After all, in their eyes, manual labor was a task for lowly mortals.
"And so, this monumental task,
fell, as a matter of course, upon the shoulders of the mortals who were still left behind in the Mortal World."
"As time went on, the Deities in the Celestial Palace grew ever more greedy and profligate.
Their greed was a bottomless abyss that could never be filled.
To sustain their extravagant lifestyles, the Human Race had no choice but to work themselves to the bone, day and night, suffering immensely.
And to spur the Human Race to work even harder,
those Deities actually instituted all sorts of so-called reward systems, using petty incentives to delude the people.
One of the Deities once said,
that as long as you break the backs of these mortals, so they can never raise their heads again,
and brand servility so deeply into their blood that it becomes an instinct,
