Based on Di Liuxin's account, these faceless monsters had all been made by the Heavenly Beings, who had also planted ways to control them.
"Do you think that control might include deciding who lives and dies at will?"
Yin Mang suddenly spoke up without warning.
His words sent a shiver through everyone listening.
Everyone present had thought of the same thing. Both Heavenly Beings had risen by turning against their masters. They had once stabbed the Heavenly Dao in the back, and now they planned to bring it down and take its place.
How could the Heavenly Dao make the same mistake twice? How could it give anyone else the chance to turn against it?
So the best way was to plant a means of deciding life and death at will.
"I'm guessing the Faceless Ones might be much the same."
Yin Mang continued, speculating. Back then, they had all seen that being descend into Yan Yi.
If it could take over someone's body at will, controlling whether they lived or died would be even easier.
This also made it much easier to understand why the Heavenly Beings had chosen to trust the creatures they had made, rather than them.
"This world doesn't allow anything to be completely perfect. The Heavenly Beings were born in this world too. Do you think they have to abide by that rule as well?"
The old Daoist suddenly spoke, as if a flash of insight had struck him.
Wuxian understood at once and picked up the thread. "When the two sides made their plans, we used the people of the Heavenly Dao to constrain it. That was because the Heavenly Dao came from all living beings. Weakening them was the same as weakening the Heavenly Dao."
The Heavenly Dao was formed from all living