Heaven-Reaching Means

Carl knelt before him with a thump, tears streaming down his face, overwhelmed with guilt.

Ximen Lang reached out and helped him up. Ignoring the properties of Carl's Illusionary Body, he even patted nonexistent dust from his clothes.

Ximen Lang asked.

"Do you remember everything now?"

"Yes... I remember everything. Including... the helplessness and... despair of my inner self over these thirty thousand years, which you sealed inside me. I remember it all."

Thinking of all the wrongs he had committed over the past tens of thousands of years under the pretext of research, and how many innocent lives he had harmed...

He had even wanted to eliminate his own teacher!

And he had truly put that plan into action, causing Ximen Lang to fall into a desperate situation!

Thinking of every heinous deed he had committed over these thirty thousand years—deeds too numerous to record...

Carl, deeply ashamed, felt tears well up in his eyes again and said,

"I actually committed so many wrongs... took so many lives... and I even treated you..."

Seeing Carl bring up that rotten business again, so consumed by guilt that he could barely speak coherently,

Ximen Lang, who had spent years with Little Karl day and night—from initially wanting only to recruit an outstanding talent entirely devoted to his own use,

to being moved by Little Karl's sincerity like Leng was and forming genuine feelings, until he now truly regarded Little Karl as half a son—cut him off impatiently.

"All right, all right. It was just some rotten business. Do you have to keep bringing it up? Besides, I'm fine, aren't I? I even turned misfortune into a blessing. Not only did my strength soar, but in the Void Dimension, I also got you two little Master's Wives..."

But when he noticed Leng's