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“I don’t want to do nothing and end up helplessly wailing on my deathbed.”

The king looked to the sky, his clouded pupils devoid of any luster.

“Who knows what kind of fate God has arranged for me?”

“A nightmare hell of eternal, unresolvable torment? Or an eternally cycling beautiful dream?”

“A choice between two – how thrilling!”

Little did the King of Yinsai know, his words were witnessed by God and His emissary.

The spirit didn’t understand. “Why do mortals always refuse to accept the lessons of failure, disregarding past tragedies?”

Yin Shen smiled. “If God tells mortals to die, will they willingly go to their deaths?”

“If God forbids mortals from pursuing power and immortality, can they restrain their greed and desires?”

The spirit remained silent. Having lived for so long, she vaguely understood.

Some desires and fears etched deep in the heart cannot be stopped by anything.

The spirit paused before asking again. “God,” the spirit asked, “is pursuing eternal life a good thing? Or is it a forbidden realm that mortals shouldn’t touch?”

Yin Shen replied, “If they can achieve immortality without bringing disaster, it’s their fortune.”

“If they bring catastrophe upon themselves in pursuit of immortality, it’s their own misfortune.”

Yin Shen didn’t voice the second half of his thought: “I don’t care either way.”

But mortals always touch powers they can’t control, and when punishment comes, they say, “It’s not that I couldn’t succeed, but that God wouldn’t let me succeed.”

They claim that God punished them because they were about to touch secrets belonging to the divine.

This way, they could make excuses for their own powerlessness and foolishness.

Fortune and misfortune are self-inflicted, unrelated to God—

In a small town several hundred miles from the Sacred Mountain and the Sky Temple.

A merchant caravan arrived in the town, causing a stir throughout.

This caravan had over a dozen large carts pulled by small stone monsters.

Most of the townspeople had only heard that in some big cities, priests and temples used monsters as tools to pull carts, but this was the first time they had seen monsters pulling carts to form a merchant caravan.

Because monsters couldn’t enter villages and towns, these carts could only stop outside the town.

The townspeople came out in groups, pointing and shouting at the small stone monsters.

“Monsters!”

“Are those really monsters?”

“Why aren’t they attacking people?”

“There must be a powerful figure in the caravan controlling them.”

“It must be a very powerful priest.”

Some mischievous children even dared to run up and touch the small stone monsters, earning a beating from the adults.

Many people from the caravan entered the town to rest, including the actual controller of this caravan.

In a dark room, windows and doors tightly shut.

Anhofus sat in a chair, with a flask in front of him.

There was no light in the room, but the flask itself emitted a faint silver glow, just enough to illuminate the area around the table.

Inside the flask was imprisoned a small figure made of bones, looking very similar to a Trilobite Man. It was entirely constructed of bones, its tiny body containing powerful energy.

More terrifyingly, it could speak.

It possessed intelligence.

“You go as soon as the king calls you. Do you want to gain power?”

“I didn’t realize you were also someone who pursued pleasure and desire.”

“You’ve been a hermit in the wilderness outside Yinsai for so long. Have you finally become impatient?”

The small bone figure seemed a bit talkative but clearly didn’t fear Anhofus.

It was a monster that had signed a Spirit Realm Covenant with Anhofus. It obeyed Anhofus’s orders, and Anhofus paid a price.

Anhofus smiled. “For people like us, what meaning does power have?”

“Just like the Sage of Truth Lan from the Temple of Truth, even if the King of Yinsai offered him the throne, he wouldn’t want it.”

The bone figure asked, “Then why are you so obedient, running back from the border as soon as the king summons you?”

Anhofus replied, “I’m pursuing the power of immortality.”

The bone figure questioned, “You want immortality?”

Anhofus explained, “I’m not pursuing the power of immortality for the sake of living forever. I don’t fear death.”

“I won’t be like my grandfather or the current King of Yinsai.”

“Trembling in the face of death, exposing their ugliness.”

“A truly powerful person should first possess a strong heart, have lofty goals, and then pursue what they want with fearlessness.”