"But this was also why the underworld could contend with the heavenly realm, while the divine artifacts of the earth's sunward side had largely been carved up and scattered, wasn't it?"
Yu Chen looked at the void before him, paused, then refuted his earlier words. "No. These divine artifacts of the earth's sunward side should have been mediums you abandoned to assimilate part of the divine artifacts of heaven. Through this method, you interfered with the heavenly emperor's control over heaven's sovereignty, giving more holders of ninth-rank divine artifacts in the heavenly realm the ability and opportunity to rebel against the emperor."
"No wonder divine artifacts tied to the Five Sacred Mountains, oceans, forests, and the like, regardless of what they had originally been, had to incorporate the twin concepts of heaven and the underworld after reaching the eighth rank. The earth's sunward side alone had already lost the possibility of producing a ninth rank."
Having reached this conclusion, Yu Chen looked at the Lord of the Underworld with a rather amused gaze.
While he was considering how to deal with the Lord of the Underworld, the Lord of the Underworld was likewise thinking of how to draw Yu Chen into his own camp.
The Lord of the Underworld likely intended to rely on the yin side of the earth's foundational divine artifact to gain a certain advantage. Yu Chen, meanwhile, knew that this fellow was very likely an individual formed from the gathered Dao nature of this universe's creator—practically an incarnation of the creator.
More importantly, after understanding the relationship between the second-generation Heavenly Sovereign, Earth Sovereign, Nüwa Sovereign, and the others, Yu Chen had formed certain guesses as to why heaven's foundational divine artifact and earth's foundational divine artifact had taken on such forms.
*Perfect. I can use