That was right. Even within Ling Tian's Small World, there were many things he couldn't control, such as the various strange energies he hadn't refined, and the lives he had taken into his Small World. Life was especially difficult to control. Although he could suppress or even kill them by virtue of being its master, that didn't mean he had them under control. Based on this, Ling Tian and the others speculated that Guixu might also be a lifeform—one that a Lord of the Star Domain couldn't completely control.
Po Qiong found this speculation fairly convincing. After all, in his mind, any lifeform could be "bewitched." Guixu might have been bewitched by the Lord of the Universe and then chosen to follow him. That would naturally have let the Lord of the Universe learn from Guixu how to create Nine Nether Nether Soldiers. And with Guixu's existence, he would also have possessed a large number of Life Seeds to make them.
If that were the case, then everything that had happened before could be explained. Thinking of this, even Ling Tian began to believe the theory more and more.
"But what kind of lifeform could restrain Life Seeds?" the Creation Divine Tree wondered. "According to Senior Dong Huang, the Life Seeds of almost all powerful cultivators return to Guixu after their deaths. That seems more like a rule, or a law of heaven and earth, binding them. From that angle, Guixu seems more like a kind of Dan Artifact—one that possesses the laws of order."
"And if Guixu really is a Dan Artifact with some kind of law of order, then it's even easier to explain. This Dan Artifact might not be something a Lord of the Star Domain can completely control. Of course, if Guixu chose to follow the