Chapter 52

"Mesiah, can't you just give up on your ladylike manners? The High Priest is waiting for us! He's waiting for us, you know. Isn't it contradictory to your ladylike manners to keep your superior waiting?"

"That's not possible, Leona. One must always pay attention to etiquette, even in urgent situations. I believe the High Priest will approve of me."

The conversation between the two high-ranking elemental spirits, who seemed to be of significant status, drifted into Chu Feiyue's ears, causing a twitch at the corner of his mouth.

But then again, when they mentioned the High Priest, were they talking about him?

Already labeled as a candidate, the position of High Priest didn't seem too surprising...

Looking around, Chu Feiyue noticed that the surrounding elemental spirits were also sweating. However, most of the four-winged ones showed no reaction, probably because they were used to it.

Finally, the two high-ranking elemental spirits, who seemed to be out of touch, slowly floated in front of Chu Feiyue.

"You look so much like... High Priest, you have finally descended." The moon-white, slow-paced spirit stood at the front and gave Chu Feiyue a strange chest-hugging salute.

The flower spirit, half a step behind, bowed in an even stranger manner.

The salutes from the elemental spirits behind them were even more varied, with hundreds of them almost all different.

By the way, haven't you guys standardized your salutes yet? Chu Feiyue returned a military salute popular on Earth.

"Are you the High Priest that you keep mentioning?"

"Yes, High Priest." The moon-white spirit nodded. "I am the current Moon Priestess of the Dream Goddess Temple, Mesiah El Soka... (omitted 78 characters). You can call me Mesiah." Kemia said a long string of words in one breath without showing any signs of breathlessness.

"Uh, hello, Mesiah."

Chu Feiyue, dazed, only understood the first and last sentences of that long string of names.

The flower spirit behind the moon spirit covered her head and pushed her back, saying as she pushed,

"Mesiah, you should change. The High Priest won't be interested in that long name of yours."

"Hello, High Priest. I am the current Flower Priestess of the Dream Goddess Temple, Leona Flower Language. You can call me Reiji~ High Priest." She stuck out her tongue playfully after speaking and was then pulled back behind the moon spirit.

"Please forgive Leona's rudeness, High Priest. I will educate her," Mesiah said apologetically.

"What? I'm just being lively. Do you, the old stick-in-the-mud, understand what lively means?"

"Ridiculous. In front of the High Priest, you should put away all your unreliable actions."

"I'm just being true to myself. Is it wrong for flower spirits to value freedom?"

"That's your racial nature, and I have nothing to say about it. But in front of the High Priest, please show a bit of restraint."

These two started arguing right in front of everyone.

Chu Feiyue, with a black line on his forehead, watched the two leaders who seemed to be from some religion, and couldn't help but worry about the future of this religion.

"Cough, cough," Chu Feiyue jumped up and pulled the two arguing spirits apart. Thanks to the ring, necklace, and Mage's Hand, he didn't hit the ceiling. "Can you explain to me? You started arguing from the beginning, and I still don't understand what's going on."

The two out-of-touch leaders exchanged a glance, and the flower spirit stepped back half a step, letting the moon spirit explain some of the world's common knowledge to Chu Feiyue.

"So, the High Priest, the position you will take in the future, has been vacant for ten thousand years along with the Starry Saintess since the goddess disappeared. But we've also heard that a new little Saintess has descended from the altar."

"Another goddess? Start from the history of this world, I don't understand at all."

"Is that so..." The Moon Priestess gave Chu Feiyue a strange look. "You're not an adventurer, are you? Could you be from another world? Never mind."

Then, she pulled out a tea set from her sleeve, which was much larger than the sleeve itself, and placed it on the round white jade altar to start brewing tea. "It's a long story. Please have some tea."

Chu Feiyue obediently sat cross-legged on the altar. The white jade altar felt warm, not cold like ordinary stones.

The Flower Priestess also came over, holding a small teacup and eagerly watching the teapot in the Moon Priestess's hand.

So... after another ten minutes of silence, the Moon Priestess finally filled the three teacups in front of her with the teapot in her hand.

"Hmm~" The Moon Priestess sipped a small mouthful of tea and savored it. "The tea made from the Snowy Flurry Flowers from the Thousand-Foot Ice Plain is indeed the best..."

"—Stare—x2."

This person, should she be called out of touch?

"Cough, cough, where should I start? Ah, right. Let's start from the chaos, when I was still Moonlight..."

"A long, long time ago, this world didn't have so much life. In fact, the environment of this world was very harsh. But even in such a desolate and harsh world, there were primitive life forms. The first rulers of this world were four incredibly powerful... foxes, at least in appearance."

Foxes? Chu Feiyue thought of the little white fei in Qinyue's arms, and his teeth ached slightly.

"One day, two of the foxes started arguing for some reason. The argument escalated into a fight. Their power was too great, and the intense energy collisions tore through space, shattered the earth, and broke the sky. It was truly terrifying. Countless spatial rifts spread across the world, and the world groaned in pain under repeated attacks. It seemed like everything was about to be destroyed."

"Then, the earth began to crumble in pain. Countless lands were swallowed by the spatial rifts that appeared out of nowhere. At that time, I really thought the world was finished."

"Right at that moment, a creature so large it could cover a third of the world emerged from the land that had been thinned by the spatial rifts. No one knew what it was except for the four foxes and the goddess, because it was too big. This enormous creature used its body to protect the land beneath it. As a result, seven-tenths of the world's land disappeared, leaving only a pitiful three-tenths intact."

"But the disaster continued. The intense impacts between the two black foxes still leaked through the gaps, destroying the already devastated continent. If this continued, the last piece of land would also be destroyed!"