Lu Ran teleported back to the small courtyard at Luoxian Residence. Looking up at the towering Divine Idol, he finally voiced the doubt in his heart. "Do so-called gods grow old and die too?"
No voice transmission came in reply.
Only the breeze swept through the forest, carrying the rustle of leaves.
Risking a reprimand, Lu Ran cautiously asked, "Immortal Sheep?"
[What is lifespan?] A deep voice suddenly descended.
Lu Ran opened his mouth, but for a moment, he was at a loss for words.
[For a stone idol, lifespan is the gathering and dispersal of Origin Qi.]
The gathering and dispersal of Origin Qi?
The Immortal Sheep said indifferently, [Gods and devils cannot escape the cycle of birth, growth, peak, and decline. The longer a stone idol exists, the harder it becomes for it to draw in energy.]
Lu Ran nodded thoughtfully.
[Your subordinates have only just become gods and devils, so they have yet to feel this bitterness.]
Bitterness?
It was difficult to imagine those two words being used to describe the arrogant, invincible gods and devils.
[When a wisp of Holy Spirit Qi descends from the heavens, your subordinates' stone idols can absorb it completely.]
[Yet when that same wisp of Holy Spirit Qi falls into the hands of gods and devils, they may only draw two or three tenths of its energy. The vast majority will go to waste.]
[As time passes, the proportion of energy that gods and devils can absorb will grow smaller and smaller. Until, at a certain moment, they can no longer obtain energy at all, and their lives enter a countdown.]
Immortal Sheep rarely spoke at such length. In the end, it added with a cold sneer:
[At that point, the amount of energy stored within gods and devils will determine