Neon could only tell Wang Qi this much.
She guessed that was how it had been.
There had once been a time when she believed that, as a being on the same level as the Celestial Great Saints, she could understand them.
But in this era, after that instant, she realized that she actually knew nothing.
She had merely thought she understood the Celestial Great Saints.
"The Creation Saint believed that the Forty-Nine Dao were the fairest order. But the Silence Saint believed that the Forty-Nine Dao left the universe's creatures without any choice after birth—they would inevitably remain forever beneath the Celestials. The Celestials should not stand above other living beings."
"They had... a slight dispute."
Wang Qi asked, "So this was the so-called 'Celestial Civil War'? What looked to us like a battle to the death was, to them, actually a process of reaching agreement? And after that battle, the Celestials no longer descended into this era?"
Neon nodded.
"And at that time, there was a... very strange accident. The observable universe, in essence, is still a finite object. Thus, the history of the Celestial Great Saints manifested within the observable universe was more like... this finite universe accessing a finite fragment of the Celestial Great Saints, those infinite entities. Ordinarily, if they did not wish to damage this universe, the Celestial Great Saints could only display infinite power in finite forms."
Neon pinched her own cheek. "Let's put it this way. Suppose... of course, this is only a supposition. The Creation Saint is the set of (3n), while the Silence Saint is the set of (3n-1). The number of elements in these two sets is equal—of course, I know that the Celestial Great Saints are a higher order of infinity. Whether 3n or 3n-1, both are countably