"All right, enough melancholy reminiscing." Bai Fugui emerged from his memories and lowered his head to look at Lan Shiwen. "You can send me to Europa now and sell me to the Gullveig Family for a good price."
Lan Shiwen shrugged. "Aren't you curious why this so-called Golden Clan is interested in you?"
"Isn't it because of Ye Xiuyuan? Or would you rather call him Fenwu?" Bai Fugui's eyes were as calm as a dead man's. "In a sense, Ye Xiuyuan and the Gullveig Family are on the same path."
"Oh?" Lan Shiwen feigned surprise. "How so?"
Bai Fugui raised his head, a drop of crimson blood sliding down his cheek. "The Gullveig Family believes that by gathering every anomaly in the world and piecing them together into an unprecedentedly vast Closed Loop, they can achieve [Omniscience and Omnipotence] and gain an audience with the original true god."
"Ye Xiuyuan doesn't believe in gods, but he's constantly trying to collect different anomalies too. Even though his own ascension system was already perfected, and he completed his Closed Loop to become an Ouroboros, he still kept trying to harness more anomalies, hoping to piece together more new Closed Loops."
"The Gullveig Family and Ye Xiuyuan are essentially doing the same thing. They're both trying to collect every anomaly. Only their motives differ."
"The Gullveig Family is pursuing [Omniscience and Omnipotence], while Ye Xiuyuan did all this for one simple reason-greed."
At that word, a faint gleam flickered in Lan Shiwen's eyes. "Yes-greed."
"By your definition, a perfect Ascendant like Ning Zhe, who has already completed his own Closed Loop, should be called an [Ouroboros]." After a moment of silence, Bai Fugui continued, "But the Ouroboros named Ye Xiuyuan was a little more special. He was a [Greedy Snake].
"He greedily pursued