Rainy Night

Five minutes earlier

On the road to Barren Mountain,

The two men, nearly motionless relative to each other, began moving briefly as they talked. With little time to spare, William did not ask Yi Chen about such trivial matters as how he had arrived or what condition he was in.

Before the battle began, he had to confirm one thing with Yi Chen, the local.

"Are we going to face a god?"

Yi Chen answered disdainfully, "Just an incomplete false god... If it were a true god, we'd have been dead long ago."

"Even if it's a false god, killing it shouldn't be easy, right? What exactly are we supposed to do later? How can we kill a so-called god?"

"That's an excellent question! The other side has already descended with its 'divinity' and is ready to kill both of us at any moment. As long as the divinity remains intact, killing its physical body by any means will be completely useless."

"Divinity? Something like the Pathogen Core in a Sick One's body? Some kind of crystal?"

"If it were that simple, it would be great~ 'Divinity' is conceptual. It's a god's label, an identity, and a gathering of faith."

William only half understood, but he more or less grasped what Yi Chen was trying to say.

"A conceptual thing?

"In other words, what we need to do is erase its label as a god? In that case, we don't actually need to kill it. We need to rise above it.

"For example, by displaying an aspect stronger than the Flower Sea Buddha Mother, or making it feel fear and shaking the concept of it being a god?"

William's answer left Yi Chen rather surprised. He even deliberately turned his head toward him,

"Oh? You may not have a maniac