"Fool, where would you find that many deities in this world? That Night-Watch Divine General is nothing more than a ghost god!"
And a ghost god at the Illusory Spirit level, at that. Below the rank of deity, he could hardly even be called a ghost god.
"But didn't you say the Heavenly Court had been reestablished? It should have plenty of immortals. Why do you say—" Arabella was confused too.
Tang Changsheng smiled faintly. "That's hard to explain. In short, there isn't enough Spiritual Qi!"
In fact, although this Heavenly Court was said to be sustained by the combined power of Heaven, Earth, and humanity,
the Spiritual Qi in this world was so thin that the energies of Heaven and Earth were no longer sufficient. It was sustained entirely by Great Chu's Fortune, at an enormous cost to that Fortune.
Had Great Chu not grown powerful enough to nearly unite the globe, it could never have supported such a vast drain on Spiritual Qi.
Tang Changsheng himself had only gradually come to understand all this later.
And it was one reason he thought so little of the arrangement!
"You keep saying this world's Spiritual Qi is dwindling. So where did it all go?"
In the past, Tang Changsheng could not have answered. He could only have said that the Heaven-Earth Sealing Array had locked it away.
But by now, he knew that the so-called Heaven-Earth Sealing Array was merely a smokescreen.
The truth was that some unknown genius had devised a way to use the Black Hole Mirror and the Spiritual Qi of the entire Great Chu World to create another world, the Mirror World, consuming the Spiritual Qi in the process.
That was why the Mirror World was even more barren of Spiritual Qi. As for its traces