Chapter 1549: Chapter 276: Defilement

The Eden he spoke of naturally had no connection with the mythological paradise… the so-called Eve, serpent, and apple were just metaphors.

The High Priest hoped to create a world free of pain.

The method was simple: use the power of the Balance to separate the good from the evil in all humanity, leaving only the good side, which would be Eden… and then refrain from spreading the seed of desire in the pure Garden of Eden.

Since he had conducted experiments on spreading the seed of desire, he naturally also experimented with not spreading the seed of desire — the entire City of the Sun was his grand testing ground.

“Have there been any results?” Luo Qiu couldn’t help but ask curiously.

The High Priest knew what the other was asking about and now had a hint of undeniable pride on his face: “Belief! Crisis! Productivity!”

“Hmm… go on.” Boss Luo nodded.

The High Priest then seemed to get a kind of recognition from a supervisor at his desk, and his excitement showed: “The sole belief can become the lock in people’s hearts, and they will be filled with reverence for gods, hence they won’t easily cross this boundary between man and god! Crisis… Crisis ensures their beliefs are constantly strengthened externally! Humans cannot afford comfort, but an unprecedented crisis can make them unite completely! Lastly, productivity… higher productivity is more likely to become the warm bed of desire!”

“The City of the Sun?” Boss Luo pondered as he nodded, “This explains the strange ecological environment of the City of the Sun… Why uphold the monarchy? With only belief, shouldn’t loyalty be higher?”

The High Priest chuckled: “After all, this is just a model before the final goal; I need to collect data on the formation of the monarchy to avoid its emergence in the next experiment… The next City of the Sun will no longer produce monarchy!”

Luo Qiu responded noncommittally: “With only divine power left, the moral demands on the collective of divine power itself can hardly be described as merely strict.”

“It’s a long process.” The High Priest said solemnly: “Thousands of years have resulted in today’s society… Creating another perfect world is certainly not achievable quickly. But as long as the method is correct, one day it will be realized.”

“What is the correct method…” Boss Luo chuckled; he intended to ask who defines the method as right or wrong but decided against it, “Has the High Priest ever thought of one thing?”

“What?”

Boss Luo said calmly: “Has Your Excellency ever thought whether the Balance in your hands has the capability to separate the good and evil of the entire world… The City of the Sun perhaps can, but compared to thousands of times more, does it have sufficient power?”

“It can!” The High Priest said with absolute confidence: “This City of the Sun wasn’t initially this large—my first experiment, the City of the Sun, was merely the size of an estate! But with the increasing number of residents here, the range of the City of the Sun has constantly expanded… Now, the City of the Sun already has a population of over 200,000, achieving its current scale!”

Boss Luo said: “It seems there’s still one thing you haven’t deceived the Princess about, which is that the people sunk in the pool are indeed used to provide stable energy for this space… Except they’re not the evil side, but their true selves.”

The High Priest remained silent, instinctively glancing behind him at Yamana in the sparkling lock, not knowing whether she was alive or dead.

“Your Excellency, High Priest.” Boss Luo summoned the distracted High Priest back, looking at him calmly, “When all this is achieved, please tell me, as the creator of all this… In the new world, like the creator yourself, how can you ensure you won’t develop desire? After all, compared to humans developing desire and following a long process of self-destruction, a creator developing desire and self-destruction would happen faster… right?”

“I am prepared.” The High Priest paused for a moment, looking at Boss Luo, speaking word by word: “I am ready… afterward, there will be a just, self-disciplined [God] appearing.”

Luo Qiu opened his mouth, then nodded, “I see… I feel your resolve, Your Excellency—may I ask if there is anything I can assist you with?”

The High Priest frowned, “You can’t help me! The cost of your help is to take the Balance and my [Material]! Without these things, I have nothing left! All you can do is stand by idly.”

He had considered many things — for instance, he already thought, even if the world could be divided by the power of the Balance, whether the Balance’s power could also divide this peculiar fellow before him… If it couldn’t divide, then in the new world, the other would be an unstable factor.

But he couldn’t articulate this — fearing that this peculiar negotiation would end right then.

Luo Qiu shook his head, “Your Excellency, I felt your resolve, but I have not seen what you truly desire… I said it, I can sell you what you truly want… in exchange for the Balance and these [Materials] you hold.”

The High Priest shook his head: “I have no way to resist; at least for now, it seems so. I don’t even have the ability to defend the Balance and these [Materials], you could take them at any time… There’s no need to say so much! But I will not give up the Balance.”

“I said the rule is the rule.” Boss Luo said blandly: “I will not seize your things, only through trading… to trade for whatever you truly desire, for instance… resurrection.”

The High Priest’s gaze subtly changed.

Boss Luo looked at him and slowly said: “True resurrection, with no flaws, the original one, the relative who died in your arms amidst the flames of war… Your Excellency, your sister, Amino.”

“How do you know!”

The High Priest pressed his hands onto the table and abruptly stood — he had never been so out of composure, seemingly now like someone falling from the holy altar, losing all like a commoner, his face showed panic, urgency, and fear.

“I know what I want to know, and I happen to know what I should know…” Boss Luo said casually: “Just take it as part of the intelligence capability a merchant should have. After all, the goods we sell are also somewhat special.”

“Amino… my sister…” The High Priest muttered to himself, seemingly lost in some state of soul loss.

At this moment.

Boom—!!!

The enormous noise, the furious roar, as well as… a creature with an eagle head and human body appeared—it first broke through the wall, followed by the falling of stones, then crashing in!

The frantic noise echoed in this final secret chamber; the spread wings were like webbed claws, like the hands of a demon, spread out to the extreme.

Beneath the scarlet eyes, blasts of heat surged from the nostrils… and saliva overflowed from the sharp beak.

This creature mutated from the Pharaoh of the Kingdom eventually shattered everything, breaking through all the barriers set by the High Priest, appearing before him.

The High Priest couldn’t help but frown—upon the transformed Pharaoh’s appearance, he discovered the mysterious young guard he conversed with had disappeared!

Even the chair he just sat on, the table he used… all have disappeared!

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Finding the way back to the main hall of Pharaoh’s Sleeping Palace was quite easy—after all, she had grown up in the Royal Palace since childhood, and after wearing the Golden Armor, Little Maid Arian found her stamina had become unusually good, as if running didn’t cost any energy.

“Lord Lamp God! Lord Lamp God! Lord Lamp God!”

Before she even ran into the hall, Little Maid’s voice had already transmitted into the hall, echoing… Shortly thereafter, a figure quickly ran up the stairs of the throne and respectfully kneeled down.

The Red Lamp Spirit was sitting on the throne snoring away… It quietly opened one eye to take a look, then closed it again.

“Lord Lamp God! You’re truly amazing!” Little Maid said excitedly at this moment, “I-I really defeated the monster! It was so, so incredible!”

Only then did the Red Lamp Spirit slowly stretch lazily and yawn, “Hmph, it was just a matter of waving a finger, don’t make a fuss! So, did you witness this Lamp God’s mighty power?”

Little Maid hurriedly nodded, “Mm! Now I believe, Lord Lamp God will definitely bring happiness to Princess!”

Can you not mention that wish… I haven’t even figured out how to do it yet…

“Of course!” snorted the Red Lamp Spirit, “It’s merely granting trivial happiness to a mere mortal, for this Lamp God, it’s just a minor task! Hmph, hmph!”

So… how exactly can I make that princess happy—what happiness do women want… Damn women! The thing this Lamp God hates the most is women!

“Lord Lamp God, what are these?” Little Maid Arian pointed at the pile of things on the floor of the hall at this moment.

These were things the Lamp God had dug out from various parts of the hall’s walls, now piled messily.

“Just a pile of junk, don’t ask about things that aren’t your concern…” The Red Lamp Spirit couldn’t even say exactly what these things were… It’s been too long since they were disconnected from the era, couldn’t identify these things modern people could recognize at a glance, “Why aren’t you staying by your Princess’s side, running back here for what?”

“Lord Lamp God! Please eliminate the monster invading the City of the Sun!” Little Maid Arian hurriedly said at this moment, “If the monster destroys our City of the Sun, everyone will die, the Princess will die too… Arian doesn’t want to see that!”

Seeing this little maid with tears in her eyes, the Red Lamp Spirit suddenly slapped its forehead and lamented, “Is it to make you happy, or to make the Princess happy…”

“Lord Lamp God, begging you! Please save the City of the Sun!”

The Red Lamp Spirit suddenly jumped up, angrily said, “Let this Lamp God tell you, making your Princess happy and saving the City of the Sun are two separate things, it can’t be considered as a condition for making your Princess happy! You use up the second wish!”

“Okay!” She practically didn’t even think and agreed immediately.

At this moment, the Red Lamp Spirit was somewhat unwilling—there’s no doubt, for the five hundred wishes, it needs a summoner who can cooperate well with it, if it misses this little girl again, it really doesn’t know how many years it will have to wait for the next person to summon it.

The problem is, the speed at which this little girl makes wishes mirrors that of that previous mischievous guy—these two wishes spoken so quickly, if the remaining third wish, she messes it up, wouldn’t it be forced to return to the Magic Lamp and roast by the fire every day?

This cannot work!

This Lamp God hasn’t had the chance to guide this little girl on the plan of fighting for five hundred wishes!

“Wait, wait!” The Red Lamp Spirit coughed twice at this moment, “As a Lamp God dedicated to considering its summoner, with ideals and ambitions, I won’t let you waste a wish for nothing.”

Little Maid blinked, showing a confused look.

The Red Lamp Spirit cleared its throat, “I thought about it carefully, your first wish was to make Princess happy… The first step to making her happy is to keep sadness away from her, right! Since the City of the Sun is invaded by monsters right now, with the risk of annihilation at any moment, the Princess must be very troubled and helpless, if that’s the case, wouldn’t this Lamp God be unable to make her happy? So saving the City of the Sun and making the Princess happy doesn’t conflict, both belong to the scope of the first wish! Mm… no problem!”

“Lord Lamp God!” Little Maid Arian immediately clasped her hands together, “You’re so kind!”

“I…” The Red Lamp Spirit opened its mouth, eventually said nothing.

I’m too hard done by…

“Then please, Lord Lamp God, strike and eliminate all the monsters outside the city!” Little Maid jumped up happily, excitedly grasped the Red Lamp Spirit’s hand like a little dog wagging its tail.

The Red Lamp Spirit frowned, goosebumps all over its body stood up, and flicked its hand away from Little Maid Arian’s hands, floated up, “Woman! Don’t touch me! The thing this Lamp God hates most is being touched by a woman!”

“Sorry, sorry!” Little Maid apologized repeatedly in terror.

The Red Lamp Spirit irritably waved, “Alright, quickly get me out so I can destroy those monsters outside… Also, without my permission, don’t randomly use the second wish! After this matter, there’s something I need to discuss with you properly!”

“Send you out?”

The Red Lamp Spirit stuttered, “I have no way to move far away from the Magic Lamp… At least to the city wall, otherwise, it affects my Divine Power’s performance!”

“Oh! That!” Little Maid nodded, then turned around and intended to pick up the Magic Lamp on the throne, but remembering Red Lamp Spirit’s just said words, she immediately reached her hand into the collar of the Golden Armor, pulled out the intimate garment and covered the Magic Lamp, before she picked it up.

“You-You you you what are you doing!!” The Red Lamp Spirit screamed.

“Didn’t Lord Lamp God say, hates being touched by a woman… This way, this doesn’t count as being touched, right?” Little Maid timidly responded.

Lamp God… The Red Lamp Spirit felt as if countless worms were wriggling all over its body, weakly said, “Still… hurry and send me out…”

I… this Lamp God actually… actually got desecrated by a woman!!!