NABC Chapter 8 The God-Making Project: Xu Xinghan's Lofty Ideal!
Chapter 8 The God-Making Project: Xu Xinghan's Lofty Ideal!
"Tell me your name." She suddenly spoke, her tone no longer sharp, but still very cold.
"Xu Xinghan".
"Xu Xinghan." Xue Di repeated the name, as if trying to remember it. "Tell me, what kind of immortality do you mean by that?"
Upon hearing this question, Xu Xinghan knew that the first door had been opened.
He countered by asking Xue Di if she knew the difference between humans and soul beasts.
Upon hearing this, Xue Di's brows furrowed slightly.
"The difference?" she asked coldly. "Soul beasts have long lifespans, while humans are fleeting. Soul beasts cultivate through years of accumulation, while humans rely on talent and opportunity. Soul beasts' strength diminishes significantly after transforming into human form, while humans have limitless potential after awakening their martial soul. Which one do you want to hear?"
Xu Xinghan shook his head.
"Neither."
Xue Di was silent for two seconds, a hint of impatience flashing in her icy blue eyes.
"So what exactly are you trying to say?"
"What I want to say is—" Xu Xinghan drawled, his silver hair slipping down his shoulder as he tilted his head slightly, "Humans can become gods, but soul beasts cannot. That's the biggest difference."
Xue Di was taken aback upon hearing this.
She recalled what happened ten thousand years ago.
At that time, the world changed color, and several deities appeared one after another on the Douluo Continent.
At that time, she was still wondering when she would be able to become a god.
Xu Xinghan held up one finger and shook it in front of him.
"Do you even know that soul beasts can never become gods?"
Inside the hall—no, within the sealed space—the stagnant chill seemed to freeze for a moment.
Xue Di's gaze shifted from Xu Xinghan's face to the gray light, then back again.
"What did you say?"
"I said, soul beasts can never become gods."
"How is this possible?"
Snow Emperor said in disbelief.
In all the knowledge she had ever encountered, no one had ever stated that soul beasts could not become gods; at most... at most, they would just face some difficulties in cultivation...
Thinking of this, Xue Di dared not continue thinking about it.
She suddenly realized that although the human's words seemed full of loopholes, they could be connected at the most crucial points.
She was somewhat hesitant to accept it, but that was exactly the kind of hesitation Xu Xinghan wanted from her, and continued:
"The reason why soul beasts cannot become gods lies with the Dragon God."
"Dragon God?"
Xue Di's brows furrowed even more.
Of course she knew about the Dragon God.
The faith of Emperor Tian, the Beast God of the Star Dou Great Forest, is solely driven by the desire to see the Dragon God reappear.
Di Tian once personally went to the far north to find her, saying that an avatar of the Dragon God was hiding in the Star Dou Great Forest, trying to make her submit.
However, he was rejected by Xue Di.
Because she worshipped the Ice God.
The meeting ended unhappily, and when Di Tian left, he looked at her as if she were an ungrateful fool.
"What does the Dragon God have to do with this?" Xue Di's voice was low, carrying a tension that even she herself didn't realize.
Xu Xinghan took a deep breath, as if he was about to drop a bombshell.
"The Dragon God once wanted to lead the God Realm to advance and become a God Star. But he failed. His son, the Dragon Prince, was instigated by the Time-Space Dragon King and sacrificed himself. When the Dragon God saw his son dead, he went mad and slaughtered the God Realm from top to bottom."
Xue Di's breathing paused for a moment.
"And then?"
"Later, the Dragon God regained his senses and exiled himself. Before leaving, he made a vow—if the Dragon God does not return, no soul beast can become a god."
The sealed space was so quiet that you could hear the ice walls cracking.
The icy blue halo in Xue Di's pupils trembled violently, like two stars about to shatter.
For the first time, a human expression appeared on that exquisitely beautiful face.
That was a smile of relief.
She recalled the obsession that had burned for hundreds of thousands of years in Di Tian's golden vertical pupils, the fervor and piety in the Beast God's voice every time he mentioned the Dragon God, and the last words he spoke to her after she rejected him in the far north—
"One day you will understand that the Dragon God is the only way out for soul beasts."
So, what you, Di Tian, have been pursuing for hundreds of thousands of years is nothing more than a shackle imposed by the one you believe in?
Xue Di felt that Di Tian was not worth it.
She closed her eyes, her icy blue eyelashes trembling slightly, as if processing the information she already knew.
She did not doubt the authenticity of Xu Xinghan's information.
He described these little-known secrets vividly, as if they were not a spur-of-the-moment decision, but rather something he had prepared for a long time.
Although Xue Di didn't know how a human could know such secrets, she found that she seemed to be seeing through the person in front of her more and more.
It was a long time before she opened her eyes again.
There was something in those eyes that Xinghan had never seen before.
A weariness that comes from seeing through the truth.
"What do you want by telling me all this?"
Xu Xinghan squatted down again, looking directly into those icy blue eyes, a slight smile playing on his lips.
"I told you long ago, I want to make a deal with you that will grant me eternal life."
"What do you want me to do?"
"It's not about what I want you to do." Xu Xinghan stretched out his hand, palm up, fingers slightly spread. "It's about whether you're willing to cooperate with me and forge a path to immortality."
Xue Di stared at that hand and remained silent for a long time.
The icy blue light flickered in her eyes, like the aurora borealis shimmering in the winter night of the far north.
"How will you achieve the immortality you speak of?"
Xu Xinghan stood up, held up two fingers, and said:
"First—you sacrifice yourself to me and become my wisdom soul ring."
"Secondly—with your help, I will cultivate and become stronger, and eventually become a god."
Xu Xinghan spoke casually.
The expression on Xue Di's face visibly darkened.
"What does your becoming a god have to do with me?"
"When I become a god, you, as my wisdom soul ring, will naturally live forever with me."
"Where do you get the confidence to claim you can cultivate yourself into a god?"
Xue Di's voice turned cold again; the slight easing of her earlier tone had vanished, replaced by scrutiny and suspicion.
Xu Xinghan did not speak.
He stood up, took two steps back, and spread his hands out as if displaying a product.
"Based on my talent."
Xue Di's gaze fell on him, sweeping over him inch by inch from head to toe.
This time she looked at it much more carefully than before.
She then realized that the human in front of her was only eighteen years old in terms of bone age, but was already a seventy-first level Soul Saint.
It is indeed among the best in the human world.
However, what was discovered next made the leader of the Three Kings of the Far North completely uneasy.
Xu Xinghan's soul power is far superior to that of others of the same level. Although he is only at level 71, its quality is in no way inferior to that of a Soul Douluo.
She did know about this cultivation method; it was an essential path on the road to compressing soul power and condensing a soul core.
As for mental strength and physical body...
That shocked her even more.
Because she discovered that Xu Xinghan's mental strength and physical strength had almost reached the level of a Title Douluo.
Moreover, it possesses twin martial souls.
Xue Di's expression changed.
In her long life of seven hundred thousand years, she had never seen another human like this.
Even among the geniuses recorded in ancient books, few have reached this level at this age.