The god statue transformed into a living being, and the deity descended to the mortal realm, becoming an ordinary "mortal".
"This feeling is a bit peculiar."
Lu Ping'an completed his first God's Descent, or rather, it was only when his courtyard reached the true specifications of a Divine Kingdom not long ago that he gained the qualification for remote God's Descent.
Ultimately, God's Descent is "high-dimensional" interfering with "low-dimensional", and if your rank isn't high enough, you can't use it.
To use an inappropriate yet realistic metaphor, God's Descent is like a hacker hijacking a zombie computer to create a puppet; if your host's computing power isn't enough, you technically can't manage it.