Yesterday's first update: Chapter 2621! 1/4!
Zhan Rourou had not actively undergone Gael's complete inheritance. More often, under Belial's control, she had passively become a medium for transmitting the Saint Pillar divine power Gael left behind.
She was simply being used. As Gael's Saint Pillar collapsed, it nourished the newly created Saint Pillars, including Lumiel, the First Saint Pillar Inheritor.
This method of tapping the source was ultimately absorbed wholesale by Belial. After Belial fell, everything that had originally belonged to Zhan Rourou returned to her.
After going around in circles, it had returned to the starting point. Yet the differences in the process naturally led to far from ideal results.
If Zhan Rourou was viewed as a vessel, then her destiny was to contain Gael's white divine power and Mona's black divine power, blending them into one.
Originally, she had fully inherited Mona's divine power. But Zhan Rourou had not experienced the process of inheriting Gael's divine power. Now that this power was flowing into her body, not only could she not use it, but because light and darkness could not coexist, it had created the predicament of Zhan Rourou about to Return to Origin.
Without weathering storms, how could she ever see a rainbow? Zhan Rourou was a suitable vessel, but this vessel had not yet been fully forged.
First fall into darkness, then behold the light. The inheritance path Belial had arranged for Zhan Rourou was correct.
Zhan Rourou's darkest moments had included Xu Kun abandoning her, the Zhan Family's utter destruction, and being consumed by despair. Thus, the path of Mona she had inherited was already completely solidified.
Yet falling completely into darkness made it extremely difficult to usher in the light. This had originally been Belial's method of using despair to consume Zhan Rourou,