"This guy seems to be called Mei You, and he's a Divine Awakener, with a remarkably mysterious background. The first time I met him, he was with an expedition team from Oufa City..."
"I asked friends in Oufa City to inquire about him. They know a lot about him, but no one can explain where he actually came from. He was there when Oufa City was first established!"
Under Wu Yelan's questioning gaze, Ye Feng spoke quickly.
"Could it be that this Divine Awakener has been hiding in Oufa City all along?"
Upon hearing this, Wu Yelan's brows furrowed tightly.
"Grandpa, the terrifying secret you just mentioned, is it related to Father's disappearance?"
At this moment, Wu Yelin spoke, bringing the topic back to her father.
"Yes!"
Wu Yelan nodded. "Your father and Shen Lang were exploring together... and then they both mysteriously disappeared. Even those closest to them didn't know why... It's likely they did it intentionally, to draw the forces targeting them elsewhere!"
"The Divine Awakener is said to be the one who awakens the gods, while the Demon Awakener is said to be the one who summons the seven great demons... These two look almost identical... There seems to be some connection between them..."
"According to Shen Botian, Shen Lang and Long Yue were investigating this matter back then... and because of it, they were both attacked and disappeared..."
After speaking, Wu Yelan drank a mouthful of wine.
"Shen Lang... is already dead... His remains were found in an ancient ruin!"
Ye Feng hesitated slightly before finally saying it.
"I... Father he..."
Wu Yelin opened her mouth, but in the end, she couldn't finish.
"Xiao Lin, for more than twenty years, I've been looking for Long Yue, both openly and secretly... but I haven't gotten any news..."
"Some things, you should also understand..."
Wu Yelan sighed and looked at her granddaughter.
"Then why did this Demon Awakener come to the Adventurers' Guild? To summon the seven great demons here?"
Wu Yelin didn't want to dwell on this matter and changed the subject.
"It shouldn't be!"
Wu Yelan pondered for a moment, then shook her head. "If I'm not mistaken, the Demon Awakener came here for the Dark Divine Tome!"
"Shen Lang of Mecha City obtained the Dark Divine Tome back then, but there was another person involved, and that was Long Yue..."
Speaking of which, Wu Yelan looked at Ye Feng. "Since Shen Lang has met his unfortunate end, the forces pursuing the Dark Divine Tome will naturally shift their attention back to Long Yue..."
"Moreover, Shen Botian told me that Shen Lang had sent back a box. It was supposed to contain the Dark Divine Tome, but inside was... the Holy Grail..."
"We deduced that Long Yue and Shen Lang somehow obtained the Holy Grail and the Dark Divine Tome... It's just a pity that neither of them had time to explain clearly before they disappeared..."
After speaking, Wu Yelan sighed again.
"This matter is really quite complicated... Are those Divine Envoys like Elias and the Demon Awakener working together?"
"The summoning array from last night, was it used by the Demon Awakener to summon the Dark Divine Tome?"
Ye Feng rubbed his forehead and mumbled.
"The matter of the summoning array might indeed be like that... but your first point is unlikely!"
Wu Yelan chimed in. "Because the gods consider themselves on the side of justice and are irreconcilably opposed to demons, frequently engaging in bloody battles... It's unlikely that a Divine Envoy and a Demon Awakener would be allies!"
"The side of justice... would send monsters like the Hellhound... and the bloody sacrifices of the Nether Script Divine Monument... It doesn't seem very righteous..."
Ye Feng expressed his doubt. "Speaking of which, the gods might truly exist, but what about demons? Has anyone seen them with their own eyes?"
"Ye Feng, do you know about goblins?"
As Wu Yelan hesitated, Qiao Ying spoke.
"Goblins?"
"Oh, I've seen those monsters and killed quite a few... There was a place full of goblins before, called the Goblin Kingdom or something. I blew it up with a nuclear bomb later..."
Ye Feng looked at Qiao Ying with confusion. "Qiao Ying, why are you suddenly talking about this? Could those goblins be what you call demons?"
"Nuclear bomb?"
Hearing Ye Feng's words, Wu Yelin looked at Ye Feng as if she had seen a ghost.
She remembered Ye Feng had mentioned detonating a nuclear bomb by reading the manual before. Could he have been talking about dealing with goblins...
"No!"
Qiao Ying shook her head slightly. "But goblins are related to Asmodeus, the Demon God of Lust, one of the seven great demons!"
"The goblins in this world should have all been created by Asmodeus... I saw it with my own eyes. He had a fleshy sac on his belly, densely packed like lymph meat, very disgusting..."
"Green goblins, one by one, dropped out of Asmodeus's fleshy sac... Every few steps Asmodeus took, goblins would fall. After falling from Asmodeus, the goblins would run off to hide somewhere and start causing trouble..."
When talking about this, Qiao Ying's face showed obvious disgust.
"Whoa... So that's how monsters like goblins originated?"
"But back in the Goblin Kingdom, Asmodeus did call the goblins 'little cuties'..."
Ye Feng was very surprised. He looked at Xiaoxiao again. "Xiaoxiao, did you draw any pictures when we were at the Goblin Kingdom?"
"Oh, yes... Although it's just a memory, that monster called Asmodeus was very scary, and I remember it very clearly... I'm still a little scared thinking about it now..."
Xiaoxiao immediately understood. As she spoke, she flipped through her sketchbook. Soon, an oil painting of a large black sheep's head with red eyes appeared before everyone's eyes.
The face in the oil painting looked unspeakably lewd, and its aura had a bizarre resemblance to goblins.
"Is this guy Asmodeus?"
Ye Feng pointed at Xiaoxiao's sketchbook and asked Qiao Ying.
"This angle... is it in the sky?... This Asmodeus... he really looks like this!" Qiao Ying was slightly taken aback. "Ye Feng, since you encountered Asmodeus... you... how did you escape?"
"Uh... I didn't escape. That guy was summoned by the Goblin High Priest... and then inexplicably scared away..."
Speaking of this, Ye Feng's consciousness scanned the Tang sword in his spatial warehouse. He remembered that Asmodeus was scared away after seeing the Tang sword.
"Was... scared away?"
Qiao Ying blinked her eyes, full of confusion and surprise.
She could hardly imagine that Asmodeus, one of the seven great demons, would be scared away. Even she herself, Lingxi, or Leng Yue, would not be a match for Asmodeus now!
Did Ye Feng not encounter the true Asmodeus? Or... Asmodeus was not fully awake? His strength was limited?
"Ye Feng... what have you been through on this journey..."
Wu Yelin looked at Ye Feng and murmured as if in a dream.
"Ye Feng, take this strengthening fruit and leave with Xiao Lin?"
At this moment, Wu Yelan, who had recovered from her shock, spoke to Ye Feng.
Saying this, he once again offered the strengthening fruit, stored in the Seven-Star Stealth Cage, towards Ye Feng.
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