Humanity was the foremost of the myriad races.
The human emperor was the emperor of all spirits.
Since the scripture-fetching and scripture-delivering team had set out under the banner of saving the suffering and rescuing the afflicted, bringing salvation to all beings of the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm, they naturally had to bring the permission of the emperor of all spirits.
From the Heavenly Dao's perspective, the Heavenly Dao's decree was the issuing of a mission.
From the human Dao's perspective, what all spirits did was the execution of that mission.
In short, the scripture-fetching and scripture-delivering team had to have the permission of the emperor of all spirits.
Moreover, to have a beginning and an end, there had to be a starting point before there could be an endpoint.
Only then would it be complete.
Chang'an was the starting point.
Mount Wuyi's Buddhism was the transit station along the way.
The Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm was the endpoint.
Never mind that in the present Nine Provinces of humanity, there was no trace of Immortal Gods.
Even the strongest cultivators were only a group at Returning to Void and Merging with Dao.
The emperors were even more uneven in quality.
But do not forget!
What was above the Nine Provinces of humanity?
It was not the Azure Sky.
It was the Ancestral Land of Humanity.
Within it were countless Immortal Gods!
Daluo Golden Immortals came in crop after crop.
Quasi-Saints were everywhere.
Sub-Saints numbered twenty.
And higher still was the Human Dao Palace, pressing down across the myriad races.
With that, would the myriad races dare not bow their heads and proclaim themselves subjects before the emperor?
Put it this way.
Even Sin Dragon Yang Guang and that prancing Huhai, when facing the Daluo Golden Immortals of the myriad races,