The road ahead was long, and I would seek high and low.
As an item that required twenty lives to activate, False God Incarnation was something Fu Qian hadn't used in days.
Yet at this very moment, he activated it without hesitation.
The journey through the Sea of Ashes had been strange at every turn, with opportunities hard to come by.
Yet with a stubbornness bordering on cruelty, Fu Qian had pushed forward violently without a moment's hesitation. At last, he had come face-to-face with the hidden mermaid princess, Ninianni.
And from this most unusual of characters, he had received an answer that was still disappointing—even after he'd pushed the pressure to its absolute limit.
But was that really the case?
Closing his eyes, Fu Qian finally grasped that faint thought, thanks to the elevated status he'd gained through sheer force.
Confronted with that hazy, almost encrypted thought, he drew on every experience he'd had since entering the Sea of Ashes and violently dredged through them.
Ninianni made no sound beside him. It seemed she gritted her teeth, rallied herself once more, and tried to think.
Yet amid that silence, the thought finally surfaced as a conscious awareness—
Pushed to her limit, Ninianni had tried with all her might to "observe" him, to guess his intentions. In the end, though, she'd judged him "as unfathomable as a mystery"—a decidedly abstract description...
She'd also explained that "islands" were essentially mutations of her own body, not collections of separate individuals, and had said that the latter was difficult to achieve in the Sea of Ashes...
That clearly contradicted what he'd personally done when he combined Li Min and Rachel...
In that case, an inexplicable question arose—Ninianni might be ignorant of the wider world, but when he'd helped Rachel fulfill her wish, how