Plan to Confer Godhood, the Dawn of Seeing Daylight Again

"They shouldn't be able to catch up to us now."

Over a vast, dim gray sea, Yi and Xiao E sped across the surface.

"Yi, all the dark creatures here are avoiding me. Why aren't you afraid of me?" Xiao E, now an Immortal Toad within a cloud of black fog, asked.

Yi said, "Xiao E, I'll definitely find a way to lift the curse of the Godforging Pill from you."

"You don't blame me for taking the Godforging Pill?" Xiao E asked.

Yi shook his head. "It was my negligence. I was too focused on hunting down the Sun Wheel God's Sons and neglected you. If I had made it back in time, Xiao E, you wouldn't have ended up like this."

Upon hearing this, tears actually flowed from the Immortal Toad's eyes.

The two continued flying over the Dark Abyss. Yi said, "My body has already been modified by Feng Meng. Other than my consciousness, my strength is far inferior to what it once was."

"Feng Meng tried to use my flesh and blood to become a god, but unfortunately, flesh and blood alone were not enough for the opportunity to attain godhood."

"Now, I feel as though an invisible wall has separated mortals from gods throughout the entire world. Mortals can never cross that wall, and we should be inside it now."

"If we can cross this wall, perhaps I can recover my peak strength."

Xiao E looked doubtfully at the boundless black fog around them. "Yi, I feel that this sea is dangerous and terrifying, but I feel that I'm even more terrifying, because they're all avoiding me."

Only then did Xiao E realize that it was the most terrifying thing in this sea. There were many dark creatures beneath the waters. It had originally thought