The Empress's Ending! Dust to Dust! (Requesting Monthly Votes)

After hearing Shen Lang's words, Empress Medusa instead fell quiet.

Then the two of them sank into silence.

"You came from over there?" Empress Medusa asked.

The "over there" she spoke of was the Ten Thousand Li Great Desert, yet those two words alone revealed many secrets.

In ancient times, there had only been two empires—one on land, one at sea—so simply saying "over there" had been enough.

"Yes," Shen Lang said.

"Did you see him? No, did you see that totem?" Empress Medusa asked.

The "him" she referred to was the Human-faced Snake Body Gazing Sky Totem. Empress Medusa had initially called it him, then immediately denied it, because in her heart, perhaps there had only ever been one person worthy of that word: Crown Prince Jiang Xie, her lover and her enemy.

"I saw it. Its Overbearing Aura was unparalleled," Shen Lang said.

"Did you try looking it in the eye?" Empress Medusa asked.

Shen Lang shook his head. "That was an act. I did not truly meet its gaze."

"It is the only totem that has fulfilled its duty," Empress Medusa said.

Those words also contained immense meaning. In other words, she believed that she herself had been an unworthy totem.

"Shen Lang, what do you think a god should be like?" Empress Medusa asked.

"Filled with great love, yet without sentiment. Never answer any believer's prayers, yet protect the entire race," Shen Lang said.

"A god should remain on its pedestal forever, becoming a statue and never descending from the divine altar. Once it descends, its invincible golden body is destroyed. Even if people curse it, even if people spit upon it, it must never descend from the altar," Empress Medusa said.

Shen Lang felt that these words made great sense, yet he could not truly