1200 Thief

The True Gods.

Thanks to Shen Jing, Godslayer, and the beasts from the Beast Realm, Alex had come to learn a bit about the True Gods.

They were two real gods, unlike the false gods that were simply called such. They were the ones that were responsible for blessing the 4 divine beasts and creating the 3 demonic plants.

He couldn't be sure which god was responsible for which, but he could guess. He saw Scarlet and remembered how she mentioned the feeling she got from him. That and the fact that her body favored the sun more than anything.

If what Alex had heard just now was correct, along with every bit of information he had, then it would be correct of him to assume that the god that had blessed the Heavenly Beasts was the Sun God.

Alex couldn't help but gulp in surprise and shock.

"M-my body… is that of a True God?" he asked.

"More of a mere imitation," the man said. "The Sun God disappeared, but the impression he left behind in the world did not. As such, from time to time, people would be born with an imitation of their body."

"Most of those would be of a quality that was nothing to speak of, but you were born with one that could be considered to be one of the best imitations of the Sun God's body. Good enough to be considered a divine grade body."

"And then you somehow evolved it," the man said with clear amazement in his eyes. "That's an entirely different problem that I have to deal with somehow."

"It's a problem that that I evolved my body?" Alex asked.

"It would be depending on your character, but from what I've seen and what I've heard, you are very much not problematic at all," he said. "Had you instead been someone who let their power get to their head, I would've killed you the moment you walked in here. Something like the Sun God's body cannot be allowed in the hands of someone who would only misuse it."

Alex took a step back out of sheer instinct.

"Don't worry," the man said. "As I mentioned, you are more than good enough to have a power like that. In fact, I had happy that you grew up to be who you are today. The problem I talked about has nothing to do with your body, but rather how you evolved it."

"I… ate the Yang fruit," Alex said.

"You ate the Nine Yang Divine fruit," the man said.

Alex's eyes went wide. He quickly turned to Scarlet in the distance who wasn't paying attention to them at all. 'Did she tell him? We were supposed to be keeping it a secret, weren't we?'

"Why are you looking toward the phoenix?" the man asked.

"Nothing," Alex quickly said. "Nine Yang Divine fruit… that's the name of the fruit I ate?"

"Yes," the man said with a sigh. "I thought it would be fine leaving it be here, but who knew someone like you would come around to consume it for yourself? Urgh, I shouldn't have stolen it. I'm an idiot."

Hao Ya was surprised to hear her master call himself an idiot.

Alex was surprised as well, but for completely different reasons. "Wait… senior, what do you mean by you stole it? Were you the one that brought the tree here?"

"Urgh! Don't remind me, please. I hope master can save me from this somehow," he said. "I would've been fine if the plant was still alive, but now that it's dead… urgh."

Alex couldn't believe what he was seeing. The senior that seemed greater than heaven was crouching in front of him with his head in his arms. He stared for quite a while before quickly shaking his head.

"So you were the one who brought the plant here? I had assumed it had come with the meteor shower," Alex said.

"Huh? Meteor shower? What's that about?" Hao Ya asked.

"Oh, about a thousand or more years ago in the Western continent, there was a night when the sky was lit up with meteors that fell from the sky. What they assumed were meteors at the time actually turned out to be precious weapons, tools, books, plants, etc. I had thought that the plant whose fruit I ate had come in that shower as well, but it seems it was senior who brought it here instead," Alex said.

"Oh," Hao Ya said with a blank face before turning to her master and back to Alex. "Actually, you are correct. That plant did come in that event you call the meteor shower."

"Huh?" Alex looked at her weirdly. "But your master said—"

"My master… is the one who caused that meteor shower," Hao Ya said.

"WHAT!?"

Alex was hearing so many surprising things today that he felt like he needed a pill to calm his heart before it failed.

"Senior was the reason behind the Meteor shower?" Alex asked.

"Oh, that. Uh, yeah, it was me," the man said.

"How did that happen?" Alex asked.

"Well, I was trying to run away from my master's place after stealing everything from there but was caught at the last second before I could teleport somewhere else. My master tried to pull out everything I had in my storage and she did manage to do it, but I also managed to activate the formation to take me to a random realm."

"At the same time, I took the items with me as I teleported away, and when I came here, they were out of my control, thrown everywhere in this world where I was not welcome. I was also hurt, so I spent my time in hiding here, healing myself."

"I never knew the mortals referred to my disaster as a meteor shower," the man said with laughter in his voice.

The man turned around to see Alex's shocked expression. "Don't be too surprised, I heard something similar happened to you too. I heard you were teleporting with quite a few items when you hit the Qi wall here and had to lose everything," he said.

"I did," Alex said blankly. "Senior, you stole stuff from your master?"

"Yes," the man said straightforwardly before realizing what he had said. "Wait, I'm not a thief. I just stole stuff."

Alex's eyes narrowed.

"No, I mean I stole, but profiting from the stealing was not my intention. It was meant for something bigger, something grander than I or the things I stole," the man said. "I had good reasons to steal those items."

"I don't doubt you, senior," Alex said with a bow.

"You don't trust me, do you?" the man said. "Of course, why would you? I wouldn't trust me either."

"No, no," Alex said quickly. "I'm sure you had reasons, senior. I don't doubt your words. I'm simply wondering what reasons they could be to force a disciple to steal his master's stuff."

"No, not my master's stuff. I wouldn't dare," the man quickly said. "I only stole what my master was safekeeping in her place. They didn't belong to her at all, but rather the entire human race."

Alex's eyes narrowed when he heard that. "Your master's place held items that belonged to the entire human race?" he asked in surprise. "Where is this place?"

The man gave a smug look. "It's a realm known as the Sky God's Palace. My master is the current Sky God."