As she said this, her eyes were on Octavius VIII.
"!"
The emperor's expression changed immediately upon hearing this, and he said hastily with a sullen face:
"I am ignorant, please forgive me!"
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Chapter 443 Chance Encounter
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"Uh……"
Seeing her father's reaction and the current situation, Candice realized that something was wrong.
She didn't care about being angry about Qi Ji's extremely offensive words just now. Her eyes moved back and forth between Octavius VIII and Qi Ji, finally stopping on her father.
His face was covered in cold sweat and his lips were trembling slightly, as if he was under a lot of mental pressure. He bowed and apologized to the black-haired girl in the cloak with an incredibly humble attitude.
This surprised Candice!
From childhood to adulthood, she had never seen her father, the emperor, show such an attitude towards others. Even when facing the "Apostle of the Sunset" of the Cangyang Spiritual Society, he still maintained a calm and neither humble nor arrogant demeanor.
Who on earth is this cloaked girl that could make my father so humble? !
No matter how powerful a transcendent is, can he be more powerful than the apostles of the Sunset Church?!
She couldn't imagine what the current situation was like, but she couldn't ignore the fact: no matter what, her father, who was the emperor, was whispering to the cloaked girl in an almost pleading tone:
"My daughter didn't mean to offend you. You are so magnanimous. Please don't treat her like that!"
Thinking of this, Candice realized that she might be in trouble. She didn't dare to speak and quickly shut her mouth. However, she didn't dare to just slip away. She could only stand there with her head down, waiting for the two people not far away to blame her.
"Well, why are you so nervous?"
Seeing the father and daughter looking like they were about to face a life-and-death crisis, Qi Ji was slightly startled, then realized that the two seemed to have misunderstood something, and explained with a wry smile:
"I'm not so petty as to kill someone for such a small matter."
Hearing this, the emperor felt as if he had been pardoned. He breathed a sigh of relief and bowed to Qi Ji again:
"Thank you for your tolerance, sir."
Then he turned his head and looked at Candice, with a look of severity and reproach in his eyes:
"Come over here and apologize!"
"well……"
Candice was still in a state of confusion, but her basic reason told her that she must not lose her temper in this situation, so she walked to her father obediently and gave Qi Ji a very standard court-style skirt-lifting ceremony:
"I'm sorry, I spoke without restraint..."
As a result, because the skirt-lifting etiquette requires both hands to hold the hem of the skirt, but she had a coat hanging on her forearm, so the coat slipped down and fell onto the floor tiles.
"..."
Candice subconsciously wanted to bend down to pick it up, but she quickly realized that when bowing and apologizing, she must not interrupt for any reason, otherwise it would be a great insult to the other party, so she stopped the action abruptly.
However, it would be inappropriate to leave the coat lying alone between the two of them, which made her feel awkward. Her blush spread from her ears to her cheeks, but she couldn't just stand there motionless.
I could only stand up straight and pretend nothing happened.
Seeing her look so embarrassed that she wanted to find a hole to hide in, Qi Ji was very considerate and stopped making her uncomfortable. He happily took a few steps back:
"See you next week then~~"
As she said her farewell, her body suddenly shrank and turned into a tiny insect the size of a little fingertip, disappearing between the cracks in the floor tiles.
Only the father and daughter were left on the empty paved road. Candice stood there with her pretty face flushed and red, neither speaking nor moving.
The emperor's resolute face remained calm. He looked around and used his inspiration to scan again. After confirming that the black-haired girl demigod had left, he let out a long breath of relief:
"Little Candy, you have to change your habit of speaking without thinking..."
When the black-haired girl said those words to Candice, his heart really rose to his throat.
He had not personally come into contact with many demigods, but as the ruler of a country, he had dealt with many high-level extraordinary beings who possessed powerful strength. Moreover, he himself was a "magician" of the third realm.
He was quite clear about the mentality of those powerful or high-ranking people, and knew that many of these guys were moody and disregarded human life.
When faced with offenses from the weak, it is not uncommon for the strong to simply kill them out of displeasure.
So he was particularly afraid that Qi Ji would decide to kill him because of his daughter's words.
If things really developed to that point... Octavius VIII didn't know what to do. It was a situation he could not and dared not imagine.
"Father, who is that person?"
Seeing her father's expression ease a little, Candice asked in a very guilty tone.
Octavius VIII rubbed the root of his nose and said helplessly:
"A demigod who cooperates with the royal family... It's a long story, just understand this."
"Demi god……"
Candice's originally rosy face immediately turned pale. Even though she was young, she was very clear about the weight of this word.
Thinking back to the several encounters I had with that cloaked girl some time ago, and the attitude I displayed at that time...
Her heart sank, and she couldn't help but feel a strong sense of fear. She thought that she was still alive because the other person had such a good temper.
While the princess was still in shock, the emperor suddenly thought of something. He turned his head and looked at his daughter in confusion, frowning and asking:
"You have met Him before..."
Candice immediately looked embarrassed and blushed.
But she also knew that she couldn't be careless or perfunctory at this moment, and she absolutely couldn't hide the truth casually, so she suppressed her embarrassment and told him everything about her previous encounter with the cloaked girl in an extremely tormented mood...
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Thousands of miles away, at the foot of the End Mountains, in the oppressive shadow of the mountain, Qi Ji instantly appeared in the lush primeval forest.
"Well... let's hurry up a bit. Who knows what's going on in Mullen Territory? If we delay too long, something serious might happen... the scourge creatures..."
Muttering to herself as she walked through the forest, she took out from the storage subspace the envelope containing the information about the "Pure White Gate" collected by Octavius VIII.
She scratched the sealing wax with her fingernail and pulled out the thick letter paper, then quickly flipped through it.
Only a few seconds passed, and before she had even taken a few steps, she had finished reading the entire text document that was two fingers thick.
"The profit... is quite substantial."
After putting the letter paper and envelope back into the storage subspace, Qi Ji stroked the tip of his chin with one hand, with a playful expression on his face.
She was somewhat surprised that the Royal Family of the Glory Plantagenet Empire could obtain such a thick stack of information within a week with just a vague term.
At first, she suspected that the emperor would use some completely meaningless or even fabricated things to fill the number in order to meet the target.
But after carefully reading the contents of the document and comparing it with the document that Hill had sacrificed earlier, which was compiled and copied from the library of the headquarters of the Last Country, she found...
The traces left by the "Pure White Gate" in the human world are quite interesting.
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Chapter 444: The Lord of Pure White
"A demigod active in the early Sixth Epoch, the 'Pure White Lord'..."
This information collected by the royal family basically describes such an existence.
To put it simply, about a thousand years ago, when the Fifth Epoch had just ended with the fall of the First Holy Temple Empire and the Sixth Epoch had begun with the coexistence of nine gods, there had existed a very special demigod.
The reason why he is called "special" is not because of how powerful this demigod is, how far-reaching his influence is, or how profound an impact he has had on the world.
But from the perspective of future generations, the realm of this demigod’s power... is unprecedented and will never be repeated.
——This is a demigod from the realm of “fire”, and he is not a “god’s messenger” but a “miracle worker”.
The fifth realm of the path of the "Mage" is to successfully obtain a trace of divinity, transcend the scope of life, and thus become a "miracle master" in a truly extraordinary sense!
During the more than one thousand years of the Sixth Epoch, apart from this demigod who called himself the "Lord of Pure White", no other extraordinary wizard had been able to be promoted to a "Miracle Master", and no demigod belonged to the realm of "Fire".
It is precisely because of these two special aspects that the "Pure White Lord" has left a very deep mark in history.
The document states:
"The only 'Miracle Master' in ancient times, the 'Pure White Lord' of the 'Flame' realm, was active in the early Sixth Epoch, and there are records of him until the 200th year of the Sixth Epoch.
"But after the 203rd year of the Sixth Era, no trace of this demigod could be found in any surviving ancient books, historical documents, or local county annals. And there were no signs before the records about Him stopped.
"It's as if this demigod, the only one in history to reach the level of a 'miracle worker', just disappeared into thin air..."
"interesting……"
Walking in the woods, Qi Ji was obviously very interested in this special demigod.
Although the "Pure White Lord" and the "Pure White Gate" are only similar in name, it is difficult to say that there is any substantial connection between the two.
However, even without talking about the connection between the "Pure White Lord" and the divine existence in the Gray Forest, His bizarre disappearance alone was enough to arouse Qi Ji's curiosity.
What on earth happened that caused a great half-human, half-god being to disappear without any warning?
Since most of the time in the thousand years since the start of the Sixth Period was in a state of turmoil, and it experienced two or three rounds of generational changes, a large amount of detailed information about that era has been lost, and the true history of the early period can no longer be restored.
However, we can still clear away the fog of history, piece together bits and pieces about that era, and obtain some ancient fragments from various myths, folk legends, and fragments of classics handed down from ancient times.
Among them is the special demigod "Pure White Lord".
That document collected a large amount of information that was either circulated among the people or in the forbidden library of the imperial palace, and eliminated the vague, absurd and contradictory parts, and finally compiled many descriptions of the demigod.
According to historical records, the mythological form of the "Pure White Lord" is often described as "a sacred door that is like a hole in the sky, bringing pure white light to the earth, with eternally burning flames jumping around it without stopping."
This point can barely correspond to the "Pure White Gate".
"Hmm... let's make a bold assumption. Is there a possibility that the reason why the 'Pure White Lord' disappeared was because he ran into the Gray Forest?
"And He has been providing shelter for the human civilization on that land, thus promoting the establishment of the 'Final Kingdom'?"
Although I don't quite understand the White Lord's motive for doing this, this assumption does make sense logically.
"Well, there's no need to rush into guessing. We'll have to go there in person anyway. Why not just ask Him directly when the time comes?"
However, she did not put much thought into this issue. After thinking about it for a moment, she shrugged her shoulders and concentrated on her journey.
“Swish, swish, swish!!!”
She walked in a leisurely and slow manner, like a stroll along the river after dinner, but her speed was incredibly fast.
Outsiders could only barely see a blurry afterimage jumping and flying between the tree trunks and treetops in the forest below the mountain, and in the blink of an eye it rushed far away.
Pieces of fallen leaves and broken branches rustled down, the shadows of the trees swayed, and only the whistling sound of the wind was still vibrating in the air, not subsiding for a long time.
The forest at the foot of the mountain is extremely vast, almost running through the entire northern continent, but it is relatively narrow in shape, and is only more than ten kilometers wide in the area where Qi Ji is located.
Not long after, before the rising sun had even completely peeked out from the towering mountain, she crossed the forest and arrived in front of the mountain.
"Hmm...how do we get through this?"
Looking up at the steep rock wall standing in front of him, extending to the end of his vision, Qi Ji pursed his lips and put on a thoughtful expression.
This rock wall is like a huge wall, with a very high slope, basically more than 80 degrees. The surface is bumpy, but there are no grip points.
Moreover, it extends to the left and right sides as far as the eye can see, as if it is completely connected as a whole, with no gaps for people to pass through.
Wanting to climb it... is definitely countless times more difficult than climbing Mount Everest on foot. After all, reaching the summit of Mount Everest does not require rock climbing all the way.
