Throughout the past history of the Nether Clan and the human race, no one had ever successfully forged the Shenzhu Realm.
Over time, the Nether gods of the Nether Clan had begun choosing the path of godheads to challenge for dominion, using it to ascend to the supreme realm.
Yet this alternative path of cultivation—condensing the divine soul into a Primordial Spirit, independent of the physical body—had also been deliberately opened up by the will of the Sea of Mist.
—It seemed to have been created specifically for the Nether Clan and the human race.
Pang Jian even felt that the Nether Clan and the human race, these two special races, had likewise been painstakingly created by the supreme will of the Sea of Mist after drawing upon the strengths and weaknesses of the races beyond the heavens.
It clearly believed that these two races, unlike all others, could contend against the gods beyond the heavens through this entirely new cultivation system.
After all, dominators like Ling Yun and Demon Heaven had charged toward the beyond-heavens, only to ultimately suffer defeat.
The creatures bearing its imprint within the Sea of Mist were not races of its own creation. The path by which those races became dominators through godheads should have been the crystallization of that will beyond the heavens' wisdom.
How could one defeat the other using creatures it had created and the godhead path it had opened?
Ling Yun, Demon Heaven, and many more dominators like them had carried its will into battle against the starry river beyond the heavens, only to be defeated time and again. That had made it realize this path was not viable.
Was that why, even when Ling Yun could rise from the dead, it had not extended an olive branch, but had instead