"As expected?"

The painter was a little disappointed, but he quickly shook his head.

“We hold onto this hope, but our demands are not so high; in fact, they are far more demanding.”

"Qin Tan, do you want to become a god?"

The painter spoke in a very serious tone.

Amid Qin Tan's bewilderment, the painter pointed inside.

“My teacher should have been the hope of mankind, the god you speak of.”

"A god born from humankind."

Both they and the Church of the Abyss share the same goal: the true God.

But rather than believing in the things in the abyss, the Church of the Abyss would much rather that humanity give birth to its own god.

The appearance of extraordinary individuals inspired them.

The fact that the taboo could be upgraded gave them hope.

They have been working on this for years.

"But we still failed."

The painter took out something—the forbidden S-item that Qin Tan had seen in Wangcheng: the Lost Gallery.

The polygonal exterior, like building blocks, should have been colorful, but now it looks old and worn, with many cracks.

Qin Tan felt no threat from being a top-tier forbidden object.

"It's ruined."

Qin Tan took it and looked at it for a few moments.

This thing is broken and can no longer be used.

"To be honest, this wasn't the only taboo item we upgraded back then."

Qin Jie leaned against the glass and added.

"Five were ultimately successful."

"And all five of them ended up like this."

Qin Tan seemed to be deep in thought.

"Do you intend to use the power of forbidden objects to elevate the human body and thus become gods?"

The Church of the Abyss, on the other hand, wants to climb up by stepping on the corpses of the superhumans.

These two companies, though taking different paths, seem to arrive at the same destination.