All deliberations in the court having been settled, the various Court Executors went their separate ways.
After leaving the Radiant Aura River, Daoist Chong asked, "Court Executor Zhong, why did you not continue pressing the matter just now?"
Daoist Zhong shook his head. "I had intended to settle this directly in court, but I did not expect such fierce opposition. Even if we had persisted, we would only have sent the matter before the five Executive Regents. The five Executive Regents might not have approved our proposal, and doing so would instead have undermined the Chief Executive's long-standing policy of avoiding submission to higher deliberation."
He could see it as well. The Chief Executive was fundamentally indifferent to the matter of imposing restrictions. At the very least, compared with sending the issue to the Executive Regents for judgment, this matter carried far less weight.
In a grave voice, he said, "But we must remain wary. Because of the Heaven-Training Dao Canon, the Profound and Turbid paths now show signs of converging. Yet the more this is so, the more we must find ways to suppress these people."
Over the years, driven by the Profound Method, Turbid Canon Profound Venerables had continuously emerged. Now that the Heaven-Training Dao Canon had appeared, the two methods had been kneaded together into one.
Given the inherent problems of true cultivators, in the foreseeable future, the Profound Chiefs of the various continent domains would inevitably be replaced by Profound Venerables of the Profound and Turbid paths. The Profound Court, too, would gradually become the domain of these two methods.
He believed that by then, the True Law would surely be squeezed out bit by bit until it no longer had a place to stand. In the gravest scenario, it was not impossible that the True