Four Split Personalities

Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves interrupted her monologue.

The young girl turned her head in surprise to see a tall Holy Knight galloping towards her with a solemn and gloomy expression.

Having shed the restrictions of the sacred land and not in a state of combat, Qiu almost instantly switched to the "Naive Heart" state, then widened her eyes in shock as she watched the approaching Holy Knight, her expression one of utter bewilderment.

A few seconds later, the Holy Knight reined in his warhorse two meters in front of Qiu, pulled out his Longsword with a stern face, leaped down from the saddle, chanted a holy name to bestow upon himself a Devotion Aura, and looked as if he was facing a formidable enemy.

Qiu’s lovely and delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly, imperceptibly so.

The Orc Knight strode over with large steps.

At the same time, the girl’s talent, "Flawless Evil," had fully cooled down.

And then...

"Quick, hide behind me, little girl!"

The square-faced Orc with tanned skin barked low, stepping in front of Qiu to shield her, and lifted his Cross Sword, now covered in cracks, scanning the surroundings vigilantly, "I sense an unclean presence, perhaps a monster that’s been overlooked... huh, where is your family?"

Qiu made a face behind his back, then replied crisply with her hands behind her, "I don’t know~"

"An orphan with no home to return to, this damned plague..."

The Orc Knight swore under his breath, then carefully stepped back a few paces with Qiu in tow, "Never mind, I’ll take you back to Hover City first, someone there should be able to take care of... wait a minute, have I seen you before?"

Qiu blinked with a start, "Huh?"

Having left the ’danger zone,’ the Orc Knight suddenly noticed the girl’s pretty, adorable face, which was hard to forget. He fell silent for a while before smacking his forehead, "Aren’t you the girl brought by the Black Vatican Priest?! What are you doing here?!"

Qiu froze for a moment, then drooped her head listlessly and muttered fearfully, "Everyone... everyone said it was safe now, I’ve been in the city for so long... so I wanted to go out and ex... explore..."

The Orc Knight looked astonished, "Explore? You ran out in the middle of the night to explore?! You silly girl..."

"Wah wah wah!"

Qiu’s petite frame quivered slightly, and then she crouched down on the spot, sobbing, "Qiu knows... wah, Qiu knows she was wrong! Sorry, Knight brother... wah wah wah!"

The Orc Knight broke into a sweat, waving his hands frantically, "No, I wasn’t scolding you, but it’s still not safe outside, and even if it were, you, a little radish head, shouldn’t be running out so late. Alright, alright, stop crying, I’ll take you back to Hover City right now, the Black Vatican Priest won’t mind if I’m a little delayed because of you, little one."

"Eh?"

Qiu suddenly looked up, her face, void of any tear traces, full of surprise, "Black Vatican Brother? Did he send you?"

The Orc Knight scratched his head and shrugged, "Yeah, the Black Vatican Priest sent me to take care of some business down south."

"He told you directly? He didn’t disappear... or fall unconscious?"

"Yeah, he told me himself, just over an hour ago, is there a problem?"

"There is a big problem!"

Qiu pouted, speaking indignantly, "Black Vatican Brother has been online but hasn’t replied to Qiu’s messages! Isn’t that serious enough? And Qiu was thinking about him so much!"

The knight, looking utterly confused, opened his mouth, "Huh?"

"Well then... since Black Vatican Brother sent you over, and you..."

Qiu gave a quick once-over to the knight, dusty and weary, and frowned, "You didn’t even stop in Hover City, so that means he didn’t mention me at all, right? Even though Qiu sent him so many messages, Black Vatican Brother really didn’t think of Qiu at all!"

The Orc Knight, somewhat helplessly, thumped his forehead and sighed, "I don’t know what you’re talking about, but let’s first go back to Hover City for safety, the Black Vatican Priest is currently accompanying Her Highness the Saintess to the City of Light; he’s very busy."

"Hmm?"

The girl pouted again and murmured, "Black Vatican Brother left? He didn’t reply to Qiu’s message and didn’t even bother to say goodbye to Qiu before leaving? He ran off with that worry-free, big-chested Saintess? And they’re going to the City of Light, which Qiu definitely can’t go to... Does Qiu hate being disliked?"

She clenched her small fists tightly.

The already anxious Orc Knight was running out of patience, but he still crouched in front of the girl with a bitter smile, "Alright, alright, although I don’t understand what you’re saying, for safety’s sake we’d better..."

"Did Black Vatican Brother really not mention me at all?"

Qiu sighed and interrupted him, asking with an unusually serious expression, "Not even a little?"

The latter rolled his eyes and nodded as if pacifying a child, "Yes, yes, yes, he told me to take good care of you, to ask how you’ve been eating lately, and whether you’re feeling well..."

"Liar."

Qiu shook her head coldly.

"I’m not lying, I swear by the name of the God of Lies, Ithanal..."

"That God of Lies, Ithanal?"

Qiu smiled wryly, shaking her head, "Big brother, are you trying to be funny, or do you think Qiu is so ignorant and easy to deceive?"

"Alright, he indeed didn’t say anything."

Seeing that he couldn’t bluff his way through, the Orc Knight violently reached out to grab Qiu’s small shoulders, intending to forcibly take her back, but then...

Crack, seven or eight pale skeletal hands had somehow climbed up his ankles, firmly anchoring the Orc Knight in place.

He realized that the ominous presence he had felt from afar had reappeared, coming from...

The delicately carved and cute young girl in front of him?!

"Yes, he didn’t mention Qiu."

The girl sighed, then gently lifted her little hand, summoning out of thin air at least a hundred scarlet red Bone Spears, muttering, "Then why did he send you over..."

"That’s because..."

"Enough, I don’t want to listen, and I’m not interested."

Qiu turned around wearily and continued walking south along the avenue, swinging her little hand forcefully, "Thank you, big brother, but you shouldn’t have lied to Qiu..."

Bone Spears tainted with unclean blood poured down like a torrential downpour.

...

Fifteen minutes later

A handsome guy with ice-blue hair appeared from the sky, floating above the blood-soaked land that was now full of holes, his expression complex as he stared at the dense and startling hundreds of Bone Spears below.

"Who did this?"

He asked softly but received no response.

"Who did this?"

He asked again, raising his right hand to gently aim at the pitiful blood pool and snapped his fingers, casting a strange symbol.

Still, there was no response.

"Has the soul been thoroughly corrupted or torn apart?"

The somewhat desolate Onmyoji frowned, and a flash of light suddenly sparked in his eyes, then he shook his head in confusion, "No, there’s no ’spiritual’ residue, it’s as if what was killed was just a corpse, could it be that..."

Tai Shang’s gaze lingered on the few pieces of shattered armor.

There, the half emblem of the Church of the Dawn was printed.

Tai Shang pondered for a moment, then took out a paper doll with a simple sketch of a woman’s features from his sleeve, carefully infused his Spiritual Power into it, and placed it on the ground.

Seconds later, the paper doll seemingly came to life and stood up from the ground.

It... or ’she’ first lazily turned around, waved her tiny arm, a few centimeters at most, at Tai Shang, and spoke in a somewhat distorted female voice, "What’s up with ShangShang? Didn’t you go up north to check things out? Why are you suddenly using a medium to find me?"

Tai Shang silently pointed behind the paper doll.

"Huh?"

The paper doll imbued with Guxiaole’s will looked back in confusion...

"So what the hell is... holy shit, what’s this!"

Chapter Four Hundred Sixty-Eight: The End