Outside Source Fire Star, within that towering palace that ordinary members of Source Fire Star could not perceive.
The five Celestial Gods were all quietly cultivating.
Though they were nominally Source Fire Star's managers, in reality, the Source Fire God handled most matters. There were very few things that truly required their decisions... As Celestial Gods, they also longed to become God Kings, so they naturally devoted themselves to cultivation.
Suddenly.
Celestial God Lingwei, clad in black battle armor with two enormous dragon horns growing from his head, suddenly opened his eyes. A trace of astonishment flashed through them. "How is that possible?"
"What happened?"
"What is it?" The other four Celestial Gods could not help opening their eyes and looking toward Celestial God Lingwei.
"I just received a message from the Source Fire God." Celestial God Lingwei's voice was low as he said, word by word, "Li Yuan has returned!"
"What?"
"Li Yuan? He came back from the Emperor Source Realm?"
"He came back alive?"
"I thought he'd fallen."
"He entered the Emperor Source Realm thirty-three years ago, yet he actually came back alive?" The four Celestial Gods were all shocked.
Thirty-three years on Source Fire Star was equivalent to experiencing three hundred and thirty years in the Emperor Source Realm. To gods, that span of time was nothing.
But to a Demigod who had previously only lived a little over a hundred years, it was far too long.
Although most members of Source Fire Star, or the many Celestial Gods of the Chaos Divine Court, were not aware that Li Yuan had entered the Emperor Source Realm... the five Celestial God managers had basically all concluded that Li Yuan had already fallen there.
According to past experience, after entering the Emperor Source Realm for twenty years, it was