At this moment.
Time seemed to freeze.
Cheng Han stared blankly at the Halo Screen, his mind in complete chaos.
Mother of the Sea maintained her unchanging smile, seemingly waiting quietly for his answer.
Several seconds passed.
Only then did Cheng Han come to his senses. He bowed respectfully. "Greetings to you, great Mother of the Sea!"
Although she had fallen tens of thousands of years ago and few people still remembered her name, she had once been a Main God who ruled over an era. She deserved the respect due to her.
This was also the most basic reverence for power.
Mother of the Sea smiled very gently. "There is no need to be so polite."
To be honest.
Her manner was so courteous that she hardly seemed like a Main God-level Deity.
And that small detail was truly thought-provoking.
Cheng Han gazed at the image in the center of the halo. It was as if enlightenment had suddenly struck him, and he understood many things at once.
For instance.
Mother of the Sea had spent twenty years and an enormous amount of Divine Power to create several million Mother God Seashells precisely because she knew her impending fall could not be avoided.
And for another.
The backup plan prepared by Mother of the Sea was intended for the "Guide of the future"—or, more precisely, himself.
This had been a wait spanning tens of thousands of years.
And the fact that she had "foreseen a visitor from ten thousand years in the future" was utterly shocking, filling him with awe for the might of a Deity.
For yet another.
The reason the Eye of Omniscience's Deduction had consumed so much Spirit Value, over a hundred points more than expected, was obviously this.
Mother of the Sea paused, then asked