CHAPTER 147: CHAPTER 98: SHADOWS BEHIND THE CURTAIN

After nightfall, moonlight penetrated the curtains hanging around the temple, casting snow-like reflections on the ground. Deep within the temple, the sound of chiseling stone echoed.

Basalt shards sporadically flew about. Yijie had stripped off his military uniform and tied it around his waist; he had been chiseling for two days and nights already. Hundreds of laws had been inscribed.

merely wrote down the law code but did not specify how to chisel. The tip of the chisel became increasingly bright, shining like the sweat on Yijie’s forehead.

"Who would have thought that stone carving could have such an effect," Yijie thought as he made the final strike, a hint appeared on his task manual: "spiritual power +5." The principle behind stone carving and gun training is the same; both require intense concentration.

Yijie did not know where 0 had found this cylindrical piece of basalt, but now, resources were limited in the temple. Thus, with each strike, he was very careful in exerting force. Over the past few days, the strength and control of his hands and palms had significantly improved.

He stood up, took off his military uniform, and covered the Legal Code Stone Pillar with it. He then walked to the table and just as he was about to drink some water to relieve his fatigue,

A pair of hands silently wrapped around Yijie. His expression changed, his arms heaved in reverse, throwing the person who had approached him.

"You really are a brute," Apoli, who had not been seen for days, did not scream as she was thrown, her skirt fluttering like flashing purple rain.

"Please show some restraint," Yijie already knew Apoli’s identity. If the temple was an army of guardian gods, then Apoli’s words were akin to military orders. Yijie knew he must have been too focused, which is why he hadn’t noticed another person in the room.

"Restraint? Stranger, why play the gentleman? Everyone who comes to the temple covets the Goddess’s beauty, and you are no exception." Apoli unabashedly began to undress.

The purple veil fell to the ground, and the person now standing in front of Yijie was Ziyu, like a beautifully molting serpent.

Yijie sensed trouble and tried to avoid her, but suddenly, he could no longer move.

Unknowingly, the entire room had turned purple, as if that layer of veil had bound the entire room and Yijie together.

"Stranger, tell me your name?" Ziyu now stood naked, lying vulnerably on Yijie, devoid of any excited sensation of warm jade in his embrace, completely different from when she had hugged 0.

Ziyu’s body was chillingly cold, like a block of ice. Yijie felt as though he was frozen, unable to move, letting Ziyu rub against him.

His mouth involuntarily opened, "Yijie."

"No, tell me your real name," Ziyu’s lips paused at two protruding spots on Yijie’s chest and started to bite.

It felt like thousands of ants were biting him; Yijie felt pain all over his body. This woman was not a Goddess; she was a devil.

"Lu..." Yijie tried his best to maintain consciousness, forcing all the clarity left in his mind to surface.

"Yijie, are you awake?" A clear female voice with knocking sounds made his stiff body slightly crack open.

"Baldy, answer me, if you don’t answer, I’m coming in," 0 thought Yijie had been staying indoors for the past few days, assuming he must have finished his work. She wanted to find an appropriate place for the stone pillar tonight, conceal it, then find an opportunity to retrieve it early to complete this mission.

Ever since the Maid mentioned "Living God" today, she felt something strange about the temple.

Ziyu in front of Yijie was initially unconcerned; her "Forbidden Technique" rapidly spread outward, wanting to silence 0 who had interrupted her.

But after the Forbidden Technique was released, it disappeared without a trace. Ziyu found it strange.

The door was suddenly kicked open. 0 saw Yijie standing shirtless and stunned, with anger in his eyes.

"It seems you have already completed it," 0 saw his appearance, like someone awakened in the middle of the night and grumpily got out of bed, and spontaneously walked towards the stone pillar.

"Didn’t you just notice something uncomfortable?" Yijie had previously used "Shock" special skills on 0, and she was clearly seriously injured, but this time, Ziyu’s evidently more advanced spiritual attack technique seemed to completely not affect 0.