# 804
Chapter 804
Chapter 805 - Where Have the Gods of Great Xia Gone?
Hearing this question, a smile curved at the corner of Shao Pingge's lips. He looked at Lin Qiye, smiling but saying nothing.
"Not at all?" Lin Qiye couldn't quite grasp what lay behind Shao Pingge's smile. He couldn't help but ask, "That's not possible, is it? Two years ago, Commander Ye personally told me that it would take at most half a year for the Heavenly Court origin to be completely repaired. By then, all the Gods of Great Xia would return from the cycle of reincarnation and have the ability to freely leave Great Xia's borders…
It's been so long now. Could the Heavenly Court origin still not be repaired?"
Shao Pingge shrugged with a smile.
"Qiye, do you know just how highly classified this matter is within the Night Watch?"
Lin Qiye was stunned.
"The situation with the Gods of Great Xia is the highest-level secret of Great Xia. The confidentiality level of this matter is simply too high. As one of the Night Watch's several senior leaders, although I know everything about it, I don't have the authority to disclose this intelligence to you…"
Lin Qiye finally understood his meaning. All that Shao Pingge had said could be summed up in a few words: "You're not a Night Watch senior leader. This cannot be told to you."
With Lin Qiye's current position as captain of a special squad, his intelligence clearance within the Night Watch was already quite high. Yet even so, he still didn't have the clearance to access this secret…
But the more it was hidden from him, the more curious Lin Qiye became.
Logically, once the Heavenly Court origin was repaired, the return of the Gods of Great Xia from the cycle of reincarnation would inevitably be an extremely grand event, enough to change Great Xia's century-old perception of gods and its understanding of the Mist…
And yet, the current Great Xia seemed no different from Great Xia over two years ago in terms of worldview understanding.
No grand Heavenly Court hung suspended in the sky. No mythological immortals rode the clouds. There was no passionate discussion about the Gods of Great Xia. Great Xia remained a human-centered Great Xia.
Could it be that the Gods of Great Xia truly hadn't returned?
"Fine…" Lin Qiye sighed helplessly.
Shao Pingge glanced at him, then calmly turned to look at the moonlight outside the window. After a long silence, he spoke casually:
"However, I can give you a little hint…"
Lin Qiye looked up questioningly.
"The Gods of Great Xia are no longer in Great Xia."
After saying this, Shao Pingge draped the coat from the back of his chair over his shoulders. He gave Lin Qiye, who was still at a loss, a meaningful look, then walked straight to the office door and pushed it open, heading toward the courtyard.
In the brightly lit open space of the quadrangle courtyard, laughter and bickering mixed with various cooking aromas, flowing into the quiet office.
Lin Qiye seemed to have figured something out, his eyes slowly brightening!
The Gods of Great Xia are no longer in Great Xia!
This simple sentence contained far too much information. For instance… the Heavenly Court origin had indeed been fully repaired.
As Ye Fan had said earlier, before the Heavenly Court origin was fully repaired, the Gods of Great Xia couldn't leave Great Xia's borders. Since Shao Pingge said the Gods of Great Xia had left Great Xia, it meant they had already obtained an intact Heavenly Court origin…
This also meant the Gods of Great Xia had all returned from the cycle of reincarnation!
Combined with the current situation in Great Xia, Lin Qiye could deduce many more things.
The Gods of Great Xia had clearly all returned, yet they hadn't caused a massive impact. At least in the eyes of ordinary people, nothing in this world had changed.
There could be two reasons for this.
First, the Gods of Great Xia fundamentally didn't want to interfere with the normal operation of human society, nor did they deliberately emphasize their own existence. They simply guarded Great Xia quietly from the invisible realm, just as they had over a hundred years ago, watching the world bloom and wither, clouds gather and scatter…
Second, the Gods of Great Xia didn't want news of their return to reach other divine nations.
Four years ago, Yang Jian's sudden emergence had sounded the alarm for the various divine nations in the Mist. They began to realize that the Gods of Great Xia were awakening from the cycle of reincarnation with fierce hostility, and would pose an enormous threat to their own divine authority.
So they began trying to unite with each other, forming a united front against Great Xia.
Of course, at that stage, the various divine nations were merely wary of Great Xia—still far from a true alliance… What truly prompted them to accelerate their union was Zhou Ping ascending to godhood through his sword.
The threat of human apotheosis combined with the existence of the Gods of Great Xia caused Great Xia's threat level in the Mist to rise sharply. After two years of fermentation and accumulation, this united front had initially taken shape, and was even ready to launch a grand, sweeping Divine War!
But why hadn't they attacked yet?
Because within Great Xia's borders existed a variable—this variable was like a doomsday nuclear weapon, hidden deep within Great Xia's core.
The Gods of Great Xia were the variable.
The divine nations in the Mist didn't know the actual situation of the Gods of Great Xia.
How many deities of Great Xia had awakened from reincarnation? What was their current combat strength? Had they returned to divine realm? If a full Divine War broke out, how much terrifying damage could the Gods of Great Xia inflict?
They didn't know. They didn't dare gamble…
It was like two hostile superpowers facing each other, where one side wanted to start a war but couldn't determine whether the other country had nuclear weapons. If it did, how large were its nuclear stockpiles? If they really fought, could the price paid be endured?
This was the reason the full Divine War, though already brewing, had迟迟没有发动的原因，也是外神不断的掀起兽潮，想要试探Great Xia的根本目的。
At the same time, this was also the reason Zuo Qing was building war fortifications!
It was only at this moment that Lin Qiye understood why Zuo Qing was in such a hurry to build war fortifications, why he was willing to抽离本土的Night Watch力量，也要派人去驻守这些关隘……
The Night Watch was like a giant hand desperately concealing the existence of the Gods of Great Xia. Once the Night Watch's defensive line was breached, the Gods of Great Xia could no longer hide. They would have to reveal all of this nation's trump cards before the foreign gods.
Without its trump cards, the moment a full Divine War was launched, Great Xia would already be half-defeated.
The Gods of Great Xia had their responsibility to Great Xia;
The humans of Great Xia also had their responsibility to Great Xia.
In this era, in Great Xia, humans and gods had entrusted their backs to each other, standing shoulder to shoulder at the top of a turbulent world, preparing to face the wolves and tigers coming from the Mist.
Lin Qiye sat there dazed, like a stone statue, motionless.
The information gap brought by his over two years of disappearance was completely filled by Shao Pingge's simple sentence!
The doubts that had shrouded Lin Qiye's heart were finally lifted. At this moment, the situation Great Xia faced was clearly laid out before him.
Lin Qiye turned his head, looking at the back of Shao Pingge walking into the courtyard to take a seat, his eyes filled with complexity…