Haotian's senses had not been wrong.
Under Wu Tian and the Saints' manipulation, the Primordial World had rapidly cultivated a vast number of cultivators in a short time. In particular, every Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal who attained the Dao—aside from those like Yang Jian, who broke through within Chaos—had absorbed an enormous amount of origin...
Such frenzied absorption.
The Primordial World's spiritual qi was being depleted at a terrifying rate!
Or rather...
This was exactly as Wu Tian and the others had foreseen. Even without their consumption, the Primordial World's spiritual qi would gradually lose its "vitality" and eventually drift slowly toward its end.
Since that was the case.
They might as well make the fullest possible use of it!
Haotian naturally understood this as well, yet after sensing the changes in heaven and earth, he could not help but sigh. The first to bear the brunt of it was the decline of the Divine Dao.
Without the Investiture of the Gods' enhancement and filtering, the stray thoughts within incense offerings grew ever heavier, further proving Wu Tian's earlier words—"Incense offerings are poisonous"!
The problem that followed was:
It was no longer possible to cultivate through Divine Dao incense offerings!
Fortunately, Haotian had already broken through to become a Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal. Even if his position as Heavenly Emperor was unstable, he did not need to worry too much. Furthermore, when the Investiture of the Gods had been destroyed, the divine souls listed upon it had been released. These people now had another path to take...
They did not have to perish alongside the Divine Dao.
Yet the decline of the Divine Dao was plain for all to see, and its authority was continuously weakening. Without these people operating the laws, the Primordial World grew increasingly chaotic.