The dark shadow took step after step towards Zhao Shuning.
Zhao Shuning's eyes were firm.
Just as the dark shadow was about to touch the palm of Zhao Shuning's hand, it suddenly stopped.
Then it let out a desolate and sarcastic laugh.
Zhao Shuning forced herself to stay calm.
She said, "Regretting it?"
The Millennium Stone Soul said, "You humans are really ridiculous. You think you can control this god with just a few words. How laughable!"
"You think this god will believe your words. You yourself said that human hearts are full of tricks. You're luring me into your spiritual world like this. This god doesn't believe you have no ulterior motives."
Zhao Shuning's heart was pounding wildly.
This thing.
It was really hard to coax.
However, at this moment, Zhao Shuning showed not the slightest bit of panic on her face. She remained as calm as ever.
She retracted her hand, turned her back, and neither defended herself nor said a word.
The desolate laugh of the Millennium Stone Soul received no response, and finally it stopped.
It stared at Zhao Shuning's back and said, "What? Did this god say something wrong?"
"You're really pitiful."
A long sigh.
"This god is a divine being. How can it be pitied by a lowly race like you? You are the truly pitiful ones."
"Even so, what can you do? Even if you've lived for thousands or tens of thousands of years, longer than anyone in this world, so what? You're just a dark shadow. You have no sense of presence, and others can't recognize you through your appearance. No matter how powerful you are, you live so lonely. You probably haven't trusted anyone in these thousands of years. Your heart is actually humble and cowardly. You guard against everything, always thinking you're at the top, looking down on everyone?"
"Stone Soul, do you know why Mo Bai was able to successfully seal the resentment of thousands of souls under your control? Do you know why Luo Qiu was willing to give up the chance of reincarnation and give her memory and spiritual power to me? Do you know why my grandfather, Ye Feng, was willing to sacrifice his lifetime - proud spiritual power just to let me and Xing Chen survive?"
"Stone Soul, you have a narrow mind. All you can see are those dirty things. You're selfish. All you can use is the evil side of human nature."
"Boundless love. Its power is far stronger than the power of greed."
The aura around the dark shadow was extremely solemn.
This little thing.
Was she mocking it?
By what right?
Human nature was inherently evil.
"What do you want to say?"
Zhao Shuning gave a charming smile, showing all the charm of a worldly woman.
"I'm laughing at you, laughing at your ignorance, your cowardice, at you for living so many years in vain, at you for spending your whole life trying to reach the highest position, but now you're scared."
"This god is scared?"
"You're scared. Of course you are. You're scared of me."
"You're just a lowly mortal. How could this god take you seriously?"
"You're scared of me, scared that I'll destroy your beliefs, scared that you can't control me, scared that in the end what I'll show you is the truth, goodness and beauty in the human world, scared that everything you've been pursuing will be overthrown and disrupted by me."
"Little thing, you're talking nonsense."
Zhao Shuning laughed.
"People are not born with a fixed nature. They can be either good or evil, but the drive towards goodness is always stronger than that towards evil."
"Arrogant! How many times have you been abandoned by this world, how many times have you been hurt by the people on this vast continent, and how many times have you died at the hands of the people you trusted most? Yet you still believe there's goodness and love in the human world. How laughable! Human emotions are truly extremely stupid."
Zhao Shuning fixed her gaze, turned around, and was extremely firm.
"Since you're so firm in your thoughts, then, Stone Soul, are you brave enough to make a bet with me?"
Since the Stone Soul had no physical form, Zhao Shuning didn't know what it was thinking at this moment.
The Millennium Stone Soul was silent. Then it said, "You're different, but this god has no need to bet with you."
"Is it that you have no need, or that you're afraid?"
Zhao Shuning raised her delicate eyebrows slightly, looking disdainful.
"Or perhaps, Stone Soul, you're scared?"
"What a joke! This god is nurtured by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. There's an essential difference between this god and you flesh - and - blood mortals. This god is not afraid."
Zhao Shuning continued, "You're just scared. It's not that hard to admit that you have something to be afraid of."
"Then tell me what this god is afraid of."
"You're afraid of human emotions. They're the most unpredictable and hard - to - grasp things. You can use them, but you can't completely figure out how far they can go. Stone Soul, you're just a spiritual stone under the seat of an ancient great emperor. You have no emotions, so you can't experience the beauty in them. You disdain emotions and use the weaknesses in human emotions because you've never had such things yourself. You're jealous of humans, envious that they can have joys, sorrows, loves and hatreds."
"But you think too highly of yourself. How could you ask for the emotions of a human who's much weaker than you? So you infinitely magnify the evil and desires of humans, making the evil in their hearts gradually sink into the abyss and gradually cover the most beautiful and pure goodness in their hearts at first."
"If you didn't guide them or use your power to confuse them, do you think they would still sink into the abyss as you expect?"
The Stone Soul looked at the little thing in front of it.
She was really noisy.
It wanted to make this little thing shut up. It wanted to find an excuse to refute her.
However, after searching through its thousands of years of memories, it couldn't find a single word to refute this little thing.
"You're afraid that your beliefs of thousands of years will finally be defeated by the humans you look down on the most."
"You're even more afraid of their good intentions and their emotions. You're afraid they'll become a huge energy that you can never master or control. You're afraid they'll eventually destroy you."
"Shut up!"
"You're just scared. Why not admit it?"
"This god fears no one."
"Then, what are you hesitating and looking around for now if not because of fear?"
The Stone Soul was silent. Then it suddenly burst into laughter.
Zhao Shuning was a bit dazed by its sudden laughter again.
Really.
If this dark shadow had a physical form, Zhao Shuning would definitely think it was a strange laughing thing walking on the vast continent.
After a long time, the laughter stopped. The dark shadow slowly approached Zhao Shuning.
"Fine, this god will bet with you."
Zhao Shuning stretched out her hand again.
The blood on it hadn't dried yet.
"It's just a blood oath. Even if this god divides half of its subjective consciousness to you, you still can't escape this god's control."
The dark shadow instantly penetrated Zhao Shuning's palm.
A red light and its black light.
Fused.
Converged.
Everything around began to slowly collapse.
Everything.
Slowly got back on track.