After a little thought, Xihua realized that the Heavenly Dao's influence had to be involved.
"Heavenly Dao?"
Xihua frowned and voiced the two words in confusion.
As far as Xihua knew, the Heavenly Dao had no independent consciousness. Everything operated on its own as part of the "instincts of Heaven and Earth."
Luo Qing nodded, affirming Xihua's guess.
"Our relationship with the Heavenly Dao is like weights on opposite ends of a balance. Whoever is stronger can suppress the other side.
"Though the Heavenly Dao has no consciousness, it will still have a stress response when faced with powerful lifeforms within the Primordial World.
"Especially as the Primordial World grows broader and broader, and the Heavenly Dao grows stronger.
"This resistance is becoming increasingly obvious."
Luo Qing slowly explained the complicated relationship between the Heavenly Dao and the Sages.
Back when the Primordial World was still weak,
a single Ancestor Hongjun, who had only just reached the Hunyuan Realm, had been able to suppress the Heavenly Dao and attempt to Merge with Dao.
When Luo Qing, Nuwa, and the other Sages appeared,
the Sages' combined strength had clearly surpassed that of the entire Primordial World.
The Heavenly Dao could not suppress the Primordial Chaos Saints, nor did it lack the means to restrain them.
The Sages naturally became existences beyond all things.
The so-called freedom from karma and immortality through Ten Thousand Calamities
were merely statements of fact describing the Primordial Era Heavenly Dao's helplessness against the Sages.
But the situation had now been reversed.
During the Witch-Apocalypse Calamity, the Primordial Great Land's mother root, the Sky-Supporting Pillar Buzhou Mountain, had not collapsed.
This had allowed the Primordial World to enter a period of rapid growth and expansion.
By now, the scale of the Primordial World was already impossible to