So Nara Dan wasn't worried that, like Gilgamesh, he would die of old age while seeking immortality,
but he knew full well that this boundary wasn't easy to cross.
"In some worlds next door,"
"the boundary between humans and gods is practically absolute..."
"The number and positions of the gods are fixed."
"Ordinary mortals simply can't cross that boundary."
"If some Divine Spark or something like it happened to fall into their hands,"
"all those Demigods, Legendary beings, and ninth-rankers would fight until their brains were splattered everywhere."
Nara Dan couldn't help thinking of certain worlds where gods with Divine Sparks were the primary form of existence.
"But without a Divine Spark, or some concrete Rank,"
"how could the difficulty of reversing one's innate nature and becoming a god as a human be any less than the one-in-ten-thousand chance of fighting over a Divine Spark?!"
"Gilgamesh had spent his whole life seeking the Divine Position and immortality, yet he never attained either."
"Of all Zeus's sons and Demigods, only Heracles obtained a Divine Spark. But he didn't truly reverse his innate nature through his own power and become one with creation."
"He became a god by acquiring the rank of the chief god, God of Strength."
"And throughout all the myths and legends of the ages, how many people have truly become immortals?"
"Very, very few."
"Going from mortal to Transcendent is already beyond the reach of ordinary people. Going from mortal to god is even more difficult."
"Gods with Divine Sparks are just gods who've been entered on the Investiture List, given a title, and assigned an official position."
"In the Daoist tradition of my previous life, they were also called divine immortals."
"Though they lived as long as Heaven and Earth, and didn't rely on blessed lands like