The price of failure was a dead end!
"You're right. I lost—completely and utterly. I never expected you to possess this power as well, and to wield it more than a hundred times better than I ever did. Your strength has truly entered the divine level. Are you a member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan?"
Kagura panted as he looked at Yang Ming, then sat down directly.
He had clearly given up resisting!
"No. But by chance, I learned of this matter. I couldn't believe it, so I came to you for confirmation. Based on my deductions, you were the most likely person to know about it."
Yang Ming spoke calmly.
"Just a deduction? You're truly bold to have thought that far ahead. Yes, you're entirely correct. I do know, and you found the right person. Back when I entered the Creation Pavilion, I encountered a man named Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. He possessed the Divine Eye and tried to control me, turning me into his puppet."
"So people like us are nothing more than toys in the hands of the gods. The Six Paths Divine Sect is merely a foothold the gods established in the mortal world to watch over it. What's laughable is that we kept believing in and worshipping the gods. In the end, in the eyes of the gods, we were nothing but playthings!"
"Fortunately, I had already touched upon the divine realm then. When he made his move against me, I forcibly broke free and escaped!"
"He probably never expected someone to enter the realm of gods with a mortal body, which was why I managed to escape. But I was also gravely weakened. After breaking through the Six Paths Divine Sect's blockade, I came to Divine Wind City to recover. A hundred years passed in the blink