Chapter 463

"Shelter" was nowhere near as vast as the divine kingdoms of some long-established pantheons, and the gods' residences were not far apart either. Akane found Sui Xiong after only a short while.

That was mainly because Sui Xiong usually stayed in the open-air council hall at the center of his divine kingdom and rarely left.

Under normal circumstances, he lay motionless atop the great table in the council hall, like some decorative ornament placed upon it. Once, when Veye, the God of Celebrations, saw him like that, he had even mocked him: "Where did this enormous platter of jellyfish come from? There's plenty of seasoning on it, but why hasn't anyone cut into it?"

In truth, Sui Xiong was merely resting and thinking.

The great battle ten years ago had drained him tremendously. The first self-destruction had consumed the divine power stored within his body, while the second had relied on the power of his soul to gather the energy produced by the explosion once more, triggering a second and even larger blast.

That explosion had indeed nearly wiped out all his enemies, but it had also dealt him grave harm—or rather, it had not injured him, but exhausted him.

It was exhaustion that came from the soul rather than the body.

When he had consecutively killed the Gods of Storms and Oceans several decades ago, he had also been severely wounded. But that time, only his body had suffered grievous damage; his soul had remained unharmed. His listlessness then had merely been due to overdrawn divine power and physical collapse. Theoretically, changing bodies would have solved the problem—provided that he could have done so.

But this time was different. He could clearly feel that his exhaustion came not only from his body, but more importantly from his soul.

He