"Am I the true protagonist?"
A strange glint flashed through Li Qingshan's eyes. Then he nodded as if it were only natural.
"The protagonist can only be me!"
His disdainful gaze remained unchanged as he looked at the "protagonists" of the other universes, his brow furrowing slightly.
"They merely had to transform themselves into the Starry Sky. Such a simple thing, yet they needed tens of billions of years to accomplish it?"
His tone brimmed with incomprehension, like a genius student wondering how such a simple problem could trap a group of people for so long...
"Simple?!"
[Fate] fell silent.
It seemed at a loss for how to respond to the casual arrogance leaking from him. Only after quite some time did it speak again...
"You reached this point in merely a million years. Naturally, it is simple for you."
When it spoke again, its voice was no longer as lofty and ethereal as before. It carried a faintly perfunctory edge.
[Fate] seemed to have lost interest in praising him and swiftly changed the subject.
"But for them, it was not so!"
"The Martial Arts Starry Sky Path began with mortals as weak as ants. Step by step, they left their planets, drew close to the celestial bodies of the universe, evolved toward the vast Starry Sky, until they completely transformed into the 'Starry Sky'!"
"Even with the Time Dao Fruit left behind by Jie Tian, the difficulty of this path far surpassed every path of proving the Dao, let alone—"
"All of them walked alone. There was no one to learn from, no one to guide them. Every step had to be explored carefully..."
"Tens of billions of years was not actually slow."
"Is that so?"
Li Qingshan gave a soft sound of surprise, seeming still unable to understand.