"Please, don't overthink it."
The Wind God knew what Su Zhou was about to say as soon as he started speaking. The Divine Being shook his head and laughed helplessly. "The last Fire God was a peculiar aggregate of Elemental Divine Beings. At the end of the Era, he forcibly absorbed the light and heat of all his people, attempting to use that immense power to break through to the Divine Realm and thereby shatter the cycle of Reincarnation."
"But he failed. Even after gathering all the power of the Era of Fire, he still couldn't break through. The Era of Wind, you see, developed upon the corpse of the Era of Fire. Through the information preserved in the Netherworld Maze, I naturally learned of all that transpired. I would certainly never commit such a foolish act as absorbing the power of my own kind."
"Is that so? You didn't eat your own people, then..."
