Edward Morgan came up with this perfect solution that could both repay his master’s kindness and help James Walker, secretly nodding to himself for his cleverness, unaware that James Walker behind him already had reddened eyes.

James Walker lowered his head, not letting anyone see his eyes, and said hoarsely, “Honored—”

Edward Morgan flicked his long sleeve, black with dark gold patterns, cutting off James Walker’s unfinished words. He transmitted his voice, “What I am willing to give you, you are not allowed to refuse.”

Chapter 5: The Lord’s Insight

Edward Morgan was a ruthless person. In the original book, he was described as looking down on everyone in the world, except for Lily Harris, to whom he was endlessly accommodating—even the stars and moon in the sky would be plucked down for Lily Harris. This kind of character attracted countless fans; every time the story described him alone with Lily Harris, readers would be utterly captivated.

A classic scene was on the wedding night of William Carter and the master of Ziling Pavilion. Lily Harris, still not recovered from serious injuries, looked up at the twinkling stars in the sky accompanied by Edward Morgan, and pointed at the Cowherd and Weaver Girl stars separated by the Milky Way, saying, “Such a good pair of lovers, why must they be separated?”

As she spoke, a tear slid down her pale face. The girl who had once looked at the world with clear eyes and a happy smile was long gone. Even though cultivators rarely age after building their foundation, she always looked eighteen, but her heart had grown old.

Edward Morgan raised his hand to cover Lily Harris’s eyes and said, “Before I become a god, don’t look at the stars in the sky again.”

“Why?” Lily Harris asked in confusion.

“It’s said that after a cultivator becomes a god, they can move the stars and galaxies at will. I’ll bring the Cowherd Star over from the other side of the Milky Way.”

Lily Harris was amused by him and nodded, “Alright, before you become a god, I won’t look at the sky again.”

But Edward Morgan never became a god, even in death, yet he fulfilled his promise to Lily Harris. Lily Harris was able to recover her divinity thanks to Edward Morgan’s arrangements before his death. The moment she fused with her divinity, heaven and earth trembled, the stars shifted, and the Cowherd and Weaver Girl stars were pressed close together. The power unleashed by the change in starlight instantly turned a continent into an ocean.

The power of an innate deity was just that overwhelming. When the God of Calamity returned to their place, the world was thrown into chaos.

The heroine, coming back to her senses and realizing she had destroyed a continent, remembered her senior brother’s usual teachings and the words of that acquired god from her previous life. She no longer wished to be a goddess who disturbed the stars, so she gave up her divinity.

Yet the Cowherd and Weaver Girl stars never returned to their original positions, always remaining together, just like the male and female leads who ended up together in the end.

Regarding this plot, readers endlessly discussed how Edward Morgan still loved the heroine even after death, saying that if this man wanted to spoil someone, he would think of everything, never letting the other suffer even the slightest grievance. Even in death, he would protect her until the very last moment.

When Edward Morgan saw this plot and the readers’ comments, he felt nothing, because he knew how heartless he truly was.

There were countless loyal subordinates in Xuanyuan Sect devoted to Edward Morgan, but he never cared. He knew this loyalty was based on his overwhelming strength; if someone else were stronger, these people would be just as loyal to them. This “loyalty” was not to Edward Morgan, but to the power of the Great Ascension stage.

As for family ties, Edward Morgan had let go of them long ago when he attained enlightenment. Three hundred years had passed, and there were no longer any blood relatives of his in the world.

His feelings for Lily Harris were merely the result of karmic entanglement, not true emotion.

He was alone, and whether in life or death, he would never have any attachment to this world.

Only after reading the book did he develop a slightly different feeling toward James Walker.

He had saved James Walker’s life, raised him, and taught him. After his death, it was only natural for James Walker to avenge him or fulfill his last wishes. Even if James Walker were to be shattered to pieces for Edward Morgan, it would be reasonable.

Yet James Walker chose such a tragic way to express his “loyalty” to Edward Morgan. When Edward Morgan was reading the book, he didn’t initially equate James Walker with the masked man. When the truth was revealed and the heroine saw the ghost mask in James Walker’s bundle, not only was Lily Harris shocked, but so was Edward Morgan reading the story.

There was a passage in the book where a female supporting character obtained a treasure that could change her appearance and avoid detection. She transformed into Lily Harris to seduce William Carter, but was caught by James Walker midway. Without the protagonist’s halo, she was naturally turned into a lamp. James Walker removed his ghost mask, walked to the Lord’s tomb, lit the ever-burning lamp, and entered the tomb himself, embracing Edward Morgan’s black robe embroidered with dark gold patterns, closing his eyes in peaceful happiness.

That passage was shocking, as if in the next moment James Walker would self-destruct his nascent soul with Edward Morgan’s robe.

But at that moment, the tracking artifact James Walker had placed on the heroine lit up—he saw that the heroine was still alive and in danger again.

James Walker stared at the image floating in the air, tilted his head, rubbed his cheek against Edward Morgan’s robe, then carefully folded it and placed it neatly in the tomb.

He quietly walked out of the tomb, his palm unprotected by any spiritual power, and pressed directly on the lamp, extinguishing the ever-burning flame with sheer force. Then, with a sweep of his long arm, the glass lamp crashed into the marble beside it, shattering into pieces, the lamp oil slowly seeping into the earth.