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Yu Chen's gaze swept across the Thirty-Three Heavens Palace. The status of the entire Central Plains Divine System was, in truth, exceedingly lofty; every heavenly palace was a divine domain of a true god. Even without masters, the combined thirty-three heavenly palaces could, relying solely on the power of faith they had accumulated and the phantom divinities nurtured within, easily suppress several ordinary true gods.

Taibai Jinxing, who had brought Yu Chen here, was an example of this. He was merely an incarnation condensed from the fusion of divine domains and the power of faith. The fragment of true god essence he possessed came from those divine domains, not from himself.

As for the power that had concealed itself from Yu Chen's spiritual senses and spirituality, it came from the two heavenly palaces above his own.

These two heavenly palaces stood above the Thirty-Three Heavens Palace, forming two realms of their own. One was the Jade Purity Realm, within which stood the Pure Subtle Palace; the other was the Great Purity Realm, within which stood the Palace of Eight Sceneries. The two palaces respectively enshrined the Dao Ancestors Primordial One and Supreme One.

Yu Chen could sense that neither of them had left any trace within this divine domain.

Yet all thirty-three heavenly palaces worshipped those two palaces from afar, giving rise to a trace of profound mystery within them. In harmony with the intent of Heaven at the center of the Thirty-Three Heavens Palace, this maintained the stability of the entire Eastern Pantheon. It also kept the Thirty-Three Heavens Palace from being twisted by mortal faith in the absence of true gods to preside over it.

Seated within his own palace, Yu Chen summoned Taibai Jinxing. Half reproachful and half helpless, he said, "Well played, Taibai. You actually deceived