Another god to help resurrect, another enormous expense... But once the Dusk God returned, the Primordial Core Pantheon would gain another member. The gods gathering around us would strengthen the Church, too. Even when I wasn't in the Otherworld, a god could step forward and take charge... Jiang Hao divined Ieta Cavendish's location, then began wandering the Astral Plane.
Along the way, he saw all manner of wonders impossible in the material world. But what he encountered most often were the islands gods became after death.
Some of these islands were no larger than a plaza. Others were astonishingly vast, like continents floating in the air.
Whenever Jiang Hao came across a Divine Island, he stepped onto it to visit the gods who slumbered in the Astral Plane.
Most of the islands were so ancient that the gods within had exhausted their strength and sunk into deep sleep. Even when Jiang Hao sent Divine Power into them, they showed no sign of waking.
But the gods on the remaining few islands revealed many secrets to him.
The God of Fairness was an alias of the Sovereign of Order... The Prophecy God had not truly fallen... The Purgatory God was an incarnation of Asmodeus, lord of the Nine Hells, and Asmodeus was a god in his own right... Secret after secret spilled from the mouths of gods who had been active in ancient times, lifting a corner of the veil over their strange world.
The price of those secrets was the rest of Jiang Hao's body. Only his head remained. Fortunately, this avatar was made of pure Divine Power, so losing his body did not hinder him.
In the Astral Plane's silver ocean, a head drifted slowly toward a Divine Island that had barely been lifted from the sea.
As he