All arrogance sprang from ignorance.
Lin Bai took Garnett back and forth across the Magpie Bridge, showing him the Real World, the Immortal World, and the Immortal Realm with its abundant spiritual energy.
Garnett saw the Game Pods the players used to enter the Game World; he saw people from the Real World crossing the Magpie Bridge and using modern machinery to launch massive infrastructure projects in the Immortal World; he saw magnificent tribulation lightning and the Phoenix Seeks the Phoenix Team's strange method of tribulation transcendence. He saw Azure Wood, the blood sea, and Ten Thousand Souls Valley, and experienced the Immortal Realm's abundant spiritual energy...
Garnett's mind suffered an enormous shock. His head went blank, as though he had lost the ability to think, and he merely repeated one sentence over and over: "So this is what the world really looks like..."
"Bishop, do you understand why I went to your world now?" Lin Bai stood beside him, tall and straight as an ancient pine.
Two butterflies perched on his shoulders. Occasionally, their wings fluttered before falling still again. This journey around the worlds had shaken them just as profoundly.
Looking at the distraught Garnett, Lin Bai continued, "I never regarded you as enemies. I've been pouring all my heart and strength into saving every world..."
"Saving them?" Lin Bai's methods and conduct flashed through Garnett's mind. "I suspect you're doing this for your own power and desires!"
The moment those words left his mouth.
His expression changed drastically. "Mr. Lin, that's exactly what I wanted to say..."
His voice stopped abruptly. He clenched his teeth, refusing to let himself make another sound.
The two butterflies on Lin Bai's shoulders stopped fluttering their wings. Their compound eyes, made up of countless tiny eyes, watched Garnett, as though wondering