Tang Chen gazed at Qian Daoliu, a light gradually returning to his clouded eyes.
He sighed.
"I never thought I would spend the final moments of my life with you."
Qian Daoliu frowned.
A moment ago, Tang Chen had acted as if he did not recognize him. Why had he recognized him after being defeated, only to keep talking about dying?
"What are you talking about?" Qian Daoliu asked gravely. "What final moments?"
Tang Chen did not answer immediately.
He struggled to sit up, his movements slow and labored. Qian Daoliu did not help him, merely standing to one side and watching.
Once he finally steadied himself, Tang Chen leaned against the stone pillar behind him and looked up at the dim ceiling overhead, his gaze unfocused for a while.
"Back then, because of a promise, I devoted everything I had to becoming a god."
Qian Daoliu said nothing.
He knew better than anyone what that promise had been.
Bo Saixi.
The high priestess of Sea God Island, the strongest woman alive.
He and Tang Chen had both pursued her in their youth. The entanglement between the three of them had lasted more than half their lives.
But Bo Saixi was the Sea God's high priestess.
Under Sea God Island's rules, the high priestess served the Sea God for life.
Unless someone became a god.
Only by becoming a god could someone break Sea God Island's rules and take Bo Saixi away from that island.
Qian Daoliu loved Bo Saixi too.
Had he not been the Angel God's high priest, had he not borne the responsibility of protecting Spirit Hall, he would have sought out divine trials as well.
But he could not.
He was Qian Daoliu, the Angel God's representative and the Great Enshrined of the Worship Hall. His