Zhang Ming rolled his eyes, admitting that Stone Mama had a point, but a sliver of light still remained in his heart...
Was there truly nothing good in the world? Obviously not. Without conclusive evidence, he would not casually think ill of those divine men who toiled and traveled for the world's survival.
Something else occurred to him, and he said, "Besides, this world is really just a small world within the New Mythological Era. The real main body is the Demon God's Sea. I wonder whether this Vaisravana Heavenly King went to the Demon God's Sea afterward..."
"Probably not. He has to stay here, preferably for his entire life," the scheming Stone Mama said.
"Why?"
"If Zang really is a sage who worries about the world, then someone like the Heavenly King definitely has to stay here. They can't let him leave. If Zang isn't a sage and has some sort of scheme, then the Heavenly King has all the more reason to stay here, and they have even less reason to let him leave."
Zhang Ming fell silent. He understood.
This wretched place was very close to the Shanhai Realm and needed large numbers of powerful beings stationed here. They could not let a powerful existence like the Heavenly King leave. If one left and triggered a broken-window effect, a whole string of powerful beings would leave after him. That was something they could not bear.
"Politics... really is dark."
"Even sages have to scheme..."
He thought of the Wanhai Civilization, then of the Peak Civilization, Wisdom. For a while, many connections came to mind.
You thought you were steering the era, but no matter how powerful a civilization was, it could only be pushed along by the era, drifting with the current.
Perhaps many things were simply