Earlier in the ascension ceremony, Aiwass had already realized that this old ritualist, despite looking calm and reliable, was actually full of radical and mad thoughts at heart.
It's no wonder he was betrayed when he was young— for a native Parthian who had never interacted with any outsiders, the mere act of resolutely doing something that could "lead to betrayal" proved his inherently transcendent nature.
"I can understand you, old sir."
Zhu Tang nodded, agreeing: "Living a life, one will eventually die. I wouldn't want to be like certain paths, being obsessed with just surviving, yet living like neither a human nor a ghost… In my view, it's better to have a grand and glorious death.
"For a Transcendent, there is nothing more shameful than dying in bed. The Extraordinary Power makes us arrogant, thinking we can control our destiny and transcend the mundane… only to fall back to the ordinary, dying old like any common person. What could be more ironic than that?"
"Indeed…"
