Lu Yin gazed calmly at the starry sky. "If you had a choice, would you want to be human?"
You Che burst out laughing. "I wouldn't. Why would I want to be human? Just because humans are superior? I'm me. What does it matter to me how powerful humans become?"
"I just hate that I couldn't do what I wanted. I hate that I couldn't take control of Xiang City."
As it spoke, it seemed to summon the last of its strength and scream, "Xiang Xue, you promised me! You said that once we completed the mission, we could all enter Xiang City. I was happier than anyone at that moment. I truly thought I was human!"
"Xiang Xue, you promised me—"
Its voice gradually faded until it fell completely silent.
Then the heart power that Lu Yin had been unable to locate within himself finally surfaced. He drew it out and compressed it into the starry sky of his transformed universe. This starry sky was both the one inside his heart and the starry sky of the universe.
Now, it held another heart power star.
The heart power had been left behind by You Che.
Lu Yin felt no joy. His expression complicated, he watched scene after scene from the murals flash through his mind: the figures cheering and celebrating, and the little green blade of grass that had bounced the highest and shouted the loudest. In the end, everyone else had been allowed into Xiang City. Only it had not.
How lonely it must have felt at that moment.
Lu Yin didn't think Xiang Xue had done anything wrong. On the contrary, after learning the history of Heaven's Sect and the Nine Fortresses Civilization, he believed Xiang Xue had been right. The inheritance of humanity couldn't be handed