Ling Yan raised her eyes, looked toward Duobao in the distance, and smiled faintly.
"Fellow Daoist Duobao, why speak with such emotion?
"The struggle of Dao between the Literary Sect and the Jie Sect, their contest in spreading their teachings, their differences in principle—how could any of that have begun today?
"The Primordial Wilderness is vast, yet Luck is finite. With the great cataclysm before us, each side simply uses whatever means it has.
"Today's meeting in Luoyi is nothing more than the natural final reckoning of countless past causes and effects, accumulated to this moment."
Although the Chan Sect and the Jie Sect hated each other because their principles clashed and because of sectarian prejudice;
In the actual struggle for Luck, with the Chan Sect's meager few disciples, whenever conflict arose, the Jie Sect usually needed only to dispatch a few more Experts to drive the Chan Sect's forces away.
In a frontal clash, the Chan Sect found it hard to contend with the advantage of the Jie Sect's "Myriad Immortals Come to Pay Homage."
The Chan Sect's true advantage lay in its core doctrine of Explaining the Heavenly Dao and complying with Heaven's will. Placed in the Heaven and Earth of the Primordial Wilderness, especially among clan forces that pursued Orthodoxy and order, it held tremendous appeal.
After all, to be justified and receive one's mandate from Heaven was a kind of blessing whether for rule or for cultivation.
Each religion had a Saint presiding over it, and a sect's influence was by no means determined solely by the dueling combat strength of its disciples.
Before the outbreak of the Investiture Cataclysm, the number and scale of conflicts between the disciples of the Literary Sect and the Jie Sect over preaching the Dao, resources, and principles were not