They cautiously asked Bai Zhou who those humans were.
Bai Zhou told them they were his kinsmen who had already achieved immortality.
The stone on the mountain, carved with the word "Immortal," was proof of their ascension.
Achieving immortality meant they would no longer die in the abyss or from Fishman invasions. They could live forever.
The Chali Race couldn't understand the mechanics of it, and the humans all seemed perfectly normal. They had no choice but to let them live in the village as their numbers continued to grow.
This was Bai Zhou's world, after all. The Chali Race simply used it as a way station, a place to regain their consciousness and communicate with one another. They didn't have any strong feelings about the humans.
However, Bai Zhou's state grew more and more unstable.
He often ran up the mountain, trying to carve a word onto the giant, blank boulder.
