"Everyone, be careful. That fire is not simple."
The divine power of several deities who had struck first had barely descended before the flames burned along the network to their respective locations. The more they resisted with divine power, the faster the flames spread.
They severed their connections to the network one after another, sealing away the flames and slowly grinding them down while warning their colleagues nearby and asking them to alert the other gods.
But this warning came too late. The flames had already spread through the network in every direction, infecting nearly half of it.
As two of the Shang Kingdom's most powerful deities and two of the network's administrators, East Mother and West Mother immediately drew upon the radiance of the sun and moon, activating their divine powers.
For a time, the living beings in the eastern reaches of the Shang Kingdom felt that the sun in the heavens had suddenly grown somewhat hotter. Yet soon afterward, a bright moon rose far away in the west. Clear, cold, gentle moonlight poured down, complementing the radiance of the great sun and softening its originally dazzling light, forming a scene of yin and yang generating and transforming one another.
Yet beneath this phenomenon, the flames within the network remained completely unaffected. They even seemed faintly inclined to use the brilliance of the sun and moon to further expand their range of burning.
However, East Mother and West Mother, who faced the flames directly, also discovered the problem within them.
Within the network built by Yu Chen and the gods of the Shang Kingdom, what burned was not fire, but streams of incomparably condensed clear qi.
This clear qi was very similar to the Highest Purity qi Yu Chen used to construct the network, capable of melding extremely well