At this moment, the Dao Spirit that An Jing had refined in an instant had also sorted through its thoughts and memories. It answered in a voice that seemed to be harmonized from countless voices.
[The Xuantian Ji created us in order to completely resolve the problem of 'heavenly demon corruption.']
The moment it spoke, the Dao Spirit said something that made An Jing raise his brows. [Our purpose is to spread our laws across the entire world, and thereby utterly eradicate demonic corruption.]
"Sure enough, the Xuantian Ji was not always what it became in later generations."
It was precisely because he had fought the Xuantian Ji in the Zhaolin Realm that An Jing could be certain: even after that Da Chen Holy Ancestor had begun trading with heavenly demons, he had absolutely not fallen.
He possessed a vigorous, supremely confident spirit. He had indeed been studying heavenly demons, but it was by no means merely to preserve a single clan, a single bloodline, or a single throne—rather, the Yushen Great Court had likely not even collapsed at that time, and he had still been one of its members. Why would he have begun contemplating a grand enterprise spanning ten thousand ages so early on?
Thus, An Jing believed that the Xuantian Ji, the greatest genius even among all the Heavenly Venerables, must have had plans of his own.
And those plans had to be extraordinarily far-reaching.
They may even have touched upon the most fundamental need of the Heavenly Dao... namely, how to resolve the matter of heavenly demons.
Otherwise, the Xuantian Ji could never have earned the Heavenly Dao's favor and obtained the 'Second-Generation Nothingness Born: Heaven-Answering Undying Tree.'
"I can tell."
An Jing said evenly, "You are the multitude. You are the soul of the Da