This is an unavoidable step in which the Gospel Box fragment selects its leader.
But the Divine Infant… is different.
A leader by birth.
The Divine Infant is, from the moment of birth, the optimal candidate for the Fire Seed.
From this point of view, the level of life of the Divine Infant is in fact higher than that of the other Divine Thrones.
Yet Gu Shen never thought of himself as the Divine Infant.
He never felt that he was someone who had lived on from a pre‑ancient civilization to the present… he had his own vivid memories.
Growing up on Wulaoshan in Qinghe District, every minute and every second of these more than twenty years belonged to the life of him, Gu Shen.
Even if his body changed, these memories would not.
So at this moment Gu Shen's tone was very humble.
"Senior."
The golden gauze curtain fluttered in the wind.
The woman on the Throne looked at the two figures—one large, one small—floating over, and said with a soft smile, "Gu Shen, we meet again."
