The Demon with Holy Radiance

He was indeed acting, but when the Life Crane truly appeared, he felt a genuine chill crawl over his scalp.

None of his emotions toward that creature were feigned. In the Life Crane's presence, he couldn't have faked them even if he wanted to.

This was especially true after obtaining the real Golden Sun. The information he received through his Identification Ability further confirmed the accuracy of his earlier speculations.

The information box showed that it was a Xianyuan Forbidden Artifact from the Yang Side, not an Immortal Source Forbidden Artifact from the Origin Realm.

This proved that the Golden Sun held by the Life Crane was indeed the missing piece of the one he had fused with. Both originated from the Deep World.

The Life Crane had taken this piece before, and now it had returned it.

The Deep World and the Real World are truly connected!

Bow Lady was so stunned she couldn't recover for a long while. When the Life Crane appeared, she too had never imagined that the creature once killed by Yang An would return, even more powerful than before.

But she had never imagined that Yang An had foreseen all of this, piecing together the definite answer from various clues and traces.

It appeared as if the Life Crane was scheming to use the Forbidden Artifact Fragment to lure Yang An over. What it didn't know was that Yang An had already figured everything out. He hadn't been lured at all; he had come willingly.

The more she thought about it, the more muddled Bow Lady's thoughts became. 'How could I not have figured any of this out?'

"When did you get so smart, you little punk?"

Of course, Bow Lady's first instinct wasn't to question her own intelligence, but to suspect something was up with Yang An.

Yang An could only smile in response. If he had come without any preparations, he likely wouldn't even have known what killed him.

The Life Crane could choose to kill him or spare him. That decision depended not only on the Life Crane's whims, but also on his own reaction.

Had he rushed here in ignorance, even if he managed to evade the Life Crane's initial test using Moon Shadow, he likely wouldn't have survived the crisis when the Life Crane itself appeared.

If he did anything to displease the Life Crane, he wouldn't have passed this trial so easily.

"So, what's your plan now?"

Bow Lady quickly got back on topic. Even if Yang An had anticipated the Life Crane's return, the days ahead would surely be difficult without a solid plan.

Yang An fell into deep thought, as he was pondering the very same question.

Before meeting the Life Crane, he couldn't be entirely certain, but now he truly had to consider his next course of action.

This brought him back to the earlier question: Why would the Life Crane want to save the world?

He recalled what the Life Crane had told him earlier. The Golden Thread Pavilion and the Great Virtue Temple were now at war. Since the Great Virtue Temple had colluded with the other Three Domains, it was as if the Golden Thread Pavilion was fighting the major powers of three and a Half Domains all by itself.

This was all because the Three Domains and the Great Virtue Temple wanted to seize the half Command Token from the Golden Thread Pavilion, assemble the complete token, and enter the Central Continent.

However, the Life Crane did not want them to assemble the complete Command Token and enter the Central Continent, hence its resistance.

He then recalled what Huan had once said: that the Life Crane had betrayed the Earth Immortal Dao Sect and destroyed the entire Central Continent.

It was all starting to connect.

'Why does the Life Crane want to stop people from the Outer Continent from entering the Central Continent?'

'Was the Central Continent actually destroyed by the Life Crane, as Huan claimed?'

'And the most crucial point, something perhaps even Huan doesn't know... as the last one to have left the Central Continent, what exactly did the Life Crane do there? What did it see?'

Without a doubt, the reason it wanted to save the world—the origin of that very idea—most likely lay within the Central Continent!

Yang An had no desire to save the world. He would rather go with the flow and escape this world with the masses. The situation was far too murky, and he had only been in this world for a few short years.

He didn't understand this place well enough; the number of people he'd even met, let alone knew, was countable on one hand.

In a situation like this, his only desire was to look out for number one and ensure his own survival.

Regardless of whether the Life Crane's desire to save the world was genuine, he and it were not on the same path. The most important thing was finding a way to break free from its control.

Therefore, the biggest problem remained his own strength—an issue Yang An had consistently faced.

Even if he fused with the complete Golden Sun and broke through to the Insect Dao, he would still be no match for an Immortal Platform Life Crane.

But if the Golden Sun Daoist was real, then the Three Spiritual Light must be real too. If he could master the Three Spiritual Light, his power would be great enough that he wouldn't have to fear the Life Crane.

But that would put him in a paradoxical loop.

The Life Crane wanted him to help save the world and might help him gather the Three Spiritual Light. Whether it was for his benefit or for some other purpose, the Three Spiritual Light were a necessity.

The one who mastered the Three Spiritual Light would possess the ability to save the world. Since the Three Spiritual Light were created by the Golden Sun Daoist—the Creator—using his full power, they might come with some kind of restriction.

He didn't want to save the world, but he needed the Three Spiritual Light to break free from the Life Crane.

To obtain the Three Spiritual Light, while he was unable to escape, he would have to depend on the Life Crane.

By depending on the Life Crane, if he gathered the Three Spiritual Light, he would be forced to save the world.

It was a self-contradiction that went against everything Yang An believed, yet it formed a perfect, closed loop.

To break free from this loop and do as he pleased, his only hope was that the Three Spiritual Light was a power that transcended all else—a power that not even the Golden Sun Daoist or the Life Crane could withstand.

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