210: the truth

The atmosphere was imposing.

As the leaders of both sides spoke, everyone else remained as quiet as mice.

Nan Zhisui is Zhi Nan, and Zhi Nan is Nan Zhisui... He spotted Li Yun standing with Hu Xiang not far away.

He knew of Li Yun; the System Main God had mentioned her more than once and had shown him her photo.

She was the host of the uncontrollable System 006.

She was the "error" that the Main God System had to resolve.

Judging by Li Yun's positioning and gaze, her relationship with Nan Zhisui seemed very good.

Long Yi began to form many bold conjectures.

Once one guess surfaced, one clue after another quickly connected.

Five years ago, when he met Nan Zhisui, after she learned he had an engagement, she left without saying goodbye as if she were in a hurry.

Five years later, Nan Zhisui was opposing him; she saved the beast gods physical body, took the beast god's heart, and even mentioned the System to him.

The System was her enemy!

If she was also a host of a System, and if her search for him five years ago was actually to form a bond?

Long Yi suddenly felt terrible.

The Main God System had indeed mentioned System 007 to him, but not in much detail.

It only said that the host of System 007 would complete only seven missions and then leave the Beast World.

It made sense, it all made sense.

Six years ago, Nan Zhisui was forcibly bound by the System and brought to the Beast World to perform childbearing missions. To survive, she wanted to go through with it.

Thinking of this, Long Yi felt a pang of heartache for her.

Then, she met the deceptive Beast God.

She bonded with the Beast God and gave birth to the Little Deer Cub, which counted as completing one of her seven missions.

The Males she encountered along the way... were all children of destiny in the Beast World.

Including himself... but because of some misunderstandings that weren't cleared up in time, they had simply passed each other by.

And because of this series of events and encounters, Nan Zhisui was naturally an enemy of the System; after completely breaking free from it, she had to find a way to fight against it.

A deep sense of powerlessness suddenly rose in Long Yi's heart.

Was his fate with Nan Zhisui ultimately missing that one final spark?

He confirmed in a raspy voice, "Are you the host of System 007?"

The atmosphere suddenly became stagnant. Nan Zhisui stood up, her expression becoming serious and frightening.

Even Long Yi was a bit intimidated by her.

Long Yi had already guessed most of it.

Nan Zhisui was also too lazy to continue pretending.

"Six years ago, I was controlled and forced to bond and have cubs one after another."

"Yes, I am the host of System 007."

...Crane Lian shouted, "Has the High Priest gone mad? The wind is so strong outside, why not take shelter before leaving?!"

Ying Li said, "If you want to stay in the burrow, stay by yourself. I'm not staying!"

The Black Dragon Male walked under the howling typhoon.

Ying Li and Crane Lian followed behind him.

To be honest, Ying Li still hadn't accepted that this Female of the Eastern Empire, who had bonded with so many beast kings, was actually Sage Zhi Nan!

Sage Zhi Nan is truly impressive.

Beautiful, powerful, smart, and impressive.

If only she weren't opposing them.

The rain poured down, and Long Yi lifted his face to the downpour.

"High Priest!" Ying Li took a step forward, only to see that Long Yi's eyes were bloodshot.

The Black Dragon Male said gloomily,

"Main God System. You really deserve to die."

...Crane Lian felt that his High Priest was ill.

He and Ying Li had found a Cave to hide in.

Yet Long Yi actually stood there facing the typhoon for a day and a night.

When he was acting crazy, he even took out a metallic light sphere and communicated something to it.

Crane Lian didn't know what the metallic light sphere was, but Ying Li did.

The High Priest was communicating with the metallic light sphere.

Ten years ago, the fact that the Main God System was invading the Beast World had already been known by the beast god and High Priest Long Yi.

The providence of the Beast World was being stealthily stolen away.

And the other party's goal was to seize the entire undeveloped Beast World.

Later, High Priest Long Yi went to the Beast God Space and had a long, secret talk with the beast god.

Even Ying Li knew that the difficulty of this matter was not killing a minor System.

After all, killing a minor System really wasn't hard.

But what use was killing a minor System?

If one minor System was broken, other minor Systems would be deployed later.

The most important thing was to kill the System Main God!

The unknown System Main God!!

Fortunately, their Beast World's Beast God, when he wasn't being serious, did enjoy playing with this group of priests.

But... putting aside his maliciousness, his brain was really useful.

Before the beast god took his own life,

He had summoned Long Yi and several other eight patterns High Priests who were trustworthy, steady, and would absolutely not expose the secret to his side.

Ying Li was one of them.

beast god said with a smile back then, "Partners, after being together for so many years, I've been very happy with everyone. But now, I'm going to go die for a bit."

The priests: "..."

Long Yi remained silent, not wanting to speak.

beast god said, "Long Yi, I'll have to trouble you to take the blame. I'll leave the matter of tricking the System Main God into coming to the Beast World to you."

"Be steady, be mean to me, and it doesn't matter if you're even more malicious. No matter what you do or how you do it, you must make it believe you completely."

"Long Yi, don't be soft-hearted towards me. You must pretend to be at odds with me, kill me with your own hands, and look like you're sealing me away!"

What a despicable Beast God.

Long Yi said through gritted teeth, "It's truly unlucky to be your High Priest."

beast god looked at the sky. "There's no other way; that is a god, after all. A god from a higher plane than mine."

"Long Yi, I don't want to be the beast god anymore. I want to enter the mortal realm and enjoy mortal life. Once this matter is settled, you be the Beast God."

Therefore, the Priest Hall regarded Long Yi as the future beast god.

On the day the beast god took his own life, Ying Li was present.

An unprecedented "great battle" broke out between the beast god and Long Yi. When he saw the beast god pull out his own heart and hand it to him, Long Yi's face was even paler than the beast god's.

Compared to the beast god's all-or-nothing gamble,

He was merely bearing an infamous reputation. What did that count for?

"High Priest..."

Long hair covered his eyes; Ying Li didn't know what emotions Long Yi felt while holding the heart of his lifelong best friend.

It must hurt a lot, he thought.

"There are still many things to do."

Long Yi said, "It's not easy to be a good person on the surface and a bad person behind the scenes."

He still had to be the High Priest of the Beast World, but he also had to do some "terrible" things to make the Main God System believe him.

This kind of mix of truth and lies was the hardest to control.

He killed the beast god.

He would be cursed by others.

He would have his name dragged through the mud.

But... with the beast god gambling with his life, how could he retreat?

Trick the System Main God into coming to the Beast World. He would take this most difficult step... [Long Yi, have you found Li Yun?] The System Main God's voice came from the other side.

"Yes, at the Eastern Coast," Long Yi said calmly. "Are you coming over?"

[Very well.] The System Main God had great trust in Long Yi, a High Priest who only wanted to be the beast god and could even kill his own god.

[I'll be there right away. Wait for me at the Eastern Coast.]

Writing the ending is really brain-draining, connecting all the threads together.

I mentioned in the author's notes before that there would be a twist in the High Priest's plotline.

And here is the twist in the grand finale!

...Babies, let me tell you, I really thought for a long time about how to deal with the System Main God.

A friend told me that in movies, dealing with AI is always a big deal, and in the end, a glass of water kills it.

Me: "...Nani?"

Later, I asked a slightly more professional friend, who gave me suggestions like bugs, junk information, viruses, and creating rule conflicts.

But while writing, I felt it still wasn't enough. (This is why I've been struggling so much with writer's block lately.)

(I asked an AI, saying how can we destroy a super System, and the AI's answer was that humans can't kill a super System. Ah, I'm over it.)

So this battle will ultimately be resolved in the way of the gods.