Lu Ban realized this, and suddenly, the world around him seemed to become unreal.
The ship, the ocean, the Temple, all appeared like artificial constructs made of data, and he felt like a player in a game who kept dying, clearing levels, and strategizing through a game in a world of endless cycles and reincarnations.
Compared to Feng Yu's replacement bodies and the Night Country's transformation of knowledge into temporary items of prayer, these great existences hidden behind the curtain were obviously much more sophisticated.
They somehow obtained information about each of these scenarios and constructed the System of the Silent Lands, tossing the Chosen by Gods into these scenarios to watch them struggle, suffer, die, and harvest, finally pocketing the knowledge acquired at the cost of their lives.
At the same time, they were using the Chosen by Gods to gamble for their own interests, releasing certain things, sealing others, destroying some, and creating some.
