After Yi God obtained a suitable vessel, he remained in Prosperous Harmony Prefecture for more than two months.
Although he had never left this remote corner of Celestial Xia during that time, seeing one spot revealed the whole leopard. From this isolated corner alone, he had already gained a general understanding of Celestial Xia.
In his view, the bodies of Celestial Xia's people were far stronger than those of lowly creatures, but they were still far inferior to the Ipal Gods and the subordinate god races beneath them.
At first, he had not paid much attention to this. By his ingrained standards, in any flourishing race, it was always the strongest portion of the upper echelons that determined its limits.
Yet when he later learned that those upper-level powers—including the two men he had met—had actually come from ordinary Celestial Xia people like these, he was immensely astonished at first.
But afterward, he felt an unprecedented wariness and dread.
He did not know Celestial Xia's exact population, but even Prosperous Harmony Prefecture, a border prefecture, numbered in the millions by his observations.
Why had the Ipal Gods prospered in the first place?
There had been many branches of ancient alien gods then, and the Ipal Gods had been merely one among them. It was only later, after they found the divine tree, that the Ipal Gods' reproduction greatly accelerated.
It was precisely this change that caused the Ipal Gods to vastly outnumber the other god races, allowing them to swiftly rise above the rest after the decline of the Moqi Gods and ultimately become the rulers of the world.
Yet even so, the true upper echelon had been exceedingly scarce, numbering only in the hundreds. How could it compare to Celestial Xia's extravagance? According to Celestial Xia's doctrine, every Celestial