This time, Shen Mo entered the Divine Path World again with two objectives, one major and one minor.
The minor objective was naturally to fulfill his agreement with Guan Ling...
Guan Ling had acted several times before, plotting against Azure Sage Primordial Lord's dharma body, helping him construct the passage between the two realms, giving him the diagram of the Grand Zhou Star Array, and so on. It had not merely been out of friendship, but a transaction founded upon their bond. To that end, she had expended much of Ghost Gate Pass's original power. In return, Shen Mo needed to slay enough "false gods" and help her recover the fragments of Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden's immortal corpse!
Over the years, Shen Mo had spoken many times with Azure Sage Primordial Lord's dharma body, which had been suppressed in the lower realm. From her, he learned that among the remnants of the old era, there had once been beings known as "Innate Deities." Yet the strange existences born from Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden's corpse—the incomparably powerful, incomparably miraculous so-called "deities" in the natives' eyes—did not possess independent personalities or intelligence. They could not even be considered living beings, at most qualifying as "false gods."
To distinguish them from the "Innate Deities," even Guan Ling had changed how she referred to the "deities" within the Divine Path World, calling them only false gods.
His greater objective was to delve into the Divine Path World's hidden depths, provided that he first slew enough false gods.
After Azure Sage Primordial Lord and the other remnants of the old era killed Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden, they could easily have cast her corpse into the Zhan Realm, completely severing any possibility of her resurrection. Yet they had not done so. Instead, they split her corpse