Pretending To Be A Boss

Divine Realm.

Gu Yin found Song Que to be a very uninteresting person. He did not hide his identity. In the future, he would inhabit this place forever, so having someone to talk to wouldn't be too bad to ease the loneliness.

When Song Que learned that Gu Yin was the creator, his expression was quite remarkable.

Because Gu Yin not only created them but also endowed them with personalities. That means the Four Fierce Beasts, the twelve Judgment Chiefs of the court, those mythical creatures in what seemed like myths—sacred beasts, fierce beasts, and demon beasts—all had their nasty personalities bestowed by Gu Yin.

What surprised Gu Yin was that this seemingly spotless young man could so easily accept someone with such a dark history like himself.

He felt that Song Que might not be just a simple person blindly pursuing justice.

Song Que learned many stories from Gu Yin, and Gu Yin also discovered many things about the human world from Song Que.

For the two of them, it wasn't boring, but it was somewhat dull.

Until a third person came to Baichuan City.

Junlin.

When Gu Yin saw Junlin, he opened his mouth wide and was speechless, his mind racing.

Especially when he saw Junlin also looking confused, Gu Yin understood what was happening.

"So you're dead. Looks like you lost."

After Gu Yin said this, he frowned:

"No, if you're dead, there's no reason for Tang Xian to still be alive. This divine realm should have collapsed."

"Where is this place?"

In the divine realm, Junlin unexpectedly could speak. Song Que had seen Junlin before, who was the strongest among the group of companions around Tang Xian.

"You have arrived in the divine realm, which likely means you have died. What happened outside?"

Compared to the two humans, Junlin appeared much more robust.

The three stood together, looking very out of place.

For Gu Yin, Junlin would always be grateful:

"I think I have already died. I used the most forbidden technique..."

Junlin treated this place as a posthumous world and slowly began to recount what had happened in recent days.

Gu Yin and Song Que were thoroughly captivated.

Upon hearing that Junlin single-handedly withstood the annihilating thunder catastrophe unleashed by the Master of Eden, Gu Yin couldn't help but exclaim.

Time passed slowly, and when the story ended, the three of them went their separate ways.

Junlin was still quite unfamiliar with this world.

Song Que lay on a sickbed, waiting for the day he could leave here.

Gu Yin knew he was forever imprisoned here, so he did not have any expectations and simply drew all kinds of creatures in the divine realm.

Originally, it seemed that the three of them would quietly pass the time like this until Song Que would leave, and Gu Yin and Junlin would remain here forever.

But no one expected that the first to leave here was Junlin.

Junlin's figure gradually became faint.

"What... what is happening to me? Why do I feel an invisible force pulling me?"

Gu Yin and Song Que happened to be present, and the two exchanged glances, both feeling astonished.

"You... are not dead?"

Gu Yin couldn't imagine the annihilating strike of the Master of Eden, which even the Beast God would likely be unable to withstand.

Junlin was supposed to be dead beyond doubt, but now that his figure was fading, it could only mean one thing—he was about to leave the divine realm.

So not only did he not die, but he was showing signs of recovery within just a few days.

"Unbelievable! Unbelievable! One day you will undoubtedly be the most powerful monster in the entire world! Hahaha... hahahahahaha!"

Gu Yin was crazily ecstatic, like Fan Jin passing the imperial exam.

Song Que didn't understand this kind of joy, this feeling of having created something superior to all living beings, which only a pure creator could comprehend.

Junlin looked at his gradually disappearing body with a sense of bewilderment:

"Could it be... I'm really not dead?"

Gu Yin slowly calmed his emotions, still somewhat excitedly saying:

"Go, my child. Your end is not here; your journey is far from over."

...

In a part of the world where the Mechanical Kingdom was located, it had become a wasteland. On the open ground, a lifeform with a shattered Soul Crystal began to show faint signs of life.

In Junlin's mind, within the cracks of the shattered orange Soul Crystal, red substances began to emerge.

These substances gradually filled in Junlin's Soul Crystal, slowly making it whole again, though its color was a blend of orange and red.

Days later, the creature that was supposed to be dead slowly opened its eyes.

Junlin's expression was still bewildered.

He's heard of Soul Crystals still existing after death, but never of surviving with a shattered Soul Crystal.

Not only Junlin, but Tang Xian hadn't expected this at all, unable to fathom how Junlin could survive.

Perhaps it was a posthumous recognition of Junlin's ultimate resolve by the God of Destruction?

Those red crystals seemed like the last thing it did. Perhaps, for the God of Destruction, it was never the Challengers choosing its legacy, but it choosing the Challenger.

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The 16,739,027th world.

In the configuration of the Master of Eden, this world had a lengthy serial number, but Tang Xian still preferred to call it the Wasteland.

The true Wasteland.

Not long ago, Tang Xian was trapped in this Wasteland. Due to different time dimensions, he underwent nearly two years of a harsh journey of oblivion.

The mountains were still those same mountains, but viewed from here, the view was far more expansive than before.