Looking at the woman before him, a ripple unlike any before rose in Yu Yong's heart.
After a reincarnated body lived out one lifetime, it would return to the original body and become the deity's anchor to humanity, preventing the deity from losing itself amid the Power of Incense, completely turning into what the Believers imagined and losing its selfhood.
This was the life that had been arranged for a deity's reincarnated body.
What did the deity's reincarnated body itself think of it?
Would it offer everything to the original body without resentment or regret?
The struggle in Yu Yong's eyes grew ever stronger. Countless attachments, countless longings for affection, scene after scene of their three thousand years of sharing weal and woe surfaced endlessly in his eyes.
In the end, all fell silent.
All emotions were washed clean by the mysterious divine radiance deep within his soul. Deities had lived through too many ages and had long foreseen every kind of problem, making arrangements in advance.
This was a Divine Path civilization highly developed in every respect.
Clang!
Yu Yong drew his sword and walked step by step toward the Scorpion Queen on the throne.
"Will you... become a deity in the future?"
The Scorpion Queen spoke softly and gently.
"You?"
Yu Yong suddenly raised his head. His gaze became somewhat horrified as he stared straight at the woman before him, so familiar yet suddenly somewhat strange.
She was merely a mortal. How could she see through even his arts?
What had gone wrong?
Violent, icy killing intent rose in Yu Yong's heart, making his expression increasingly gentle and sorrowful. "Cui, rather than letting our children be captured and humiliated by our enemies, it would be better to give them a swift end."
"I will stay with all of