"The Divine Realm has never feared divine power leaking out, nor has it ever feared powerful individuals in the lower worlds who refuse to obey it. What it fears above all is that, once its knowledge is passed down, the lower worlds will produce an endless stream of powerful individuals who defy it."
Having come this far, the Sea God decided to lay everything bare.
"If a single world produces a powerful individual, it makes no difference to the Divine Realm whether that individual ultimately ascends and joins us, dies of old age in that world, or simply begins rebelling against us."
"Ascending means joining us, and if they rebel, the Divine Realm can easily suppress them. But if the Divine Realm's knowledge spreads to the lower worlds, a Plane might produce a steady stream of top-tier powerhouses, eventually gaining enough strength to contend with the Divine Realm—or at least inflict some damage on it."
"It isn't that I don't want to. I can't. Working backward from a god's level to devise cultivation methods for Spirit Masters could yield excellent results. But if the Divine Realm discovered such a thing, not only would Sea God Island in the lower world face a reckoning, I would also receive the Divine Realm's harshest punishment: the complete dissolution of my Divine Soul."
"The Divine Realm's greatest demand of the lower worlds isn't prosperity or flourishing development. It is stability—absolute stability. Ideally, the kind that supplies the Divine Realm with new gods from time to time without slipping out of its control."
"It is said that once a civilization develops to a certain stage and its planet shows signs of being about to escape the Divine Realm's control, the Asura God will act to destroy that world's entire civilization."
"Lord Sea God, you have