(November's Ideal Homeland is pretty good... Though the plot is such a clichéd, straightforward development, I'm a sucker for this kind of thing.)
"Right."
Bai Ye had not yet stepped out of the divine realm when the Kjerag Goddess called out to him again.
"Hm? What is it?" Bai Ye was a little puzzled. They had already said everything that needed to be said, so what else could the Kjerag Goddess want from him?
"Mm, it's nothing important..." After considering her words for a moment, the goddess looked at Bai Ye and said softly, "Beings like us do not easily form ties with mortals."
"Over the long years, I sat atop the Kjerag snow mountain, watching the nation at its foot gradually develop into what it is now."
"Generation after generation of saintesses came and went. I did not remember many of their names."
"After all, I only needed to lend them a little power."
As she spoke, the Kjerag Goddess turned to Bai Ye and said quietly:
"Though you are not one of our kind, I have a feeling that your life will be as long as ours."
"Sever your ties to the mortal world early. A hundred years, a thousand years, even ten thousand years from now, everything will have long since vanished like smoke. If you do not make a decision soon, you will suffer when the time comes to part."
"..." Bai Ye looked at the Kjerag Goddess without saying anything.
The Kjerag Goddess sighed.
"We are too slow, while this world is too fast... We keep meeting, and we keep losing. Even gods cannot bear such pain."
"That is why gods always remain high above. That is why gods are always cold and indifferent. That is why gods do not easily interfere in mortal affairs...