"We thought you wouldn't come this time."
"Heh, how could I miss it? This war conference is important. At the very least, all the demigods need to get on the same page."
"The Eastern Kingdom has you marked as a strategic treasure. There are at least one deity and two demigods watching this place now, and the old brothers from the other churches are frantically asking whether we Lady Lin people are preparing to rebel."
Old Liu sighed. He was not angry, though; if anything, he felt a little pleased and happy.
That young man from back then had not only become a core member of their side, but even seemed to have "surpassed" him. It was hard not to feel something about that.
"Tch, I've used my physical body to cultivate Awakening Disease several times already. That proves I'm immortal, doesn't it?"
"...Normally, losing such a human incarnation is deeply damaging even for a top-tier Life-type being. But it looks like it truly costs you nothing."
Generally speaking, for an individual, the human part was limited.
Memories and wisdom together formed one's personality. As its "scale" continued to grow, that personality would naturally be diluted.
Top-tier Transcendents constantly replenished external anchors of humanity because their inner humanity would inevitably grow scarcer and scarcer.
Once a person no longer possessed humanity, but instead possessed so-called "divinity" or "worldly rationality," that naturally meant death.
This was why, in battles between top-tier Transcendents, killing an opponent's clone or incarnation might not be fatal, but it was absolutely the source of grave injury.
Completely destroying an opponent was nearly impossible. As long as their humanity and personality were worn down to the limit, they would either fall into slumber or lose control of their power and destroy themselves.
"Uh, I do seem to