By the Luo River.
Looking at the black-dressed woman growing cold before him, Jiang Ning felt a weight settle in his heart.
From the few brief words exchanged with the Black Lotus Matriarch, who had just descended, much information had been revealed.
First, beings like the God of Flesh and the Black Lotus Matriarch were not unique exceptions in the present age.
From the Black Lotus Matriarch's words, it was clear that the world's environment had changed, and the surviving gods of the Primordial Era were still awakening.
The key lay in the recovery of the world's spiritual essence.
Moreover, according to the Black Lotus Matriarch, she still could not appear in the mortal world.
But once the world's spiritual essence became abundant, they too would one day be able to return to the mortal world.
The return of the gods would undoubtedly throw Great Xia's already chaotic situation into even greater turmoil.
At the same time, Jiang Ning understood from the Black Lotus Matriarch why the Black Lotus Cult had rebelled. It was all merely what the Black Lotus Matriarch needed.
Only one matter continued to puzzle him.
That was the change in the Black Lotus Matriarch's attitude toward him.
When she first descended, she had called him a mere wild god.
That was not strange.
Just as he could sense the aura of divinity, now that he possessed a god's authority, it was natural for the Black Lotus Matriarch to sense his divine aura as well.
It was the perception of one kind toward another.
What puzzled him was that in less than a moment, the Black Lotus Matriarch's form of address had changed.
She had called him an exalted god.
This meant that, in the Black Lotus Matriarch's understanding, the aura she sensed from him belonged to