Within Origin Upper Summit, the deliberative ministers and officials of the Two Halls sat solemnly upon the Azure Jade Lotus Seat, each urging forth their own dharma power.
The once-stable heavenly order had now been torn open by a fissure, causing those celestial calculations and variables to surge and ebb. Under the violent impact, the heavenly order was like a plucked string trembling in vibration, able only to barely sustain its former function.
This required sufficiently powerful hands to suppress and propel it, restoring order to the celestial calculations.
Nor was it only the Two Halls. Every world, including the Upper Three Worlds, was dispatching additional manpower to deal with this matter, lest they be affected by still more upheavals.
Because the previous battle with Celestial Xia had drawn away no small number of people from the various worlds, there was now a gap in their strength. Many worlds were already powerless to cope on their own, forcing the Upper Three Worlds to dispatch people once again to aid the other worlds.
Though the Two Halls retained their former strength, they also had to suppress and regulate the treasures that stabilized the Way under their jurisdiction, while maintaining the power of those treasures confronting Celestial Xia. Under such circumstances, it was already good enough if they could hold their defenses steady; they simply had no strength left to do anything beyond that.
This was why Origin Xia's Upper Layer had always stressed doing everything possible to avoid this situation. At such a time, they had completely lost the initiative and had no means of dealing with Celestial Xia. Yet saying so was one thing, while truly carrying it out was another. Otherwise, they would not have fallen into their present plight.
Still, Celestial Xia had shown no movement so far.