The God Lords had never taken Ash and the others seriously.
No matter how much potential Ash had, as long as he had not stepped into Heaven, there was absolutely no chance he could threaten a God lord. Demigods crushed mortals in terms of life form, Heaven looked down on Hell in terms of ideology, and with the same Miracle, the power a demigod and a God lord could unleash was worlds apart.
The first phase of the "Ash Annihilation War" was to take down Ash; the second phase was the war for the spoils, where the God Lords would have to go all out. For this, the Four God Lords did not hesitate to hand their personal secret domains to their angels and send them down to the mortal realm.
A so-called personal secret domain was the World Secret Domain a God lord used to enter Heaven when they Raised Heaven. In truth, a personal secret domain was no different from any other secret domain, but it was always the secret domain a God lord had controlled for the longest time. And once a God lord controlled a secret domain for long enough, it was possible for a wisp of divided divine consciousness to be nurtured within it.
The function of a divided divine consciousness could be considered great or small. It could operate the secret domain in place of the God lord, manage resources, and assist in battle, but Divine Spirits could also do these things, and even do them better. Therefore, the vast majority of the time, divided divine consciousnesses slept inside personal secret domains.
There was only one situation in which a divided divine consciousness had to be used: descending to the mortal realm! From ancient times to the present, God Lords had never possessed any