Once, I wanted to be a good person

Among the two elder men, one was dressed in a simple martial arts uniform, and the muscles on his body were like sculptures, making the uniform taut! Just a glance, and it seemed you could see his dominance and strength!

The other, however, was dressed in splendid attire, wearing the Three-Treasures Glazed Crown on his head, with his hands clasped behind him. He exuded no aura, and his expression was calm, as if he were just an ordinary old man....

At this moment, looking at the elder in the martial arts uniform, the elder wearing the crown spoke slowly, "Bai Qingcang, are you sure you want to stop me?"

Hearing the crowned elder's words, Bai Qingcang, also known as Old Mr. Bai, looked at him sharply with eyes like knives, then said, "Galan Houde, it's not that I want to stop you. It's that you've betrayed the Human Race, betrayed this world, and I have no choice but to stop you!"

Upon hearing Old Mr. Bai's words, Galan Houde showed no shame on his face. With his hands behind his back and eyes devoid of joy or sorrow, he said calmly, "Betrayal? Are you a child of thirty or forty?"

"Only when there is loyalty can there be betrayal afterward."

"We Awakeners, upon embarking on the Extraordinary Path, everything we do is for transcendence, to control our own destiny, thus we are only loyal to our own hearts, loyal to the path in our hearts."

"In this way, how am I betraying anyone?"

Saying this, he took a look at Old Mr. Bai, "Is that what you figured out in your Yang Transformation stage's Questioning Heart?"

Hearing Galan Houde's words, Old Mr. Bai sneered, "Isn't that something I should be asking you?"

"Your so-called Questioning Heart is to forget the world, forget race, forget everything, just cultivate your own path?"

"In doing so, you believe you can easily betray your own world, betray your own race, and invite an external invasion? What's the difference between you after your Questioning Heart and a beast?!"

"No wonder your father named you 'Houde', he probably knew that a person should have what they're missing in their name! Hahaha!"

Hearing Old Mr. Bai's personal attack, Galan Houde didn't get angry in the slightest, not even the indifferent expression on his face changed.

The decades gone by had already made his heart firm as a rock, steady as Tai Shan. Without this State of Mind, he wouldn't be one of the two Absolute Pinnacle demigods in the Eastern Administrative Region.

So he only glanced faintly at Old Mr. Bai and replied, "During the Outer Realm war, you were recognized as having a bizarre temper and being domineering with no demeanor of a master."

"That's why you've been stuck at the Ascension stage, unable to reach the Absolute Pinnacle."

"I thought that over fifty years, with heart cultivation, your temper would have calmed. Yet it turns out you're still the same as before."

Old Mr. Bai laughed heartily upon hearing this and said, "Yes, back then, I indeed fell behind you and Li Si, not entering the Absolute Pinnacle. But I was carefree and at ease!"

"You all severed emotions and desires, sat high above, but how could you understand the joy I find in mocking and jesting?"

"True, I have no demeanor of a master, and in novels or movies, I might seem more like a villain or an extra!"

"But it doesn't matter, I'm happy! Whenever I see people like you, I feel like cursing!"

"Not only do I want to curse you, but also your ancestors of eight generations! Call you a son of a b****!"

Before he finished a sentence, Old Mr. Bai started cursing again, and the more he cursed, the more spirited he became!

One vulgar word after another spewed from his mouth, making the guards on the city walls and the hundreds of thousands of troops from Tuoya State outside the city wear slightly peculiar expressions.

Since the federation's establishment, no demigods have emerged, and the world has been peacefully for fifty years. Apart from higher-ups or noble families' offspring, who has seen a demigod?

So, most people harbor a kind of awe and longing for these founders of the federation.

But today, for the first time, these hundreds of thousands witnessed a demigod, and it was such an unusual one, instantly shattering their worldview.

At this moment, being cursed by Old Mr. Bai in front of so many people, Galan Houde couldn't maintain his composure. Let alone being an Absolute Pinnacle demigod and the Pope of the entire Tuoya State, even an ordinary person would find it quite humiliating to be pointed at and cursed like this.

Thus, his perpetually calm face involuntarily turned cold, "Enough!"

He gazed at Old Mr. Bai, eyes gloomy, "Bai Qingcang, what's the point of a quick tongue? Don't you want to stop me? Then let's meet in combat and see what's real."

Upon hearing Galan Houde's words, Old Mr. Bai stopped his cursing tirade. He straightened up, turned back to take a complex look at Congyun City, and then at the vast desert behind it.

His gaze seemed to pierce through everything, seeing Xida State now plunged into chaos, seeing Xida Country, for which he once gave up everything, long ago....

A trace of nostalgia was in his eyes....

After a moment, he turned to look at Galan Houde and then suddenly laughed with boundless freedom, "Originally, I wanted to keep you a few more minutes. But since you're so eager to be reborn, I might as well send you on your way early!"

"That way you can catch tonight's last ride!"

Hearing Old Mr. Bai's arrogant words, Galan Houde frowned slightly, feeling increasingly displeased.

In his lifetime, he was recognized at birth as the reincarnation of a True God, awakened at one, fused at ten, nurtured his body until 17, ascended the Spirit, and the same year underwent Yang Transformation. Started Questioning Heart.