Takamagahara, Hall of the Heavenly Gods.
A blazing sun hung high above, encircled by dozens of moons.
Upon the resplendent divine platform, formation stations lit up one after another.
At the center were Qian and Kun!
Within the inner ring were Kinoe, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, and Gui!
Along the outer ring were Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai!
Twenty-four formation stations in total, arranged with imposing rigor!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Through Yomotsu Hirasaka, one lofty figure after another descended onto the formation stations!
Even within the Ōtsutsuki Clan, where gods gathered in abundance, only true immortal gods were qualified to enter this realm!
Yes... everyone present had consumed a Divine Tree Fruit!
Other than the central Qian and Kun stations, whose masters had yet to arrive, the inner-ring Yi station and the outer-ring Xu station were also vacant.
One god looked at the vacant Yi station. "Huiyue hasn't arrived?"
Another god looked at the vacant Xu station and teased, "After all, her man just died. She has an excuse to slack off now..."
Yet another god said, "More precisely, two men died. One was her precious Ryushiki, while the other was her properly wedded husband..."
"Ahem... isn't that rather inappropriate to say in such a solemn setting? Ryushiki was an outsider, fine, but Duochimo was the younger brother of those present..."
Speaking of which, how exactly did Duochimo die? Though he was the second weakest among us, hadn't he always been cautious?
"Uh... it seems we overlooked your feelings, Gandharva~!"
At the mention of second weakest, the gods all could not help looking toward the lowest-ranked station in the outer ring, where an innocuous-looking youth stood.
Gandharva, the last-ranked consumer of the Divine Tree Fruit, smiled shyly. "It's fine,