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Emerging from the light was a figure of stunning beauty and slender grace. Her allure was exquisite and tempting, her eyes as distant as the sky yet sharp with severity. She wore a simple white garment with golden trim that, to Xu Zong's eyes, seemed little different from a few strips of cloth, revealing swathes of her pale skin—what one might loosely call a dress.

This woman was indeed breathtaking, almost divine in her beauty—of course, she was indeed a true deity.

Considered the embodiment of Venus, the goddess of beauty who presided over agriculture, war, fertility, and love, her name was Ishtar, and she was the most favored among the gods.