[The extraordinary phenomenon lasted for about a quarter of an hour before slowly dissipating.]
[The jade-green light cascading from the sky receded toward the heavens like an ebbing tide, and you slowly descended to the ground. The seedling mark between your brows flickered a few times before finally dimming, leaving only a faint jade-green pattern on your forehead, like the imprint of a sleeping leaf.]
[Qian Renxue was the first to approach.]
[She hurried up to you, her purple eyes fixed on the pattern between your brows, her voice carrying an urgency she could scarcely conceal. "Su Yi, that phenomenon just now... it was a Godhood Inheritance, wasn't it?"]
[You nodded slightly. "It was the Nature Goddess of the Divine Realm, asking whether I was willing to accept her Godhood Inheritance."]
["Then now... you're also a deity's successor?" Qian Renxue's voice held an excitement that even she had not noticed.]
[You shook your head.]
[Qian Renxue froze, and even Qian Daoliu beside her cast you a surprised glance.]
["I refused," you answered calmly, as though it were merely a trivial matter to be taken for granted.]
["You refused?!"]
[Qian Renxue's voice abruptly rose, her eyes widening into circles, her face full of disbelief. "Why?"]
["That was a chance to become a god! An opportunity countless people spend their entire lives seeking without ever obtaining-how could you refuse?!"]
[Even the usually composed Qian Daoliu involuntarily took two steps forward.]
[Unconcerned, you brushed nonexistent dust from your sleeves, turned toward the edge of the forest, and said lightly, "I refused, and that's that. Why does there have to be a reason?"]
["You-"]
[Qian Renxue was more anxious than you were. She hurried after you, and with a flicker of movement, blocked your path.]
["That was a chance to become a god!"]
["Legend