"So this was why we thought the whole world should have been shaken by this, yet most ordinary people acted as though they hadn't heard a thing." Qin Yi said, "Because in the hearts of most ordinary people, immortals and gods had little to do with them... and in truth, you and I both knew that cultivators felt they had little to do with mortals either. They even sought to transcend Mortal Karma."
Liusu said softly, "Yes. Things truly were different now from ancient times. Cultivators and mortals had long since divided into two, invisibly... In a sense, Yao Guang's foresight was correct."
One of the explicit rules in Yao Guang's order had been that heaven and humanity remained separate, and immortals and gods did not interfere in worldly affairs.
Though her order had never had the chance to be implemented... over tens of thousands of years of change, whether because cultivators sought transcendence or because they superstitiously feared becoming entangled in Mortal Karma, cultivators had long since invisibly separated themselves from mortals.
And mortals received no answer when they prayed to gods and worshipped Buddha. They were merely swindled out of lamp oil money by bald monks and Daoist charlatans, seeking a bit of psychological comfort.
The main reason was that cultivation in this world lacked a certain doctrine. People looked after themselves. The closest thing was Bei Yuan's salvation of all beings, but Bei Yuan had gone astray. Thus, a world that truly possessed cultivation and great Divine Power appeared in secular life like an atheistic world, the divide stark and clear. Even if people now knew immortals truly existed, so what?
Mortals had never expected cultivators to rescue them from suffering. When demonic evils appeared, they posted a bounty: I paid the money, you helped solve the