Shortcut? It was indeed a 'convenient shortcut'. However, Lin Mo never would have guessed that Xingxing, of all divine beings, would propose that to him.
In any case, whether she was serious about it or not, he understood he had to make a careful choice. If marrying the Goddess of Beauty and Refinement could truly accelerate the spark of divinity within him, wouldn't that make him an even bigger anomaly in the First Heaven? The Heaven's Will had already shown its profound displeasure with a tribulation that was less of a test and more of an execution order.
A divine marriage, a direct fusion of his anomalous existence with a true divine being, would be like painting a colossal, glowing target on his back for the entire cosmos to see. He might be thrown out of the First Heaven if that happened.
