Many times, what people feared in many matters was not failure, but having no hope!
The Heavenly God who had come to deliver divine punishment, the Nine Sun Divine King, had been grievously wounded by High Priest Nahar with the Glazed God Slaying Saber, nearly slain on the spot, and had ultimately fled Yizhi Sand Sea in disgrace.
The sandfolk and priests of Pingsha City who witnessed this scene spoke of it in the most earthshaking terms. With the deliberate efforts of Yizhi Temple, the news spread throughout all of Yizhi Sand Sea in the shortest possible time.
For a time, the sandfolk everywhere who had fallen into near despair because the Yizhi Sand Sea Heavenly God's divine statues had been destroyed—especially after the world-ending divine punishment had descended upon Golden Holy City—suddenly found countless hopes rising within them.
Many sandfolk who had stopped their daily routine prayers out of fear resumed their twice-daily prayers.
Moreover, they were more devout and more wholehearted than before!
Only after losing something did one understand how to cherish it.
The feeling of losing the Yizhi Sand Sea Heavenly God's glorious radiance was simply too terrifying.
It was as though heaven and earth had been swallowed by darkness.
Now that the Heavenly God's radiance had not abandoned them, they naturally cherished it all the more.
Soon afterward, in something close to a miracle, the Yizhi Sand Sea Heavenly God's divine statue within Golden Holy City was once more condensed into a rather faint golden divine statue under the reinforcement of the surviving sandfolk's faith.
Before long, priests from Yizhi Temple appeared and began using the temple's unique methods to reconstruct the collapsed Yizhi Sand Sea Heavenly God's divine statue.
The materials for the Yizhi Sand Sea Heavenly God's divine statue were exceedingly simple: sand