She Li nodded. Before leaving, he looked at Chen Cheng and said:
"Your Majesty, please make preserving yourself your foremost priority. If anything truly happens to us, I hope Your Majesty will think of the Continent's many subjects, cast aside thoughts of grief and revenge, and return to preside over the greater situation."
This time, Chen Cheng was no longer agitated. He merely said calmly:
"Before that happens, I will do everything in my power. I hope you will do the same."
She Li's consciousness projection departed, and for some reason, Chen Cheng felt a strange sense of loss in his heart.
At that moment, Kui Niu stepped forward within the Divine Kingdom and respectfully pressed his hands together in salute toward Chen Cheng.
"Why does Your Majesty feel so despondent over this? As we sit and gaze upon this Reincarnation River, the birth and death of all living things are naturally part of Heaven's cycle. She Li and the others are merely one lifetime within such reincarnation.
"If Your Majesty is powerful enough, why fear life, death, and reincarnation? You may simply fish in the river of reincarnation and, as you did for this subject, forcibly pull those you care about from the cycle of silent extinction."
After hearing Kui Niu's words, Chen Cheng suddenly realized that, at some point, his state of mind had changed from his former bold drive to forge ahead into rigidly clinging to old ways.
Just as Kui Niu had said, Chen Cheng had witnessed Kui Niu's death back then, yet he had been able to defy the Reincarnation Law and pull him out of reincarnation, giving birth to the Ghost Race in this world.
So what if She Li and the others truly died now? He could simply fish them out once more,