The platinum-haired man with ruby eyes, clapping, says: "That was incredible. For a little bit, I thought I could have intervened. Thanks to you awakening your bloodline, now I don't have to."
Isabella sees the man a little suspiciously and says: "Who are you?"
The man laughs a bit and says: "You can know after this. Now follow me and take this."
The man gives Isabella a little box. Isabella, with a surprised face, takes the box because she can recognize the pattern on it. The man, seeing this, says: "This is the gift of your grandpa. This part normally only can create a copy by scanning you. But your grandpa and your special soul, the Sky Lion Soul, wanted to replace the will of the copy. I thought this could be a good challenge for you, so I let them do it."
The man nods his head and says: "Now, thinking better, you really saved me. I have to thank you for awakening your bloodline. If it weren't for that, I think my older brother couldn't forgive me for eternity."
Then the man turns around and says: "Quickly, let's move, we need to go."
Isabella, confused, is still sitting on the floor. The platinum-haired man lets out a sigh and says: "You don't have energy? Then take this."
He extends his hand and does a quick sweep with it. Then Isabella recovers all of her energy and injuries. Now she is even more confused, but the man is making signals very impatiently.
Isabella can only choose to follow the man.
...
The man guides her through various buildings of the temple. This temple is really big. The ancient writings about it mention that it is divided into five layers: the exterior temple, the great forest, the true temple, the interior temple, and the core. They are walking in the exterior temple. She doesn't know where this guy is guiding her, because the ancestors say that if you pass with the maximum score, you have to go to the core temple quickly and directly to the secret room to choose one of the godly treasures left by the Supreme God of the Beasts.
But this guy is not going into the internal part, he is only walking through the exterior. The strangest thing is that this guy knows this place so well that he is moving like he has a map in his mind, where he has to turn around, where he has to go through a door or climb the stairs, and where to descend. This exterior part is like a labyrinth, but he doesn't care about that.
Until they arrive at a reunion chamber for the priestesses and priests, Isabella couldn't help but think how glorious and magnificent the sight of this chamber full of believers must have been at that time.
While she is lost in her thoughts, he touches a lamp on a wall. Next, the wall made of energy rock blocks moves like it were nothing, revealing an alternative entrance to a...
A bathroom. That alternative route goes through a bathroom. This guy goes until the end of the bathroom and looks at Isabella, making signs for her to come. She shakes her head and says: "I am not going to enter into a bathroom with you."
The guy looks at her as if his jaw is going to detach and says: "I don't pursue the woman of my brother, what the fuck are you insinuating, young lady? Not only am I not that type of man, but also my wife and my brother can kill me."
After saying that, the guy touches an artifact incrusted in the wall. Again, another path is revealed in front of Isabella, although she is now embarrassed.
The platinum-haired man moves his hand, making again a sign to Isabella to come. Isabella this time listens to him and goes behind him. Both walk through a secret path. The corridor has many, so many inscriptions shining on the walls.
And it is in this moment the guy starts speaking to her, now in a more calm tone, and says: "You're something, girl. Normally I don't make exceptions. Sorry, I can sound very cruel, but you don't have enough talent for me to go for you. But since you, with only pure willpower, climbed those stairs, I thought to give you a look."
Isabella says: "So, you started looking at me in the sixth part? Why? Are you the one who rescued me?"
The guy nods and says: "Although I only intervened from my room, I only came to you in the last part to see you fighting. For a moment I thought you could die. Sorry about that, but the heirs of the temple need to be people with very high talent, especially with the remaining danger of the Feilou Clan from outside and inside of the universe."
Isabella doesn't know what the Feilou clan is or what the heir is talking about, but she hears everything he says. Then both arrive at a room filled with statues. Isabella doesn't know much about inscriptions, artifacts, or medicines, but she can say with high confidence that all of these statues are artifacts made to kill intruders of high level, very high level. Also, each statue is part of a formation.
The guy touches an orb on a pedestal. The orb activates the formation, illuminating the room, and the sound of something opening starts. The floor moves and reveals something that resembles a mausoleum coming up from underground, with stairs going all the way down to a door. The door is imposing, and the images of a dragon and tigers are shown on the exterior. She can recognize both of them: one is Feicui Long's dragon form, and the other is Fernandez Velazques, the Supreme God of the Beasts.
The guy touches both images, and they start to radiate. Then the sound of the door opening begins. Isabella quickly follows the guy underground.
...
After both of them enter, the guy lets out a sigh of relief and says: "Now, we can speak here. Make your questions, then I make mine."
Isabella's first question to the guy is: "Who are you?"
The guy answers very calmly: "You already know my identity, you should say it."
Isabella, confused, says: "Are you a beast guarding this temple?"
The guy shakes his head and then points to a tiger statue.
Isabella, even more confused, says: "You are a priest?"
The guy starts to lose his patience: "I'm the one that gave that bloodline to your ancestor. I'm the one who gifted everything to him, so he, a very poor human, could grow in strength thanks to his resolution."
Isabella, still confused, says: "But the one who gave the Sky Lion bloodline to the ancestor is the Supreme God of the Beasts..."
The platinum-haired man, very frustrated, touches his forehead and says: "It seems my brother still has very peculiar tastes in women..."
Isabella's eyes illuminate and she asks another question: "That's it, you keep saying, your brother, your brother. Who is this brother? Also, what relation does he have with me? Because you say your brother is going to kill you or that I'm the woman of your brother. My husband is Feicui Long, not your brother."
The guy calms down, letting out another sigh: "That's because my brother is Feicui Long, it's that easy."
Isabella says: "But you don't look like a member of the Feicui clan..."
Finally, Isabella connects the dots and screams: "Y-you... you are the Supreme God of the Beasts! That's why you call Feicui Long older brother and know this temple, even my ancestor!"
Isabella then adds: "But... you are dead. How could you... you reincarnated as Feicui Long?"
He answers that: "Of course, I'm dead. What you see here is only a fragment of my soul I left, one of the many to protect the secret temples, so I could pick up an heir."
Isabella, visibly sad, says: "But your soul survived, no?"
He replies: "I don't know, I prepared this before my death with the help of my brother Feicui Long."
Isabella sighs sadly and says: "Can you tell me about that heir and how did you know I was Feicui Long's partner?"
He nods and begins explaining: "Both of the questions are really simple. The heir is the one who is going to inherit my divine authority and become the new Supreme God of the Beasts Clan. The second is easy. When I observed you in the sixth part of the trial, I could sense something familiar. That's another of the reasons I was watching you in the seventh part."
Then he points to Isabella's ring, the one Feicui Long gifted to her, the one that identifies the Supreme God of Dragon and Power, the Supreme God of Time, and the Supreme God of Space.
After this, he says: "Sister-in-law, you can't carry something like that and think someone won't recognize it. But more importantly, can you answer some of my questions? After that, I'm going to do something for you."
Isabella nods in approbation.
Fernando asks the first question: "How is the world doing outside? Since your ancestor doesn't visit me anymore, I deduce he has fallen, the same for your family. Although I can sense your adoration from here, so how is my world doing, my sanctuary?"
Isabella sighs very melancholically. She doesn't know how to explain this to her god, the one she believes in. Although since she found out Feicui Long's identity more than a month ago, she shouldn't have a problem dealing with a god, but this is different because Isabella still believes in him.
After debating in her head, she says: "Bad, my lord. Very bad. Adolf and the other Supreme Gods betrayed Feicui Long and the remaining independent Supreme Gods. Also, Adolf launched a full extermination effort against the mortal races, and since they found this world, they besieged the mortal races and even divided the Beasts Clan into three parts..."
Fernandez puts on a face of resignation and says: "Stupid bastard Adolf. I always suspected him. Although I supported Aionios in the war between them, I doubted killing him, so as not to hurt the heart of my big brother."
Subsequently, he asks another question: "How did you conquer the heart of my brother? Tell me, I want to know. I thought he was never going to try to marry again since that monster of a woman left him hanging in the marriage."
Thinking of the image of that elf woman, who has the same combat power as him with that perverse mind, who can make strategies and complex tactics like it's nothing, makes him shake a little bit, even though he has no body.
Isabella responds, saying: "I forced him, partially, but our relationship grew bigger with time."
Fernando laughs loudly: "HAHAHAHAHA, that is in his character. For some reason, he always attracts strange women."
Isabella blushes because of the mockery, but also because she didn't say the whole truth.
After stopping laughing, Fernando asks his last question: "Do you know how my brother is doing? Has he mentioned me or how he reacted about me or the other brothers? I'm worried that clumsy, serious and strict big brother of mine couldn't handle it, even more with the disappearance of the master..."
Isabella awkwardly smiles and begins telling him everything that happened to Feicui Long.
...
After several minutes.
Fernando says: "My poor big brother, this has been hitting his heart non-stop. He not only lost his life, but also everything he once had, even his precious little sister and brothers."
Isabella smiles even more awkwardly because she hasn't finished the story, so she adds: "That is not the only bad thing. I'm worried about him. He is a little cold with me... no, he is cold with everyone. Even with Mariane, it's like, in Mariane's words, he can sense nothing at all."
Then Fernando opens his eyes in terror and says: "Why, brother? Why would you do that to yourself... that thing you... I need to prepare something."
He invites Isabella deeper into the room.
...
In another place, three days have passed. Feicui Long and his heart finally can't support this anymore. Even with the warning from Isabella's great uncle's family, he enters with extreme caution, jumping over the holes of each formation, avoiding entering the trial. He needs to rescue and take Isabella with him.