In the Divine Hall, the owl completely stopped thinking, fell to the ground, and together with the resting Xue Dili, lay as if dead.

And in her mind, it wasn't just the memories of Xue Dili she experienced, but simultaneously, she witnessed the journey of the Great Sage...

...

It was a completely destroyed world, a land of steel, the entire planet had become a Dead Star, leaving only the last Gravekeeper.

"Take them away... Thank you... Savior..."

This was the planet of the Great Sage's last journey of salvation and the end of his life; the elderly man chose to conclude his journey here.

The Gravekeeper had long since died, and the final conversation with the Great Sage was merely with a withered, resentful soul.

When the Great Sage took the hive, he fell silent.

This mutated flesh hive was theoretically a spiritual ascension, storing the souls of the whole world within it. As the last living being, the Gravekeeper would watch over it for thousands or tens of thousands of years, until he found a Savior to take over the hive.

But the hive had been collapsing for unknown years.

The hive was theoretically a mental paradise where spirits could live in peace until real salvation arrived.

However, over time, the interior of the hive began to collapse, and more and more spirits turned into twisted, bizarre aberrations, constantly assimilating the remaining normal spirits around them.

If the hive were a life form and the spirits its cells, then almost 99.9% of the cells in this hive had turned cancerous.

The Gravekeeper believed he was guarding his civilization's only hope, but he was completely unaware that the paradise of the past within the hive was the true Mortal World Hell.

The Great Sage held the hive in his hand, the weight of a civilization, precisely 1867 grams.

Eighty billion souls' weight, now a twisted hell inside.

"So, you've come." The Great Sage looked in Athena's direction.

And Athena, she was silent; she realized this elderly man had crossed unknown time and space, crossed fate, to speak with her.

"Perhaps my journey has also reached its end. I'm tired too," the Great Sage said calmly, looking at Athena as if he could see through fate, see through everything.

"From now on, I'll leave my incapable student in your care." The Great Sage smiled, looked at the Gravekeeper turned to ashes, and ultimately decided to fulfill this homeland soul's request.

On this Dead Star, under Athena's witness, the young mage who had fled when he was young let the blood on his hands merge into the hive, using his last abilities for this unknown civilization.

Cursed Blood, full power.

"Buzz!"

The "suffering" of the eighty billion beings was all transferred onto him at once, yet he felt no pain in the end; he seemed to smile, uttering his last farewell.

The Cursed Blood dissipated in the sky, leaving only echoes over the dead silent planet.

"Old friend, we're going home..."

A noble soul, dying in a foreign land.

And the new birth of that civilization, containing eighty billion beings.

...

Athena was unsure of her feelings right now.

Because what she saw next was a young child, taking up his teacher's Treasure, setting out on a new journey under his teacher's final instruction.

That child saw the twilight of the gods, saw the world's end by the great flood.

The World Thief destroyed the world for his own desires, buried history, and created his monotheistic, reborn "Paradise"!

He would confront the World Thief, destroy the prologue to destruction, and then, without any hesitation, would utter the same words as his "Great Sage" teacher.

Cursed Blood, full power.

With the suffering of eighty billion souls!

...

Athena was silent; she couldn't understand why there would be such an old and young duo.

A world completely unrelated to them, people they didn't know, yet why did they nearly make the same choice?

Even if it meant dying in a foreign land.

Not for profit, not for power.

For people they didn't even know, was it all worth it?

It seemed too cruel to themselves!

Was this their enlightenment...

Unable to understand, unable to think.

Athena's mind completely went blank; she even began to question who she truly was. Was she still that Virgin Goddess of Olympus, Athena?

Personality is shaped by memories.

But now, Athena had witnessed thousands of years of history, traveled through billions of worlds, and roamed the unknown stars.

In the external world, mere seconds passed, but in the spiritual world, it felt like experiencing thousands of years, with now only a small corner left of her experiences as "Athena" in her mind.

Who is she now?

Athena? Xue Dili? Or the Great Sage?

She couldn't tell, truly couldn't tell, as endless information washed over her, almost causing her to lose her way.

She experienced the destinies of millions of worlds through Xue Dili, each world's epicness not inferior to Athena's life.

Especially the convictions of those two, the old and the young, gave her a profound shock across countless parallel worlds.

Now she was like the "Athena who returned from all worlds," completely diverging from her former Virgin Goddess self.

In a way, she had already "fallen into darkness."

When she came to her senses, it was already deep into the night, the moon outside the window shining on the dilapidated temple, and Xue Dili had long fallen asleep.

Athena was still unable to recover; the information received at that moment was too overwhelming, her personality nearly dispersed, her mind almost twisted into that of another's, much still needed processing, including the theft of the world she had seen by Zeus and the purpose of the child before her.

Olympus? Greece? The Aegean Sea? What the gods once believed to be the entire world seemed utterly absurd to her now.

Perspective, scale, experience, and thinking, everything had fundamentally changed, Athena looked at the sleeping child before her.

The twilight of the gods, the great flood, the Seven Days of Destruction, the manipulated history, and finally, Zeus would create Eden, a Paradise.

All these endings would have to be borne alone by the child before her, standing up to Zeus's awakening.

She too had to do something.

Whether as Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, or as the Great Sage's teacher who crossed endless space, she had to do something.

This world shouldn't be entirely borne by a stranger.

A white owl approached Xue Dili, wrapping him in its wings unknown to anyone, saying, "May your journey always go forward, child."

The white owl vanished, transforming into an armor of plumes covering Xue Dili.

Another pure white owl took flight, leaving the place, determined to do something.

Child, I have felt your determination, your awareness, your everything.

So now, we shall become one, no longer for personal desire, no longer for this boring theatrical performance.

A white stream turned into a meteor crossing all of Greece, heading to Olympus.

She had realized many things, this world was fake, and the stars overhead were also fake.

In this world, there was not a planet, but an upside-down bowl, where east of Troy was the world's end, and beyond the zodiac was the sky's end.

No stars, no planets, the sun was the Sun God's chariot, the stars were fallen heroes...

The end of the Aegean Sea was the end of the world.

How absurd and ridiculous... an understanding!

She even felt embarrassed and ridiculous for her previous understanding of the world, realizing that the so-called gods of Olympus were just beasts with power.

Every day they would either watch hero stories or breed, like beasts with nothing left if not for breeding.

And once, she had been a pathetic caged bird trapped in a "Aegean" prison.

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