My mom is waiting for treatment, and you're summoning me to be a hero?

"There seems to be no life here."

Lin Mo looked around at his surroundings and began to speak.

This gray land stretches as far as the eye can see, so flat that there are almost no undulations in the terrain, like a wasteland that has been carefully smoothed out by some force.

As far as the eye could see, there were no buildings, no trees, nothing that could be called a landmark, only an endless expanse of gray and white.

Yin Xue shook his head, the movement very small, so light it was as if he didn't want to make himself notice it.

"I have no family."

She raised her hand and pointed in one direction.

Lin Mo followed her finger and could vaguely see a huge building on the horizon at the end of his field of vision.

The building's outline was faintly visible against the dark sky. The details were obscured by the distance, but even from that distance, its immense size was palpable.

It was a massive building that was in no way inferior to the Dragon Emperor's Palace, and might even be larger.

Its outline presents an extremely irregular geometric shape, without the spires of towers or the enclosure of city walls, and it looks more like a single, sculpted giant rock.

"That's the only place where there are living people."

Yin Xue withdrew his finger, his voice calm, as if stating a fact unrelated to himself.

"However, I think I made some mistake and was kicked out. I wandered in the wilderness for a long time, and then accidentally touched a teleportation array and arrived at the Divine Guidance Continent."

Lin Mo frowned. He didn't press her about what mistake she had made, nor did he ask why she had been kicked out.

He merely withdrew his gaze from the outline of the massive building, gripped the hilt of the black sword at his waist again, and strode toward the direction of Yin Xuezhi.

"Let's go take a look."

Yin Xue was slightly taken aback. Looking at Lin Mo's back, which had already taken two steps, he flapped his wings twice and chased after him.

"You're just going to walk over there like that? Without even a plan? What if they attack you on sight?"

"Then fight back."

"What if there are a lot of them?"

"That's even better, it saves us the trouble of searching one by one."

Yin Xue was silent for a moment, then burst out laughing.

The laughter was soft, but much more genuine than the feigned calmness of the previous words.

She flew to his shoulder, sat down, crossed her legs, and poked the back of his head with her index finger.

"Sometimes I really wonder if you're the real demon king, how come you're even more domineering than I was back then wherever you go."

Behind her, the huge moon hung silently in the dark sky, its faint light casting long, long shadows of the two figures as they walked away.

……

Spirit world.

Several divine messengers stumbled and staggered to the stone gate at dusk.

They exchanged a glance, and then the leading divine messenger knelt down with a thud.

"My Lord! Lin Mo... he used fabricated videos to slander the Church! Those images are utterly absurd, claiming that the Vatican conducted experiments on infants and used fragments of the Demon King's soul to perform forbidden magic! This is clearly a colossal lie he fabricated to smear the Church and shake the faith in the Holy Light! Now all the races of the continent have been deceived by him, and the Church has become the common enemy of the continent!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the divine messengers behind him rushed to add to his words, each voice louder and more indignant than the last.

"My Lord! Not only that! Lin Mo also insulted you!"

"He even incited the ignorant masses to fight against the divine realm! It's utterly lawless!"

"The worst part is that he said he would drag you down from your throne!"

……

The divine messengers chattered on for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, embellishing and listing all of Lin Mo's "crimes."

As for the authenticity, they had already reported those true events countless times, but the deity remained unmoved.

Therefore, their report mainly focused on how Lin Mo slandered the gods.

In the end, the divine messengers all knelt down at the same time.

"We implore Your Majesty to immediately convict Lin Mo of being a Demon King! Based on this charge, we will immediately summon all the reclusive demigods across the continent to join forces in punishing this fiend!"

After he finished speaking, there was a long silence inside the stone gate.

The messengers knelt on the ground, not daring to breathe.

This silence was not unfamiliar to them—the deity was always taciturn, and silence was his most common way of responding.

But the silence lasted too long, so long that the leading divine messenger began to feel uneasy.

The leading divine messenger frowned, considered his words carefully, and was about to start fabricating more charges against Lin Mo.

After all, Lin Mo's crimes are already too numerous to count, so adding a few more wouldn't be difficult.

Just then, a sound finally came from inside the stone gate.

"I hate liars the most."

His voice was calm yet authoritative, each syllable spoken so softly it seemed casual, but to the messengers it struck them like a heavy hammer blow.

The lead divine messenger's pupils suddenly contracted, and the cold sweat that had just subsided on his forehead instantly reappeared.

His colleagues behind him were all deathly pale, their fingers trembling slightly as they lay on the ground.

The leading divine messenger lay prostrate on the ground, his forehead pressed tightly against the earth, deliberately suppressing his breathing to the lowest possible level, for fear that any unnecessary movement would provoke the wrath of the gods.

Those divine messengers who had just been indignantly listing Lin Mo's crimes were now all speechless, not daring to even breathe loudly.

But soon the voice of the gods rang out again from the stone gate.

"Notify the Holy Kingdom of the Tower to put Lin Mo on trial and convict him of being a demon king."

His tone remained calm, without anger, accusation, or any lingering repercussions of the previous lie.

The statement "I hate liars the most" was just a casual remark and not worth wasting any more time on.

The divine messengers all breathed a sigh of relief.

The leading divine messenger hurriedly kowtowed three times on the stone door, his voice trembling with relief.

"Yes, Your Majesty! I will take care of it immediately! I will ensure that the Holy See spreads the judgment across the continent as quickly as possible, and that all demigods are mobilized to punish Lin Mo!"

After he finished speaking, he and his messengers scrambled away.

Behind the stone gate.

The boundless darkness swallowed all light; there was no dome, no ground, no boundary.

The only light was a curtain of light.

Facing the light screen was a human figure, which was none other than the deity.

He sat cross-legged in the void, watching everything that was happening on the light screen.

The image frozen on the screen was the clearing beneath the ancient tree of the elves.

Lin Mo, clad in black robes and wielding a black sword, reached out to touch the dark purple light emanating from the Star Stone. His figure was rapidly blurring within the light, and a small, blood-red hand tightly gripped his fingers.

The scene was frozen at the moment he was about to disappear completely, with dark purple light flowing around him, and his profile expression was as calm as if he were just going to the next room to get something.

The god gazed at this face for a long time.

"Did they go to the hatchery?"

His voice was very soft, with a hint of barely perceptible surprise.

Then he casually turned off the light screen.

The light curtain shattered into countless tiny points of light that dissipated into the darkness.

Lin Mo's overly calm profile disappeared into the boundless darkness.

The deity tilted his head slightly, as if recalling something insignificant, his tone as indifferent as if he were talking about something completely unrelated to himself.

"Whatever, it doesn't really matter anyway."

Darkness once again swallowed all the light.

In this desolate void where no one can see or hear, he sat alone in the endless silence, letting his consciousness sink back into that place deeper than darkness.

He cast his gaze into the depths of his power, where a fragment of a soul, a tiny human girl's soul, was hidden, enveloped by layers of protective laws.

"Sister, this time I will definitely bring you back to life."