"Why do you say that, Daoist Friend?" Pangu's thick brows drew together slightly, his voice reverberating across the Great Wilderness Earth like an ancient divine bell. "The Great Wilderness has reached its present state largely thanks to you. Without your countless ages of arrangements within the Great Wilderness, how could there be today's flourishing eternity? I myself might not have returned so soon either."
Styx smiled and shook his head. His blood-colored Dao robe snapped in the Divine Wind of Zhou Mountain, while his aura grew ever more ethereal and detached.
"Now that you have returned, the Great Wilderness has also become completely whole. If my incarnations continue to hold the authority of Heaven and Earth, it may not necessarily be a good thing for Primordial Heaven and Earth."
He raised a hand and pointed in every direction. Wherever his fingertip indicated, every Spiritual Vein Node across the Great Wilderness Earth faintly glimmered with blood light.
"My Eight Earth Vein Incarnations are stationed at the eight extremities of Zhou Mountain, the three hundred and sixty-five Zhou Tian Star gods guard the starry river, and 1.296 billion Earth Vein Incarnations guard the major Earth Vein Nodes throughout the Great Wilderness.
"They were originally established to safeguard Zhou Mountain's stability and spur the Great Wilderness's advancement. Now that the Great Wilderness has successfully advanced, there is little point in keeping them here any longer."
"Daoist Friend, there is no need to feel indebted. My incarnations have been stationed in the Great Wilderness all these years, and while they have indeed rendered many outstanding services to its development—"
"—they have also gained immeasurable Great Dao Merit and the Great Wilderness's fortune in the process. That is what has supported my cultivation's meteoric rise over these years, allowing me to reach my current Limitless