Granda and Beni were somewhat surprised, while Wu Heng and Xiaoxiao both widened their eyes.
The mythological tales from both sides had unexpectedly overlapped again at this moment—and it was the most ancient era of Empress Nuwa.
Xiaoxiao looked over. "Uncle, why did Empress Nuwa mend the sky? How come I don't remember?"
"You don't know, so why are you going 'wow' along with it?"
"I'm just setting the mood!"
Wu Heng explained, "Our version says that the Water God and Fire God went to war, then crashed into Mount Buzhou, leaving a huge hole in the sky. Countless disasters followed, and Empress Nuwa couldn't bear to see the mortal world suffer, so she gathered the Five-Colored Stone to patch the hole in the sky."
"Oh, oh!" Xiaoxiao summed up. "So collecting the Five-Colored Stone was actually to block the passage from another world."
Then she crossed her arms and struck a thoughtful pose. "I get it. It's like that thing where God closes a window and opens another one!"
"What?" Wu Heng froze.
Granda said from the side, "It's from the Bible, but it isn't very fitting here."
The Empress Dowager's illusory fox tail swayed gently. "To people of our era, this was also mythology. But there are indeed records that Empress Nuwa used the leftover materials from mending the sky to seal the passage between the two worlds and stop the invasion of Outer Gods."
Outer Gods!
A battle for faith between gods.
The history recorded by the Elf Race flashed through Wu Heng's mind.
Thousands of years ago, the other world had been filled with sects and endless wars. Later, the Church rose to power and Slay Gods and Destroy Cults, leading to the current situation.
If Empress Nuwa had truly been a chief god and had