Had Chen Yang not come today, Bai Di might never have spoken these heartfelt words.
It was precisely because Chen Yang was a pioneer who had walked ahead of him, and because after this Immortal Abode Secret Realm operation he would ascend through Treading Void to face the Upper Cultivators' schemes head-on, that Bai Di could tell him all of this without reservation.
After pouring out everything that had weighed upon his heart, light returned to Bai Di's eyes. The dispirited, gloomy air that had clung to him moments ago was swept away.
Having listened all the way through, Chen Yang was deeply moved.
When it came to serving the New Heaven Project with all his heart and exhausting every ounce of his ability, Bai Di was unquestionably the foremost among them. Even the two peak cultivators of the two Daos, Chen Yang included, fell far short of him.
A gentleman judged deeds, not hearts. Chen Yang had never concerned himself with what Bai Di, as the mastermind behind the New Heaven Project, truly thought deep in his heart.
So long as Bai Di could fulfill the duties of his position and handle what was his to handle, that was enough in Chen Yang's eyes.
Yet this conversation made Chen Yang truly understand just how badly he had underestimated Bai Di's resolve to see this matter through.
His own march toward death was merely an illusion beneath the disguise of an immortal body, but the path Bai Di had now embarked upon was truly a dead-end road from which there was no return, a path where death was certain and life impossible.
Inspired by Qin Changsheng, Bai Di had developed the intention to die. He himself had also thought deeply about death, and understood that one person's death could carry