Nature has its own laws of development.
Since you have become water, you must fall from the sky as rain.
Since you have become fire, you must burn to illuminate others.
Since you have become time, you must flow.
The moment you become part of nature, you can feel its laws of development all the more clearly.
The replacement of the old by the new, and the sun and moon shining together, were also among nature's laws of development.
That was why Sacred Spirit Esteemed Immortal had said: Born atop the tide of the age, and die beneath its tide.
The next era.
The future would be an era without Celestial Phenomenon Esteemed Immortal!
Celestial Phenomenon Esteemed Immortal would be forcibly made to Integrate with the Dao.
Thus, the past had withered and been defeated, while the future was being born.
"So, I really want to see whether, after handing the realm to your future, you can break free of my shackles—or whether, like me, you can only repeat an endless cycle of death."
"After you rule the era, you too will be overthrown and replaced by the young, just like the dynasties throughout history."
Ning Zheng was speechless inside. You're the one secretly sabotaging us. It's only been two thousand years—how could there already be a whole horde of people trying to overthrow us? Our dynasty has only just been established.
According to the laws of history, a newly founded dynasty was precisely when it was young and full of vigor, with strong troops and sturdy horses. There was no way there would already be so many assorted rebels.
"I'm only accelerating the process."
Sacred Spirit Esteemed Immortal felt there was nothing wrong with what he was doing. "I can't exactly have you spend tens of millions of years