When the seal broke,
there was no sound.
No tremor.
No surge of qi.
Mo Shen stepped out calmly, as if crossing an invisible threshold.
He looked to the left.
Then to the right—
The world had already changed.
The mountains stood taller.
The wind felt gentler.
The colors of heaven and earth… were more vivid than he remembered.
Once, this world had been nothing more than something to conquer.
But now—
He no longer wished to dominate it.
Within his body, the boundless qi of the past was gone.
His dantian lay silent, like a still lake without ripples.
Yet strangely—
His heart felt at peace.
"This isn't so bad…" he murmured.
As he walked onward, an unfamiliar sound drifted through the air.
A faint cry.
Mo Shen halted.
At the edge of the grass lay a newborn girl, wrapped in thin cloth, as if she had only just been brought into the world. No one else was around.
Only footprints remained nearby—
The marks of parents who had abandoned her.
At that moment, fragments of his former life resurfaced in silence.
Blood.
Fear.
Lives cast aside without mercy.
He extended his hand and lifted the child.
Something unexpected happened.
The crying stopped instantly.
The little girl looked up at him… and smiled.
That single smile pierced straight through Mo Shen's heart.
"..."
No words left his lips.
But a decision had already been made.
"I will raise this child."
"My life… now has a path."
"I will be her father."
For the first time, Mo Shen chose to live not as a god, but as a man.
Holding the child in his arms, he turned southward and disappeared into the depths of the forest.
Beside a waterfall, he found a quiet place and built a small house.
It was not grand.
But it was stable.
From that day onward—
Mo Shen (魔神)
was no longer the ruler of the world.
He became
nothing more than
a father living deep in the mountains.
Beneath the endless sound of falling water—
silence returned.
Chapter 1 – End
To be continued…