Seeking profit and avoiding harm was only human nature.
With that Exploration World having already turned into a complete unknown, no one would choose to gamble with their life.
—The greatest fear often came from the unknown.
So Yu Xing could understand those who had chosen to withdraw. If he were in their position, he would have made the same choice.
But from his own standpoint, he had reasons why he had to go.
First, he was a Former World Guardian. Although he had lost his former power, no one could surpass him in terms of insight and experience. Stripped of the World Guardian Halo, he was the most suitable candidate.
Moreover, as a Player, he had accumulated quite a few Trump Cards from his past foundations. After all, he now controlled the Black Market as well as his former Mysterious Shop. He lacked neither equipment, items, nor Skills.
—He did not want to see the tragedy from 1,700 years ago repeat itself.
Deep down, Yu Xing possessed a latent streak of madness. Otherwise, he would never have risked near-certain death to reincarnate from a World Guardian into a Player.
World Guardians belonged to the Old Era. There was no place for them in the New Era. Though they possessed power beyond the reach of ordinary people, they were also the group most vulnerable to corruption.
Otherwise, they would not have spent all these years hiding inside the [World Tomb]. It was not that they did not want to leave; rather, the moment they went outside and exposed themselves even slightly, they would draw the descent of Unspeakable Beings.
Even though they had developed some methods over the years to conceal their auras and identities, the outside world remained overwhelmingly hostile to them—a place of near-certain death. That was why