Somewhere in the Heaven Dou Empire, in the Dark World.
"Are all gods this willful?"
Bibi Dong gazed at the Heavenly Screen and murmured to herself.
For her, obtaining a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring meant expending untold manpower just to find a soul beast's traces.
Once she found it, she still had to take a group of people along to hunt it down.
After that, she had to endure a bout of torment before she could finally claim the spirit ring.
And even then, she had no idea what spirit skill the ring would contain.
Yet when it came to Ers, he had simply upgraded someone's Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring to a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring just to give Gaius a little peace of mind.
"No wonder people keep saying that before and after becoming a god, you're practically two different kinds of beings."
"To those gods standing so high above us, everything about us probably isn't even worth mentioning, is it?"
Bibi Dong thought of the torment the Rakshasa God Trial had inflicted on her over the years.
Perhaps she never needed to endure any of it. Perhaps the Rakshasa God was simply toying with her out of boredom.
But did she have a choice?
If she wanted to change her life, the Rakshasa God Trial was the only path ahead of her.
"No matter what the gods think, I will complete the God Trial and cast off my mortal identity for good."
"I will become a being who stands high above all others and holds everything in her grasp."
Bibi Dong's gaze was crazed and piercing.
Her past had been so painful precisely because she had been unable to control everything.
She never wanted to experience those days again.
And so, she would climb to