"Hahaha! Teacher, teacher, how terribly biased you are!"
Sensing Li Dalong before him, Wanrong laughed.
Since ancient times, the world had maintained a balance between immortals and living beings: immortals wielded the laws that created the world, while living beings borrowed the mortal realm's great Daos from nature. It had been this way since heaven and earth first opened. The Heavenly Dao needed immortals to eradicate every resource growing in the mortal realm, allowing those resources to strengthen the world and the Heavenly Dao through "conversion."
Later, their teacher replaced the Heavenly Dao, and the Endless Night began. Immortals gained a measure of autonomy, but this did not end their mission to eradicate the world's living beings for the Heavenly Dao. With the Endless Night and the terrifying desires arising from changes to the immortals' "flesh and blood," the conflict only intensified.
Living beings grew stronger as the world and the Heavenly Dao expanded, while immortals revived again and again, becoming ever more powerful under the drive of instinctive desire. This strife had continued to the present day. Every war in the mortal realm strengthened the Heavenly Dao further.
The Thirteen Ancient Sages, the immortals, and the Heavenly Dao Prophet could only hide behind the scenes, strengthening themselves over long ages and waiting for this day, when the Heavenly Dao was wounded and the different factions could cooperate to launch a lethal counterattack.
Until the great Daos of Li Dalong and the Azure Cloud Li Family erupted, alongside the power of laws they were acquiring and now using to "flaunt their might" in the mortal realm.
A new transformation had begun.
Great Daos and laws, two powers that had fought against each other for countless years, now coexisted within a single person.
No one in the world knew just how