Charting the Endless Sea
Chapter 294

Mind world

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Above heaven and beneath it, I alone reign supreme!

In an instant, Hawkins felt as though his entire being would drown beneath the Great Buddha's incomparably savage will.

At that moment, he realized that the Great Buddha was the true Looting Emperor. This was the Looting Emperor's real face, while the monk sweeping outside and the kneeling child were merely his disguises.

"Because his nature is too domineering, he wears a false shell to keep the dust from staining his heart?"

Hawkins rapidly retreated, seemingly frightened off by the Great Buddha, but the Great Buddha refused to let him go and reached straight out to seize him.

Why would Victory King rather die than admit defeat? Because victory was his lifelong pursuit.

Thus, Victory King could die, but he could never lose. If he lost, he would no longer be Victory King.

The Looting Emperor was the same. His heart was one that proclaimed: above heaven and beneath it, I alone reign supreme.

He could never bow to another, never collude like wolves and jackals, never bend his knee and lower his head, never cling to life in disgrace.

Just as he had always maintained in the past, the victor gained everything, and the loser lost everything.

He would never allow himself to become a loser.

Yet during the years he spent sealed within the Compression Layer, he had witnessed far too many terrifying beings. There were even horrifying creatures that would spell certain death for him simply by noticing him.

These creatures were too powerful. He had to bow to others, had to collude like wolves and jackals, had to bend his knee and lower his head, had to cling to life in disgrace.

And so he had chosen to create a shell, an artificial personality that could bow

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