Some researchers believed that the "ideal cosmic civilization" envisioned by the Celestial Great Saint two hundred million years ago had to be fundamentally composed of Immortals.
Their strongest evidence was the mechanism of the "Immortal Path."
Any creature without a Longevity Dao Fruit that entered it would suffer a collapse of its cultivation and die instantly—unless it entered a state of suspended death beforehand and was temporarily incorporated into an Immortal's own cycle.
Supporters of this theory believed that, in the eyes of the Celestial Great Saint, a life that was not eternal perhaps could not be called life—or rather, any individual incapable of enduring forever contained a "design flaw." The Nascent Soul Method and other immortal methods existed to repair that flaw.
However, its opponents pointed out that, judging from the name "Heavenly Jealousy Race," the Celestial Great Saint was not particularly friendly toward decentralized collective organisms—communities that were theoretically immortal from birth. This could not prove that "the Celestial Great Saint considered short-lived beings unworthy of being called 'life.'"
In truth, all these people could discuss now was merely the intelligence Wang Qi had obtained from the underground world, along with the scattered clues the dragon race had revealed.
None of the various conjectures could reasonably explain why, when the Celestial Great Saint designed the routes, he had not considered the interstellar travel needs of Non-Immortals. But the universe had never altered its existence simply because humanity failed to understand it.
The fact was that, without an Immortal to lead them, cultivators who had not attained a Longevity Dao Fruit simply could not pass through the Immortal Path.
Therefore, every exploration team of the Zhengtian Division was a mixed squad led by Free and Unfettered Cultivators.
Such squads were usually formed when the Zhengtian Division drew up a