The Lord of Dawn had fallen long ago...
The words circled through Jiang Hao's mind like a curse. He could hardly believe it. The god he had regarded as his greatest enemy in the Otherworld, the one he had guarded against so carefully, had fallen long ago?
It was like someone whose family had been murdered retreating to the mountains to master martial arts and take revenge, only to hear that his enemy had died before he could finish training.
Even more chilling was the thought that a being of Greater Divine Power like the Lord of Dawn could fall silently inside his own Divine Kingdom.
No. Something was wrong.
A question struck Jiang Hao the next moment. If the Lord of Dawn had fallen long ago, who was the "Lord of Dawn" who had attacked him repeatedly on the Main Plane and led the assault on the Abyss?
His Divine Kingdom was on the Sevenfold Heavenly Mountain. The Sovereign of Order, whose Divine Kingdom was there too, was the first god born after the Seven Primordial Gods. His birth had ushered in the Second Era. Could a god that powerful really fail to notice that his neighbor had fallen?
And what about the Lady of Night, who had dealt with the Lord of Dawn face-to-face? Could a being of Supreme Divine Power at Divine Rank 19 fail to see that the god before her was not the Lord of Dawn himself?
Jiang Hao asked:
"Are you certain the Lord of Dawn has fallen?"
"I'm certain."
The Dusk God sighed. "The Lord of Dawn and I were both born from the fallen divine body of the Lord of Dawn's predecessor, the Lord of Dawn known as the Lord of the Morning Light. We were gods who crawled out of the