Having their divine foundations heavily seized was something even harder for the two deities to accept than simply being killed!
If they had merely been slain, their divine artifacts shattered, and their divine names still remembered—so long as the Qi River and the Huai River did not run dry—they would have always possessed the possibility of returning, unless new deities of the Huai River and Qi River were to emerge.
Yet right now, Zhou Tieyi was in the middle of replacing them, of becoming the new deity of the Huai River and the Qi River!
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