One question after another, Geliwusi felt his head was completely filled with endless questions.
He looked at the prince before him, wanting to ask a question, but found that the prince's single eye was now somewhat vacant.
The signs of aging and decay had now completely taken over the Son of God's right hand, climbed up his right forearm, and continued to rise.
Geliwusi's heart skipped a beat, and he mustered his courage to shout:
Your Highness!
Ed's vision cleared instantly, and he turned to look at him, his tone still somewhat cold:
What, are you worried about me?
Geliwusi immediately lowered his head:
"The sinner dares not..."
"Your concerns are valid. I did lose my composure just now, and the reason is..."
Ed's tone gradually shifted from serious to slightly playful, and his eyes flickered slightly:
"You want to know?"
"I dare not say whether I want to or not; it is entirely up to His Highness the Son of God to decide."
"Um."
Ed responded casually, watching as the signs of decay Decay had spread up his right shoulder and were beginning to Spread throughout his body.
With a thought, a surge of immense life force flowed from afar, surging into this Incarnation like a tidal wave.
In just a few breaths, the line between life and death was pushed back into the palm of his hand, until it was enveloped by rosy skin, and finally disappeared completely at the point of contact with the withered branch.
Ed was stunned because he knew the nature of the withered branch the moment he saw it.
At the same time, he finally realized a problem he had been ignoring all along.
Ed knew the essence of it all:
The withered branch before me is a part of God.
To be precise, it was part of the Tree God, part of the World Tree that once stood in this world and perished in the Demonic Tide a hundred years ago.
However, the World Tree and the Creator cannot be entirely equated:
The Creator is a consciousness born from the Sea of Psionic Energy, while the World Tree is the body the Creator created for itself in the Material Plane.
Before the Demonic Tide invaded this world, the World Tree was a puppet or marionette manipulated by the Creator, lacking true consciousness and the ability to think.
During the period between the invasion of the Demonic Tide and the rebirth of the Creator, in order to protect his not-so-vast material world, the Creator placed his consciousness into the World Tree, Incarnation it into a barrier that protected the world from being eroded by the Demonic Tide for a long time.
As the Demonic Tide grew increasingly violent, the Creator had not been around for very long, eventually succumbed to the pressure and chose to "disperse his power and start anew."
The result of this event was that the Demonic Tide in the Material Plane erupted completely, the Tree God "fell," and the entire world fell into endless chaos.
The Creator was also divided into three after this event, with Authority symbolized by "Spirit," "Bone," and "Flesh," and personified as a Trinity, similar to "Holy Spirit," "Father," and "Son," awaiting future reunion and nirvana.
Now that those who needed to reunite have reunited, and those who needed to be filled have been filled, Ed only needs a short period of growth on a cosmic scale to become even more powerful than his predecessor.
So what problem did Ed overlook in this process?
The answer is that he forgot he had an unwanted corpse.
From the perspective of the Sea of Psionic Energy, Ed, his Creator, and this material world are all equally young. There are many things he has done, but he may not fully understand or master.
Who says God is necessarily Omniscience?
This must be the first time God Psionic Energy clay to create little figures, right?
That's why Ed was so shocked when he saw the Grand Foundry Master and learned that this world had given birth to new Authority and symbols when he left.
When he saw that small piece of dead wood, all the strange things he remembered and the inconsistencies in his previous logic were completely explained at that moment.
Yes, he has a corpse.
It was a physical body personally crafted by the Creator, formed from the purest Psionic Energy.
That was the consciousness of the Creator entering into it, transforming into a barrier that protected the invisible bodies that had existed in the world for thousands of years.
That was the dead body left behind by the Creator when he sought life in the face of death and returned to the essence of Psionic Energy.
Although the World Tree returned to this world from the material realm the instant it fell, the millennia of Demonic Tide, the hundred years of self-evolution, and the status of the Creator and the World Tree all confirmed one thing for Ed—
The Authority of Machinery of the Grand Foundry Master is by no means the first new Authority added to this world.
The first new Authority to emerge after this world spirals out of control should be the Authority of " Passing," born from the remnants of the Tree God's body, symbolizing death.
Unlike death by murder, poisoning, drowning, or old age, it corresponds to a higher-level, true, unconditional, and irreversible death.
If the Creator, as the first wisp of consciousness born in this Psionic Energy world, symbolizes the primordial "birth," then the Creator's first death completes its own primordial "death," thus establishing a true correspondence between life and death.
Therefore, Little Green's Crown is always only half, and the other half, naturally, resides in the remains left behind by Ed in the past, and now, it must also reside on the head of the being born from those remains.
The being born from the "divine corpse" should also have fragments of memory from the time when the Creator's consciousness entered the World Tree and Incarnation a barrier.
Ed suddenly realized something—
Authority is constantly increasing, so the perfection of Authority in the past does not guarantee the perfection of Authority in the present and future.
He had always thought he had regained all the Authority he had once held, lacking only in terms of strength. But now, Ed knew he had a new piece to reclaim.
To truly control "life and death," one must either devour that being or be devoured by that being.
But it—no, it longs for death, it needs death, it is death itself.
From the fleeting shadows that swept across the Fir City to the hazy glances cast from the crowd; from the mysteriously deceased Antiya Lisi to the relieved Luxiusi before him.
Ed knew that he had already met that being, but at the time, one was still unaware and the other was powerless, and in the end, they only looked at each other for a moment across the vast sea of people.
How should I address Him?
Is it another " Son of God " from the previous incarnation? Is it the "divine body" that remains even after death? Or is it a "divine abomination" destined not to exist?
Regardless of how he addressed the other person, Ed finally understood everything and realized that he had gained another enemy, and a very troublesome one at that.
Because any form of death will, in effect, become a boost to the other person's growth.