Lu Changsheng understood the dangers of the Divine Region. Many Martial Saints and Nascent Soul True Lords had managed to obtain deity fragments, only to be killed by deities before they could escape.

The intelligence provided by the sacred lands also contained a few precious secrets. The step from the Human Saint Realm to the Earthly Saint Realm, for instance, had not originally required a deity fragment at all, and one could advance without one—but that was tremendously difficult. 

Earthly Saints and Heavenly Saints were exceedingly few in number, and anyone who could break through the shackles to become an Earthly Saint had to be a favored child of heaven. It was only after the discovery that deity fragments greatly aided that attainment that the number of Earthly Saints among martial artists finally s...