"Eh?"
The two of them gaped in stunned silence for a full minute.
They were even wondering whether this young Bishop was so inexperienced that he'd forgotten the part about kissing the right hand.
After all, even they, as foreigners, knew the rules of the Holy Cultivator Guild. In the Holy Cultivator Guild, the right hand is considered sacred, and kissing it carries a specific theological symbolism: it expresses respect and reverence for the ecclesiastical authority and divine power that the Bishop represents.
"Never fail to show reverence to the divine"—he had said those words himself.
Just at that moment—
Ashu's gaze, cast down upon them, flickered with a barely concealed mockery.
"That will do. Rise. My god has already perceived your devotion."
At those words,
