"Hm? Brother, what's wrong?"
Seeing Lin Jun suddenly space out, Xie Yun hurriedly called out, pulling Lin Jun from his thoughts.
"I thought of something..."
Lin Jun had been in this world for so long that he had grown attached to it. To put it plainly, it was always people who formed bonds with people, never with a place itself.
Lin Jun's thoughts gradually cleared.
At the very least, he was no longer so eager to go back. This place seemed rather nice too.
"Tell me, you weren't thinking about whether to go back, were you?"
Xie Yun had lived far longer than Lin Jun. With a single glance, he saw what Lin Jun was thinking.
After all, when facing a dead man like Xie Yun, Lin Jun did not have much guard up. Everything showed on his face.
"Yes, I'm not too willing to go back. I'm different from you. When I came to this world, it was still full of humans."
From that perspective, Lin Jun had been far luckier than Xie Yun.
At least, Lin Jun could not imagine himself still finding the courage to live on after arriving in a world filled entirely with monsters. In that respect, Xie Yun was the true brave hero.
"Mm, I think it's too early for you to be considering that. Haven't you figured out one thing? With your current strength, can you contend against the world? I didn't even have such thoughts back then."
Becoming the Heavenly Will did not mean becoming the Heavenly Will itself. Put plainly, it meant becoming a vessel through which the Heavenly Will was born—a vessel that retained one's own consciousness.
Xie Yun had not realized this back then, so he had prepared to gather strength and return to his own world. Later, the