"But why? Why did the Heavenly Dao insist that I stop this battle between the Earth Court and the Demon Clan?"
"If I intervene and prevent the Thirteen Ancestral Witches from killing Di Jun and Taiyi and destroying the Demon Clan, I should only offend the Witch Clan and Houtu. There shouldn't be any other serious consequences."
"Is that what the Heavenly Dao wants?"
"But why? Is it deliberately targeting me?"
"If it isn't deliberately targeting me, it could simply have had Dao Ancestor Hongjun intervene, as he did in the original course of fate. Why insist that I do it?"
"But if it is targeting me, it could carry out its threat: let the Earth Court destroy the Demon Clan, then turn the Calamity of Witches and Demons into a calamity between the Earth Court and the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage. Wouldn't that hurt me even more?"
Yuan Yan could not make sense of the Heavenly Dao's reasoning.
Oh, right. The Heavenly Dao wasn't human. It didn't have a brain. That explained it.
He still had no idea what the Heavenly Dao was thinking, but he would not be threatened.
After considering his response for a moment, Yuan Yan said evenly, "Once the Earth Court destroys the Demon Clan, this calamity will become one between the Earth Court and the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage?
"If so, once the Earth Court has destroyed the Demon Clan and Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling have attained the Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, I'll send the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage to destroy the Earth Court and unite the Primordial World!"
If the Heavenly Dao could make threats, so could he.
If the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun had not been so unfathomable, with strength possibly at the Twelfth Layer of the