The so-called return of all Saints to their places did not refer to those other saints, but to the Sacred Armor of each Cloth Faction being activated and someone accepting its legacy. The Athena Camp, for instance, had fixed numbers of Sacred Armor: twelve Gold Saints, twenty-four Silver Saints, forty-eight Bronze Saints, and so forth. The activation and selection of these legacies depended on five major factors: destiny first, fortune second, then Fate Realm, followed by strength, and finally faith.
First came destiny. As the name implied, this meant being born in response to the times. In the present age, troubled times bred heroes. As darkness rose, the power of the opposing factions would also be activated accordingly. The balance would never tilt entirely to one side. This was the law of balance between heaven and earth, something no existence could change! Since all one hundred and eight Underworld Warriors of the Nether Realm had awakened, Jian Shang believed that fully awakening the Athena Camp's mere twelve Gold Saints and twenty-four Saint Warriors would pose no problem at all.
Second came fortune. Taking the Athena Camp as an example again, how many of its eighty-eight Saint Warriors could be activated depended on the strength of the current Goddess of Wisdom Athena's fortune. If the Athena Camp pledged allegiance to the Huan Kingdom, Jian Shang naturally had faith in his own fortune.
Third came Fate Realm, meaning the stellar Fate Realms corresponding to the stars in the heavens. China's Divine Land was vast and rich in resources-how boundless it was! Never mind the eighty-eight Sacred Armor constellations; even among the one hundred and eight Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends or the three hundred and sixty-five stars of the heavens, China's Divine Land would certainly have a great many corresponding people, with