Becoming a god had been the promise Huo Yuhao made with Tian Meng after meeting him, before his rebirth.
The Ice Empress and Snow Empress, who later joined him, and everyone else who took part had given him their power to advance toward that same goal: to escape the heavenly tribulation that soul beasts could not withstand and reach that distant, beautiful Divine Realm.
In the end, just as he had promised everyone, Huo Yuhao inherited the God of Emotion's godhood and ascended to the Divine Realm.
But the Divine Realm was not as wonderful as he had imagined, and Tian Meng and the others who ascended with him had not experienced that beauty there either.
Although heavenly tribulations were gone and their lives had been extended indefinitely, the Divine Realm's attitude toward soul beasts meant Tian Meng and the others could only stay in his courtyard and the Undead Demiplane.
He, too, lived like that in the Divine Realm with his mother and everyone else, even though life there was not actually comfortable.
But the accident that later occurred in the Divine Realm sent Huo Yuhao back to Douluo Star in the era of Spirit Hall.
Everyone had returned with him then, though. Although the Ice Empress and the others had not brought their memories, in the end, they still followed him down that road again. New companions joined them, and Elder Yi returned as well.
At the time, however, he had merely thought he would retrace the path to ascension in the Divine Realm on Douluo Star in Spirit Hall's era.
But the search for a godhood inheritance had not been smooth sailing. They had even come up with three plans then: one was to rely on a godhood inheritance, and another was to use the power of