Life such as Companion Spirit Grass was not actually permitted to exist in Heaven Beyond Heaven.
Though it was a companion, it would in fact unwittingly steal nourishment from the original life.
His relationship with A Jiu was one such example.
Yes, his original name had not been Chu Luohen, but Shuang Luo, a name A Jiu had given him.
Zhiqi told him that when he was born, he should have been uprooted outright, but A Jiu had protected him.
She had said that she had no companions anyway, so they might as well keep him as a blade of grass that could talk.
And so he had been allowed to stay, successfully growing up alongside A Jiu in the same pool in Heaven Beyond Heaven.
Shuang Jiu did not actually like to talk. Though she could take human form, she preferred to remain in the pool in Heaven Beyond Heaven as a Nine-Petal Frostflow.
This made the already cold and quiet Heaven Beyond Heaven even colder and quieter.
Yes, there were not many deities in Heaven Beyond Heaven, and fewer still possessed a divine core.
Most were idle outsiders like him.
Of course, he was the only Companion Spirit Grass. Most of the other outsiders had ascended from the Immortal Realm.
These people were rather strange. They clearly had no divine cores, yet called themselves deities, and Zhiqi had never denied their claims.
In truth, they did not qualify. Those fellows who called themselves deities were not even his equals.
Fortunately, the deities with divine cores and those outsiders in Heaven Beyond Heaven had always kept as distinct as the clear and muddy waters of two rivers. Neither trespassed upon the other's waters, so conflicts between them were rare.
In short, Heaven Beyond Heaven actually had only seven true