"The waters of the Great Thousand World run deep. After I first arrived here, I set up a few little mechanisms beyond its borders. By the time I found you, they had already been hunting you for a long time."
"As for your sisters, Mu Yao and Mu Youwei, I could tell that their souls did not belong to this world, so I never made things difficult for them."
With that, Fu Ye raised his eyes to Zhou Yuan. The expression on Zhou Yuan's face had become especially complicated.
"What about Yao Yao? You must have known her true identity long ago, right?"
Fu Ye shook his head. "What difference would it make whether I knew or not? She dragged her last sliver of a broken body to find me. I couldn't simply stand by and let her lose the last trace of her consciousness."
"Besides, hadn't she already died once? She stayed by my side, and I never treated her poorly."
Hearing this, Zhou Yuan lowered his head.
"Sometimes, events unfold beyond one's expectations. The Great Thousand World possesses its own Plane Will. If you want to break through to the realm of a First Sequence God here, you can only do so with its help."
"But once you rely on the Great Thousand World to break through to that realm, you will become completely bound to it."
"All I can say is that while the Great Thousand World is good, it is not as good as it appears on the surface."
"It treats every living being willing to coexist peacefully with it equally, but it also places shackles upon the lives within it."
With that said, Fu Ye rose to leave.
But just as he was about to depart, Zhou Yuan called out to him.
"Lord Fu Ye,