Chapter 377

Crick went back to being busy. Though the flame of his life was already like a guttering candle in the wind, he had no intention of resting and maintained his previous pace of work.

He was so diligent that whenever Sui Xiong saw him toiling away, he could not help but think of a famous saying—"Bend oneself to the task and spare no effort until death."

Those words referred to Zhuge Liang. Ever since Liu Bei entrusted his son to him, Zhuge Liang had worked himself to the bone, holding up the weak Shu Kingdom against powerful enemies. Not only did he lose not an inch of territory, he launched several northern expeditions and eventually even threatened Chang'an. Had he not overworked himself to death, perhaps he truly could have turned the tide of history by his own strength and fulfilled the dream he had once promised Liu Bei: "Restore the Han Dynasty."

Yet Zhuge Liang did not fulfill that dream. He worked himself to death.

Crick now looked as though he intended to work himself to death as well.

Seeing this incarnation, who possessed no particular power, still working so diligently when his life was nearly at its end, Sui Xiong could not help feeling thirty percent moved and seventy percent ashamed. They were both him—if Crick was working this hard, how could he still shamelessly take a vacation?

Better keep working!

But what exactly should he do?

After thinking it over and over, Sui Xiong ultimately decided to continue creating divine envoys.

It was rather amusing. Originally, he had wanted to create some artificial souls to make up for the shortage of high-level believer souls in his divine kingdom. But after putting it into practice, he discovered that what he created were not ordinary believer-level souls, but a