In space above Earth.
With a sky full of stars at his back, Jiang Yang stood above Heimdall.
The Heimdall satellite
Earth
The Moon orbited beside him, cycle after cycle, reflecting sunlight onto him and making him look like a god.
He looked at this Divine Clan satellite, weathered by the years, and prepared to end its mission in Earth's space-time.
Now that Jiang Yang had returned to Earth, Heimdall no longer needed to observe the starry sky.
He reached out and drew Heimdall behind him without touching it. Enveloping the enormous artificial satellite in golden divine light, he took hold of it and flew down toward Earth.
Over short distances, he still preferred the sensation of roaring through the open skies that flight brought.
In Earth's skies.
As Jiang Yang flew above Earth with the Heimdall satellite, he resembled a great sun cleaving the vast sky, golden light blazing between heaven and earth.
The people of Earth's primitive tribes (New Humans) looked up at the sky. To them, the two golden silhouettes, one ahead and one behind, seemed like an unrivaled Heavenly Emperor driving the Sun's chariot, traveling north in towering majesty.
The power of the sixth step was already enough to influence living beings unconsciously.
Some primitive tribespeople saw this and carved it onto stone walls.
In the northern skies.
Jiang Yang arrived with the Heimdall satellite above the snowy mountain where the Far North Shelter stood.
The Far North Shelter was the one the Divine Clan had left behind.
As for the reason.
Because of its special conditions, the Far North Shelter had once been the place where the entire Divine Clan froze its gravely wounded, its fallen, and those who had grown indifferent to life and death.
The frozen members of the Divine Clan were