Edward pulled Robert into the room and closed the door.

"Talk", he demanded in a serious tone.

"Sigh. It has come to this then. The thing is, there was a girl I was in love with. Her name is Eilin, Eilin White. She is from one of the former noble families of the Royal Capital. I used to play with her when we were little. We grew up together in the Royal Capital. As we grew up, we developed mutual love. But my cousin Daniel, who was always more talented than me, and better than me in everything, also like her. It is more appropriate to say he lusted after her. He used his authority in our family to take advantage of the helplessness of her family, which had recently fallen from the noble rank back then and proposed for marriage. Her family, in order to regain their noble status, accepted to the marriage. She didn't accept it, and I didn't accept it either. But our opinion was of no use. So, in the end, we tried to elope but failed in the end. She was taken from me. After the marriage, Daniel started forcing himself upon her. After repeatedly being sexually abused by Daniel, again and again, she thought about giving in, not resisting, and living as a normal wife. But she had guilt building up inside her when she thought of me, and finally, she committed suicide. I was broken when I got the news. I couldn't take it anymore. Everything in the Royal Capital reminded me of her, and I couldn't bear living in the same clan as Daniel, who was responsible for her demise, so I left the Royal Capital and came to the Branch Family in the Southern City.", Robert's eyes teared up as he spoke.

"So you are actually pursuing martial arts for revenge?", Edward asked.

"At first, I was. But then, I realized that getting revenge won't do anything. I can't get her back. I started reading about ancient cultivation and found out that after cultivations reach a certain level of cultivation, they can bring dead people back to life. But I don't even know what that level is. Actually, no one in the country even knew about any realm beyond the Aura Formation realm. Even the legends mentioned only nine realms. Then I got to know about the Heavenly Wisdom realm from you. it was then when I got hope. But from what I've heard from you, even the Heavenly Wisdom realm can't let anyone bring back dead people. That means the required realm is even higher. AS for how high, I have got no idea. Even if it takes me to reach the pinnacle of cultivation, I'll reach it and bring her back. She didn't deserve what happened to her.", Robert said as he was drowning in sorrow and pain.

"Robert, in one's life, no one deserves the pain and sorrow they get, but that is what life is. If your path is clouded by revenge, If your heart is forever stuck on her, trying to bring her back, then I'm not the one to judge or stop you. After all, I'm no different from you. I'm also obsessed with Snow, stuck up on her. If I were in your place, I believe I would do the same. Why do you think I became the Paragon of Life in my previous life? Why do you think I created the Seed of Origin Life with the effort of an entire lifetime as the First Paragon?", Edward said with a sigh.

"Don't tell me...", Robert didn't believe his ears.

"Yes. In the end, I am but a mortal, and can not help but think like a mortal. I can not help having the desires of a mortal. I have my pain, sorrow, and regret. I die, again and again, and try, again and again, to recreate a foolish mortal's heaven, just like the foolish mortal I am. Did I tell you that I lost my lover when in my life as the First Paragon? Actually, that's who Snow is. I understood life, cultivated the Dao of life, broke all taboos of nature to create the Seed of Origin Life, just to get her back. In the end, I managed to make her reincarnate as the same person she was in my first life. Snow only lacks the memories of that life now, which will return to her once she breaks through to the Heavenly Wisdom realm. I thought everything went according to plan, yet the heavens mock me. Now, I am back to the same fight, only this time, the opponent is even someone stronger, more talented, Julian.", Edward said as he lamented.

"I, I didn't know.", Robert was shocked to learn all this.

"You don't have to worry. I will definitely beat Julian and be together with Snow. As for Eilin, your lover, I will also find a way to bring her back."

"Edward, you don't have to take everything upon you.", Robert said.

"No, I'm not taking everything upon me. You will be alongside me on this journey, won't you?"

"Yes, I will.", Robert nodded.

Long long ago, there was a mortal who despised the gods and envied the immortals. Why do the mortals have to die when the gods wish them to? Why do worlds have to perish when the gods say so? Why do only immortals get to live forever, why not mortals like him? As his family, friends, and his loved one died, he lamented. He wailed, he cried. He cursed the immortals, blasphemed the gods, spat at the heavens. But he was just a mere mortal. His curses were pointless, his blasphemous words were useless, and his spits only returned back to fall on his face. At last, he thought, enough was enough, he would definitely do something about it. He decided that it was time for the multiverse to know what a mortal can do. He was the first mortal to cultivate. Eventually, after a long struggle, he killed the Immortals, enslaved the Gods, and shattered the heavens. He reshaped the multiverse and rewrote his fate. In the end, he reincarnated as he decided upon a grand scheme, a scheme to rule 'All and Always'. He came up with the concept of what is known today as 'Paragon'. And with this, all of reality, 'All and Always', was finally reforming, according to A Mortal's Wish.