"When your divine soul descends upon your avatar, the moment you step into the God of Joy's temple, your divine soul consciousness in your avatar falls into a coma."
"When you wake up again, you are already dressed in wedding attire..."
This is Su Nan's 38th foresight today.
But he only has a few foresight uses left.
Because of the distance between his true self and the God of Joy's temple, each foresight wastes several uses on the way.
Like the previous foresights, after transforming into the groom, he is led into the main hall by a boy wrapped in red paper, starting the ceremony.
At this point, Su Nan is no longer thinking about how to escape the God of Joy's temple but how to find a solution to the temple's problems through the ceremony.
"Your avatar and a woman in a bridal gown, led by two boys wrapped in red paper, enter the main hall."
"You know what will happen next, and you are not nervous. Instead, you take this opportunity to examine the statue in front of you and the woman who is about to marry you."
"You see that the statue is of a beautiful woman holding an embroidered ball. After looking for a moment, you don't find anything strange about it. Instead, you turn your gaze to the bride next to you."
"The bride is dressed in red, her face covered by a red veil, making her features unclear. Sensing your gaze, the woman looks at you."
"Through the veil, you can't see the woman's expression, but when she looks at you, you have a feeling of being stared at by a wild beast, sending shivers down your spine."
"In an instant, you realize that the woman performing the ceremony with you is no ordinary person and is likely extremely powerful."
"Extremely powerful?"
Su Nan's expression changes, and he thinks of a possibility.
Could this bride be the temple's sacrificial demon?
As the boy officiating the ceremony shouts again, the ritual officially begins, and your body, out of your control, follows the bride's movements as you kneel before the statue.
You know that as you bow, your lifespan will be extracted, so you pay close attention to the changes in your body.
To your delight, nothing happens to your avatar. Your lifespan does not decrease, and there are no abnormalities in your true self.
"It really works!"
Su Nan's eyes light up.
As he suspected, his avatar is a manifestation of magical power and Qingjin Stone, and it doesn't have a lifespan. The power in the temple that can extract lifespans is useless against him!
The ceremony continues.
However, the next piece of information makes Su Nan's face change again.
"As the boy officiating the ceremony shouts once more, you and the bride kneel again, and an invisible force descends, attempting to extract your luck."
"Despite having the Wheel of Fate Scripture, you initially thought everything would be fine. However, at the moment the force descends, you suddenly realize that your luck is diminishing. You then remember that the Wheel of Fate Scripture cannot be used within your avatar."
"At a critical moment, you shift the Wheel of Fate Scripture to your true self, changing your character to Wang Nan, allowing your avatar's luck to be shared with your true self."
"With the stimulation of an unknown force, the Wheel of Fate Scripture uncontrollably shifts within your true self, blocking the power trying to extract your luck."
"However, just as you breathe a sigh of relief, you suddenly hear a soft sound coming from the bride next to you. She turns her head to look at you."
"Unfortunately, even though you successfully resisted the force trying to extract your lifespan and luck, you caught the bride's attention. You feel a pair of eyes scrutinizing you, trying to see through everything about you."
"How did the bride know that my lifespan and luck weren't extracted?"
"Could it be that the bride is the sacrificial demon in the temple?"
Although his luck and lifespan weren't extracted last time, his lifespan was still reduced by hundreds of years, but nothing unusual happened.
This time, neither his luck nor his lifespan was extracted, yet it aroused the bride's suspicion.
Unavoidably, Su Nan becomes even more suspicious that this bride is the sacrificial demon!
But he thinks of another question and is puzzled.
If the bride who married him is really the sacrificial demon, then what about the person playing the bride and the groom who marries the player?
Could it be that this sacrificial demon can be both the bride and the groom?
The ceremony continues, and your body, out of your control, continues to kneel with the bride.
Two minutes later, after the Three Bows and Nine Kowtows, your lifespan and luck have not decreased in the slightest.
However, having failed to extract anything from you, the bride is furious, and you can feel her icy and terrifying gaze on you.
Fortunately, due to the rules of the ceremony, the bride cannot directly attack you.
"The bride is also bound by the ceremony?"
Seeing this, Su Nan is both surprised and puzzled.
The fact that the bride cannot harm him is undoubtedly a good thing for him.
But if the bride is indeed the sacrificial demon, why is she also bound by the rules of the ceremony?
Could it be that her own power is not under her control?
The first part of the ceremony is complete, and your power is restored, finally allowing you to use it again.
You don't think about escaping but continue with the second part of the ceremony, the wedding feast.
As your gaze sweeps over all the guests, you notice three conspicuous figures among them, looking at you with astonishment.
They are three outsiders, but you pay them no mind and instead look at an old man in gray robes in the corner.
You know that the old man has not died but has used some secret method to deceive all the Corpse Puppets and Soul-Eating Demons. As the ceremony continues, the old man will inevitably wake up and launch an attack on you.
You decide to strike first and eliminate the old man.
Just as the gazes of the Corpse Puppets and Soul-Eating Demons fall on the three outsiders, your Heaven-Transcending Teleportation brings you behind the old man.
You use the racial talent "One Force Shattering the Sky," and with the combined power of your true self's elemental energy and spiritual energy, you launch a full-power attack on the old man.
The old man uses an unknown secret method, feigning death. He never expected someone to suddenly appear behind him and attack him. He has no chance to react and is struck down without any defense.
A tremendous force lands on the old man's head, causing it to explode, and he dies on the spot, becoming a headless corpse.
A King-level expert has been killed in a foresight!
The sacrificial demons in the three previous ancient temples were all killed with the help of the Crown Princess, but this is Su Nan's first time truly killing a King-level expert.
Of course, the main reason he was able to kill the old man in one blow is that the old man feigned death, and the fact that he is not a physical-based expert but a manipulation-based expert makes him vulnerable.
This can be seen from the previous foresight when the old man attacked him.
If not for that, in a direct confrontation, even if he could kill
the old man, it would have taken a lot more effort and would not have been a guaranteed one-shot kill.
To prevent the old man's body from becoming food for the upcoming wedding feast, you dare not leave the old man's body behind. You quickly put it into your Qiankun Ring and return to the statue.
Your sudden attack has attracted the attention of all the Corpse Puppets and Soul-Eating Demons. The bride looks at you with even greater anger, but she cannot harm you due to the ceremony's restrictions.
The wedding feast continues, and the gazes of the Corpse Puppets and Soul-Eating Demons once again fall on the three outsiders. On their previously blank and emotionless faces, greed now appears.
The three outsiders finally realize the danger and try to escape, but they have no chance. The Corpse Puppets and Soul-Eating Demons surround them.
Chapter 219: The Third Part of the Ceremony
"Three foreign guests seek your help, but you ignore them. The next moment, the three of them are attacked by the power of the divine soul and fall into a coma."
"The fourth foresight ends. Do you wish to continue?"
"Killing a guest did not result in an attack? It seems that as long as you don't run, there won't be any problems."
"After the three foreign guests die, the only true guest in the room has been killed. Now there is no more food for the wedding feast. I wonder if it will continue?"
"If it continues, what will happen next?"
Su Nan ponders as he reads the foresight information.
The foresight continues.
"You see that the group of Corpse Puppets and Soul-Eating Demons place the three foreign guests separately on three long tables. The boy officiating the ceremony steps forward and dissects the bodies of the three foreign guests."
"..."
"After the three foreign guests die, the food for the wedding feast disappears. The guests who were eagerly awaiting to consume the flesh and blood of the three people instantly lose control. Their faces contort with anger, and they look terrifying."
"The boy officiating the ceremony is furious as well. His gaze sweeps through the hall, trying to find a replacement for the food, but he ultimately finds no suitable replacement."
"The bride by your side is also enraged. Without the food, the progress of the ceremony won't be interrupted, but it loses an opportunity to extract your lifespan and luck. This angers her even more, although she had failed to extract your luck and lifespan before."
"Unfortunately, she is helpless due to the rules of the ceremony."
"As the ceremony continues, one minute later, the enraged group of Corpse Puppets and Soul-Eating Demons begins to howl."
"Two minutes later, all the Corpse Puppets and Soul-Eating Demons go mad."
"Three minutes later, the wedding feast time ends, and the ceremony proceeds to the third part, the bridal chamber."
"The fifth foresight ends. Do you wish to continue?"
"The third part? Why is there still a third part?"
"Bridal chamber?"
"Are you kidding me? You want me to share a bridal chamber with that monster?"
Seeing the final information in the foresight, Su Nan is no longer composed.
If there were only a third part, he wouldn't mind it. He had found ways to navigate through the first two parts, and he didn't care about this extra part.
However, the fact that the third part is a bridal chamber makes him unsure of how to proceed.
Although it's just a foresight, if he wants to continue deeper into the Divine Ruins, he must follow the operations in the foresight.
In the foresight, he will be in the bridal chamber with the creature that seems to be a sacrificial demon. He can accept that since it's just a foresight.
However, if he were to share a bridal chamber with that suspected sacrificial demon in the actual game, he would find it difficult to accept.
"What's wrong? Did you discover something?"
Noticing Su Nan's change in demeanor, the Crown Princess asks again.
Su Nan remains silent for a moment and then asks, "Why does the ceremony in the God of Joy's temple have a third part?"
"The third part? How do you know there's a third part?" the Crown Princess is surprised.
She can't figure out how Su Nan, who has been stationary here, could suddenly know that there's a third part to the ceremony.
After thinking for a moment, the Crown Princess continues, "This Divine Ruins has existed for a long time, and many people have entered the God of Joy's temple. Many have experienced the first part, but most have been drained of their luck and died, even if they had plenty of luck. Those who survived the first part often lost control due to the rapid loss of lifespan, and very few managed to make it through."
"As for those who experienced the second part, they were usually the ones playing the roles of the guests. At this point, the ones portraying the bride and groom would lose control, but the ceremony wouldn't stop. Perhaps, in this step, only the guests could survive."
Pausing for a moment, the Crown Princess continues, "There are records in ancient texts that the ceremony originally should have been a blessing, a blessing from the God of Joy to the newlyweds. However, for some reason, it became strange and dangerous."
"A blessing?" Su Nan doesn't doubt this possibility.
Perhaps, in the past, countless couples came to the God of Joy's temple every day to receive blessings from the God of Joy. However, after the God of Joy's death, everything changed.
"There's no other way. Even if I have to share a bridal chamber with that suspected sacrificial demon, I can only go through with it now. After all, it's just a manifestation, not me."
"Besides, if the bridal chamber is indeed a guaranteed death trap, it's unlikely as simple as a real man and woman sharing a room."
With this in mind, Su Nan quickly makes a decision.
"Continue the foresight!"
"The third part of the ceremony begins, and you, accompanied by two children dressed in red paper, walk towards the inner chamber with the bride."
"After a moment, the two children leave you and the bride in a carefully decorated bridal chamber."
"You know that something extremely dangerous may happen next, so you remain alert and ready to take action."
"However, to your relief, the bride sits by the edge of the bed, as if waiting for you to lift her veil, and does not make any sudden moves."
"You dare not make any moves and stare at the bride intently."
"One minute later, nothing unusual happens."
"Two minutes later, you still stare intently at the bride."
"Three minutes later, the previously quiet bride suddenly speaks, questioning why you haven't lifted her veil."
"Before you can say anything, in the next moment, your divine soul in the avatar is attacked, and you instantly lose consciousness."
"The sixth foresight ends. Do you wish to continue?"
(End of this chapter)