Such mad ravings and mockery naturally drew no response.
Liu Guan threw back his head and laughed. "What's so great about that? Back then, I wanted to take it for myself, but I never got the chance... You really are extraordinary. Even at a time like this, you could still think of this move. The coverage of the Shangqing—no, the Mystical Gate system—has indeed given you room to catch your breath. But turning things around will still be exceedingly difficult."
The leaps in Liu Guan's speech were truly beyond the reach of ordinary people, but these later words were undoubtedly penetrating insight.
With a single sentence, Liu Guan had laid bare Yu Ci's present situation.
Though Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu was currently pinned beneath Xi Yu Lake by the Rakshasa Ghost King and the Boundless Void Divine Lord, unable to break free,
he could still use the nearly omnipresent Mystical Gate law system throughout the Eastern cultivation world to slowly seek an opportunity to strike back. Never mind whether such an opportunity would come; that tenacity alone deserved praise.
The Eastern cultivation world flourished with the Mystical Gate, with sects numbering in the thousands. Yet there were no more than a dozen that had truly established their own Dao lineages.
Tracing their origins further back, however, there were only four ancestral courts: Eight Sceneries, Shangqing, Zhengyi, and Yellow Heaven.
Most Mystical Gate sects under heaven were still like the Li Chen Sect. They founded their sects upon methods and cultivated step by step, spending little effort most of the time on such "abstract" matters as expounding scriptures and mystical principles.
The Empirical Branch's great popularity within the Li Chen Sect was a manifestation of precisely this state of affairs.
Such a structure ensured the Mystical Gate's universality throughout the cultivation world.