Inside the Guardian Hall of Mount Sumeru, Jiang Yun remained silent for a long time after hearing Houtu's explanation.
Outside the Dharma Protector Hall, the sea of clouds surged, much like the thoughts of everyone inside. Jiang Yun unconsciously tapped his knee with his fingertips, but his thoughts had already drifted to a more distant place.
"Houtu Ancestral Witch Houtu," he finally spoke, his voice low yet firm, "You say the Witch-Demon War is the inevitable trend of heaven and earth, impossible to defy... But do you truly believe this 'inevitable trend' cannot be changed?"
Jiang Yun did not want to succumb to the so-called general trend of the Primordial Desolation World.
The general trend cannot be defied; it's just that too few minor trends have been altered. As long as enough things are changed, quantitative change will lead to qualitative change, which can then influence the direction of even larger events.
Houtu and Xuanming exchanged a glance, Xuanming snorted coldly, "Jiang Yun, do you really think that you can reverse the calamity set by Heavenly Dao on your own?"
Houtu also spoke up, saying, "I know you have devised many plans for the Western World and changed the original situation Western Region. You consider this a testament to your efforts."
"You were involved in the alliance between my Witch Clan and the Demon Clan. You worked hard to unite all the forces, hoping to change the situation."
Jiang Yun shook his head, his eyes burning. "My initial goal was simply to hope that everyone could unite and do something beneficial for the Primordial World."
Just like how our Western Teachings transformed the Western Land, many hands make light work; the more people participate, the faster and better the results can be achieved.
"The original purpose...! So you have a new idea now?" Houtu's eyes flickered slightly.
"In my view, the essence of the Witch-Demon War, or the essence of all the previous Great Tribulation, stems from the limited resources of the Primordial World and the endless demands of cultivators, which leads to an imbalance in the universe. The Great Tribulation are a mechanism for the universe to correct its errors."
In order to change this situation that always repeats itself, the universe spontaneously began to evolve, wanting to restrain this chaotic and disorderly behavior through a controllable set of rules. Thus, the error-correcting mechanism of the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth began to become a fixed procedure.
Once the balance of heaven and earth begins to shift, Great Tribulation begins to brew.
Under this mechanism, some uncontrolled, or overly powerful races will inevitably decline. Jiang Yun stood up, exuding confidence and authority.
Xuanming, Houtu, and Kong Xuan found these words somewhat novel, and at the same time, they unconsciously accepted this view.
Xuanming said, "According to you, does that mean powerful races like my Witch Clan and Demon Clan are destined to never become Protagonists of Heaven and Earth, but will only decline?"
"That is indeed the case according to the course of World Evolution."
"I don't know if you've noticed, but since Primordial World beginning of time, the energy level of the universe has actually been declining."
From the Heaven-Opening, when Chaos Spiritual Energy was abundant everywhere, to the later transformation of Chaos Spiritual Energy into Innate Spiritual Qi, and now even Innate Spiritual Qi is beginning to thin out. If this continues, it is feared that Innate Spiritual Qi spiritual energy will eventually degenerate into Acquired Spiritual Qi.
The decrease in energy level will inevitably lower the threshold and difficulty for cultivation for Primordial World Living Beings, but at the same time, the heights they can generally reach through cultivation will also decrease.
Kong Xuan seemed to understand something as he pondered, "This is the evolutionary path chosen by Heaven and Earth. In the Primordial Desolation World, only beings who have crossed the Golden Immortal Realm can live forever. As their energy levels decline, many cultivators will not be able to cultivate to the Golden Immortal Realm and will naturally perish, thus avoiding triggering Great Tribulation. Even if Great Tribulation is triggered, its intensity will not be very high."
Jiang Yun looked at Kong Xuan with great appreciation and nodded at him.
At the same time, his explanation also made Houtu and Xuanming understand the significance of the evolution of heaven and earth.
"As you all know," Jiang Yun continued, "Back then, when the Western ley lines were broken, my two teachers and I used the Circumference Star Power to repair the Western Land. It seemed like we had replenished the Earth Origin, but in reality, it was just 'robbing Peter to pay Paul'."
Star Power originates from Beyond Heaven, but ultimately it remains an internal cycle within the Primordial World, failing to truly enhance the foundation of heaven and earth.
Jiang Yun has now come to understand that his actions over the years are actually just like China's West-to-East Power Transmission and South-to-North Water Diversion projects, which only achieved the transfer and allocation of resources, without creating new resources out of thin air.
Houtu seemed to be deep in thought, "You mean, we've been constantly fighting amongst ourselves?"
"Exactly!" Jiang Yun pointed his finger, and a phantom appeared in the air. The phantom depicted the scene of the war between the Witch and Demon Clans, with countless cultivators falling and spiritual energy returning to the world, only to be quickly devoured by new cultivators. "The essence of the Great Tribulation is that the Heavenly Dao periodically 'harvests' cultivators to give back to the world."
Our world has a fixed capacity, and is even gradually shrinking. Without external intervention, things will continue as we previously anticipated.
To break free from this predicament, we need to break free of the container that binds us and allow energy from outside to flow in.
If we can find a new 'source,' then the Primordial World will no longer need to rely on Great Tribulation Slaughter to maintain its balance!
Xuanming crossed his arms and chuckled, "Easy for you to say!"
Do you have any effective methods?
"The Chaos Qi is wild and untamed; even powerful beings at the Quasi-Saint level cannot refine it in large quantities at once. Do you think you can conjure it into absorbable spiritual energy out of thin air?"
Of course, that's possible!
Jiang Yun remained calm and composed, the scenes within his Inner World reflected in the void.
"This is my Inner World. I was fortunate enough to obtain the Yin-Yang Fetal Membrane by chance. This thing can transform the Chaos Qi into the spiritual energy needed by the world and increase the World Origin." He said in a deep voice, "Back then, when we broke the Guixu Restriction and brought back the Nine Netherworlds, we proved that the power of Chaos is not entirely uncontrollable."
If countless Great Formation could be constructed based on the Yin-Yang Fetal Membrane to envelop the entire Primordial Desolation World, then the Chaos Qi could be transformed into Innate Spiritual Qi and directly injected into the Primordial World...
Houtu was overjoyed. "This is equivalent to the Primordial Desolation World constantly absorbing and releasing Chaos Spiritual Energy to replenish itself, and it can even grow stronger as a result!"
Xuanming no longer maintained his airs. If the Yin-Yang Fetal Membrane truly had such an effect, it could indeed bring a different future to the Primordial Desolation World.
"Previously, beneath the Guixu, my many teachers and I used the principle of Yin-Yang Fetal Membrane to repair the damaged Fetal Membrane of the Nine Netherworlds World, and the results were excellent."
By utilizing the properties of the Yang Membrane, one can transform Chaos Qi to replenish the lost essence of the Nine Netherworlds World, while the Yin Membrane can transform it into Spiritual Power.
Once we've reached the Nine Netherworlds, we can go to the Fetal Membrane Great Formation and study it in detail.
Houtu, Xuanming, and Kong Xuan were all very interested in this and nodded in agreement with the proposal.
In truth, if it weren't for the many things that happened after Jiang Yun came out of Guixu, which made him focus his energy on other things, he might have already been researching the application of Yin-Yang Fetal Membrane to the Primordial Desolation World.
However, it was precisely because of this struggle Witch-Demon that things progressed. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so quick to plan and implement the Fetal Membrane issue, since the construction of the Western World wasn't even completely finished yet!