"Reporting to you, sir, the node has been found. A passage can now be constructed. Please inform the Divine Venerable."
In Donghua, at Knowledge and Action Academy, five streams of radiance descended from the horizon. Upon landing, they transformed into five divine beings—the five gods led by Liyuan God. On seeing Qiu Yan, they all bowed in salute.
These five gods had originally been members of the Heavenly Court's rebel army. Separated from the main force years ago, they found a tiny crack and entered the Land of the Divine Remains, leading to all the later changes. Not long ago, the Heart Demon Body had defeated them, and they fell into Wu Siping's army, helping him wage war for a time. Yet they were later drawn back by the Heart Demon Body and left the Half-Step Continent with it, entering Donghua.
A few days earlier, light had glimmered over Qiu Yan's five fingers as he divided off the five gods. He had sent them to seek an entrance to the Heavenly Court—
Though these five gods had rebelled against the Heavenly Court, they still retained countless tangled ties to it. Finding a route to the Heavenly Court was not difficult for them. Back in the Half-Step Continent, when they saw the Heart Demon Body claim victory and tried to save themselves, they had proposed this very matter as a condition.
Now, in the eyes of the five gods, the alliance between Donghua Heaven Lord and the Remnant-Shell Devil Master was already a force beyond imagination. Yet the two had also joined hands with the mortal sage Qiu Yan, making it all the more astonishing.
Under the orders of such a united force, the five gods did not dare entertain the slightest other thought. Told to find a node leading to