Huang Dabiao was just an ordinary yellow weasel. Although he had received people's incense and offerings in Lu Xiaojuan's house for a few months, how could he have become a celestial being?
Most likely, he had forced himself into a state of self - hypnosis in order to save me.
As a result, he only managed to transform a human face, while his body remained that of a yellow weasel.
I had already seen through his disguise, but I couldn't expose it!
Mrs. Sheng was lurking in this world. As long as we showed the slightest flaw, she would immediately strike back!
Despite all my calculations, I hadn't anticipated that Shao Lili would regain her senses. Her words had completely shattered Huang Dabiao's newly - established belief that he was a "celestial being".
When celestial beings fight, it's not about the number of spells or transformations they can perform. What they're actually competing for is the power of faith!
The more believers a spiritual entity has, the stronger its power becomes!
Just like us ordinary people who go to temples to offer incense and make sacrifices, we prefer those places with thriving incense offerings. The power of the believers there is so great that the deities can clearly sense it, and they also like to show their supernatural powers to more believers.
This is a continuous cycle, gathering the power of the believers like a snowball...
No one actually believed that Huang Dabiao was a "celestial being". It was only because he had been forcefully instilled with the idea that he was an "enfeoffed celestial being" that he could appear in this world where only souls could enter and exit.
Now that Shao Lili had exposed his true nature, he could no longer maintain his so - called "celestial form". With a shrill "squeak", he transformed back into a small yellow weasel, and one of his front legs had been cut off by the blood - red glass.
"You've been lying to me! Lying to me..."
Suddenly, the entire hotel lobby began to tremble as if it were growing flesh and blood. The chandeliers hanging from the high ceiling crashed to the ground and shattered into pieces.
Then, the place where the chandeliers had been began to crack with a rustling sound. A huge eyeball rolled, looking down at us with a blank stare. Mrs. Sheng's voice came from all directions. "I'm the deity here. If you don't obey the deity, you'll all be eaten by me and become a part of me!"
We had reached the door, yet there was only a wall separating us from the brilliant sunlight outside.
Countless blood - red tentacles were wriggling towards us from all directions. I suddenly burst into laughter.
"Mrs. Sheng... How did you end up trapped here?"
The tentacles suddenly paused, as if in deep thought. Then, the eye on the ceiling actually turned to look at me.
"...Me? Trapped?!"
Mrs. Sheng's voice sounded firm. "How could I possibly be trapped?! I'm a deity. I'm the deity here. How could a deity be trapped?"
"Well... The sun is shining brightly outside. Deity, why don't you go outside for a breath of fresh air and soak up some sunshine?!"
The tentacles had already wrapped around my and Shao Lili's legs. Huang Dabiao was almost completely entangled, with only the tip of his snout sticking out, screeching in pain...
"Of course I can go outside!"
The eye stared at me, and then the blood - red tentacles wriggled and transformed into Mrs. Sheng, who slowly walked out.
It seemed that she had never thought of walking out of that glass door before. My words had suddenly piqued her interest in the world outside.
She reached out her hand to push the transparent glass.
The glass didn't budge...
"Hmm?!"
Mrs. Sheng couldn't believe that she, just like us, couldn't open the door.
She pressed both hands against the glass with all her might...
"Why is this happening?!"
The glass door seemed to be an integral part of the entire hotel lobby. No matter how hard Mrs. Sheng tried, she couldn't open it and walk outside.
"I'm a deity! I can do whatever I want!"
Mrs. Sheng looked at her own hands in disbelief. Behind her, countless blood - red tentacles had gathered into sharp cones and were smashing towards the glass door in unison.
However, the moment those tentacles that had tightly entangled us touched the glass door, they turned into powder and then fell to the ground and disappeared...
"Can you remember how you got here?"
I was like a particularly patient teacher, guiding her gently. "This hotel has been burned down for four or five years. You must be the only victim in that accident, right?!"
"Nonsense!! I'm a deity! How could I possibly die?"
Mrs. Sheng started screaming like a madwoman again. Our ears were almost deafened.
Suddenly, Shao Lili beside me shouted.
"I remember!! Four and a half years ago, Taoran Media had just been established. I was in Beijing at that time! There were news reports everywhere about the accident at the Future Water World!"
"...Accident?!"
I wasn't a native of Beijing. I had only fled here a little over a year ago, so I knew nothing about the news that had happened in Beijing before.
"Yes! The Future Water World was struck by lightning and caught fire!!"
Shao Lili looked up at the high dome in horror. "It's said that the main building of the newly - built hotel was burned to ashes. But since it hadn't been put into use yet, there were no casualties... Why are you here? Weren't there supposed to be no casualties?"
Shao Lili's words made Mrs. Sheng fall into deep thought. She murmured, "Yes... Why am I here? I... I'm Mrs. Sheng. Whose wife am I?!"
"Sheng Shixun?!"
I uttered the name that had been lingering in my mind for a long time. "You're Sheng Shixun's wife. Your husband sealed your soul here to prevent you from becoming a so - called 'evil deity'!!"
"Sheng Shixun... Yes, that's right!"
Mrs. Sheng nodded as if she had just woken up from a long dream. "I'm Sheng Shixun's wife... That's right... But!!"
She suddenly raised her head, and her blood - red eyes stared straight at me. "One thing! You're wrong!"
I was startled by her sudden hostility.
"My husband would never stop me from becoming a 'deity'!" She suddenly raised her head and let out a strange laugh. "We made an agreement to collect the power of faith together, to live forever together, and to become 'deities' together!! How could he bear to seal me? I've helped him gain the support of countless believers..."
After hearing her words, my heart skipped a few beats.
It turned out that the truth of the matter was completely different from what I had guessed!
When I saw those pale little infant spirits on Mrs. Sheng, I was already certain that this woman was Sheng Shixun's wife.
I thought that all those infant spirits on Sheng Shixun were the karmic debts he had taken on for Mrs. Sheng.
I thought that Mrs. Sheng had been bewitched by some evil being and was so eager to become a "deity" that she had resorted to using the "five desires" to kill countless living beings in order to gain more power. So, Sheng Shixun, in order to stop his wife from going astray, had spent a fortune to seal her in this place!
Unexpectedly! It turned out that that seemingly gentle and refined expert and professor was actually the real big boss!