The God King Palace fell silent.
The Light-Shape Being led Strength God and a crowd of the God Race into the void vortex created by the jade disc, to search among the countless Era Reflections for the Human Race's hidden sanctuary.
Only Gu Qingshan, Mountain Girl, and Luo Bingli remained in the great hall.
If there was anything to say, now was the perfect chance.
Luo Bingli avoided Gu Qingshan's gaze and said, "You know my identity. So what?"
Gu Qingshan fixed his eyes on her and refused to back down. "If I make the wrong call because I don't have enough information, someone will die in the end—either you or me."
Luo Bingli replied forlornly, "There's no point in telling you. You haven't found a way into the Last True Moment."
"Is that important?" Gu Qingshan asked.
Luo Bingli looked at him, her emotions rising as she spoke.
"Of course it is. If you hadn't come, how would I have ended up at someone else's mercy?"
Gu Qingshan looked at her, but said nothing for a while.
He waited dozens of breaths before finally murmuring, "You said that because I came, you ended up at someone else's mercy."
He fell into thought.
After a moment, he continued, "I'm absolutely certain I never affected you in any way."
"Under those circumstances, you were already at someone else's mercy..."
"The only factor that changed your state of existence was me. Yet I did nothing, and our paths barely crossed..."
He furrowed his brow as thoughts flashed through his mind one after another.
Luo Bingli snorted. "Keep guessing. If you can figure out the truth from just one sentence of mine, I don't mind telling you who I am."
Gu Qingshan seemed not to hear her.
He murmured, "It couldn't have been