"You are just a dog of my true self."

Never doubt the wisdom of the strong, as wisdom is an important criterion for measuring the strength of the strong.

The young boy from the fishing village who walked on the beach, stepping on the footprints of the Goddess Mills, could not have embarked on the path to becoming a god without astonishing wisdom.

Karun had deliberately created a few coincidences before, and the deliberate taste had already faded, giving a natural and sufficient feeling.

However, in the presence of Lord Dar, he did not assume that the young man in front of him was a kindred spirit with similar temperament and experiences, but immediately realized that this young man was likely related to him.

Because Lord Dar knew very well what he was.

He was a god, with a long life that gave him terrifying experiences, and standing at a high position gave him an unimaginable perspective.

However, when Lord Dar said this sentence, Karun was still a little confused.

Lord Dar guessed correctly.

He had grasped the true nature of the matter, almost without any deviation, like looking in a mirror, but... it was reversed.

It was true that he had become a dog, but it was not the young man in front of him who had become a dog, but his true self, which was actually himself.

But this opposite conclusion was not Lord Dar's fault. Karun's appearance was already an exception, and the only equivalent exception that could be found now was in the descriptions of the birth of the God of Order in "The Light of Order".

In addition, at that time, Karun had a special grandfather by his side, a grandfather who did not want to become an elder of the temple and did not want to serve the gods up close, but only wanted to pave the way for his grandson while rebelling.

Even so, when Dis tried to deal with Randal in a special state of existence, he had no way, and even burned his own hand. After all, a god was a god, even if he was extremely weak, as long as he opened his eyes, it was difficult to measure him with common sense.

In fact, even if he was squeezed out of his own transformed body, Randal was still far away from becoming a dog, and it was almost impossible.

It was Dis's fault that he opened a hole in his own chest and his grandson's chest in order to catch him, and it was also fortunate that Dis had an old friend, Kevin, for many years.

After a while of kneading and rubbing, when Randal himself hadn't reacted, he had already become fluffy and wagging his tail.

"What is the state of my true self now?"

Well, since Lord Dar had directly entered the next topic, Karun could not actively correct his mistake. He couldn't just tell him directly:

No, I am not your dog, but you are indeed my dog.

"It..."

Karun pursed his lips and said again, "You are fine, but also not fine."

"My true self is not in danger, and he is doing well?"

"Yes."

"But he is very weak now?"

"Yes."

"Ah, that's to be expected, but for him now, it's actually quite good. As long as he is still alive and there is no danger, he can always find a way to recover bit by bit."

"Yes, that's what I am doing."

"Well, then let's continue with the emotional and rational aspects. Hmm, I will protect you."

"Thank you."

"Ah..."

Lord Dar stretched lazily and yawned, saying, "Actually, my current state is completely different from what he expected. He left this spiritual imprint of me here originally to conveniently transport garbage."

"Well, I know."

"But due to the long seal and some special factors, hehe, I have become different. Can you see it?"

"Yes."

"Oh, you can see this?"

"Yes, I can feel that you are not just a pure spiritual imprint. You have long transcended this level."

"Hehe, yes. Tell me, where did you see it?"

"In the Burning Valley, it's so quiet."

"Hahaha, because I'm hungry. The commotion caused by Rirelsa was too big. When she just woke up, I was awakened. That woman is a lunatic, including the Wall God Church she created. In my opinion, the most suitable place for that church to preach should be in a mental asylum."

"I also think so."

From Linda to his father-in-law, Karun deeply felt their abnormality.

"Do you know that I have a grudge against her?"

"Yes."

"Oh, he told you about this too. Well, since he even told you about the Mills incident, he must trust you a lot.""Yes."

"Are you an orphan?"

"No, I just wanted to get your attention."

"Oh, I see. Is your family powerful?"

"Yes."

"Did your family protect my true form?"

"Yes."

"Hehe, I don't know why, but I find it hard to believe. Maybe it's because our conversation has been too smooth. What do you think?"

"Is smooth communication a bad thing?"

"No, it's not. Do you know why our communication is so smooth? It's because you haven't kneeled."

Karun is still standing.

"Do I need to kneel?" Karun asked.

"Do you need to kneel when you talk to him?"

"No."

"You don't fear me. You have been talking to me as equals, which is why our communication is so smooth. In fact, I feel that addressing me with 'you' is already your biggest concession and compromise."

Karun fell silent.

Lord Darl continued, "I am starting to doubt the relationship between my true form and you. Hehe, you just lied to me, didn't you? You're not his dog?"

"I didn't lie to you because when you brought up the topic of 'dog,' I didn't give a definite answer."

"Hmm." Lord Darl nodded. "But communication based on asymmetric information and intentional deception is unreliable."

"But you promised to protect us."

"I will protect you, but not them."

"What's the difference? Half of them are the future members of my team."

"Karun, don't you think it's ridiculous for you to talk to me like this?"

Karun shook his head.

"Or rather, why do you think that just because of your relationship with my true form, I must grant your every request? Just because he is my true form and I am merely his spiritual imprint?"

"No, I don't. If I really thought that way, I would have revealed the relationship between you and my true form when I first met you, instead of hinting at it here."

"Oh?"

"Because I have always been clear that you are you and he is he."

Hearing this, Lord Darl's hands trembled uncontrollably, and his mouth twitched. It was a sign of extreme comfort being suppressed.

Finally, Lord Darl couldn't hold it in any longer. He looked up and burst into laughter:

"Hahahaha!"

He laughed like a fool.

After laughing, Lord Darl wiped away his tears and asked, "So, everything before was just a setup, and your calculations were all leading up to this. But I have to admit, you succeeded. Just because of that last sentence, I really like you. Even if I don't consider my true form's face, I will still protect you."

"And my companions."

"We'll have to discuss your companions between you and me. Do you understand what I mean?"

"What do you need?"

"I don't know." Lord Darl spread his hands. "I'm not lying or teasing you. I really don't know what I need right now."

"That's simple."

"Simple?"

"You can agree to my request first, and when you figure out what you need, you can come find me."

"Is that possible?"

"It is."

"Hehe, alright. But now I need to confirm one thing, and that is your qualification. I need you to prove it to me."

"I can do that."

"Your family."

Karun closed his eyes and summoned the belief of his family within him. Soon, an old man wearing the robe of an elder from the Order of the Divine Temple appeared behind Karun.

The old man's figure quickly dissipated.

Karun opened his eyes again and looked at Lord Darl. "Is that enough?"

"That's enough." Lord Darl nodded. "But I don't know why, I'm not surprised at all that my true form relies on the internal power of the Order of the Divine Temple to survive. Although the God of Order suppressed him, he doesn't hate the God of Order as much as one would expect."

"I feel the same way."

"But I have a question now." Lord Darl walked out from behind the desk. "Even if you can owe me, after you leave this time, you should never enter the Gate of Reincarnation again. So theoretically, what you owe me can never be repaid."

Saying that, Lord Darl raised his hand and continued, "Don't say anything about repaying what you owe me to my true form. As you said earlier, he is him, and I am me."

"Can't you come out?"

The spiritual imprint in my study has moved with me when I moved houses."It used to be possible, but now, it can't come out." Lord Darl spread his palm and placed it in front of Karun, raising his chin. "Put your palm over here."

Karun placed his palm on top.

At the moment their palms touched, Karun sensed a warmth.

It wasn't just a simple heat, but it carried a sense of heaviness.

Lord Darl stared into Karun's eyes and said seriously, "If what you say next satisfies me, I will also protect your companions."

"I sensed a warmth with a sense of heaviness. It comes from the accumulation of the past, present, and future. This is not something that a spiritual imprint can possess, because a spiritual imprint can only stay in the moment it is divided and imprinted."

Lord Darl stared at Karun in astonishment. After a long while, he nodded and said, "You surprised me."

"What about my companions?"

"Don't be so materialistic."

"Alright, what about my companions..."

"I will protect all of you."

"Thank you."

"Heh, when it comes to one's own fundamental interests, one's propriety disappears."

"I think most people are like that."

"Yes, you're right."

Lord Darl separated the bookshelf in front of him, revealing a door and gesturing for Karun to come in with him.

After entering, Karun found that it was an endless expanse of dark ice. In the center, three ice cones stood, with the one in the middle being the tallest and largest, while the ones on the sides were smaller.

Lord Darl walked to the three ice cones and clapped his hands.

The one in the middle lit up, but it was empty inside.

"So, you were sealed in here?"

"Yes, I was sealed in here." Lord Darl clapped his hands again, and the ice cones on both sides also lit up, revealing two replicas of Rane Dahl.

These two replicas of Rane Dahl looked exactly like the one Karun knew, but they were not physical entities.

As for the Lord Darl beside him, he had a physical body and seemed to have possessed a puppet.

"When I woke up, my first feeling was hunger. Heh, I could actually sense hunger, which is truly amazing. Then, when I looked around, I was almost scared."

"Who are these two?"

"I'm certain that my original self only left behind one spiritual imprint, which is me. These two, they are weak but still exist."

"Can they come out as well?"

"No, they can't come out because they only exist in this absolute static state. One represents my past, and the other represents my future. It is because of their existence that I have this special warmth you mentioned, and oh, the heaviness."

"Is it because..."

Lord Darl looked at Karun curiously again, seemingly eager to hear what he would say next. "Tell me, let me see to what extent my original self has been honest with you."

"The power of time."

"I think I should reconsider the relationship between you and my original self. It's astonishing that it even told you about this."

"It's because the Order God Sect is also researching the power of time. They obtained a part of your original self's consciousness, and I happened to be chosen as an experimental subject to enter there. It didn't originally tell me about this, but it reluctantly informed me after I came into contact with it."

"Do you know why my original self was researching the power of time?"

【I'm willing to trace back time at all costs, just to return to the day you went to the sea.】

"It was for the Goddess Mills."

"Yes, that's right. Do you know, when I woke up and re-read my memories, I found it incredibly amazing. My original self actually embarked on the path of becoming a god for a woman, and not just any woman, but one who dared to touch the forbidden time laws that even the gods consider taboo.

What's even more amazing is... he actually succeeded."

"Did he succeed?" Karun asked.

"It's like you preparing to forge a divine weapon, and then, someone is born."

"This..."

"Someone is born, proving that there are people in this world who can survive and find a second opposite sex, reproduce and increase the population, give birth to beliefs and religions, and eventually, gods appear who can learn how to forge divine weapons.

Do you understand what I mean?"

"Yes, theoretically possible."

"Yes, my original self achieved it. In the special environment of the Gate of Reincarnation, he successfully allowed the spiritual imprint he left behind, which is me, to have a past and a future, to separate from him.

When I started to have a second interpretation of my memories, I developed a sense of self, which was even more shocking than the feeling of hunger, because I am not a clone or a puppet. I am just a spiritual imprint."

"Yes, it's very shocking. So, you can't leave the Gate of Reincarnation?""The Gate of Reincarnation can be imagined as a massive barrier that isolates everything. My past and future are sealed here, immovable and unmovable. If I were to leave the Gate of Reincarnation, it would be equivalent to severing ties with my past and future.

I would revert back to a pure spiritual imprint... which means that the current me would die."

"I understand. I will go back and tell him about this. He will definitely be very excited."

"But I don't think he has the ability to come in here to see me. Even back then, he could only enter here under the guise of running errands for the God of Reincarnation and secretly conduct experiments."

"Do you know about the events of this era?"

"I do. An entire fiery valley isn't for nothing. I know that the gods of this era are not active, but Rirelsa has already awakened. This is a beginning."

"Will the gods return one after another?"

"That's hard to say, because Rirelsa is a bit special. She isn't a return in the full sense of the word. But even a broken beginning can't erase its symbolic significance.

Hmm? No, that's not right!"

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Lord Dar, with his hand supporting his chin, pondered, "Actually, Rirelsa isn't the first to return. If we're really counting, wouldn't my true self have returned earlier than her?"

"But he is very weak," Karun reminded.

"Even a weak returnee is still a god. Although he only had the goddess in his heart back then and had no intention of establishing any church, you can't deny that he is a god."

"Yes, he is a god."

Evil gods are also gods, just like demons and priests. Obedient demons can become priests, and lost priests become demons.

"But that's not right either." Lord Dar furrowed his brows, "No, no, something still feels off."

"What's wrong?"

"I still feel that, under the backdrop of the gods' return, the first to return is my true self. It feels strange, unreal. It's like after breaking a city in a war, the first one to charge in on a horse should be the bravest general, not a cook in the army, don't you think?"

"Do you see yourself that way?"

"Because he is my true self, I feel this way. To put it more bluntly: I am not worthy to be the first god to return in this era.

By the way, how did my true self return?"

"Through a mysterious, ultra-high-level God Descending Ceremony."

"Who presided over it?"

"By the time the people from the Order of God and other religious orders sensed it and went there, the God Descending Ceremony had already ended."

"Since my true self is now with your family, it means that the original summoning target of that ultra-high-level God Descending Ceremony was not my true self. Otherwise, my true self would definitely be with the person who presided over the ceremony."

"Yes."

"Clap!"

Lord Dar slapped his palm, excited and agitated:

"Then it's very likely that the real summoning target of that ultra-high-level God Descending Ceremony is the first returning god!"

Karun: "......"

(End of Chapter)