Besides Su Jiu and Zhiqi, five other gods lived in Heaven Beyond Heaven.
No one knew just how many years the oldest among them had lived. They knew only that he had existed since the creation of heaven and earth.
The other four were also exceedingly detached by nature. Although they occasionally interacted, such encounters were rare; seeing one another twice in a year could already be considered frequent.
They were immortal, indestructible gods, after all. Though they seldom interacted, they all knew they would be neighbors forever, so conflicts between them were almost unheard of.
Divinity lacked humanity's emotions and its intense joys, anger, sorrows, and pleasures. That was also why most of them were so detached.
Strife between people often arose from desire, whereas divinity possessed no such thing. For that very reason, they almost never argued, much less fought.
Indeed, without outsiders coming to provoke them, Heaven Beyond Heaven could remain so peaceful that hundreds of thousands of years passed like a single day.
Of course, the great battle between Shuang Jiu and Zhiqi was another matter altogether.
Perhaps because this incident had caused such an enormous stir, even the other gods, easygoing as they were, could no longer sit still while Heaven Beyond Heaven suffered repeated destruction.
At that moment, the five gods were seated together, seemingly discussing something. Had an outsider been present, however, they would quickly have noticed that all five wore expressions that looked as though they had been cast from the same mold.
"Zhiqi has been locked up by A Jiu." Pinghua's voice was bland, with almost no trace of concern, as though she were merely stating something of no consequence.
"Let her be. Once she tires of all this, she'll let him out. Surely she won't actually kill Zhiqi."
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