The World Honored One's sudden bombshell made Lu Yang's pupils contract sharply, yet from another angle, it also let him breathe a sigh of relief.
Because it answered one question.
Why had Si Sui joined forces with Chu Sheng to suppress the Ancestral Dragon back then? To a certain extent, Si Sui had even been the main force behind suppressing the Ancestral Dragon.
The case was solved now.
The Ancestral Dragon was the founder of cultivator civilization!
And with the aid of this Image, coupled with the status of an innate Dao God, he could create cultivator civilization—and naturally destroy it as well, just like growing vegetables.
Cultivator civilization was like a vegetable garden carefully tended by the Ancestral Dragon. True Lords, Great True Lords, and even Dao Lords were fruits and vegetables growing at different rates within that garden. Originally, all of it had been under the Ancestral Dragon's control, because the status of an innate Dao God was practically a dimensionality-reduction strike against cultivators.
Yet in all things under Heaven, there was always a sliver of hope.
And so, a [Variable] appeared.
Si Sui, Chu Sheng, and the Dao Lords walking at the forefront of cultivators discovered the Ancestral Dragon's scheme. After a great battle, they slew the Ancestral Dragon instead!
That's right.
Only a crisis that concerned the survival of cultivator civilization could have made Si Sui, then the strongest among cultivators and the pinnacle of morality, turn against the Ancestral Dragon!
At the same time, Lu Yang also understood the Great Sword Sect's actions.
"From the looks of it, during the Dao Lord War, the Ancestral Dragon once tried to use the Heavenly Duke's hand to launch a harvest, supplying power for his breakthrough."
"Correct." The World Honored One nodded slightly.
"Sanhe could not stop the