After these countless thoughts gathered, they surged over in a vast torrent.
"Sure enough, there was another move!" The long-haired god was not surprised. With a turn of his body and a sweep of his hand, the surrounding sky suddenly collapsed, revealing a twisted expanse of space-time that blocked all the rapidly flying thoughts!
"This is..." Qiu Yan's consciousness expanded, sensing the changes in that region through the many thoughts. "The fundamental rules forming this minor heaven and earth have actually been shaken by this god! But he should not yet have recovered to such a realm. He must have understood many of this Half-Step Continent's rules and put them to use."
The revived gods had originally stood at extremely lofty realms, but that did not mean they could recover immediately upon awakening. Their memories and realms also needed to awaken, and sustaining such realms required considerable resources—
"For gods, those resources are believers, human hearts, and Fortune. Otherwise, they are trees without roots, and the very meaning of their existence will vanish."
As he thought this, Qiu Yan suddenly came to an understanding.
"Right. This Half-Step Continent was formed from the union of three small worlds. Setting aside the Divine Path and Immortal Path small worlds for now, behind this Divine Remains Small World stood the will of an Ancient God. Yet that Ancient God's will had long since perished, and all that remained now was instinct."
"From another perspective, it could be seen as an Ancient God's will falling into ruin. But the Ancient God's Divine Body remains were still here..."
As this thought turned, the mist formed by Qiu Yan's Heart Demon Body abruptly contracted. Then, from within the Soul Aperture, strands of miscellaneous-thought fur flew over, originating from the Heart Ape atop the Human Path Body.