Only through the Silver Dragon King's explanation did Su Chen learn that even gods could be poisoned.
Of course, the poison that afflicted gods was no ordinary poison.
When the Divine Realm first came into being, there had been only one Supreme God: the Dragon God.
After the Dragon God appeared, a Destruction Droplet nurtured a tiny sapling formed from condensed life force. These were the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life.
After the God of Destruction and the God of Life, the Asura God, the God of Evil, and the God of Kindness were born in the Divine Realm.
That was the original Divine Realm.
At the time, the Divine Realm had been in a state of chaos. The Dragon God opened up yin and yang, the Goddess of Life nurtured life, the God of Kindness taught living beings kindness, the God of Evil taught them evil, the God of Destruction created harsh weather and disasters, and the Asura God taught them slaughter.
Thus, a Divine Realm with a sustainable cycle of development emerged.
This continued for a very, very long time, until some apes began to mutate and evolve, eventually becoming higher life-forms. They called themselves humans.
The emergence of humans brought new uncertainties to the Divine Realm. Not only the Divine Realm, but the lower realms, too, gradually began to change. Once members of the natural world, the apes began practicing private ownership after evolving into humans, and subsequently developed civilization. Before long, tribes emerged, followed by nations.
The emergence of nations further strengthened humanity's cohesion. United in purpose from top to bottom, humans showed signs of becoming the masters of nature.
Was this a good thing?
As members of the six Supreme Gods of the Divine Realm, the Dragon God, the God of Destruction,