"What? You tampered with even the Five Great Primordial Celestial Bodies?" Mu Chen's face was filled with shock.
Di Er Meng smiled. "Don't you think the process of awakening the Celestial Bodies went far too smoothly? Given your aptitude, you likely could have done it on your own, but think carefully about the process of receiving those Celestial Bodies..."
Mu Chen carefully recalled the process of coming into contact with the Primordial Celestial Bodies and realized that "smooth" was no longer enough to describe it. The Celestial Bodies had practically thrown themselves at him!
That was right. If it had truly been so easy, these five Primordial Celestial Bodies would not have gone forty-nine thousand years without inheritors!
Mu Chen laughed at himself. "I thought my aptitude was so exceptional that it could directly resonate with the Celestial Bodies. Looks like I was being presumptuous."
Di Er Meng continued, "Under my arrangements, the 'will of Amon' within your body grew stronger alongside your cultivation, keeping pace with the rate at which you became stronger. Its degree of fusion with you also deepened continuously, until it had practically become a part of you.
"So even if you became a Master, suppressing and casting off my will would not be so easy."
After the initial panic and astonishment, Mu Chen gradually calmed down.
"Perhaps the path of my life has always been under your arrangements. Perhaps my closest friend may be someone who never truly existed... But so what? At least in my eyes, all of it was real... They were important experiences to me.
"My own will is real. The power I possess is real. That is enough...
"For some reason, you seem unable to ascend the Firmament Ranking under your own true name, which is why the will you concealed