No wonder Diya thought that way. Yinzhi's appearance happened to look like a slightly older Lisi or a slightly younger Diya; it was not without reason that both Igola and Yaxiu had mistaken Yinzhi for Lisi at first glance.
And since the Country of All Stars was a projection of reality, it would hardly be surprising if a projection of Diya appeared here now.
"I don't think so," Yaxiu said. "Even if it were, it couldn't be a projection generated only after you entered the Stars."
Yaxiu had considered this question long ago. "There's no way the Weaver could have known you would come to the Stars, so Yinzhi must have been placed in the Country of All Stars well before your arrival. Besides, Yinzhi has nothing to do with you anymore. Her inside was replaced by another sorcerer sent by the Weaver; at most, she's just wearing a shell that looks like you."
Diya suddenly thought of a possibility. "You wouldn't end up liking her just because she looks so much like me, would you?"
"No, of course not. How could I?"
"True. Who on earth would fall for someone just because they look like someone else?"
Yaxiu blinked, thinking to himself that it was a blessing he was wearing a mask.
"I just didn't expect you to form a Decolorized Holy Grail, Observer," Diya sighed.
Seeing Yaxiu's confusion, Diya explained the significance of the Decolorized Holy Grail versus the Rainbow Holy Grail for the Prime Angel's escape.
Hearing that the more colored holy grails there were, the easier it was for the Prime Angel to escape, Yaxiu felt a touch of regret. After all, if the Prime Angel escaped, the Country of All Stars would definitely be preserved.
The only problem was that Yaxiu and the others would have to find a way to remain in the Country of All Stars until they were confident they could pass the Hell trials before returning to reality.
However, Yaxiu soon made peace with it. After all, even if he had formed a Rainbow Holy Grail, the other demons would certainly have formed Decolorized Holy Grails anyway.
With the Divine Lords watching like hawks, the Prime Angel's chances of escaping were slim to begin with; it was better to seize the rewards of the Decolorized Holy Grail first.
"Decolorized Feather?"
When Yaxiu told Diya about the special reward of the Decolorized Holy Grail, Diya was not envious in the least. "The Time faction allows me more time to think and act in battle. Changing feather colors in the middle of fierce combat isn't difficult for me at all; I can alter the colors of my void wings at any moment to adapt to any combat situation."
Only then did Yaxiu remember that, aside from himself, every single operator in the party was a genius.
An automatic transmission made strictly for lazy people like the Decolorized Feather clearly wasn't suited for micro-management masters like them, who found even a manual transmission too easy to handle.
"By the way," Yaxiu remembered something. "When you finished forming your holy grail and were frozen in place, did the first person who touched you cause the grail's nectar to spill? Did they get struck by the decolorizing curse because of it?"
"What are you talking about?" Diya asked, completely bewildered. "What decolorization? What frozen in place?"
Yaxiu was dumbfounded too. After comparing notes, the two realized that the difficulty of forming a Rainbow Holy Grail and a Decolorized Holy Grail wasn't remotely on the same level.
Simply put, although Diya was also reconstructed by starlight and hunted down by the entire populace, she didn't need to hold the holy grail in both hands—the grail condensed automatically!
Do not underestimate this tiny difference: if the holy grail hadn't encumbered Feili, Feili would have been fully capable of defending herself, and Yaxiu could have led her to slaughter every single pursuer!
And it was precisely this difference in difficulty that confirmed for them that the Rainbow Holy Grail could help the Prime Angel escape—as long as you formed a Rainbow Holy Grail, you were a good friend to the Prime Angel, and once the Prime Angel broke free, it might even name you King of the Void Realm!
Once he realized this, Yaxiu felt like he had been swindled. Just for that extra 'Decolorized' option, he had been forced through a thrilling, heart-stopping adventure—and the adventure wasn't even over yet, because he still had to face the hidden boss: 'Sword Princess'...
Diya naturally had no idea what heinous crime Yaxiu had committed just moments ago. Even if she had known, she would only have used it as material to tease Sword Princess, and might even have wanted to reenact it with Yaxiu.
The last time Sword Princess locked her out and brazenly monopolized the bedroom for over ten minutes—the Witch still remembered that grudge.
Diya asked, "Yaxiu, how many of your sorcery spirits have been touched by divinity? All of my important ones are, and for us right now, this might be the most valuable treasure of all!"
"Divinity?" Yaxiu started. Looking inward at his soul, he finally noticed the changes in his sorcery spirits.
Important sorcery spirits like Heart Sword, Affection Sword, and Sword Mark now had wings shimmering with strange colors. Casting aside their usual quiet ignorance, they swam about vigorously within his soul.
They didn't fight each other; instead, they nuzzled up against one another. Even ordinary sorcery spirits they rubbed against grew slightly more active, making the atmosphere within his soul lighthearted and cheerful.
"When the holy grail's nectar flows into the soul, it leaves behind traces of divinity. After absorbing divinity, sorcery spirits not only grasp the sorcerer's intentions more easily, resonate more readily, and advance more smoothly, but their chances of undergoing metamorphosis into gods also increase dramatically!"
Diya said excitedly, "According to the Gospel, when a sorcery spirit transforms into a god, less than one percent of the progress comes from the spirit itself, while the remaining ninety-nine percent relies on the sorcerer's opportunities, talent, and effort to fill in. But a sorcery spirit possessing divinity will undergo metamorphosis spontaneously. When guided by a sorcerer, it can complete thirty percent of the progress on its own!"
With the sorcery spirit finishing thirty percent, that meant the sorcerer only had to complete the remaining seventy percent!
Yaxiu immediately grasped the true value of divinity—the difference between ninety-nine percent and seventy percent was like the difference between scoring ninety-nine points and seventy points!
Many people could score seventy points, but only the absolute top echelon could achieve ninety-nine!
These sorcery spirits infused with divinity had practically set one foot onto the threshold of gods!
If one used these sorcery spirits to condense a godhead and infuse concepts, the odds of creating a god would multiply countless times!
Of course, more importantly, having these divine sorcery spirits during the Hell trials would make it far easier to create a new god!
Yaxiu exhaled a long breath. The emergence of divine sorcery spirits finally relieved a bit of the crushing pressure of the Hell trials.
In the Hell trials, there had to be a god to endure the Fifth Hell, which was also the greatest obstacle in the trials. Aside from Harvey, neither Igola nor Yaxiu had any confidence they could create a god during the trials.
Now with divine sorcery spirits, at least... Igola should have confidence.
"Thank you," Yaxiu smiled. "It's fortunate I ran into you, or I wouldn't have understood the significance of these divine sorcery spirits at all."
"You must have felt completely lost without me by your side, huh?" Diya hummed smugly. "Even if the credit belongs to the Gospel, I'm the one who can accommodate the Gospel, so it counts as my achievement too!"
"It really felt strange, but not because of your abilities." Yaxiu shook his head. "I've long grown used to seeing you and Sword Princess every night. To me, you are already an indispensable, vital part of my life."
"So compared to practical functionality," Yinzhi said while gnawing on fried chicken up ahead, "what you care about more, Observer, is sexual functionality?"
"Give me a chicken bone," Yaxiu said.
"What do you want a chicken bone for?"
"To stab you to death with."
Diya suddenly asked, "Yinzhi, you look so much like me. Are you...?"
"Not really."
Yinzhi admitted unexpectedly, "I really am a projection of the First Gospel, but not of you. I'm a projection of the previous Yisu Empress—Ruiyin, was it?"
Yaxiu frowned. "The previous Yisu Empress never visited the Country of Stars."
"Are you sure?" Yinzhi blinked. "Void Realm passageways do exist in this world. Over several decades, do you really think the Gospel couldn't find a single Void Realm passage leading to the Stars?
"Speaking of which, I'm actually even more curious about the two of you. I never imagined a First Gospel could actually break free from the Gospel God's influence—not only possessing personal will, but even crossing nations for the sake of another person. That must be an extraordinary situation never anticipated when the First Gospel system was established."
Yinzhi tilted her head. "Still, what exactly is your relationship? Father and daughter? Brother and sister? But the Yisu Dynasty only has women, don't they?"
"We're lovers!" Diya jumped as if her tail had been stepped on.
"When you say that, do you even believe it yourself?" Yinzhi shook her head. "You can lie to me, but can you lie to yourself? In the way you look at him, there's admiration, dependence, adoration, trust... It's not that affection is absent, but it's not the primary color.
"Your feelings toward him..." Yinzhi wiped her lips with the back of her hand, the corners of her mouth curving slightly. "...aren't they a little strange?"
Chapter 922