Li Yi did not stop there. He gave Huo Ling a long, deep look, then continued, "But that isn't the main purpose."
Huo Ling felt that he was about to hear some hidden secret. He swallowed and asked, "Then, Your Majesty, what is your main purpose?"
"I want to ascend to godhood!"
"Ascend to godhood?!" Huo Ling cried out.
Back when Huo Ling was still at the Silver rank, he had heard some gossip from his teacher, He Wenhan.
At the time, He Wenhan had said that Li Yi wanted to ascend to godhood and become a deity.
Huo Ling had believed it then, because he knew that gods were powerful.
But as Huo Ling's strength steadily rose, until he became a Legend, he had stopped taking that rumor to heart.
That was right. Gods were powerful, but ascending to godhood in Great Xia would only make one a lesser god.
Lesser gods faced even more restrictions than true gods, while Li Yi had already reached the seventeenth stage of Legend—no weaker than a true god in the slightest.
If calculated properly, Li Yi's strength was equivalent to that of a true god with weak divine power.
Such strength was not even Li Yi's peak. Blue Star's supernatural era had only begun a little over three hundred years ago.
Li Yi was not yet four hundred years old, yet he was already at the seventeenth stage of Legend. At that level of strength, four hundred years old was no different from a child still in swaddling clothes.
Li Yi still had vast room to rise. Given enough time, Huo Ling did not think it would be difficult for Li Yi to become a powerful existence at the Radiant Sun Legend level.
Even if he truly intended to consider ascending to