"Perhaps." At this moment, An Jing fell into deep thought.
He was still considering another matter.
—At the end of the day, whether it was the Former Emperor's death or Prince Jing's death, all of it had originated from the Ying Tian Immortal Tree.
And the reason the Ying Tian Immortal Tree had manifested in this form, rather than in one of the other classic forms of the Heart of Heaven and Earth, was simple.
Because the Yushen Great Court had sought to rule over all things between heaven and earth, seize every authority of the Heavenly Dao, and thus made the Huaixu Heavenly Dao feel threatened.
Others might not have given the matter much thought, but An Jing, who had just returned from the Tianyuan Realm after defeating the Holy Demon, keenly caught this detail.
He recalled the words of the Holy Demon's phantom.
—Martial artists are man-made Holy Demons.
And now that he looked at it, what the Yushen Great Court had done was practically identical to the Tianyuan Four Sages, who had usurped the authority of heaven and earth. Whatever their reasons, anyone who seized the Heavenly Dao's authority would inevitably suffer Heavenly Punishment!
And after Heavenly Punishment, heaven and earth would inevitably change as well, instinctively seeking to prevent the next usurper—those martial artists, those Holy Demons who were not Holy Demons.
That, perhaps, was why the "Immortal Tree" and "Little Qi" had been born!
"So that's how it is... The Yushen Great Court had nearly become a Holy Demon, and so it suffered Heavenly Punishment. The Heart of Heaven and Earth reversed, turning into a living creature, much like the Huaixu Divine Tree that opened heaven and earth in ancient days, or the Ancestral Dragon's Creation from Nothingness."
An Jing's thoughts raced as he swiftly