Essentially, these two men and Meng Zhao could be considered the same sort of people: both were self-centered and followed only their own hearts.
Take Calculates All Beings, for instance. When he saw the common people of the world, the impoverished masses, tilling their fields and doing no more than struggling desperately to survive, while any powerful martial artist could crush ordinary folk with ease—and even the aftermath of martial artists' clashes could inflict enormous harm and impact upon them—
Thus, Calculates All Beings conceived the idea of Martial Eradication and Law Destruction. If no one in the world cultivated the Martial Dao, then everyone would at least be kept more or less on the same level, without such vast, despair-inducing disparities.
Yet in doing so, Calculates All Beings had in fact betrayed the countless martial artists of the world, the Heavenly Dao of the Divine Continent, and even his own Dao.
A person like that would only strive and shape the world according to what he desired. He would not be swayed by others or alter his original intentions.
By the same token, Beitang Gong's vision was inferior to Calculates All Beings'. Having witnessed the revolving cycles of imperial dynasties during the Medieval Era—the long-united realm must divide, and the long-divided realm must unite—he developed dark thoughts, fearing that the Great Yong Dynasty he had built with his own hands would meet the same fate.
Thus, he further promoted the grand formation of Calculates All Beings and plotted against numerous peak experts, once plunging the world's Martial Dao into an even deeper decline. Not only did Gods and Devils become unseen, but gradually, even Grandmasters became the foremost experts of the age.
However, both men were already dead. Calculates All Beings was undoubtedly doomed to die, and the Martial