Yet Lin Su's answer was beyond her expectations. "There is no Power of No Way in it, only a proper Heavenly Dao Law. It will not harm them in any way. One could even say that as long as they come into contact with this law, as long as they truly fuse with it, their strength will genuinely rise to another level!"
Ming Tianyan was truly stunned. "Their strength will genuinely improve... Is a Sage's strength so easily improved?"
"Under normal circumstances, it is nearly impossible for a Sage's combat power to improve by even a sliver. But do not forget where this is. The Sages here are a special case... They are all Foreign Sages. Their Sage Marks do not harmonize with the local Heavenly Dao, so they possess Sage Marks but cannot merge with the Heavenly Dao. Strictly speaking, they are not true Sages, only half-Sages!"
Ming Tianyan stood dumbfounded. "Half-Sages! So... the laws sealed inside that damned ball of yours can allow them to merge with the Heavenly Dao, elevating them directly from half-Sages to genuine Sages?"
"Yes!"
Ming Tianyan slowly raised her gaze and looked toward the distant surface of the Cang River, sorting through her tangled thoughts before softly exhaling. "Have you considered that they are enemies? If their strength rises greatly, will that disrupt the balance with the Third Heaven? Most importantly, they can also cross the boundary. What you are doing may very well open a door that should never be opened."
The Sixty-Nine Foreign Sages—no, at their peak over the past thousand years, there had been eighty-one Sages. For all these years, they had only been able to remain evenly matched with the Holy Hall. Many believed this was because Literary Sages had always been stronger than Sages of the Cultivation Way.