With matters having developed to this point, Bei Ming's many arrangements for "what came after" could be considered preliminarily settled.
Once Ling Yan used the method of "Three Corpses Unity" to prove her Dao and become a saint;
Even if she were only at the first level of Saint, it would be enough for her to contend with Laozi, a second-level Saint who had proved his Dao through Merit, and she would not be easily defeated.
Given time, Ling Yan would become the strongest Saint.
Though she could not, like Bei Ming, suppress All Saints with absolute strength;
With Nüwa as an ally, however, it would be enough for her to occupy an advantageous and proactive position in the new, looser Saint order.
After this matter, the rift between Yuanshi and Tongtian had become a heavenly chasm. In the future, they were bound to fall into a more direct and prolonged opposition.
Among the Saints, with "Three Purities" no longer serving as that naturally stable core camp, the forces would become more balanced, each restraining the others.
In the future Primordial Wilderness, the Saints would need more vertical and horizontal alliance, exchanges of interest, and exquisite calculations before they could advance their own Daos and seek Luck.
This was exactly the situation Bei Ming was happy to see.
On the battlefield of Luoyi, before the Zhuxian Sword Formation.
Tongtian's act of severing ties, along with the strange phenomenon of Three Purities' Luck being divided that followed, caught Laozi and Yuanshi completely off guard, shaking both mind and spirit.
First disbelief appeared in Yuanshi's eyes, then it turned into anger and a faint, hidden regret.
He had never imagined Tongtian would be so absolute, directly cutting off the origins and ties of the Three Purities.
On Laozi's face, calm as an