After enough time had passed, she would inevitably lose everything and become a madwoman with only her body left.
Seeing Great Sage's expression, Roy instead consoled her, saying, "...You don't need to feel ashamed. Even Demon Gods would go mad under these circumstances as time passed, let alone you."
Great Sage didn't know what a Demon God was. She struggled desperately again for a while, and after realizing that she still couldn't move, she gritted her teeth and asked, "...Do you need to kill me this way?"
"...Or are you trying to make me submit this way?"
Roy shook his head. "...Killing you is meaningless to me, and making you submit is meaningless to me as well. In fact, contrary to what you think, I'm not killing you. I'm saving you."
"Saving me?"
Great Sage was confused.
"Your brother Jiao Liu used a thousand years of cultivation to transform from a jiao into a dragon and obtain the power of a thousand mountains and a thousand seas."
"...Then as the leader of the Seven Great Sages' community, and as half an Earth spirit, can you really not do the same as your brother—cultivate even greater divine abilities and obtain true wisdom?"
Roy crouched down, patted the monkey's face, and said softly, "...Before you, there was an Earth spirit named Gaia. As the Earth Mother Goddess, she was once entrusted with the gods' highest hopes."
"...Gaia should have been the first Original Candidate to represent all the gods. But she became disappointed in humanity and ultimately abandoned her identity as a spirit, giving birth to the last child, the Killing Species, which also caused the gods to become disappointed in her."
"After the last child of the Killing Species was defeated by the gods, you were born after who knows how