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"Those wandering ghosts I mentioned earlier, the ones caught in the crack between life and death who can produce divine spirit echoes."

"They were living beings of the ancient divine Dao era, but they were not its gods."

"At most."

"To the gods, they were more like... more like Inner Transmission Method cultivators are to Spirit Transformation Dao Lords such as you and me."

"People say that when we spread and extend our Dao Lord domain heaven and earth through the Sumeru Turbulent Flow, we resemble divine sovereigns patrolling the heavens, majestic and indescribable."

"Perhaps when you first manifested such a blazing spectacle, you had similar feelings and insights yourself."

"That is actually the new methods absorbing the essence of the Ancient God Dao, repurposing the divine kingdom domains controlled by those ancient gods."

"Inner Transmission Method cultivators, resonance and invocation, incense divine power..."

"All follow these converging threads, alike yet not quite the same."

"Then, tracing backward, in the ancient divine Dao era, what do you think each ancient god who controlled a divine kingdom domain used that kingdom for?"

"Where do you think the bulk of the incense divine power that anchored and sustained the ancient gods' attainment came from?"

"Precisely these spiritual beings reared within their divine kingdoms!"

"They might once have been humans, might once have been cultivators, but more likely—they had already undergone a passage through life and death, their forms and substance remade within the divine kingdoms by the ancient gods' supreme divine power."

"And that is probably the true reason why, after dying a second time now, they leave no true spirit in the world."

"Likewise."

"It is also why their divine spirit echoes can fit perfectly over the undying true spirits of Inner Transmission Method cultivators."

"The brutal divine war of that