King Heaventide calmly sent some divine will into the dome of heaven. He was curious to see what assets Sea-Sealing County had to rely on other than their Dawning Suns.2

Regardless of what those assets were, they didn’t relate to him. He was a heavenly king, not because of his clan standing, but because of his Smoldering God cultivation base. Although he wasn’t the strongest of the thirty-three heavenly kings of humankind, his identity, position, and battle prowess left him feeling confident that he could deal with whatever circumstances might arise.3

That was especially the case considering he was in this backwater Holytide Region. As he knew, before Grand Duke Holytide became a Smoldering God, it had been countless years since any Smoldering Gods had existed in the Holytide Region. To the people here, Smoldering Gods... were almost no different from real gods. Both were as mighty as heaven, and simply couldn’t be defied or shaken.7

He also knew that humans were the last species to conquer all of Revered Ancient. Although they had experienced a lot of setbacks, they could still be considered one of the top species. And when compared to the Nightshades, they had more Smoldering God...18