The Puppet Sect's First Patriarch
Wu Yousheng's identity was undoubtedly of the same "kind" as the Lord of the Divine Court.
They had both originated from the "Outer Universe" where the Source of Heavenly Dao resided. The Seven Star Gods were clearly their kind as well, except those seven Star Gods seemed to have encountered some problem and could only become extraterritorial Divine Lords.
Moreover, the ultimate fate of those seven Star Gods had been to be refined by the Lord of the Divine Court into this so-called "Immortal-Slaying Gourd."
If we look at it from this angle, could it be that the Lord of the Divine Court deliberately conducted that experiment only after learning of this?
He Ping thought that the Lord of the Divine Court had very likely known from the outset that the experiment would fail. What he had sought might have been a "failed" experiment.
"The consequence of that 'experiment' was the summoning of the 'Spirit of Destruction' from the Source of Heavenly Dao. It crashed down and became the third continent. After that came the outbreak of the Celestial-Human Great Calamity, bringing the era ruled by the ancient Daoist sects to a complete end."
The era of the ancient Daoist sects had not been beneficial to the Lord of the Divine Court either. Furthermore, after the Celestial-Human Great Calamity, the thirty-six orthodox paths flourished, the rules of heaven and earth changed drastically, placing restraints upon every cultivator beneath the heavens and shaking the cultivation world to its foundations.
"I never expected you to see through even this layer," the female voice softly sighed. "Your guess is correct. As the Northern Dipper has nine stars, so too does man have nine orifices... That other immense existence which descended into this world from the Source of Heavenly