Firefly Journey

Chapter 310 After the Storm, All Grasses Turn Green (2)

Cassius acted as if he belonged there, grabbing fruit from Lin Yuanran's room and stuffing it into his mouth. When Lin Yuanran came in with the wind chimes, he saw their teacher replenishing his energy.

“Do you know why I’ve come to you?” Cassius said.

"Are they trying to test our abilities? But we graduated a long time ago."

Lin Yuanran guessed, while Feng Ling remained silent.

“This is only part of it.” Cassius took a bite of fruit. “I came to the East because of the war that is breaking out. War is bound to be accompanied by bloodshed and sacrifice, but I hope that there will be less bloodshed and sacrifice.”

"In recent years, the State of Chu has lived in peace with other countries on the continent. However, the lack of a state religion has made it a target for various churches."

"But believe it or not, those who are blinded by self-interest are not the majority. There are many peace lovers like me, including..."

"Including the Temple and the Vatican, right?" Wind Chime finally spoke, saying what Cassius didn't want to say.

"Yes, from the very beginning, His Holiness the Pope never intended to annex the State of Chu. I only recently learned this, as I had previously misunderstood him."

As for the Temple, as you know, their ancestral god, Aepeia, like Julius of the Papacy, is one of only two humans among the seven ancestral gods.

As churches founded by humankind, the Papacy and the Temple have maintained close ties for millennia, often standing side-by-side. Legend has it that the sun god and the goddess of darkness were once inseparable allies.

Lin Yuanran glanced at Feng Ling involuntarily, and she looked at him almost simultaneously. Their eyes met, and there was an indescribable feeling between them.

Do you know the fate of the seven ancestral gods?

The two shook their heads.

Historical records state that during the resistance against the demons, the ancestral gods perished one after another. As for their specific and true fate, no one can say for sure after tens of thousands of years.

Next, Cassius dropped a bombshell: "Actually, not all the ancestral gods perished."

Upon hearing this, the pupils of both of his students widened suddenly.

What does that mean? There are still ancestral gods alive?!

Cassius looked at them as if he were looking at himself in front of Elilo.

The news that the ancestral god was still alive would be enough to shock anyone on the continent.

Do you know why the Deathwhisper Grove has been gone for so long?

Cassius answered his own question: "That's because it is both the Church of the Ancestral God and the Kingdom of Death, Blawich."

"That region cannot exist on the mainland; it must exist in another space."

"Why are you telling us this?" Wind Chime asked.

Cassius said calmly, "My time is running out. I'm not telling you this just to educate you. There's something I need you to do, and it's something only you can do."

The same rhetoric was used long ago when Cassius left the duchy to take charge of the Valkyrie Alliance.

But now that he's gone, having successfully taken over the Wagri Alliance and maintained peace on the continent, why is he saying this now at this critical juncture?

The two listened quietly.

"Inside the branch church of the Holy See in Danyang, there is a basement where a secret is buried, a secret that even Emperor Zhuang and the Sword Saint do not know."

"That secret concerns His Holiness the Pope. What you need to do is go to Archbishop Blanty for the key, go inside, and uncover the secret."

“Blanty is in charge of the church’s basement. Can I assume that even an archbishop like him can’t uncover the secrets inside?” Lin Yuanran said.

The archbishop level is already the ceiling of the Papacy's combat power. Even people like that can't unlock it and can only be gatekeepers. Why does Cassius think that the two of them can do it?

“I know you have many questions, but now is not the time to ask. Do as I say, find Brontë, get the key, and then unlock the secret that has been sealed for years.”

"Okay." Fengling didn't ask any more questions and readily agreed.

Seeing this, Lin Yuanran also agreed.

Cassius was very satisfied with their performance, and then led them to an open area in the White Cloud Mountains to begin to assess the results of their three years of cultivation.

He was very satisfied with the result. Lin Yuanran completed the third awakening, overtaking others on the path to transcendence, and had actually grown into a top-tier powerhouse on the mainland.

Feng Ling was even more outrageous. Possessing two divine miracles, she did not stop progressing. Three years later, she actually reached the realm of a demigod.

Lin Yuanran was surprised. They had fought side by side to assassinate Mond and spent a month together, but he hadn't realized that Fengling was already so powerful.

"I have to go now."

After finishing his proctoring, Cassius left quietly, just as quietly as he had come, taking away nothing but his satisfaction with the two students.

“He seems very busy, but if he is busy… what he just said to us could have been conveyed by the clay figurine.” Lin Yuanran murmured.

Cassius only spent three hours from arrival to departure. If he didn't have something urgent to attend to, why would he only have such a short time?

“Perhaps he simply wants to see us?” Wind Chime said.

Sincerity is the most touching and irresistible weapon.

Cassius is their teacher. It's reasonable for him to want to see his students after not seeing them for three years, right?

Lin Yuanran felt a lump in his throat and realized he had been overthinking things. Yes, he just wanted to come and visit. What did it matter how busy he was?

Wind Chime continued, "And I feel that Cassius was speaking on behalf of someone else."

"Who?"

"Death Blawich".

"What's the reason?"

"The news that the Ancestral God was alive suddenly emerged. Only the Ancestral God himself knew this. Revealing this secret to the world was obviously just His way of letting us know. Cassius must have reached some consensus with Him by chance."

"I know He shares the same goal as Cassius: to maintain peace on the continent. He randomly picked a follower from among his believers, and even they were stronger than us, to send us to uncover the secrets beneath the church… Perhaps there are some mysterious restrictions there, and only we meet the requirements."

Lin Yuanran was suddenly startled. If there was one thing that made him most mysterious, it was that he didn't belong to this world. Could this be the ticket to enter that place?

No, if that were the case, one person would be enough. The claim that Fengling is a native of the mainland is unfounded.

That's the age limit. You have to understand, Fengling is probably the youngest demigod in the history of the continent. Those stronger than her are older than her, and those younger than her are not as strong as her.

Let's go together because I happen to be nearby, and we can look out for each other if we go together.

Originally, Lin Yuanran thought of something terrifying: could it be that his transmigration was not only orchestrated by the gods of the Holy See, but also by the conspiracy of the Grim Reaper?

However, because of the wind chimes, he temporarily abandoned this idea. He thought that the truth would come to light once the war with Chu ended.

"When we set off is up to you," Lin Yuanran said.

The wind chime seemed to be lost in thought as well, and answered rather slowly.

"Let's get ready and do it this afternoon."