An Jing never bragged.
After the seven Heavenly Venerables of Huaixu arrived in the Tianyuan Realm, virtually every problem in the Tianyuan Realm ceased to be a problem.
Yes. It sounded rather like a deus ex machina. The Tianyuan Realm had countless problems—whether in its institutions or its class disparities, whether among the Aristocratic Corporations or the commoners of the Safe Zones and Wilderness... the world's troubles were too numerous to count, and every one of them was difficult to resolve.
If the Tianyuan Realm had been a closed system, an isolated world, then reforming all of this would have been harder than climbing to heaven.
It could even be said that without launching a civil war that swept up everyone and would most likely end in mutual destruction, fundamental change would have been almost forever impossible.
But among the myriad heavens and worlds, not one was truly an island.
In ancient times, beyond the continent, even seemingly distant overseas islands still bore human footprints. A steady stream of migrants brought new technologies, and routes to other continents were even opened. Different civilizations that appeared sealed away from one another had, in truth, always traded and exchanged with each other. By sea or by land, those ties had never been severed.
No civilization could ever develop in complete isolation. Problems impossible to solve from within would always undergo a thorough transformation through a "deus ex machina" from the "outside world."
Yet that was not truly a deus ex machina. It was merely the most ordinary exchange and circulation within a larger whole.
Just like the Huaixu Realm and the Tianyuan Realm—the Tianyuan Realm's current predicament stemmed precisely from its former role as a hub for exchange and trade among the worlds. It possessed relatively few resources itself, serving only as