‘Heaven-shaking and earth-shattering’ was certainly a description.2

Of course, different people had different concepts of what ‘heaven’ was.0

For example, to the empress, ‘heaven’ was humankind. Everything shē did was for hēr people. And in a time period in which humans were not flourishing, shē was fighting an uphill battle.0

To Xu Qing, ‘heaven’ consisted of all the people he had come to care about on his journey. There was Sergeant Thunder, Grandmaster Bai, his Master, Erniu, Plumdark, Ling’er, and others.... That ‘heaven’ also contained things connected to those people, for example, Sea-Sealing County, Seven Blood Eyes, or the Holytide Region. Those things brought meaning to his life, and were a foundational element of his personal human nature. They were like an anchor that enabled him to stay connected to his human nature even when using godly nature.1

That was even more the case considering that his new fleshly body was made from the flesh of the broken face. He was now more like a god than ever, and therefore, the brightness of human nature was incredibly important.0

It was no surprise that Huang...0