Lu Yin looked at Lord Mi. "Where's Mr. Free and Easy?"
Lord Mi chuckled. "He left."
Lu Yin was puzzled. "He left?"
Lord Mi nodded. "The Mitian Grand Plan came from him, yet he didn't believe it could succeed. So he left, saying he wanted to find a way to leave humanity a second path."
"But the Mitian Grand Plan succeeded. I'll find him again."
Lu Yin couldn't understand. "If Mr. Free and Easy came up with the Mitian Grand Plan, why did he think it couldn't succeed?"
Lord Mi said, "If I'd told you about the Mitian Grand Plan from the start, do you think it would've succeeded?"
"This plan relies on far too much luck. It even depends on people like Wang Wen, who walk the line between loyalty and betrayal, and on a junior who wouldn't exist until countless years later."
"The whole plan sounds more like a desperate gamble to survive."
"My breakthrough was the final safeguard of the Mitian Grand Plan. But even if I could break through, would the Main Dao let me? It was impossible during the Nine Fortresses era. And now, no matter how deeply I hid, the disturbance caused by a breakthrough to Master-level would never go unnoticed."
With that, he raised a hand and placed it on Lu Yin. "Next, the power formed by the fusion of divine energy and deathly stillness."
This was a power Lu Yin had cultivated as part of the Mitian Grand Plan. Now, Lord Mi took it from him.
What did Lu Yin have left? Consciousness, mental force, fortune—and the Green Light Spot from the Mother Tree. He didn't know whether Lord Mi could see the Green Light Spot, but even if he couldn't, Lu Yin's life was already nearing its end.
After Lu Yin