After making his decision, Zhang Yu looked toward the Primordial Unity Celestial Palace. Once he had truly taken control of the Golden Court, he discovered something he had never noticed before.
Though the Primordial Unity Celestial Palace and the Golden Court both lay within the Origin Void, and everyone could exchange qi-intent without obstruction, there was in fact a boundary between them. It was not simply a division between the Golden Court and the Primordial Unity Celestial Palace, nor merely one between the Clear Vault Aura and the Dao-Suppressing treasure on the other side.
That division lay in the struggle for the Dao.
It separated Origin Xia and Celestial Xia before the evolution of ten thousand ages and after the evolution of ten thousand ages.
This was a demarcation and constraint born of the Dao struggle itself. Under the involvement of supreme power, the two sides naturally became distinct, setting apart the different principles each represented.
Whichever side won in the end would cover the other and thereby claim the upper hand. Perhaps the losing side would not merely be wholly subsumed itself—even its supreme artifact would be gathered into one whole.
For a confrontation among the Upper Layer, this was actually a relatively mild method. There was no need to fight until heaven and earth turned upside down, nor to stir up violent turmoil in the Origin Void; victory and defeat could be decided all the same.
Unfortunately, this mildness existed only between the true selves and reflected selves of the Five Innate Tais. The other great powers had not been included at all; instead, they were forcibly pushed aside. You could only accept the terms I gave you. You had no right to choose.
Whatever attitude these beings held toward those great powers, they at least offered them