After leaving Dragon Security, he walked high above Gao Tian.
Under the night sky, Lin An silently looked down upon the earth, like an observer standing apart from the entire world, blending into the darkness.
He shut off all communications and stopped thinking about anything. From this moment onward, he intended to examine this world—and himself.
He did not know how far a person was from becoming a god.
He did not know what it took for a person to become a god.
But Lin An knew that everything he had experienced, encountered, and endured across his two lives would ultimately merge into one today.
His thoughts, his ideals, his convictions, and his understanding of all things would transform into an intangible belief, giving birth to the divinity within him.
"Going from human to god is never something achieved overnight. It is a painful, protracted transformation, one in which you deny yourself every day and search for the only correct path."
"The greater the power, the greater the responsibility. When that responsibility exceeds the breaking point and crushes a person, the character that reemerges is the distinction between personality and godhead."
Lin An lowered his head and looked at the myriad lights below.
This was near Dragon Security's Outer City. The Safe Zone had been well constructed. He could hear every person's voice and see every person's Joy, Anger, Sorrow, and Happiness.
Zhang Tie had asked him more than once why he did not run, why he did not give up.
What was he taking responsibility for? Why care about so many things? Why save those people? What exactly was responsibility?
To be honest, Lin An had not known at first, either.
Like all ordinary people, he had only wanted to live well himself.
But an imperceptible transformation had taken