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GA: Chapter 69 – Bai Xuan's Changes; Destined to Become a God
Day gave way to night. Moonlight fell like water, the silver moon adorning a pitch-black sky.
Hangcheng was already aglow with ten thousand lights.
Before the spiritual qi revival, a night sky like this—scattered with stars—would have been nearly impossible to see. For those who loved stargazing, that had been a genuine source of regret. For most people, though, it had never mattered.
Staring at the night sky wasn't something they made a habit of.
The old Bai Xuan hadn't either. Tonight was simply a passing whim.
He lay quietly on the villa lawn, watching the brilliant sky above him. Countless stars radiated their soft glow, the whole expanse of night made luminous by their presence.
"Pika~"
Beside him, the two Pikachus sprawled lazily in the grass, eyes half-shut, enjoying the cool night breeze.
Bai Xuan gave them both a pat on the head, then closed his own eyes.
After the spiritual qi revival, everyone else had accelerated the pace of their lives—yet Bai Xuan had, inexplicably, slowed down.
No—before this, his life had been fast enough. It was only these past few days that something had shifted.
But for him, the shift wasn't unwelcome.
The changes in Bai Xuan these days were apparent. At least, Huoyou could feel them clearly in her interactions with him.
If the old Bai Xuan had simply been a rather mature young man, what she sensed now was something harder to name.
Something like a sage—and yet not quite that either.
Whether this change was for better or worse, she couldn't say. Why it had happened, she had no way of knowing.
She even wondered if it was a consequence of [Natural Authority].
His ability was exceptionally powerful, after all—it wouldn't be strange if it carried some kind of side effect. When you gain something, you inevitably lose something. Perhaps this ability had taken something from Bai Xuan.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
Bai Xuan glanced at Huoyou, mildly puzzled.
"Just—you've changed a lot lately."
Huoyou said it plainly.
"But I can't quite put my finger on what exactly has changed."
"Is this a side effect of your ability?"
"It's not."
Bai Xuan shook his head and said evenly:
"Perhaps it's simply because I've been reading more lately."
Not just the reading—there was probably some influence from [Natural Authority] as well.
In the beginning it had been fine. His mentality hadn't changed much from before the revival. But as his power kept rising, especially after he recognized that his mind hadn't grown to match it, he'd felt a strange divergence from who he used to be.
And the divergence wasn't only a matter of strength. It ran across multiple levels.
His attitude toward humans. Toward living things. Toward civilization. Toward nature.
He was human—that was beyond question.
He had always thought from a human perspective.
Joining the Spiritual Qi Bureau. Hunting mutant creatures.
And yet something about that way of thinking had started to feel off.
As though some faint awareness in the depths of him was reminding him that this wasn't the right framework anymore.
He needed a new angle.
A god's angle.
Nature encompassed all things. What it contained wasn't humanity alone—but plants, animals, elements of every kind. All objects, whether primordial or created, were part of nature.
He was the wielder of [Natural Authority]. The future version of him was destined to think from the position of nature's sovereign.
A god still had its own character—but it should have its own judgment regarding the trajectory of civilization and nature. It should guide them toward new paths in its own way.
Whatever a god chose to do carried its own reason—even if that reason was simply: because I want to.
"Right now I need time. Time will give me the answers."
Time was a strange thing. Many questions you wrestled with, many questions about the meaning of existence—with the passage of time, they answered themselves.
He understood his current limitation: a mind that didn't match his power.
The Hades of Overman. Aizen of the Bleach world. Holy Kesha of Brave Soldiers. These powerful beings all possessed a psychology and way of thinking that matched their strength. They knew what they wanted. They knew how to go about it.
He didn't.
He needed to grow. He needed a newer version of himself.
God—it was never a title conferred purely by strength.
They walked the river of time. They were witnesses to civilization. Ethereal and intangible, yet present everywhere.
He didn't know when he had first formed the thought that he would become a god.
Was it when the chat group told him to think from a god's perspective? Was it the moment [Natural Authority] had fused into him?
Or was it—the different worlds he had seen in dreams.
A vast and ancient earth. A forest—verdant, solemn, teeming with life. Mountains bold and magnificent, piercing straight into the sea of clouds.
Sky. Sea of clouds. Forest. Mountain. Ocean. Flowing stream.
It wasn't that he wanted to become a god. It was that having received [Natural Authority], he was simply destined to.
"The spiritual qi revival gave us the capacity to become extraordinary. The shift in our life tier gave us the impulse to pursue the absolute."
"Great power breeds confidence, arrogance—even conceit."
"But because of our own beliefs, we know arrogance and conceit will become obstacles to our progress. So we begin to struggle against them, trying to prevent our shifting mentality from producing harmful consequences."
"With time, our thinking changes. The angle from which we see things is no longer what it once was."
"Madman. Saint. God. Devil…"
"…"
Huoyou stared at Bai Xuan with complete bewilderment.
How had the conversation drifted into him suddenly muttering to himself like this?
And saying things this… elevated?
Power makes people arrogant? With you on this planet, who could possibly afford arrogance?!
As for shifting ways of thinking—shouldn't that be the same as before? There were people above managing things, and those below just needed to follow along and handle whatever was left.
What was there to change?
But inexplicably, the change in Bai Xuan frightened her. She kept feeling like he was evolving toward some tier she couldn't comprehend.
And—madman, saint, god, devil?
Those should be completely different things. Why did Bai Xuan seem to be suggesting they were the same?
Was this the direction the future Bai Xuan was heading?
Or had it already begun?
When power reached the level Bai Xuan was at—did it inevitably lead here?
Bai Xuan shook his head, pulling himself back from his thoughts.