“The General of Punishment’s Martial Courage, huh. It was worth the trip!”2

After bidding Yan Yufei and the others goodbye, Ye Qing returned to Endless Horizons and sat on his chair. He then took out what looked like a golden rock from his Nature’s Shell and examined it curiously.0

The golden rock was none other than the golden heart he had swiped from the General of Punishment’s shattered body. It was called the Martial Courage, and it was the coalescence of the people’s worship and wishes.0

Strangers who absorbed the people’s worship and wishes to grow sentience and strength could usually be split into two types. A Stranger who had received permission and an official title from the imperial court was recognized as a deity, and one who hadn’t was known as a false deity or a heretic deity. In any case, both types of Strangers needed the people’s belief to forge a heart, their wishes to forge a gut, their worship to forge a body, and the Human Way to forge a soul. Only then would the golden body be complete, and the Stranger would become a true deity.1

The Martial Courage was one small part of the General of Punishment’s golden body. Since the Stranger hadn’t been worshiped for long, it only managed to forge its heart—the Martial Courage—before it was destroyed.0

“Wah wah wah! Something smells very nice…”0

Ye Qing had only brought out the Martial Courage for a few seconds or so when suddenly, a childish voice entered...0