"An emperor knew no bounds."
The eyeball said no more. Those few words encompassed everything and conveyed what he had seen and felt.
"An emperor knew no bounds..." Di Yi found the eyeball's assessment very apt. "Then do you still think I was deceiving you earlier?"
"Emperor, we were ignorant before," the hand bone said, begging forgiveness. Before an emperor, even a king who had attained Transcendence like him was still a junior, still on the path.
"No matter. If I cared about such things, I would have consigned you to eternal oblivion on the spot." Di Yi smiled. He had not taken their doubts to heart. After all, he had lost count of how many times he had experienced this along his journey.
Hearing this, all three beings on the Sacrificial Altar shuddered with belated fear. Emperors truly were taboo. Whether they existed or not, one ought to speak cautiously. Recklessly discussing an emperor really could invite heaven-shaking karma.
"All right, you needn't be afraid. I'm actually very easy to talk to. Just pretend I don't have this identity." Seeing how cautious the three beings were, Di Yi knew that a lamentable gulf had already formed between them and him.
To be honest, in a certain sense, he actually resisted entering this world with a special identity. He did not want to interact with the myriad beings of the world in such a capacity.
After all, he still remembered his state of mind when he first set foot in this Newborn World: the delight of seeing his "own kind" for the first time after endless desolation and silence.
To him, all the beings and things in this world were the same. All were worth cherishing. There was no distinction between high and low, noble and base, no gulf of