Mother Goddess

The Mother Goddess, also called the Mother of the Boundless Sky, is the creator and ancestral deity of the Harpies. Their organized faith gives her influence in the Origin Realm while the Barrier of Gods prevents her physical return. She later joins the other gods' attempt to break that Barrier, only to find that the Harpies and humanity have developed the power and independence to resist her.

Biography

The Harpies' distant mother

The Mother Goddess first enters the narrative through Harpy religion. Unlike the other Intelligent Races, the Harpies organize much of their culture around one creator deity and separate the authority of their emperor from that of the Mother Goddess Sect, also described as the Feathered Goddess Sect. Her followers do not regard her as symbolic: they believe that she sends divine inspiration, guides their race, and guarantees that present suffering will eventually end. That conviction gives her church its own armed forces, revenues, and influence comparable to the Harpy state. (Chapter 783)

Her earliest effect is indirect but powerful. Flowing Flame Oriole breaks free of Su Chen's control and kills herself after he insults the goddess, choosing the Harpies' future and her deity's honor over survival. Much later, the Lord of the Dreamrealm reveals that the Mother Goddess has provided the Harpies with knowledge of the Barrier and Eternal Treaty. She also bestows new Divine Feathers after Su Chen steals an earlier one, showing that the worshippers' claim of active guidance is genuine even while the Treaty restricts direct intervention. (Chapters 783 and 1035)

Intervention and preparation for return

The Mother Goddess directly manifests when Lonely Skyleap calls for protection during a confrontation in the Dreamrealm. Addressed as Kashmir by the Lord of the Dreamrealm, she challenges his right to interfere in a conflict involving her heirs and threatens to attack until he agrees that the Harpies may take the Astrals' Immortal's Soul. She appears as an ethereal face within spreading fog, steadies the disturbed Dreamrealm, secures the concession, and withdraws. Their exchange also reveals that the Barrier is weakening, leading both gods to agree that they should prepare for a new divine age despite their mutual distrust. (Chapters 1035–1036)

The price of crossing the Barrier keeps that intervention limited. A surviving divine will explains that powerful gods such as the Mother Goddess can transmit part of themselves into the Origin Realm only at severe cost, while the Eternal Treaty further restricts open action. She consequently operates through blessings, church troops, ceremonies, relics, and worshippers. During Sky City's war, her statue and the Mother Goddess Sect become focal points for divine techniques that heal Harpies and replenish their energy, but the city's defeat eventually allows human Titan-Class puppets to pull the statue down. The humiliation marks a political defeat for her faith before her body can return. (Chapters 1060 and 1075–1083)

As the gods plan their escape, the Mother Goddess reports losing worshippers and recognizes that reduced faith weakens divine power. She nevertheless retains loyal Harpies inside conquered Sky City. When Frost proposes using the Deep Sea Anchor to pierce a damaged section of the Barrier, she promises that those followers can revolt and seize the city's core while Su Chen is absent. The plot turns her remaining children into instruments of her return, but it also exposes the split within the Harpy race: some still await their Mother, while Eternal Night chooses independence and prepares to suppress the rebels. (Chapters 1135–1138)

Return, rejection, and fall

Once the passage opens, the Mother Goddess returns with six other gods and attacks the forces assembled by humanity. She attempts to reclaim the Harpies before committing herself to battle, calling them her children and invoking the deep instinct to worship that she placed in their race. Some kneel or turn angrily toward the humans, but Eternal Night answers that the Harpies have grown up and must decide their own future. Sky City then joins the resistance, making the rejection more than rhetorical: the civilization created to honor her now fights for freedom from her rule. (Chapters 1149–1150)

In battle, the Mother Goddess reveals her complete form as a tree, a nest, and a white eagle functioning together. Her first large feather barrage kills nearly ten thousand cultivators, yet immortal energy consumes divine power and reduces what she expects to be a far more devastating attack. She prepares to spend still more irreplaceable feathers until the supposedly allied Lord of the Dreamrealm attacks her consciousness and reveals himself as the Human Ancestor. Already opened to a mental strike, she cannot defend effectively when Su Chen joins him. She consumes every warrior in her divine kingdom for a final surge, but the combined assault exhausts her divine power and kills her. (Chapter 1157)

Her destruction is not necessarily permanent. After the battle, the Blood Ancestor examines the Scepter of Time, which contains sleeping, egg-like projections of both the Mother Goddess and the Moon Goddess. He calls himself the gods' remaining hope of resurrection and preserves the two projections rather than releasing them. The corpus ends without showing either goddess awaken, so the Mother Goddess is dead as an active combatant but still has a dormant remnant through which she might theoretically return. (Chapter 1157)

Appearance and personality

Her first direct manifestation is incorporeal: a vast cloud of fog fills the Dreamrealm while an ethereal face moves in and out of view. Harpy temples represent her with monumental statues, but their exact features are not described. Her true form is stranger than either image. It consists of a divine-power-absorbing tree, a bird-producing nest in its crown, and a white eagle that performs her attacks; all three parts are the goddess rather than the eagle alone. (Chapters 1036, 1083, and 1157)

The Mother Goddess is possessive, proud, and intensely protective of Harpy interests, but her protection assumes authority over those she created. She intervenes to secure the Immortal's Soul for her heirs and heals or empowers believers through her church, yet later treats loyal Harpies as agents who should revolt for her return. When Eternal Night claims adulthood and independence, she does not accept that change peacefully. Her willingness to consume the inhabitants of her divine kingdom in a final attempt to survive also shows that preserving her own divine order ultimately outweighs the lives of individual worshippers. (Chapters 1035–1036, 1077, 1137, 1150, and 1157)

She can cooperate when divine survival demands it, but never fully trusts the other gods. She accuses the Lord of the Dreamrealm of overstepping the Treaty and trying to bewitch her, then later accepts his arguments about preparing to return. Her wariness proves justified when he betrays her. Even at the moment of defeat she remains defiant, angered less by the lives her attack takes than by immortal energy reducing its effectiveness and permanently lowering her strength. (Chapters 1035, 1135–1137, and 1157)

Abilities and cultivation

The Mother Goddess is explicitly a high-tier god whose power depends on divine energy, worship, and the three-part structure of her true body. The Barrier and Eternal Treaty limit how much of that power can reach the Origin Realm before her return, while immortal energy becomes its decisive counter afterward.

Divine existence, faith, and the Barrier

Harpy worship supplies the Mother Goddess with divine power. The gods monitor losses of believers as direct losses of strength, and she reports that a year of religious disruption costs her roughly five percent of her worshippers. Her connection with the Harpies also has a designed, hereditary aspect: tens of thousands of years of worship and their origin as her creations leave them instinctively responsive when she calls. Eternal Night and many soldiers resist through conscious commitment to independence and through immortal cultivation, showing that the bond is profound but not absolute. (Chapters 783, 1135, and 1150)

Before the Barrier falls, she can send knowledge, inspiration, blessings, Divine Feathers, and a portion of her will across it. She can manifest in the Dreamrealm strongly enough to threaten its lord, stabilize the surrounding space, and negotiate protection for her followers. Crossing with greater force would cost far more of her strength, and both the Barrier and Eternal Treaty prevent her from openly ruling the Origin Realm. Her church and relics therefore function as intermediaries until the return. (Chapters 783, 1035–1036, and 1060)

Tree, nest, and eagle

The tree at the base of her true form absorbs divine power and supplies it to the other parts. The nest produces Harpies, making her title as their mother literal rather than metaphorical, while the white eagle is her principal combat body. Damage or limits affecting one function do not erase the other two, but the text does not explain whether the parts can separate, how quickly the nest creates life, or what would happen if only one component were destroyed. (Chapter 1157)

This structure makes her both a creator and a combat deity. It also creates a dependence on accumulated divine power: once the Human Ancestor's consciousness attack leaves her exposed, Su Chen can force her to spend that reserve until nothing remains. Consuming the warriors inside her divine kingdom produces a final burst but cannot reverse the battle. Her physical form falls when its divine supply is exhausted. (Chapter 1157)

Divine Feathers

Divine Feathers are the source of the Mother Goddess's greatest direct offense. The eagle launches hundreds at once, each cutting through defenses and together killing nearly ten thousand cultivators despite the suppressive effect of immortal energy. Earlier individual feathers function as priceless Harpy divine relics, and the goddess can bestow replacements on chosen heirs. Their abundance in her true-form attack shows the difference between a relic granted to a follower and the arsenal of the deity that produces them. (Chapters 1035, 1142, and 1157)

The feathers are costly and slow to regrow. Spending hundreds in one engagement represents the loss of hundreds of divine-tool-equivalent resources, and another full barrage would likely reduce her from a high-tier to a low-tier god even if she survived. They also do not defend effectively against a focused consciousness strike. Immortal energy further weakens their influence and lets human cultivators survive an attack that she expects to kill vastly more people. (Chapter 1157)

Divine influence and support

The Mother Goddess can project a commanding voice through consciousness and exploit the Harpies' ingrained reverence, turning faith itself into a battlefield pressure. Her sect also channels divine support through ceremonies and its leader: beneath her statue, Universal Light Divine Art heals wounded Harpies, restores Origin Energy, and burns hostile Beasts. The scene demonstrates power routed through church worship and a mortal officiant rather than an unrestricted personal action by the goddess. (Chapters 1077 and 1150)

Her supportive influence depends on believers, ritual infrastructure, and access across the Barrier. Destroying temples, reducing worship, and converting followers deprive her of power before direct combat starts. After her return, immortal energy counters divine power at its foundation rather than merely blocking one technique, which is why large numbers of comparatively weaker cultivators can wear down gods who once dominated the world. (Chapters 1135–1142 and 1150–1157)

Power progression

Relationships

• The Harpies: The Mother Goddess creates the race through the nest in her true body and regards every Harpy as her child. Their faith sustains her, and she grants guidance, relics, healing, and power in return. That relationship becomes a conflict over ownership when many Harpies follow Eternal Night in choosing independence rather than obedience to their creator. (Chapters 783, 1035, 1077, and 1150–1157)
• Eternal Night: As Harpy emperor, Eternal Night initially rules alongside the institutional power of her church and uses its troops and divine techniques to defend Sky City. Defeat changes the relationship. He suppresses the loyalists she hopes will seize the city and personally tells her that the Harpies have grown beyond parental control, converting political separation between church and state into open resistance against the goddess herself. (Chapters 783, 1075–1083, and 1137–1150)
• Su Chen: Su Chen begins as a skeptic who underestimates what Harpy faith can make believers do. He later steals the sect's relics, helps topple her religious power, spreads immortal cultivation that counters divine energy, and joins the Human Ancestor in killing her. Their conflict represents the opposition between self-directed cultivation and dependence on inherited divine authority. (Chapters 783, 917, 1083, and 1149–1157)
• Lord of the Dreamrealm / Human Ancestor: The Mother Goddess treats the Lord of the Dreamrealm as a dangerous rival whose interference and mental influence require constant scrutiny. They negotiate over their followers and cooperate in plans to return, but he is secretly the Human Ancestor. His surprise consciousness attack creates the opening for Su Chen to defeat her, validating her distrust only after it is too late. (Chapters 1035–1036, 1135–1137, and 1157)
• Moon Goddess: The two goddesses cooperate in the divine council and final campaign, combining their powers against the Origin Beasts and human cultivators. Both are surprised by humanity's growth, and both fall after the Human Ancestor's betrayal. Their dormant projections are later shown sleeping beside one another inside the Scepter of Time. (Chapters 1135–1157)
• Lonely Skyleap: A leading Harpy believer who invokes the Mother Goddess in the Dreamrealm and receives direct protection. She intervenes on his behalf, ensures that her heirs can take the Immortal's Soul, and withdraws once that objective is secured. His willingness to fight another god for her glory illustrates the kind of loyalty through which she acts before returning physically. (Chapters 1035–1036)

Items

The finalized item inventory for the Mother Goddess contains no entries. Divine Feathers originate from her body and are expended as attacks or granted as Harpy relics, while the Scepter of Time that preserves her projection is held by the Blood Ancestor rather than owned by her.