Madmen don't keep diaries

Chapter 261 260 Who wants to kill you?
Let's continue thinking.

Without Xi Jun, there would be no divine seal or divine status.

This means that before Xi Jun bestowed divinity upon the Western gods, the divine authority of the Western Continent must have been chaotic.

Just like all the new gods who could not live forever, new gods would appear every once in a while, and the situation that affected mortals was war between countries and war between religions.

Furthermore, the powers held by the Western gods are incomplete and diverse, so it is not difficult to imagine that the chaos in the Western continent far exceeds that in the Eastern continent—because there will inevitably be struggles for power among the gods.

This chaotic situation only ended when Xi Jun brought about divine status.

The divine status granted the Western gods long lifespans, which also stabilized their rule and the division of power in the Western continent.

Therefore, Xi Jun must be an extremely important figure in the history of major churches.

that's the truth.

This is how it is described in the book "Fog and Light: The Awakening of God"—

The world was shrouded in a raging fog, all directions were in chaos, and an evil god lurked within, waiting to devour everything. The compassionate sun goddess showered down warm and holy divine light, which parted the fog and awakened its true master. This newly awakened deity said, "The fog shall submit to me, so that my followers may be unhindered; I am the master of direction, pointing the way for all beings."

Since it is a religious text, the narrative style is inevitably mystical, but Feng Xiuhu could roughly understand the meaning expressed in the book.

But there was one part he didn't understand.

"Logically speaking, the God of Mist already existed before Xi Jun went to the Western Continent, so why is the God of Mist described here as a 'newly awakened' god?"

Shi chuckled twice: "You're oversimplifying things. Back in the chaotic Western Continent, not all the gods welcomed Xi Jun's arrival."

"Back then, there was no God of Mist. He was just a subordinate of some deity—who was it again? Well, I forgot, but I remember he was very resistant, believing that the divine status would have an unpredictable impact on the current situation in the Western Continent. So Xi Jun respected his wishes and burned him to ashes."

Then Xi Jun said to the God of Mist, who was cowering in a corner and trembling, "Hey you, do you want godhood?"

"The God of Mist nodded—of course, he had no other choice. And so the God of Mist was born, and the master of the mist 'awakened'."

Feng Xiuhu nodded in realization.

Read on.

Feng Xiuhu wanted to find more records about eclipse.

This was his second question, a question that had been lingering for a long time—why did the rune representing Eclipse appear in the church's prison, and why was Eclipse referred to by the Western church as "the god of imprisonment and punishment"?

The events involving Shi do appear in the later parts of the book, but they are very fragmented. Most of the time, Shi appears in the text as a supporting character to Xi Jun, mentioned only briefly, or in just a few sentences, such as saying that the God of Shi assisted the God of Mist in defeating the evil god.

Feng Xiuhu stopped turning the page when he reached a certain page.

Here we finally see a more detailed description.

It says that the god of eclipse is a great deity who accompanies the sun goddess in the form of a fierce beast. His purpose in being born is to destroy all evil gods in the world, so all evil gods fear his power.

The evil gods regarded him as their nemesis. He knew the weaknesses of all the evil gods, so the gods trusted him and entrusted the subjugated evil gods to his custody.

"whispering sound……"

Shi sighed dismissively.

Feng Xiuhu asked him, "What's wrong? Are you not satisfied with what you wrote?"

Shi said sullenly, "You've got it wrong. The real secrets aren't written in books. Even if they are, they're just beautified illusions."

Feng Xiuhu closed the book: "Then let's talk about something that is actually relevant to us." "I believe you can't keep Xi Jun trapped forever—if you really had that ability, you wouldn't be in such a sorry state now, so no matter where you've trapped her, it's only temporary."

"So, even if I help you regain your original strength, what should we do when Xi Jun comes looking for us? Kill her? Or do what you did before and keep running away?"

This time, Shi remained silent for a long time before finally speaking: "I just want to live... From the moment I was born, I have only had this one thought."

Feng Xiuhu was taken aback; Shi's words revealed a lot of information.

Eclipse is a primordial god, so his so-called "wanting to live" certainly does not mean wanting immortality, because he is already immortal.

Secondly, according to Feng Xiuhu, the one who wanted to kill Shi was Xi Jun. However, when Shi was born, there was no Xi Jun in the world. At that time, Shi "only wanted to live" - ​​so what made Shi feel that his life was threatened at that time?

"Who wants to kill you?"

Feng Xiuhu asked.

Shi's voice deepened: "...The Primordial God."

"Almost all the primordial gods."

……

Shi fell silent, and Feng Xiuhu realized that he had asked about the story Shi least wanted to talk about.

So he continued to browse through other books.

The book is called The Genealogy: From Chaos to the Supreme.

This book records the main gods of the five existing churches in the Western Continent, as well as their pantheon structure—but does not include the God of Truth.

This also shows that this newly emerged God of Truth is indeed special and mysterious.

The five great empires of the Western Continent correspond to the five great churches and the five great gods. This God of Truth not only has no earthly kingdom of his own, but also no church that fights for him, and no believers within the church system who worship him.

Just as the Goddess of Wind and Rain said, he is a new "primordial god" who has found the right path.

From the moment he ascended the altar, he officially became the embodiment of the rules recognized by the world, no longer needing faith to maintain his existence and power.

But as he flipped through the pages, Feng Xiuhu discovered something interesting.

The book provides relatively detailed introductions to the other four main gods, including their true names, their subordinate gods, their major deeds, etc., but the God of Mist is the only one whose name is never mentioned from beginning to end.

Feng Xiuhu guessed that this situation was caused by his church wanting to avoid suspicion in some way.

In addition, the description of another deity aroused Feng Xiuhu's interest.

The god of mist, the god of good fortune.

The book describes her as the most "free" deity, a freedom that is reflected not only in her actions but also, and even more so, in her attitude.

For example, one's attitude towards death.

The book describes it this way: She bowed to the River Styx and then refused immortality.

Perhaps even the author of this book didn't know what this meant, but Feng Xiuhu did.

The god of good fortune has no divine status.

(End of this chapter)