Your Preference (20)
“You still haven’t pleased me.”
Xu Jiao smiled slightly.
In the depths of the black pupils, candlelight flickered, resembling broken starlight, and the gaze of the person above fell down, involuntarily captivated by this beautiful scene. The black snake unconsciously licked the corner of its lips and asked aloud:
“Why are you laughing?”
Xu Jiao slowly shook her head, just about to answer her question when her pupils suddenly contracted slightly. Her entire being seemed to fall from the branch, like a leaf blown by the wind, trembling rustlingly. Then, blue veins appeared on her neck and the back of her hand, as if…
Something inside her body was about to be pulled out.
The person pressing against her was naturally the first to sense all these changes. Lilith had originally prepared to entangle her, not expecting this Saintess to suddenly seem as if suffering from a terminal illness. The snake tail loosened and transformed back into legs. She held Xu Jiao’s cheeks and asked aloud, not noticing her voice had already tensed.
It was filled with nervousness and fear.
“What happened to you?”
Xu Jiao’s pupils dispersed for a moment, and at the same time, outside the window in the night sky, a very bright purple lightning suddenly split the sky. The lightning’s range was extremely wide, splitting from one end of the continent and extending distantly to the other side, like a blade cutting through paper, its sharp edge piercing the back of the paper, also like…
An eye about to open.
All things on the Miracle Continent felt a tremble at the same moment.
It was an indescribable, hard-to-express feeling, an instinctual fear and submission of all creatures to the master of all things. Even someone as strong as Lilith, who no longer believed in God, was swept over by a sudden burst of heart palpitations.
The Saintess was temporarily unable to make a sound, yet Lilith already knew the answer—
God is about to awaken.
Xu Jiao was the first person to know about this event, but at the same time, another fact leaped into her mind. She clearly knew that God’s true form was not her. The anger from the sky reached directly into her heart; it was God’s awareness of the existence transformed from Their rib, mixed with darkness, causing pain and disappointment.
God wants to reclaim this rib.
When They awaken, it is the moment of Xu Jiao’s consciousness annihilation and withdrawal from this world.
Intense pain emanates from within the chest cavity, affecting every bone and every piece of flesh throughout the body, causing them to ache. The blood seems to instantly forget its original flow patterns, chaotically coursing through the blood vessels like creatures aware of an impending disaster, disorderly and chaotically colliding together, causing congestion and trampling everywhere.
For a moment, Xu Jiao only feels pain throughout her entire body, as if struck by a massive stone slab falling from the sky, with bones turning to dust and flesh becoming a formless pile of mud.
This is because…
The rib inside the body perceives its master’s impending awakening, clamoring to return to God’s body.
Under normal circumstances, when God is about to awaken, to reduce the avatar’s pain, they would directly merge them with Themselves. However, upon knowing that the avatar has already committed an unforgivable mistake, God will not do so.
They might directly crush this avatar.
Or, as is happening now, allow the avatar to move towards destruction in endless pain and fear.
The instant God’s rib leaves Xu Jiao’s body is also the moment of Xu Jiao’s death.
She clearly realized this.
However, Xu Jiao’s eyes only showed a slight panic when the initial pain struck. Immediately after, she chaotically raised her hand to grab Lilith. The pain had already made it impossible for her to discern exactly where she was grabbing, but Xu Jiao used her last strength to pull that part of the opponent’s body close to her.
She thought she had used great strength.
Unbeknownst to her, in Lilith’s view, this person only lightly raised her hand, trembling as she reached for her wrist. After the previous feeling of heart palpitations settled, an inexplicable boundless panic surged within Lilith. This panic prompted her to instinctively follow Xu Jiao’s will and bring her wrist to Xu Jiao’s lips.
Immediately—
Xu Jiao opened her mouth and bit into that source of instinctively repulsive, hateful, evil magic.
This was her only way to survive.
Lilith guessed her intention.
God is about to awaken, and the reason this avatar of God before her is in such pain is because the divine bone is being withdrawn from the body. The only way to extend this life and struggle to survive is to sever the connection between this rib and God.
For example, by using demonic energy to completely erode the divine power within.
This way, this bone will lose its divinity.
Lilith had earlier entertained the thought of making this Saintes fall, so she unconsciously let demonic energy lurk into the other’s body while asleep. However, she later changed her mind and, during their first union, retracted that demonic energy into herself because she wanted this person to remain pure.
She never thought that, after going around in circles, they would still arrive at this day.
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Lilith watched as the other bit into her skin, and the demonic energy inside her seemed to find a delicious meal, happily drilling into that pure divine body. Somehow, a little sadness welled up in her eyes.
She fell into a struggle.
On one hand, a voice was telling her that doing this was wrong. God was already on the verge of awakening and was already angry about the avatar’s actions. If she continued to exacerbate the situation with the divine bone, she and this Saintess would face God’s fully awakened wrath. On the other hand, another voice said that if she stopped now, this Saintess would soon die.
Could she bear to watch this person die right before her eyes?
Lilith felt her mind wavering, and ultimately, it was unknown which voice overpowered the other. She gently touched the person whose consciousness was entirely consumed by pain with another hand, lowered her head, and placed a light kiss on the other’s hair.
She allowed Xu Jiao to use her demonic energy to transform herself.
Lightning made the night sky especially bright.
Inside the hall, the candle flames were disturbed by the wind, swaying for a long time on the edge of extinguishing, and cast the two overlapping shadows on the bed curtain very long. Xu Jiao was continuously eroded by demonic energy, struggling with will and instinctive repulsion from her body, unable to even hear the tasks issued by the system clearly.
“Detected that the female protagonist is about to be erased by the deity, please host make a response.”
“Detected that the female protagonist is about to be erased by the deity, please host make a response.”
The system issued several notifications in succession, but Xu Jiao did not give any response in her mind, because she was submerged in pain, her soul as if placed on unquenchable flames burning, unable to escape that scorching pain and the agony of almost turning to ashes.
She seemed to have already died, yet also appeared to be able to exist forever in this painful state.
Lilith felt that her body’s temperature was not normal, and at the same time, beneath the person’s skin, the traces of blood vessels were changing between black and gold. Those branch-like ink marks quickly appeared and disappeared, then turned entirely golden, giving the illusion of something living crawling under her skin, strange yet beautiful.
This was the result of the divine power within the Saintess’s body opposing the demonic energy input from Lilith’s side.
“Mm…”
A weak moan overflowed from the mouth of the person beneath.
As if the pain had reached its peak, even the strength to cry out was gone.
Lilith lowered her head to look, meeting those unfocused, hazy eyes, and from within saw her own reflection. Somehow, she inexplicably lowered her head and kissed the lips that unconsciously left her wrist, swallowing the blood color along with it, as if to soothe.
Unfortunately, the person overwhelmed by pain had lost awareness of this action, only trembling slightly. Her expression had a moment of clarity before sinking again. Xu Jiao did not see how cautious and cherished the serpent woman’s attitude was toward her, as if worried that a bit more strength would crush her.
Lilith sighed, looked at her struggling appearance, pressed again and again on those red lips, successfully seeing the pale pink lips turn deep red, then laughed softly and asked:
“Do you want me to help?”
Xu Jiao couldn’t hear what she said; she only blankly watched her lips open and close, instinctively nodding.
Lilith smiled again. At this moment, she no longer pondered over whom she truly loved; she only tried her best to help the person in front of her survive.
She thought she had not yet made a choice.
In reality…
Her actions had already proven everything.
The soft bed in the temple made a few creaking sounds under the strain.
A wet black snake tail swept over the thin gauze-like bed curtain, rolling the heavy drapes to the side. Afterwards, that wet tail with extremely shiny scales suddenly darted back into the bed.
Black hair, damp with sweat, was tangled together, making it impossible to distinguish between you and me, both wrapped in the scent of desire, making it hard to discern who seduced whom.
Only the endless sounds of panting resonated in this small world.
Early morning.
Lightning retreated, and the night withdrew. As sunlight fell from the horizon, all creatures of the Miracle Continent experienced the illusion of being alive again. White clouds gathered piece by piece in the sky, giving people an extremely peaceful aura.
As if last night’s horror was merely a nightmare.
However—
In a corner of the six great temples, a surge of black demonic energy suddenly rose, shooting straight into the sky.
In the soft bed, a woman with skin like soft jade opened her eyes, with hair still clinging to her face. She moved her fingertips, and the pain in her body had dissipated an unknown time ago. Except for the fear still engraved in her bones, her mind was already completely clear.
Xu Jiao blinked her eyelashes, dazing for quite a while before recalling last night’s memory. Just as she was about to get up from the bed, she turned her head and found a black snake lying beside her.
The black snake had coiled itself and was sleeping right next to her waist.
Noticing Xu Jiao’s movement, the snake moved its eyes, lazily glanced at her, and then went back to sleep. However, a black aura separated from its body, landed on the ground before the bed, and transformed into a little blonde girl.
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Little Lilith looked Xu Jiao up and down with a worried gaze, and upon finding that she no longer showed a painful expression, she couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief, then softly said, “Good morning, Your Excellency the Saintess.”
Xu Jiao responded with a “Mm,” only then realizing her voice was a bit dry and hoarse. Thinking of the absurdity in last night’s fragmented memory, she had originally expected to feel some fatigue today, but unexpectedly, her body was full of lightness.
However.
Something had still changed.
She carefully tilted her ear to listen—
Only then did she discover that the prayers she used to hear had all unexpectedly disappeared.
Her inner world was quiet, and it actually seemed somewhat empty.
Xu Jiao felt a subtle discomfort.
The black snake, originally planning to sleep a bit more, noticed her change in aura, reopened its eyes, stared at Xu Jiao for a while, and suddenly asked in a somewhat mocking voice: “What, do you still dislike the demonic energy? But you must know, if not for these demonic energies, you would have turned back into a bone by now.”
Xu Jiao heard her words, her eyes slightly moved, and she looked at the black snake, meeting its orange-yellow eyes. After a pause, she said: “No.”
“I used to always hear the prayers of followers, and now suddenly not hearing them, this kind of quiet is just somewhat long-lost.”
The black snake was quiet for a while, then suddenly flicked its tongue and asked again: “Then do you regret?”
Xu Jiao’s eyes were completely calm: “No.”
This was a choice she made out of her own subjective wish, so why would she regret it?
Moreover, if it weren’t for Lilith’s demonic energy, she would have been killed by the pain of the divine bone extraction last night.
Being able to live again now is already very good.
Thinking of this, Xu Jiao seriously said to the black snake: “Thank you for saving me.”
The black snake casually mocked her: “Thanks? I don’t want your thanks, I want your repayment.”
Xu Jiao nodded and answered her: “Of course.”
She looked at the blonde girl standing by the bed, then at the black snake still coiled in the soft bed, and heard the system once again pop up at this moment to remind her of the task to save the heroine—
Xu Jiao’s lips showed a gentle smile, she slightly nodded and said:
“You saved me, I will also save you.”
“If God wants to kill you, I will not allow it.”
This was the purpose of her initial plan to kill God.
One could say…
If Xu Jiao had not prepared herself for being separate from God, she might have unknowingly died last night, then returned to the system’s virtual space, watching helplessly as the heroine was killed by God, leading this world to a bad ending.
Fortunately, her efforts did not go to waste.
She had already found a method to kill God.
The black snake heard her words and was first startled; its tail swayed left and right halfway, then stopped. After a while, it opened its mouth and laughed loudly at Xu Jiao:
“Ha? What joke are you telling?”
God created this continent.
There is no enemy that God cannot eliminate.
Now this incarnation, who had already betrayed God and almost died because God was about to awaken, dared to boastfully say she wanted to protect herself from being killed by God, which Lilith found laughable.
However, while laughable, she also vaguely felt…
This person seemed very serious.
Lilith secretly scolded herself for being dazzled by this person’s beauty, still not sober from last night’s events. Her tail moved a bit, and she softly said:
“No need.”
Lilith made eye contact with her and lazily answered: “I don’t need you to protect me, just live well yourself.”
Xu Jiao did not respond, as she had already made her decision, so she did not argue much with the black snake.
She got off the bed and habitually raised her hand to summon the wind, intending to bring a new set of clothes to herself. However, her hand stayed raised for a long time, and nothing happened except for the slight breeze caused by the movement.
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Those elements were no longer friendly to her.
Xu Jiao’s fingertips in mid-air slightly moved, and the next moment, little Lilith quickly came over, bringing the long dress the maid had placed nearby last night, placed it in her palm, and showed her a sweet smile.
Xu Jiao also returned her a smile.
After changing clothes and walking out, Xu Jiao glanced in the direction of the sky, pressed her lips together, and a bit of urgency flashed in her expression. Suddenly, behind her came that hoarse, lazy voice:
“Hey.”
Xu Jiao turned her head, her side profile and contours in the dim light looked particularly beautiful, calm and rational, as if she would never be controlled by other emotions. Only the black snake had seen her when she was confused and emotional.
In that moment, the black snake wanted to ask her if, after last night’s events, she liked itself a little bit more.
Or perhaps, could she give up the plan to kill God and just live well?
But in the end, she only said: “Come back early tonight.”
Xu Jiao raised an eyebrow: “Hmm?”
The black snake’s words carried a different meaning: “Because… last night a certain Noble Saintess was not cooperative at all, it was boring, so that session doesn’t count, we’ll start over tonight.”
“I gave you demonic energy, and you haven’t pleased me yet, understand?”
Xu Jiao: “…”
Is this even about forced buying and selling?