Guidance of the Abyss

Ye Xiao remained silent for a long time.

No one knew what he was thinking at that moment.

The moment he learned the truth behind the power he had gained, and the responsibility he had to bear.

The resolve in Ye Xiao's heart began to waver.

What he had thought was the salvation of the Human World.

Turned out to be nothing more than a thought the savior had once entertained.

This Abyss disaster that had descended upon the world.

Was merely the evil side Nameless Ancestor had stripped away in order to obtain greater power.

That abandoned, unchosen hatred.

Had ultimately become the Abyss's earliest embryo.

The disaster had begun because of Nameless Ancestor.

And now, Nameless Ancestor no longer had the ability to end it.

So he placed his hopes upon those of later generations.

Ye Xiao was the chosen... unlucky bastard.

"Since you are a part once stripped away by Nameless Ancestor, why are you telling me all this now?"

"What exactly are you trying to say?"

Ye Xiao spoke to that voice again.

The voice responded slowly.

"I want to tell you that every choice you made—when you believed you were protecting something, you were actually restraining yourself."

"What did I protect? And what did I restrain?"

After a brief pause, the voice continued in an even tone.

There was no emphasis, no sigh. It was merely stating what it considered objective fact.

"On the night your father pushed you away from the Demonic Beasts, you did not see his final moment of hesitation. Nor did you see that, when the Demonic Beasts grew more frenzied, he once considered abandoning you and fleeing alone."

"In other words, you learned of his ending from other people's accounts. The part you accepted as certain was not something