Looking at the woman before him, Yu Yong felt a ripple stir in his heart unlike anything he had ever known.
After living one lifetime, a god's reincarnated self would return to its original body and become an anchor for the god's humanity. It would keep the god from losing itself in the power of worship, from becoming entirely what its believers imagined and losing its own identity.
That was the life arranged for a god's reincarnated self.
But what did the reincarnated self think of it?
Would it offer everything to its original self without regret?
The struggle in Yu Yong's eyes grew more intense. Countless attachments, countless longings, and scene after scene of the three thousand years they had spent supporting each other through hardship flashed before him.
At last, it all fell silent.
A divine radiance deep within his soul washed every emotion clean. The gods had lived through too many years. They had foreseen every sort of problem and made their arrangements long ago.
This was a highly developed civilization of the divine path.
Clang!
Yu Yong drew his sword and walked step by step toward the Scorpion Queen on her throne.
"You... will you become a god someday?"
The Scorpion Queen's voice was gentle and soft.
"You?"
Yu Yong snapped his head up. A chill entered his gaze as he stared at the woman before him, so intimately familiar and yet suddenly a little strange.
She was only a mortal. Could she see through my spell?
What had gone wrong?
A violent, icy killing intent rose in Yu Yong's heart. His face grew all the more tender and sorrowful. "Cui, rather than let our children be captured and humiliated by the enemy, we should give them a swift end."
"I'll stay with you. Don't be