"By now, this was already the best possible outcome."
Yu Hua Qian likewise gazed toward that Divine Mountain. "Back then, the Heavenly Dao Calamity appeared to stabilize Tiandi, but in truth, it was releasing pressure. It bore far too much karmic burden from all living beings and needed to shift it onto the creatures of Tiandi today."
In other words, Tiandi had not come into being through its own cycle. It had simply eaten too much and needed constant reordering, a return to the proper path of Tiandi. The birth of living beings and the destruction of living beings were both processes by which Tiandi continually cycled itself.
But those hands had already set their sights on the Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory, which was why the Dao Ancestor intervened to suppress them and forcibly slow their advance.
"Back then, the Dao Ancestor personally suppressed the Heavenly Dao." Ke Zixiao stepped forward.
"Back then, the Dao Ancestor never left the sect even once." Yu Hua Qian looked at Ke Zixiao. "He allowed the Eternal Ancient Myriad Clans and their Dao lineages to leave their ancestral lands. After suppressing the Heavenly Dao, the Dao Ancestor had already begun preparing to depart and make his breakthrough."
"It seemed the Dao Ancestor had known back then that the price behind Eternal Ancient Longevity was becoming increasingly impossible to suppress. The karmic burden of all living beings would sooner or later utterly crush the Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory generation after generation. That was why the Heavenly Dao began targeting Eternal Ancient cultivators."
Ke Zixiao stood with his hands behind his back, lifting his gaze slightly. "The Dao Ancestor left to seek a better solution, and also to leave us the choice to decide for ourselves. Now... everything was well, except our hands had been stained