The Demon Emperor had designed an entire civilization from a lofty height.
This was the Demon Race's own limitation, the root cause of their descent into the so-called "barrier of the unknown." Perhaps it was not an inherent restriction imposed by the Eternal Class.
They were products of design.
Wang Qi pondered. "Designed products have a very strong sense of purpose... Everything the Later Demon Race did was meant to create that vast Divine Dao system. But evolved systems are stable and diverse under many circumstances, because systems born of evolution constantly improve under the selective pressure of their environment. And environments often change and fluctuate, forcing evolved systems to adapt to different conditions. Designed systems, on the other hand, are relatively confined by the purpose for which they were designed. They exist only for the purpose of 'developing a Divine Dao civilization.' Simply put, they existed entirely for that purpose, so they fundamentally lacked any real capacity for 'development.'"
And when an artificial system tried to do something beyond the limits of its own capabilities, something it should never have been able to do, it would find itself unable to take a single step forward.
It might even collapse.
Fan De said, "Mm, that makes sense. But there's still one thing I can't figure out... Wasn't the Dragon Emperor's goal to break through the barrier of the unknown?"
"Perhaps that senior believed only Divine Dao could save the Dragon Race?" Wang Qi guessed. "Because the Early Demon Race lacked absolute order and was merely a loose alliance under a powerful central leader, it eventually collapsed... The Dragon Emperor probably believed Divine Dao could prevent that from happening?"
Since Divine Dao's great power no longer came entirely from oneself, but instead gathered miracles through the united hearts of all living