In Eden, everything was much as it had always been.
One of his true bodies was analyzing the Taotie Law, while another handled matters around him.
When his third true body returned, the other two immediately opened their eyes.
"You're back."
"Yeah."
"Good. The situation in the War God World needs you there."
Over the past ten years, the War God World had changed the most.
In fact, it could no longer be called the War God World.
Thanos had completely conquered its Rift World, then begun invading the Demon Realm and the Human Realm.
Hongjun, meanwhile, had led his forces from the Journey to the West World into the Human Realm.
Hongjun had wanted to enter the Demon Realm as well, but a mysterious third faction had emerged there and thwarted his plans.
It was this mysterious third faction that had made Thanos decide a true god needed to be stationed there.
In the Demon Realm Ancestral Land of the War God World.
A figure wreathed in flickering black shadows sat on a Throne woven from skulls, gazing coldly at his subordinates below.
Each of those subordinates was a hideous, spine-chilling monster.
They took all manner of forms: skeletons, zombies, ghosts, demons, and more.
Besides these monsters and spirits, there were also some nonhumanoid members of the Demon Race.
But they stood off in a corner, clearly of very low status.
The ghost monsters hunched beneath their boss's gaze, afraid to make a sound.
After a while, the Ghost Monster Leader spoke in a low, rasping voice. "What exactly is this new Demon Beast, and why is it so powerful?"
At his question, every monster and spirit kept their head down and remained silent.
They, too, loathed this Demon Beast that had suddenly appeared ten years ago, and