The living conditions for Higher Beings in this world seemed genuinely rather harsh.
Professor A Kai still looked confused, even pained, but at that moment, Fu Qian said that with his help, he seemed to have found the answer.
Though the specific answer seemed rather chilling—
Was this even systematic persecution, with Red Moon far from the only one to suffer that "curse"?
As mentioned earlier, the introduction of the symbol zero was truly a stroke of genius.
The disappearances that even Jade Soul Master had once been unable to make sense of could now be grouped into the same broad category as Red Moon's.
No wonder people always said you had to free your mind. Without this kind of analogy, trying to explain the question raised by the inner demon would almost inevitably push the whole world toward nihilism, and that in turn would only make the impending apocalypse seem more likely.
Now, compared with Nepheli's pessimistic conclusion, it seemed the world had been pulled back from the brink a little.
Even starting from this point, it seemed possible to explain, to some extent, why so many of his old friends had become so reserved, like Rainbow of Yao Bian.
When Night Holy Capital had resolutely appeared and done everything to help him ascend, one of its actions had been to call the sun out in the middle of the night.
What had left the deepest impression on him was the wills that had looked back at him as he gazed into it.
Silent, struggling, twisted, and yearning for the outside world... So much so that, at the time, he had described them as a group of prisoners in hell.
Looking at it now, was that description oddly apt?
They really were prisoners, but what trapped them wasn't the