To be honest, this was the most heartfelt, genuine, and convincing "aching" Hao Ren had ever heard in his life. When Lia said those two words, her voice even trembled a little, making anyone who heard her feel a pang of pain themselves...
However, Hao Ren really had not been joking with her—even though his suggestion sounded like he was teasing her no matter how one looked at it. "You can find a way to remove yourself from the scene. I just want to see every detail of what happened back then... I don't know why, but I keep feeling that I've overlooked something..."
Noticing the unusually serious expression on Hao Ren's face, Lia reined in her resentment. "Overlooked something? What do you mean?"
"My vision was restricted back then." Hao Ren pointed at his eyes. "I could only see what was within my own first-person view, but I feel that something else must have happened around me... The God-slaying incident couldn't have been that simple, could it? Just as I said earlier, directly facing divine punishment should have resulted in the destruction of my soul at best. Yet I was actually reborn on Earth. Not only was I not destroyed by divine punishment, it even seemed as if I had been protected!"
Lia understood what Hao Ren meant. A soul from the Dream Plane needed to cross the Wall of Reality in order to "reincarnate" on Earth after death. Under normal circumstances, even a demigod could not accomplish that easily. Yet a soul destroyed by divine punishment had managed to do it. That could only mean one thing... Some external force had protected that soul and "pushed" it into the Outer World.
"So far, all the otherworldly beings that have 'crossed over' from the Dream Plane to Earth have