Because they knew, they avoided it.
Even if this path did not seize the fruits of the Sentient Path or take the cultivation of all living beings, but merely borrowed and repaid like Cause and Effect, it still left these old monsters wary deep down.
Yet before that, when they had deduced the Heavenly Secrets, they had already grasped the greatest Variable Fate in full.
By all reason, such a situation should not have arisen.
"Shouldn't these Hidden Dragon prodigies be watching the geniuses ranked alongside them on the Hidden Dragon Ranking? These Heavenly Sun cultivators clearly should not be debating Dao with them. When did all these Heavenly Secrets variables begin?"
An elder furrowed his brow tightly.
"Don't forget—the Heavenly Secrets became clear for an instant before."
Someone reminded them.
"If that is the case, then expanding the Heavenly Sun Path to the greatest extent is probably no longer possible now."
"Hmph."
"You people... this may be the Era of Variables, and we may wish to soar straight to the heavens, but do not forget what that glimpse of future Heavenly Secrets signifies."
"So long as the Heavenly Sun Path has not occupied the great tide, all we need do is relinquish one thing or two and return to the Immortal Path."
"But the Heavenly Sun Earth Continent..."
"You truly are muddleheaded with age. The Heavenly Sun Earth Continent is indeed a fine place. Since heaven and earth have Nine Immortals, why can there not be a tenth? Let the Heavenly Sun Path become the Heavenly Sun Immortal Path. Fate Allotment likely would not refuse it either."
"Dust returns to dust, earth returns to earth. When the Dao exhausts the cultivators' Fate Allotment and returns it to heaven and earth, it can also lessen the rejection somewhat..."
"It is