The further inward he went, the more he could feel that the entire space was filled with malice. The feeling of facing the gods became clearer and clearer, whispering, murmuring, and even completely incomprehensible painful sounds appeared, as if the empty temple was actually filled with invisible figures.
He felt the damp, fishy wind blowing from the direction of the holy emblem like a sharp blade. Cracks appeared on Shad's face, but then golden light seeped out.
He felt the raging fire rising from beneath his feet like a giant beast. The pain that touched his soul only lasted for a moment before being suppressed by a stronger force.
He felt the thunder of destruction, like a giant hammer in the hands of a god falling from above his head. The power resisted and impacted him, but this familiar high-dimensional power made Shade even more excited.
He felt the lingering water, like the gentlest lover's hand wrapped around him. His steps became slow, but firm. Desire could not stop him, and these illusions could not stop him.
The power behind the holy emblem was resisting, resisting this mortal who carried the divinity of an alien god, but this made Shad even more excited.
Looking up at the holy emblem, the strange spiral pattern made Shade feel increasingly dizzy. Around the road leading to the holy emblem and the platform where the altar was located, phantoms of ugly fishmen appeared one by one.
They reached out to try to grab Shade, but were afraid of the divine glow. The bones piled under the altar seemed to come alive, and the undead screamed and rushed towards Shade from the front, but they could not stop Shade.
Just like what was said about desire, when a desire becomes strong enough, all other emotions will be suppressed.
All the statues in the temple seemed to tremble at this moment. When Shad reached the first step under the platform with difficulty, the tremendous pressure he endured even made his skin appear a terrifying bright red.
As he stepped onto the stairs, the golden scars on his body instantly became stronger. Xia De's eyes, nose, mouth and ears were bleeding, but the power in front of him attracted him, so he had no intention of stopping.
Finally, he reached the platform with great difficulty. The pressure made Xia De stagger and fall forward, but he managed to hold on to the rough stone altar and did not fall down.
At the base of the altar are four kneeling fishmen, who stretch out their hands together to hold up the huge stone basin above.
The bright red blood in the stone basin all dripped from the surface of the holy emblem. Because the high priest of the Scarlet Secret Cult is dead, no one knows what this strange liquid is, but if the blood is rich in blasphemous elements and huge spirits and is bottled and sold, one bottle can at least...
"What am I thinking about?"
He held the edge of the altar with both hands to keep himself upright, and the holy symbol was within reach. But Desire said that if you don't want to be noticed after becoming a thief, then before taking that thing, you must pollute the sea return ceremony.
Shad knew the method of blasphemy. Mr. Edmund, who guarded the old lighthouse, had proposed a bold approach, which was to engrave the holy emblem of the hostile god on the holy emblem of the Lord of the Scarlet Spiral.
But Xia De was worried that he would be struck to death by lightning immediately, so he planned to use another method that would not cause trouble.
“This is a significant investment.”
He took out the small bottle of fish scales. Since he had to hold the altar with his hands to prevent it from falling, Shade could only crush the glass bottle with his bare hands. Regardless of the injury on his right hand, he threw the scales of the drowned fishman into the basin of blood.
Plop~
The altar was clearly resisting the thing, but the relic still penetrated the surface of the liquid and fell in, splashing blood drops onto Shad's sleeves.
After a strange moment of silence, the altar began to shake violently, and the blood that was emitting a faint glow reflected on Xia De's face. Under his gaze, the pool of blood was bubbling like boiling water, and the bright red blood quickly decayed and stunk. The disgusting smell finally made Xia De vomit.
Vomiting food residue and gastric blood onto the altar was probably even more blasphemous than the previous act.
There was a loud rumbling sound from above the temple, as if thunder had struck directly there. Along with the violent shaking of the ground, cracks appeared on the floor of the ancient temple.
The walls were peeling off, dust and rocks were falling from the sky. Even the holy emblem stopped dripping blood, and its golden color gradually dimmed, as if the gods had given up on this place.
The pressure gradually eased, and Shad looked up at the blood-coated bone holy emblem.
He took off his mask and made a strange sound. This was an ancient mermaid spell that had been passed down from the earliest times to the present. This language could not be easily recorded, but when the mermaids sealed their desires half a century ago, they had recorded it perfectly.
For a level 0 relic, this wonderful language might be much younger than it is.
As Shad chanted, the temple collapsed faster. The statues of the merman and mermaid cracked one by one, and the boulders and beams on the ceiling, along with the countless bones hidden in the sky, fell to the waves below.
Shad did not run away. Instead, he moved his mouth to chant a spell, his eyes fixed on the holy emblem.
The holy symbol trembled as the temple collapsed, and then it cracked.
The remains of the holy emblem fell along with the dust, and a huge crack appeared on the wall behind it. A heavy heartbeat sound of "dong dong dong" came from it, and a touch of extreme golden light illuminated Shad's face in front of the altar.
Except for the high platform under my feet, one-third of the entire temple floor had fallen into the waves. The shaking became more and more intense, and dust and red rain fell from the sky.
The crack in the wall grew wider and wider until Shad saw through the crack the rotten blood vessels and flesh in the mermaid's chest, and a fist-sized golden pearl inlaid in the center of the black heart.
The golden light echoed with the cracks on Shade's body. He widened his eyes and stretched out his finger upwards as if unconsciously:
"This is truly... my treasure..."
Outsiders, don't be misled by desire.
Xia De couldn't even tell whether this was his own thought or she was really reminding him out loud.
Ashes mixed with blood rain fell, and behind them was the temple that was almost completely collapsed, and hundreds of small statues that were inserted diagonally into the floor and were about to be submerged by the sea. The golden light illuminated the stranger in front of the altar, his hands, and the strange cracks on his body.
As Shad stretched out his hand, the golden pearl embedded in the chest of the giant mermaid corpse automatically flew out from the heart due to the call of the spell.
A strange impulse made Xia De reach out to grab it, but as soon as his fingertips touched it, Xia De cried out in pain as if he was bitten by a cat and retracted his hand.
The golden pearl fell into the altar filled with boiling blood. Shade saw a black color appear on his fingertips, but it soon returned to normal.
"Why... It's the evil god's divinity that is resisting me."
There was nothing unusual the last time he obtained the divinity of the pure creator, because that drop of divinity was a gift given to Shade by the ancient gods across thousands of years, and that power was very friendly to him.
But this drop of divinity is the power of the evil god Scarlet Spiral Lord, it will not obey Shade and allow him to touch it. In fact, if Shade himself had not been very adaptable to divinity, he should have died just now.