In the space outside Earth.
Leaning on the massive crystal beside him, Zhou Yuanjue looked down at the azure planet below.
He gazed upon the magnificent view, feeling the joyous and celebratory will of countless beings on Earth reach him.
It was a wondrous, ineffable feeling.
A sense of accomplishment, of satisfaction, of pride...
But then, Zhou Yuanjue severed all these feelings.
Accomplishment, satisfaction, and pride could feed the vanity of human instinct, but for him, they were only obstacles to his continued progress.
Although he now stood at the planet's apex, having even surpassed it, an infinite unknown still lay before him, waiting to be explored.
The will for transcendence never rests.
Some might find this obsessive, beyond human nature.
But it was precisely this drive that had allowed Zhou Yuanjue to advance all this way, cutting through every thorn in his path.
