Along the way, Jiang Yang talked with the researchers as they walked, finally learning what had happened back then.
Back then, when the Poison of Faith broke out.
The Seven Great Refuges and the Seven Divine Courts gathered together again for once, holding a meeting at the Kunlun Divine Court.
Aulisel presided over it once again.
At that time, the Divine Clan numbered only a few hundred, even counting everyone in both the Divine Courts and the refuges.
Not only were their numbers dwindling, but virtually every god was wounded, their strength greatly diminished.
The mortal world had also been left to its own devices. Only a handful of unaffected gods occasionally descended to inspect the Mortal Realm.
At the meeting.
Li Zhe proposed ways to deal with the Poison of Faith, divided into treating the symptoms and addressing the root cause.
Excising and sealing the divine core, or closing off the Spiritual Sea.
Discussion erupted among the gods. Aulisel strongly advocated directly excising their divine cores, even if their strength plummeted as a result and they needed a long time to recover.
Because as long as faith and divine cores existed, there would be a risk of another outbreak of the Poison of Faith.
With so few members left in the Divine Clan, another outbreak would be tantamount to the annihilation of their clan.
But most of the Divine Clan could not bear to part with their hard-won strength. Moreover, some of those whose strength had been severely damaged would need countless years to recover once their divine cores were excised.
They chose the second path.
Including three of the five remaining God Kings!
Odin, Zeus, and Ra.
With three God Kings taking the lead, most of the Divine Clan chose to close off their Spiritual Seas and wait