they came in, they rushed to investigate important locations in the county town, discovering that the entire Luling County, with one city, eight towns, and sixty-four villages, together formed a large Array based on the natural geography.
The purpose of this great Array is precisely to seal an extremely evil entity—the ’Fear God.’
According to the saying within the Mysterious Sect, more than a decade ago, the ’Fear God’ quietly descended here, on the verge of resurrection.
The White Lotus Sect came to exorcise the demon, but unfortunately, the White Lotus Saintess of the year underestimated the power of the ’Fear God’ and failed in the exorcism. Though severely injuring it, she was exhausted to the point of death, and her path and spirit vanished.
To prevent it from making a comeback, the first-generation White Lotus Saintess used the hills and great marshes to set up a double-layered Eight Diagrams God Summoning Array, borrowing the power of the ’No-Life Buddha Mother,’ thus sealing the ’Fear God’ beneath Big Temple Mountain in the city.
This Array is special; with time, it can essentially grind the evil ’Fear God’ to death. This shows that the White Lotus Saintess was not only incredibly talented but also empathetic and compassionate.
Now, more than a decade has passed, and the power of the ’Fear God’ has already been significantly weakened. Once it had the strength close to the Fifth Realm, now it can barely maintain the Fourth Realm.
Therefore, although referred to as a god, the ’Fear God’ is a severely wounded and dying Demigod!
Initially, the Annihilation Association and others had doubts about this, but soon, a high-ranking person within the Red Emperor’s Army gave advice, and they were able to confirm this information from two Demon Path practitioners at the third-tier peak guarding the entrance to Big Temple Mountain.
These two Demon Path practitioners, claiming to be "Qingfeng Child" and "Bright Moon Child," were originally loyal to the ’Fear God,’ responsible for watching over the Divine Temple at Big Temple Mountain.
However, as the saying goes, when the tree falls, the monkeys scatter; with the Fear God growing weaker and nearing extinction, its loyal followers are also preparing to find another way out.
Thus, they revealed that the ’No-Life Mother’ within the eight tower guardians around Luling County was actually lotus essences that became enlightened, serving as array eyes for the grand Array of the year.
By capturing these eight Lotus Mother spirits, although it would damage the Array, it could once again suppress the ’Fear God’ for a short time.
With such various operations, the Red Emperor’s Army members hatched a plan to attack the Demigod. They are incredibly powerful on this mission; with third-tier practitioners in groups, second-tier ones clustered, and first-tier ones numerous; it’s essentially an assembly of heroes, all elites present.
You should know that this ’Fear God,’ once a Fifth Realm being, if successfully overthrown, the benefits are unimaginable.
Not to mention anything else, just the fact that the Fear God had once reached the Fifth Realm means it must possess a fragment of divinity, and it’s almost complete divinity!
Just this alone is enough to drive any strong practitioner at the Later Third Rank with the confidence and ambition to strive for higher levels crazy.
Moreover, according to their explorations, beneath Big Temple Mountain, where the Fear God is sealed and locked, is suspected to be a very important treasure trove within the ’No-Life Mysterious Sect.’
In other words, beneath Big Temple Mountain might even hide rarer treasures than divinity!
One must know that the opening of the Mysterious Sect is a rare opportunity, and now, all it takes is to kill a monster whose strength even cannot stabilize at the Demigod level. Though the risk is not small, it’s negligible compared to the massive benefits.
Moreover, with the Array as an aid, the benefits gained are enough to cause any contemporary super-power to fight for it fiercely. If successful, taking it back, why worry about navigating within the Salvation Army as a Commander?
Therefore, the Fear God must be exterminated.
There’s no way not to exterminate it!
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"So, we were sent to take care of the White Lotus Sect’s branch here, but unfortunately, we were a little too late, you... no, you managed to kill it.
"In short, that’s what happened... I, I really have said everything I know!
"You, you will keep your promise and give me a chance to live, won’t you?"
After saying this, Mao Tu looked fearfully and desperately at the man with the red scarf covering his face. Her heart was filled with fear and despair.
What she feared was that having already revealed all the secrets she knew, she became useless and worthless to the other party; would she be silenced? Given the cold-hearted means this person had demonstrated, it wasn’t impossible.
What made her despair was that even if the other party did do this, she had no way to resist.
It’s the situation of a man being a knife and oneself being meat—not being able to do anything in the face of such a large power difference.
Mao Tu, being clever, knew any rebellion now was useless; the only thing she could do was summed up in two words:
Loyalty!
"Talk of a way out later," Xu Shu’s words extinguished the spark in Mao Tu’s eyes.
Her gaze dimmed, and even her Nainai seemed deflated, which is what you’d call hanging one’s head and losing spirit.
Having obtained the intelligence, Xu Shu was no longer so kind as before, caring about this prisoner’s psychological issues.
He glanced at Xiao Ya hiding in the shadows behind him, his lips slightly moved, transmitting a secret message.
"It sounds quite bizarre indeed. This group, with their Third Rank and Second Rank, actually plans to leap in battle and encircle a Demigod that fell from the Fifth Rank. Their courage is truly boundless!"