"At your level, you should be able to sense that the Spirit Realm is selecting administrators." Vast Heaven, with the clock-and-bagua symbolizing time behind his head, spoke in a calm, gentle tone. "This is one of the purposes for which we created the Spirit Realm."
"The purpose of selecting administrators is to fight those invaders?" Zhang Yuanqing asked.
He thought of the Demon Seed, of the catastrophe that had led to Nüwa Sovereign's death, and of those beings at the end of the Evil Professions.
Vast Heaven did not answer at once. After pondering for several seconds, he said:
"Fighting the invaders is the process, not the purpose.
"On the contrary, the reason the invaders corrupt the Spirit Realm is to prevent the birth of its administrators."
What that meant was that the conflict between the Evil and Orderly factions stemmed from some core objective, while the Spirit Realm was merely the battlefield of their struggle... To achieve that objective, the Orderly faction had to cultivate administrators, while the invaders of the Evil faction had to prevent the Spirit Realm's administrators from being born... Zhang Yuanqing understood his meaning. Without suppressing his urgency, he said:
"Please enlighten me, Vast Heaven!"
Vast Heaven sighed.
"All of this originated from the conflict between the gods!"
A conflict between gods... So beyond demigods truly were gods. Gods should be the Spirit Realm's administrators, beings with complete administrator authority! Zhang Yuanqing nodded inwardly. He had long ceased to find the existence of gods unfamiliar.
Vast Heaven lightly waved his hand, forming a taiji diagram on the ground. He spoke slowly:
"All things in the world possess both yin and yang. Prosperity declines at its peak, and when misfortune reaches its limit, fortune returns. This is the universe's core law.
"At the beginning of the