The Empress's No.1 Lackey

Chapter 1036 - 576: A Wild God Is Still a God

Zhong Pan nodded, "Yes. But a God-level curse, if left unchecked, might not naturally dissipate even after half a year. During this period, even if Xu Jingtang dies, it will be the same because as long as the divine being does not perish, the curse remains."

This is so troublesome... Zhao Douan also felt a headache.

Yu Xiu suddenly said angrily, "If the fourth junior brother were here, he might be able to use his dice to counter the curse."

Fourth junior brother? The fourth disciple of the Heavenly Master? Zhao Douan was caught off guard hearing this name and was stunned for a moment.

Seeing Zhao Douan’s curious gaze, Zhong Pan sighed and explained:

"The fourth disciple of the master possesses a significant Suppressing Object, which is a dice. The dice have different faces and can roll out different fortunes, with various wonderful uses. It’s a Magic Artifact not inferior to a Heavenly Human Level curse. If it can be rolled to a good fortune, we will certainly have great luck in the following period, which can naturally counteract the many malicious curses on us."

What kind of strange thing is this... such a weird Suppressing Object? Zhao Douan’s eyes lit up, "Is it possible to summon him? Borrow the dice for a bit?"

Zhong Pan shook his head, "His whereabouts are elusive and unknown. Last year, he once rolled forty-nine days of bad luck, and to avoid it and prevent an untimely death outside, he fled to a remote place to take refuge... never to be seen again, only known to be alive."

He glanced at Yu Xiu and said faintly, "Don’t pin your hopes on him, and not to mention that the dice is random. Even if you can summon him, given our current state of curse, finding him might make things worse. You wouldn’t want to add another layer of bad luck on top of the existing one, would you? By then, the curse might directly explode, and we’d die on the spot."

Yu Xiu snorted and said irritably, "I was just saying that casually."

Jeez... Zhao Douan immediately extinguished any thoughts of seeking help, deciding to keep a respectful distance from this unseen priest.

However, Zhao Douan did catch a useful piece of information, "Did you just say that the dice has a high status and can cover the Sorrow God’s curse?"

Zhong Pan nodded and said, "It is said that the Suppressing Object is an ancient creation related to the ’God of Luck.’

The fourth junior brother is also trying to cultivate under this ’Luck God,’ but this deity is very mysterious, impossible to capture and highly elusive, and only a handful of magicians throughout history have been able to sense this deity... and only a deity can fight against a deity."

This expanded his knowledge... Zhao Douan was not surprised by the strange deities of this world, and his attention wasn’t on this. Instead, hearing the last sentence, a flash of inspiration crossed his mind, and the tree branch he held suddenly stopped. He murmured softly, "Only a deity can counter a deity?"

Yu Xiu nodded as if it were natural, "That’s obviously true. Even when we try to weaken the curse, we are using the deity we’ve primarily cultivated to draw on its power and dilute the strength of the Sorrow God."

Chomp chomp... Jin Jian, after finishing his second piece of roast meat, wiped his mouth and casually agreed, "Senior brothers and sister are right."

Then, stealthily, he went to steal the roast meat placed beside Zhong Pan.

Zhao Douan seemed to have thought of something and suddenly asked, "Does a Wild God count as a god?"

Huh?

At this moment, all three priests paused simultaneously.

Does a Wild God count as a god?

Yu Xiu instinctively said, "Although a Wild God is much weaker than orthodox deities or the Evil God, it is undoubtedly a deity born from heaven and earth, so of course, it’s a god."

Zhao Douan’s heart started pounding, and he stared intently at Yu Xiu, suddenly asking a crucial question, "If we die, I mean hypothetically, we die, would the curse on us still exist?"

Yu Xiu was at a loss and shook his head, "People often say that when a person dies, their path vanishes; once a person dies, the curse they bear naturally disappears... Well, we must carefully distinguish whether the curse is cast on a person’s body or their Divine Soul. If the curse is on the body, even if the Divine Soul disperses and one completely dies, leaving only a shell, the curse remains. However, curses as potent as the Sorrow God’s are mostly on the Divine Soul, and as for us, it seems we have both types of curses."

The truly potent curses often directly target the Divine Soul, which are the hardest to break.

Those that affect the body, such as "rot of the flesh," are much easier to resolve.

Last night, Zhang Yan Yi’s Dharma Body blocked these shallow curses, so none of them displayed visible injuries.

However, their cultivation has been locked, indicating that there are curses on the body, and both Zhong Pan and Yu Xiu had confirmed through meditation that both types of curses exist.

"What are you trying to say? Or have you thought of something?" Zhong Pan noticed that something was off with Zhao Douan and tentatively asked.

Jin Jian held the stolen roast meat, struggling against sleepiness, tilted his head and looked at him.

Zhao Douan faced the three of them, mused for a moment, and said something earth-shattering, "Do you think the Dragon Girl can counter the curse of the Sorrow God?"

Dragon Girl?

At this moment, the three of them suddenly remembered that in last night’s fight, Zhao Douan had subdued the Wild God Dragon Girl.

Not only the Dragon Girl, but also a Mountain Lord was sealed within Zhong Pan.

"You mean to..." Zhong Pan was taken aback.

Zhao Douan didn’t avoid or evade, staring at the three of them, and proposed a plan, "If I control the Dragon Girl to trap your Divine Souls and mine into a dreamscape woven by the Dragon Girl, can we use the Dragon Girl’s power to cover, hide, and obscure the curses on our Divine Souls? And without the Divine Souls, would our bodies be equivalent to death?"