Pretending To Be A Boss
Chapter 916 - 66: Competing Acting Skills_2

"Why?"

Zhong Yao was puzzled. She had participated in crafting Eden's Heart but her contribution was far less significant compared to Tang Wen. Tang Wen had a relatively thorough understanding of Eden's Heart.

Tang Xian rubbed his nose. Explaining this question was a bit comical.

"Because I've done so many good deeds to help others, my moral character should surpass its own."

"..."

To some extent, Eden's Heart could rapidly and efficiently collect the characteristics of living beings.

But it had a frustratingly absurd metaphysical construct.

Tang Xian used to ponder: what would happen if two Eden Tribe leaders fought each other? The outcome would likely come down to whose skin was paler.

From this, Tang Xian was also certain that when Eden's Master fought the Judge years ago, it must have sustained severe injuries; otherwise, why would it have abandoned its physical body? Perhaps everything was meticulously calculated by it, but the price paid to ultimately manipulate the Beast Gods far exceeded expectations.

"The next words reveal its anxiety. Eden's Master is a being of immense wisdom. Dominating the world would already seem like a lowly pursuit for it. If it could command the Judge to accomplish these feats, it could easily achieve similar results itself. It isn't afraid of the Beast Gods—not truly; perhaps pride makes it envious of the Destroyer God, a being that seems to defy the rules—but even the Beast Gods lie in the palm of its hand."

Zhong Yao nodded. She understood Eden's Master's terror far more deeply than Tang Xian did.

"But why?" Tang Xian suddenly asked.

Pointing at a distant patch of chaos, he said:

"Could it be that just because I'm the best under heaven, I must destroy heaven once? Its plans for humans are evidently distinct. Its behavior toward the Beast Gods is peculiar too; the galaxy holds it in high esteem, and the Sea God obeys its every command. If it wished, it could have become the divine being revered by all beasts. It envies the Destroyer God, but why did it contrive such a centuries-long plot to seize the legacy of the Beast Gods?"

"Life is not its greatest enemy—what nurtures it simultaneously desires its destruction. The implications here are abundant. Every life ultimately returns to dust; if I were Eden's Master, my ultimate pursuit would likely be eternal immortality. If only the world itself were truly eternal, then its aspiration would be to become the world itself."

All of this was a conjecture of Tang Xian.

Just like how modern people love to speculate about the personalities of ancient figures based on the works they left behind.

But in reality, moral character and creative work are entirely separate matters.

The greatness of Eden's Master, and its personality, are also entirely separate matters.

And yet Tang Xian had a peculiar feeling that his guesses were all correct.

The solitary and majestic existence—perhaps only he could truly understand it.

Zhong Yao felt something similar:

"It's astonishing, as if... you deeply understand the teacher. Whenever the teacher discussed these things, I always found them rather obscure."

"Perhaps it's because there is indeed some fated connection between me and it."

Tang Xian was silent for a moment. This uncanny sense of being in sync with Eden's Master was quite strange.

He shook his head and said:

"Time and again, Eden's Master emphasized that the world itself is unconscious. That unconsciousness has spawned many injustices. Perhaps these injustices carry within them its life or death."

"What does that mean, exactly?"

"Who knows? Is it the decay of its morality, or the distortion of its divinity? Only by venturing into Eden's ruins can we find out."

Tang Xian shrugged, appearing rather composed.

It seemed as though that haze-filled, golden ruin of chaos contained no real danger.

But the next day, when Zhong Yao offered to accompany Tang Xian, he tactfully declined.

"Someone must remain in the sanctuary to observe. By your account, the ruins contain multiple regions; we cannot leave through the maze region but must explore through other areas. In those places, I cannot guarantee your safety."

Tang Xian's attitude was resolute. He firmly refused to let Zhong Yao venture deep into the ruins with him.

Along the way, he had relied on his own observations to avoid numerous troubles, but likewise, he trusted his instincts.

Left with no choice, Zhong Yao stayed behind in the sanctuary.

Over the course of nearly four months, Tang Xian and Zhong Yao had gathered limited intelligence about the ruins. They could only ascertain roughly that the sanctuary was a flat, square world, with different ruins corresponding to the north, south, east, and west.

Among the four regions, Tang Xian chose the north.

At dusk, when the golden light was most vibrant and radiant, the sanctuary's area would rapidly expand. When the illusory sanctuary came into contact with those golden pillars of light, the ruins representing reality would slowly be devoured.

The domain of Eden's Master was expanding little by little, while this world was being consumed bit by bit.

At its current pace, Eden's Master would need immense time to devour the entire mining world.

But the mere possibility was enough to strike fear.

Previously, Tang Xian had attempted to directly approach the boundary between the ruins and the sanctuary, but it felt as though he had suddenly stepped into an eternal milestone; within a mere few hundred-meter distance, Tang Xian walked for four hours.

Four hours later, he found that the distance to the ruins seemed just as far as it had been four hours earlier.

A certain force was stopping him.

He, already without a physical form, was unable to touch the tangible reality of this world.

Yet, at dusk, when the expanding Eden sanctuary consumed the edges of the ruins, the two worlds would momentarily connect.

Tang Xian had pinpointed that critical moment.

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