"Well, all right. It's your fate, after all. At worst, you'll spend another few tens of thousands of years as a sun, then come back a bird once more."
Having learned of Di Qi's resolve, the Mysterious Lord naturally would not stop him anymore.
After all, transforming into a Great Old One posed a fatal threat to other life-forms.
But for Di Qi, it really did not.
Back when the Mysterious Lord's world collapsed in Chaos, Di Qi had exhausted his power, and his consciousness had crumbled straight into dust. A perfectly good bird had turned into a star.
The Mysterious Lord had then used him as a hand warmer for hundreds of thousands of years. Later, even Yog-Sothoth, observing from close range, had failed to detect any sign that the sun Di Qi had become had once been alive.
Yet after accumulating enough power, Di Qi had simply come back.
It was just that, if this attempt failed, the tens of Ten Thousand Years the Mysterious Lord might waste on it...
Would hardly be worth it.
After all, Cthulhu did have some seemingly more normal systems.
Such as the Old Ones!
Although those fellows lacked any top-tier fighting strength, when everything was tallied up, among combatants at the level of Lower and Middle Great Old Ones...
The old gods still held a considerable share of the cards.
And Di Qi was currently just a mere Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, one capable of challenging the disgrace of the Daluo Golden Immortals above his own realm.
The Quasi-Saint Realm was still a long way off!
Let alone those realms of Sages, Upper Great Old Ones, and Hunyuan Taiji Daluo Golden Immortal Realm.
They were very far away!
One could even call them indefinitely out of reach, with scarcely a glimmer of