I will eventually become a divine being through accumulating constantly

Xue Jing\'s mouth twitched, and he directly used the Shadow Flame to manifest a palm and slapped her on the head with a crisp smack.

"What are you thinking, that\'s so low."

Xue Jing said helplessly.

Xue Wan clutched her slapped head and looked at the Shadow Flame hand floating beside her, blinking.

"What is this?"

Xue Jing crossed his arms and placed them under his chin, "Sis, let\'s lay the cards on the table."

"I am a Blessed One too!"

Xue Wan\'s eyes widened, "You too...?"

"How could this be..."

She murmured to herself.

Being a Blessed One is a very dangerous profession; one must live in constant fear of contamination and transformation, never knowing when they will lose themselves and turn into a monster.

Engaging with this hidden world is extremely dangerous, what with the friction between different factions, the hunts led by that half-official organization of lunatics, and the competition for the limited spots in the \'ladder\'—it wasn\'t just a matter of life and death.

The last thing she wanted was for her family members to be dragged into this world.

But her most cherished younger brother... had also become a Blessed One.

Xue Wan had no doubt about what Xue Jing said. The Dark Flame hand floating beside her was the best proof, it was clearly a \'non-standard\' power, not something ordinary people could control.

Her expression turned serious, and she asked:

"Jing, which faction conducted the blessing ceremony for you? Which Heretic God blessed you?"

Xue Jing blinked, revealing the explanation he had just made up.

"There was no faction. Actually, I don\'t even know why I became a Blessed One."

"All I know is, the Heretic God that blessed me, its name is..."

"—The Lord of No Face and Thousand Faces."

Xue Jing slowly said.

This name... he had fabricated it.

He had just thought it up.

The exposure of his Divine Skill was inevitable, so he had to find a convincing explanation for the source of his power.

And given the might and unreasonableness of Divine Skills, only the equally illogical power of a Heretic God could explain it.

Therefore, he decided to present himself as a Blessed One!

So, what kind of Heretic God\'s blessing should a Blessed One have to explain the multitude of abilities he possessed?

Right now, it was just the Shadow Flame and Plant Pact that were obvious, but he was sure to activate even more Divine Skills in the future.

He would need to come up with new explanations then—so he might as well establish one that could cover everything from the start.

So, he invented a non-existent Heretic God—The Lord of No Face and Thousand Faces.

\'No Face\' meant that this god didn\'t actually exist and had no true form.

\'Thousand Faces\', on the other hand, was to provide an explanation for the many abilities he would possess.

A god with a thousand appearances, a thousand abilities, but in reality did not exist, without a true form.

This was—The Lord of No Face and Thousand Faces.

"The Lord of No Face and Thousand Faces?" Xue Wan looked thoughtful and then shook her head.

"Never heard of it..."

Xue Jing kept a straight face, "That\'s not surprising, there are so many Heretic Gods, you can\'t possibly know them all."

After pausing, he continued:

"In fact, I only became a Blessed One not long ago. I don\'t know much about it. Even the fact that a Blessed One can be contaminated and transformed was something I learned from that woman just now."

"Also—"

Before Xue Jing could finish, Xue Wan interrupted him with a surprised voice.

"Wait, Jing, are you saying that you became a Blessed One without going through a ceremony, and you don\'t even know why?"

Xue Jing blinked, "That\'s right."

Xue Wan looked thoughtful, murmuring, "Could it be, a Natural Gifted One... a Divine Chosen."

Xue Jing uttered a noise of confusion, "Divine Chosen? What\'s that now?"

The thing he\'d made up for convenience, did it really correspond with something else?

Xue Wan shook her head and said, "I\'m not too clear on the specifics either, I just happened to hear my mentor mention this concept."

"Normally, the Blessed Ones \'choose their god\', where individuals curry favor with deities, offering up their faith and conducting a blessing ceremony for the deity to respond to, thus becoming Blessed Ones."

"However, Natural Gifted Ones are different, it\'s \'the god chooses the person\'. When a deity sees someone they fancy, they condescend to select them, bestowing upon them Divine Power and thereby they are called \'Divine Chosen\'."

"According to my mentor, there are no more than twenty Natural Gifted Ones in the entire world."

Xue Jing nodded and said, "Sounds very impressive."

"It is impressive, indeed. Such Chosen, without needing to undergo a ceremony, without considering the struggle for a \'rung\' on the ladder, without the trouble of pollution and mutation, will naturally \'ascend\' and become stronger over time..."

A worried expression emerged in Xue Wan\'s eyes.

"But there is one problem."

"All the Divine Chosen will vanish without a trace at some point, an event known as the \'Phenomenon of Divine Disappearance\'."

"The reasons for their disappearance remain unknown, where they have gone, or even a pattern to the timing of these disappearances—it\'s all a mystery."

"The longest any Divine Chosen has been present in the world is forty-six years."

Xue Wan brought her thumbnail to her mouth, biting down on it with her neat silver teeth.

"If you were a Divine Chosen, then..."

Xue Jing patted her shoulder, comforting her, "Don\'t worry, who can predict the future, right?"

He hadn\'t expected that this statement would inadvertently add a psychological burden to Xue Wan.

But now, he could only continue with the mistake... He couldn\'t possibly reveal the existence of the Skill Panel, could he?

It was his deepest secret, something he would never reveal, not even to family.

"Let\'s set aside my problem for now and focus on yours," Xue Jing said gently.

"My problem?" Xue Wan asked, perplexed.

Xue Jing asked, "Where is your Stigmata?"

"Uhh..." Xue Wan showed a hint of embarrassment.

Seeing her like this, Xue Jing raised an eyebrow and said, "Don\'t tell me, it\'s in a sensitive spot?"

If that were the case, it would indeed be troubling...

"Not exactly."

Xue Wan hesitated for a moment, then bit her lip and lifted her top slightly to reveal her slender waist.

Xue Jing looked and found something unusual at her navel.

A red octahedron gemstone, resembling a belly button piercing, dangled from her slender and attractive belly button due to her slim figure.

Though it looked pretty, it gave off a rather flamboyant and cheap vibe.

After only showing Xue Jing for a moment, Xue Wan immediately pulled her clothes down, her face flushing:

"Okay, okay, stop looking."

It was rather embarrassing to show this strange Stigmata to her own younger brother.

Xue Jing shook his head, lifted her clothes again, exposing the delicate waist and navel.

"What are you doing!"

Xue Wan\'s eyes widened.

"I am your sister, your real sister!"

Xue Jing rolled his eyes, "Can you not think that way? What could I possibly do to you?"

"Just now, I tested out an ability from \'The Lord of No Face and Thousand Faces\' on that woman from your group, one that can solve your pollution mutation issue."

"Alright, don\'t move, let me take a look!"

Off to the side, Miao Miao, who had been spectating since the beginning, looked on with a blatantly personified speechlessness.

"Fine, just look, but why be so harsh to me..." Xue Wan muttered and ceased struggling, allowing herself to be checked as she turned her face away.

Xue Jing held up the hem of her shirt with one hand and with a fingertip of the other hand touched the red gemstone-like Stigmata.

[Divine Substance detected, absorbing Divinity...]

"How does it feel?" Xue Jing inquired.

Xue Wan closed her eyes to feel carefully and then said:

"It\'s like... something is being drawn out of me."

...

(Sorry for the late update, there\'s one more chapter that I\'m writing. For readers who are still up, go to sleep, don\'t wait, and read it when you wake up tomorrow.)