Within the Pure Profound Dao Palace, after Zhang Yu withdrew that wisp of qi, he also stabilized the gateway to this world. What remained was to maintain the balance here.
Neither allowing this realm to lean too far toward the spiritual side, nor letting it lean wholly toward the present world—this was determined by the particular circumstances of this realm.
Ever since the evolution of ancient life in this realm, aside from cultivators, most flesh-and-blood creatures had more or less been permeated by spirituality along their path of development. If it leaned entirely toward the present world, living beings would become maladapted. Likewise, leaning toward spirituality meant merging into the side of Pure Spirit, which was equally extreme.
Impartial and balanced was best. It was also the choice of this realm's flesh-and-blood creatures themselves.
As for spiritual creatures, those without independent consciousness were part of Pure Spirit and need not be regarded as living beings. Those with independent consciousness could naturally return to the Pure Spirit Abode, where they were better suited to survive; no one would stop them. But if they insisted on transforming flesh-and-blood creatures, Celestial Xia would naturally stand up for the latter, for in principle, the people of this world were all citizens of Celestial Xia.
Yet the various changes within this realm could bring Celestial Xia no small amount of inspiration.
This world possessed ample experience in the coexistence of flesh-and-blood creatures and spiritual creatures, as well as methods for spiritualizing flesh-and-blood creatures. This was an exceedingly precious asset.
Spiritualization appeared undesirable, but if it was not widely employed and was instead used in certain specific circumstances, it could be extremely useful. For instance, if a soldier was gravely wounded, he could be temporarily spiritualized. Then he would no longer be severely afflicted by injuries