Sacred Souls: Genesis
Chapter 371 - Chapter 371 Chapter 359 Amateurs (3rd update Requesting

Chapter 371: Chapter 359: Amateurs (3rd update! Requesting monthly votes!!) Chapter 371: Chapter 359: Amateurs (3rd update! Requesting monthly votes!!) The Goddess of Beauty listened to the debate among the several higher gods in the council with a headache, as the soul oath of Denghis Xisi had completely split the Council of Gods into two camps.

The first camp wanted to end the alliance with the spirits and withdraw from the Battle of Biland Island.

Because Denghis Xisi had sworn an oath to the God of Justice, whose word is absolute, if Biland Island tried to harm the divine realm where the gods resided… the only path left for Denghis Xisi was death.

The gods had recruited the spirits to counter the Magic Thieves wielding the Power of Abyss, and now that these thieves no longer threatened them, there was no need to continue cooperating with the spirits.

The second camp still refused to trust Denghis Xisi, believing that only the complete eradication of Biland Island could wholly remove the threat to the divine realm.

“The past of the Devouring God is merely rumor,” some said, “Having not experienced it firsthand, why do you still fear those spirits?”

“It’s not just rumor… You were born too recently and did not witness the beginning of our world when the Devouring God was a nightmare on the star map, an entity far more terrifying than the Annihilation Legion!”

“Terminating our cooperation with them as soon as possible is the wisest choice!”

While the gods were in the midst of a heated argument, suddenly, they all sensed something and fell into an eerie silence, stopping their discussions at once.

Their gazes turned toward a collapsed bookshelf… Behind the bookshelf, there was a sealed door that had just been completely opened, and standing behind that door were none other than Yin Hui and the members of the Dancing Nuclear Guild.

The eyes of all sixty-three deities within the Council of Gods turned simultaneously toward Yin Hui and the stars.

“Is… Is that a spirit?”

“He overheard what we were discussing!”

“We must kill them!”

“Idiot, have you forgotten that the spirits can resurrect? It’s over… all over, the alliance with Biland Island is about to end completely.”

The gods’ reaction upon discovering they were overheard by Yin Hui and the Dancing Nuclear Guild was not outrage but… panic.

Like the Harvest Goddess, the majority of the gods lacked fighting ability, or to put it more accurately, their combat strength was pitiful compared to that of the spirits, so upon realizing that the spirits had uncovered their plot of betrayal, they all fell into a collective state of panic.

It was like a group of lambs plotting to kill their farm owner, only to realize the owner was standing nearby smoking a cigarette, shotgun in hand… leaving the lambs stiff with fear.

However, the Council of Gods also had beings like the War God Wuerde, the Earth Mother Goddess, the Sea God, and the Daylight God–these were higher gods with exceptional combat power, equivalent to the powerful lord-level BOSSes for the spirits.

Yet, even with the presence of these higher gods, the Council still fell into a frightening silence and rigidity.

“Do you understand that intruding upon the Council of Gods is a violation of our alliance… an act that may result in a bounty on your heads?”

The Goddess of Beauty, as the representative of the alliance of gods, could only step forward at this time, attempting… to fantasize that the two spirits had not heard the news of the gods’ alliance’s planned ‘backstabbing.’

Due to her time spent amongst the spirits, the Goddess of Beauty knew that the spirits shared a hivemind consciousness similar to the Magic Thieves. If one spirit knew something today, thousands of them would know by tomorrow!

At this moment, the Goddess of Beauty felt as though she had been outmaneuvered by something; she had been in the Divine City for an entire year and never realized the Council of Gods had… such a strange entrance!

It must be someone plotting behind the scenes, whoever it was, they had succeeded… The alliance between the spirits and the gods could completely collapse at this moment!

This is the end… they had heard what they shouldn’t have.

Yin Hui also understood why all the gods on the Council were so tense… because he had learned of the gods’ plan to betray the spirits!

Under normal circumstances, he and the stars of the Dancing Nuclear Guild would probably have already been secretly assassinated by these gods.

“Stop, Ge Qiu, do you want to make this more complicated?” War God Wuerde’s figure suddenly appeared beside a centaur deity wielding a longspear, who had already aimed it at Yin Hui, ready to strike him down.

“What should we do then, Urd! Do we just wait for all the spirits to hear this news?”

So annoying! Yin Hui felt a headache coming on; if these gods were discussing other matters, Yin Hui could try to involve himself amiably and talk with them.

But at this moment, the gods subconsciously saw him as an enemy… the kind of enemy they feared!

The Goddess of Beauty struggled to maintain her smile, but it seemed that if Yin Hui didn’t provide a satisfying answer… he could forget about improving his standing with these gods, as his favorability might immediately plummet into the negatives.

In such a situation, Yin Hui’s choice was… to play dumb, using player logic to handle the situation, which turned out to be the best solution.

Player logic was… Main story? Not my business! I’m just here to chat with my favorite NPC “little sister.”

Thus, under the formidable stares of the Goddess of Beauty and a congress of gods, Yin Hui walked up to the centaur deity named Ge Qiu.

She was the very God of Livestock that Yin Hui was seeking.

“Spirit! I do not fear you!” Ge Qiu, nearly two meters tall, loomed over Yin Hui, her gaze fierce; if not for War God Wuerde’s intervention, she might have trampled Yin Hui’s face with her hooves.

“Spirit… I think I need to explain the current situation to you.”

The Goddess of Beauty still hoped to extend the cooperation with the spirits, especially since she was counting on earning more Divine Power Crystals from them.

“Here.” Yin Hui simply and straightforwardly took out a hundred Divine Power Crystals and handed them to the God of Livestock.

“What… do you want to do?”

“I’m hiring you.”

Under such circumstances, Yin Hui couldn’t be bothered to continue playing for favorability. His collection of so many Divine Power Crystals was actually to ‘monopolize’ these gods–gaining their favor was meant for after luring them to his stronghold.

“Hire… hiring?”

Not just the God of Livestock, even the nearby Goddess of Beauty and other deities were taken aback for a moment.

Now, according to the normal plot, shouldn’t Yin Hui be shouting, ‘How dare you gods betray us!’?

“My stronghold is home to many cows and sheep, but they are plagued by crystal disease from the island. I thought you, as the God of Livestock, would have a way to cure them.” As Yin Hui spoke, he took out another small bag of Divine Power Crystals and placed it in front of the God of Livestock.

The two bags of Divine Power Crystals made Ge Qiu, the God of Livestock, stomp her hooves uneasily.

“Wait a minute, don’t you hate me? We were planning to… that is to say…” Ge Qiu tried to speak but was stared back into silence by a glance from the War God Urd.

“If you think these Divine Power Crystals are not enough, I can add more.”

Yin Hui didn’t mention the gods’ conspiracy at all, but each of the two bags of Divine Power Crystals he offered contained a hundred. Just looking at the expression of the nearby Goddess of Beauty, who seemed to think, ‘That’s so nice! That’s so nice!’ was enough to show how tempting these two bags of Divine Power Crystals were to the lower deities.

The circumstances of the God of Livestock might have been even worse than those of the Harvest Goddess, who at least had her temples in many cities. The God of Livestock was only worshipped by some nomadic and centaur tribes, and her followers were leagues below the likes of the Earth Mother Goddess and the War God in status.

In human terms… quite impoverished.

“No! That’s not the issue!” The God of Livestock still wanted to refuse when War God Urd simply made a lip gesture meaning ‘take it!’ In the end, she reluctantly picked up the two bags of Divine Power Crystals offered by Yin Hui and tentatively agreed to his employment request.

“Now, let’s continue the discussion about what we were talking about earlier.”

The Goddess of Beauty approached, intending to continue her explanation about the content of this meeting, but Yin Hui still chose to ignore her, starting to recruit other SR-ranked deities in the Council of Gods using the same method.

“Holy Spirit!”

The Goddess of Beauty could hardly contain herself when Yin Hui used the same method to recruit the third deity, but her words were interrupted by another person!

“The things you do always… surprise me very much.”

The voice of Denghis Xisi suddenly arose from the other side of the council. Upon hearing Denghis Xisi’s voice, War God Urd instantly materialized a pure golden Longsword in his hand, intending to exterminate Denghis Xisi in an instant.

“Wait a minute, War God Sir.”

Yin Hui, who had previously played the role of the ignorant, rich blockhead, suddenly spoke out to prevent War God Urd from executing his intention to slay Denghis Xisi.

“He is an intruder! Holy Spirit… our enemy!” War God Urd was very astute at this moment, but Yin Hui didn’t agree.

“Denghis Xisi… Denghis Xisi, although we haven’t met before, allow me to introduce myself. I am the leader behind the scenes of the Dancing Nuclear Guild.”

Yin Hui blocked War God Urd’s Longsword for Denghis Xisi and slowly walked toward the ultimate boss of Black Wind Village with a smile on his face.

“The Dancing Nuclear, the most troublesome bunch of Holy Spirits, as their leader, it does not surprise me, Mr. Yin Hui,” said Denghis Xisi, who was extremely polite in his conversation with Yin Hui.

“To be appraised so highly by a behind-the-scenes boss really gives me a sense of achievement. Well then, to cut a long story short, hand over the Divine Fragment held by the Magic Thief, and stop Black Wind Village from continuing its approach to Biland Island. What condition do you need to agree to these two requests?”

At that moment, Yin Hui had stepped out of the player’s role and was negotiating with Denghis Xisi as with a real person.

“I’m sorry, I cannot agree to the first request, Mr. Yin Hui… The second is simple. You just need to hand over Yelena, who is in your stronghold, Aixin in the stronghold called Black Wind Village, and all my apprentices. Then I promise I will no longer allow Black Wind Village to approach Biland Island,” said Denghis Xisi.

“Yelena, I remember that girl…” Of course, Yin Hui remembered Yelena; more than half of the tiny hearts produced by the Dancing Nuclear Guild were made by her.

“She’s a very important relative of mine. If you agree to this request, I will slow Black Wind Village’s arrival at Biland Island, from the current half a month to one to two years,” Denghis Xisi said, his words still sounding extremely polite, yet with an underlying threatening tone.

“Unfortunately, Yelena is not my property, she belongs to all the members of the Dancing Nuclear Guild, and moreover, if I did so, her master would directly kill you,” said Yin Hui, shaking his head with regret.

“Then it seems this negotiation cannot continue. May I be frank? With the combat strength of your Holy Spirits, I doubt you can match the invasion of all the dragons from Black Wind Village and the Power of Abyss. Eventually, Biland Island will be destroyed,” Denghis Xisi added.

“How do you know I only have these Holy Spirits?” Yin Hui said. “What you’re facing now are the Holy Spirits who are in groups of seventy to eighty as relic cleanup squads. But do you really think the Holy Spirits have only this scale?”

“Your cleanup squads total eight hundred and seventy-two teams; likely only about three hundred are capable of engaging us, only numbering seventy to eighty thousand individuals… Hardly enough to be called a small army. And…” Denghis Xisi paused for a moment, fixing his gaze on the still-smiling Yin Hui and said, “You aren’t professional soldiers. I’m afraid relic exploration and fighting us are only… part of your entertainment, right? Can amateurs be up to the task of a real war?”

“I accept your declaration of war on behalf of all Holy Spirits. In half a month, I will show you the capabilities of amateurs. Please don’t shrink away,” Yin Hui said.

“Then I’ll look forward to it.”

After saying this, Denghis Xisi disappeared from the hall of the Council of Gods.