Questions and Suspicions

Just as the Heavenly Will in the Earth Immortal Realm had planned to seize the essence of the Beast God.

The Heavenly Will of the Great Profound Realm descended into the world as Cang Ancestor, "Heaven." Its purpose was to cultivate and seize the essence of a Dao Attainer, so it could completely escape the restrictions of the Heavenly Dao and become independent.

But the prerequisite for this "seizure" was that Heaven first plant an "anchor" in a Dao-Proving cultivator before they attained the Dao and ascended to immortality.

Only then, at the crucial instant when the Dao-Proving cultivator attained the Dao and ascended, transforming in the process, could Heaven use the anchor it had laid in advance to invade and seize that Dao Attainer's "essence."

Back when the Cang Race still dominated the Great Profound Realm, Heaven could naturally plant "anchors" without restraint.

To take things a step further:

If Sword Ancestor hadn't been the first to attain the Dao back then, there might still have been a chance.

The "anchor" Heaven planted was exceedingly well-hidden, and rooted in the very "existence" of living beings.

Ordinary Dao Attainers, not even Xuan, the strongest Dao Attainer of that era, could have removed it.

But things in this world had no "ifs."

Sword Ancestor's Dao was "Severance," and with his innate trait as the "Calamity of Heaven," it was no exaggeration to say he completely countered Heaven.

The "anchor" Heaven had painstakingly planted, rooted in the very "existence" of all living beings, was something Sword Ancestor could remove with a single strike.

Thus, ever since Sword Ancestor attained the Dao, no one had been harmed by the "anchor" again.

"To obtain the Fruit of Creation, one must pass through the Immeasurable Calamity." Xuan watched Heaven's twisted face with interest. "If you