If one could become an existence like the Twelve Pillars, one could protect the world of one's birth with a single hand.
Lu PingAn had heard those words long ago. At the time, he had thought they were merely figurative.
I never expected it to be a literal statement. It really was "one hand" protecting it.
Once Lu PingAn calmed down, aside from a cold sweat on his back and the accelerated blood flow caused by his earlier excitement, he was completely unharmed.
That, instead, was highly abnormal.
Observation was connection. Observing a higher-dimensional being meant establishing a direct channel with it, in a sense.
And "pollution" could be transferred and corrode others. It instinctively flowed from high "terrain" to low terrain, from high concentration to low concentration.
Casually connecting to some great being could easily get one killed by the "radiation" spilling from the other side before communication was even completed.
It was not even the malice of a deity. It was simply like Icarus in mythology, who died because he flew too close to the sun.
Back then, Lu PingAn had nearly died just from seeing the Immortal in the Pavilion's avatar. The fact that he had preserved himself was because the other party had held back.
And the "Firebird" he had seen now... the two were not even on the same level. They could not possibly be compared.
Not only had Lu PingAn not perished, he even vaguely felt that he was in excellent condition.
Clearly, the only explanation was that Firebird had done something to prevent his self-destruction.
Firebird Retinue (Unknown Level): Within worlds beneath Firebird's wings, she will regard you as one of her bloodline, no different from other living beings.
The system prompt confirmed that reality.
Retinue sounded impressive, but it was