These ancient divine beings had all belonged to at least the first tier while alive, with some even faintly surpassing it.
Almost all of them harbored selfish motives.
Qin Shi Huang, the reincarnation of Ancestral Dragon, wanted everyone in the Human Race to be like dragons, turning the Human Path into the Dragon Path. He emphasized opening the dragon spine and setting the dragon backbone!
The divine beings who established the Han Dynasty belonged to an even more tangled web of factions!
Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty.
He was the reincarnation of Emperor Ziwei, from the Heavenly Court's Star Gods lineage, and had overpowered the eight hundred feudal lords and ministers at Xiang Yu's Hongmen Banquet!
The first thing he did after becoming the Human Race's emperor was lavishly confer titles on his deceased meritorious subjects!
Logically, that was perfectly normal. What emperor throughout history had not bestowed an official post on the dead ministers who had helped him win the realm?
It merely meant casually allocating a little money, with little actual consequence. After all, the dead could hardly come back to life to collect their rewards.
But what titles had Liu Bang conferred?
Divine titles!
He had handed them out in every conceivable way, on an extraordinary scale.
The God of Mount Hua, the God of Mount Tai, the God of the Luo River, and even the City God of Jinling-all had received appointments!
And strangely enough, they were exactly the same as the Heavenly Court's appointments!
On the very same day, the Jade Emperor issued a decree appointing precisely the people Liu Bang had said he would appoint!
The five major factions, which should have been locked in rivalry and tangled power struggles after the Investiture of the Gods war, had not produced