Chapter 214: Naked Prayer Beneath Clashing Goddesses

The Goddess of Nature is the deity who governs the natural world and its guardian.

She often appears with a kind, warm, and beautiful visage, wearing a long dress woven from vines and petals. Beneath the dress she wears nothing at all, making her one of the most sacred beings in the hearts of humankind.

She guides people to live in harmony with nature, protecting and sustaining the balance of the entire natural world. From the movement of weather above to the distribution of fish and shrimp below, all fall within her domain. Under her protection, all things flourish and grow, and the world is filled with vitality and hope.

“You’re saying all this, and I understand, but why do I have to take mine off?” Bai Yueling asked in confusion.

“Because the Lady Goddess prefers followers who are willing to have ‘intimate’ contact with nature,” Sistana said with a smile. “When praying, if you want to receive the Lady Goddess’s blessing, it’s best to remove your clothes.”

“I still feel like you’re deliberately tricking me…” Bai Yueling’s face was full of suspicion. “Then when you usually pray to the Goddess of Nature, do you also take yours off?”

“Usually not. But if there is something important and you urgently need the Lady Goddess’s response, then yes,” Sistana said with a smile. “I’m not deceiving you. For thousands of years, our Church of Nature has always done things this way.”

Hearing this, Bai Yueling hugged herself and stepped back two paces.

So what Xiqianla said before was true. In the Church of Nature, not only do many people go without underwear, many don’t wear anything at all.

To actually encourage such a bizarre rule within one’s own church—just what kind of person is that Goddess of Nature?

Bai Yueling narrowed her eyes at the statue of the Goddess of Nature and asked again, “Then are there requirements for the prayer posture?”

“Of course—the most devout posture,” Sistana’s smile grew even brighter. “Just like when you prayed to the Goddess of Judgment before—prostration.”

“Guh?”

Wouldn’t that mean completely naked prostration?

Not long ago I personally watched Second Princess Xuelong do this, and now it’s my turn?

The more happily I laughed then, the more miserably I’ll cry now.

Bai Yueling’s pretty face flushed slightly. Looking at Huilian and Cuinifu behind her, whose faces were full of anticipation, she said somewhat awkwardly, “C-could it be more private?”

At this, Cuinifu frankly raised her right hand. “No, I want to watch… Eh, Lady Huilian, what are you doing?”

“Cuinifu, we shouldn’t disturb Xiao Bai. It’s too impolite.”

With that, Huilian forcibly pulled Cuinifu out and closed the main door behind them.

Watching the two leave, Bai Yueling let out a breath. “Whew… Lady Huilian really is an upright and kind girl. Unlike some older sisters, acting like a pervert.”

Sistana smiled and asked, “Are you calling me a pervert?”

“N-no! Mama isn’t an outsider anyway, so it’s no big deal if you look…”

It’s not like you haven’t seen before.

Bai Yueling slowly walked to the statue of the Goddess of Nature and removed her equipment. Wearing only a “Verdant Crown,” she revealed a delicate, fair body with a soft blush. Her peach-shaped little tail hung naturally between her legs, swaying slightly from nervousness.

The slime tactfully detached and wriggled into the corner.

Bai Yueling took a deep breath and slowly knelt down, assuming the most devout posture just as she did in past prayers.

Behind her, Sistana merely glanced at Bai Yueling before fixing her gaze on the statue of the Goddess of Nature. The gentleness in her eyes had already vanished, replaced by seriousness and solemnity.

As Bai Yueling prayed, brilliant emerald light burst from the statue’s eyes. The light was gentle and sacred, filled with a rich aura of nature.

A ray of sunlight happened to shine through the glass window. On the wooden floor illuminated by the sun, tender green sprouts broke through the surface one by one, as if joyfully dancing. A breeze suddenly stirred in the room, carrying the sound of ocean waves, as though the Goddess of Nature were whispering beside her ear.

A sacred gaze descended from the distant heavens, shining in with the sunlight, watching the adorable girl praying to her. The goddess’s gaze was warm and gentle. Bathed in sunlight, Bai Yueling felt an unprecedented calm and peace.

So this is the Goddess of Nature? So gentle, like warm sunlight in winter.

Her tense breathing gradually calmed, and she quietly enjoyed the comfort bestowed by the Goddess of Nature.

But at that moment, her delicate body suddenly trembled. Another gaze likewise descended from the heavens onto her, coincidentally meeting the Goddess of Nature’s.

Oh no—it’s the gaze of the Goddess of Judgment!

The two gazes paused slightly, as if neither had realized the other would take time from their busy duties to stare at such a white-haired, big-breasted girl.

But soon, the gazes of the two goddesses became as sharp as blades and collided fiercely, erupting with world-shaking sparks.

Rumble!

The originally calm sky suddenly split apart. A deafening thunderbolt struck straight toward the forest cathedral. Dark clouds instantly gathered into a massive vortex. Gale winds howled, as if heralding the end of days.

The citizens of the royal capital looked up in terror and confusion, unable to understand why the clear blue sky had suddenly turned stormy.

Inside the prayer room, Sistana was abruptly startled, her expression becoming unprecedentedly grave.

She opened the door and said to Cuinifu and Huilian outside, “You two, get away from here at once!”

Huilian and Cuinifu were briefly stunned. Then they felt two immensely powerful pressures descend from the sky, as if the entire firmament were pressing down, nearly suffocating them, as though their bones might be crushed.

“W-what’s happening?” Cuinifu trembled in fright, at a complete loss.

Huilian quickly pulled her into an embrace, her expression solemn. “I don’t know, but we should follow Lady Sistana’s instructions.”

“Mmm…” Cuinifu nodded, then asked, “But what about Xiao Bai?”

Before the statue, Bai Yueling still maintained her prayer posture, completely motionless, as if frozen stiff.

What’s happening?

Bai Yueling herself was utterly bewildered. She could only obediently keep her little hips raised under the gaze of the two goddesses, not daring to move at all.

In her mind, Alisa cursed softly, “This is bad… That green worrywart and that crazy hag are clashing up in the sky. We can only wait until they decide a winner.”

The Goddess of Nature and the Goddess of Judgment are clashing?

With her mind full of nonsense, Bai Yueling quickly misunderstood the word “clashing,” subconsciously imagining a suggestive scene. Her body trembled again, and she hurriedly apologized in her mind: Sorry, Lady Goddesses, I didn’t mean it.

At the same time, the slime silently condensed itself into a sphere the size of a ping-pong ball, shrinking into the darkest corner of the room and chanting in its mind: Don’t see me, don’t see me, don’t see me.

The terrifying vortex hovered above the royal capital, spinning and condensing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Countless bolts of lightning lashed down like serpents. Deafening thunder echoed in every corner, as though the sky itself were in a frenzy.

After a thousand years, the stage of the World of Fate once again hosted a duel between goddesses.

And at the very center of the storm, the white-haired, big-breasted girl still maintained her prayer posture, lamenting in her heart: Spare me.