The Native Race of the Ruin Realm and the Foreign Races had already been in a state of hostility to begin with, and then there were the resentful spirits of the Heart Strange Realm, who had been lying low of late and were at odds with both sides.
For now, they were all living in peace only because they were waiting for the Path to Immortality to appear.
If they let loose and began slaughtering one another now, no one could guarantee they would not come to harm—not even the several Dao Ancestors.
Even if nothing happened to them, if they suffered some wound that was difficult to heal, it would have an extremely unfavorable impact on the final struggle on the Path to Immortality.
There was another, even more crucial point: the signs of the Path to Immortality had only begun to manifest not long after the Drowning Abyss shattered.
None of the Supreme Realm cultivators knew the cause or principles behind the Path to Immortality's appearance, but analyzing the essence from the phenomenon, it seemed that only when the Ninth-Order Supreme Realm cultivators within the Ruin Realm reached a certain number did the Path to Immortality begin to manifest.
In essence, the Drowning Abyss was actually also part of the Ruin Realm, yet it just so happened that only after the Drowning Abyss shattered, releasing the Ninth-Order powerhouses of other planes into the Material Realm, did the Path to Immortality appear within their perception.
If the Ninth-Order Supreme Realm cultivators engaged in large-scale slaughter and caused great numbers of Ninth-Order cultivators to fall, would the Path to Immortality hide itself again?
No one could say for certain.
Since they could not say for certain, they might as well maintain the current state of affairs until the Path to