Yun Zhongzi sighed in admiration. "The Wu Clan has always fought Heaven and earth. Its strength was forged in battle! At the same level of cultivation, one Wu Clan warrior can take on two, even three opponents!
"Xingtian, in particular, was born with the War Great Dao. He was born to fight! He slaughtered his way through the Heavenly Court until it nearly collapsed. Heavenly soldiers, generals, and gods fell upon the Primordial World like rain!
"Once Xingtian became an Ancestral Shaman, he was even more formidable! With his Quasi-Saint cultivation, the Jade Emperor should have been able to hold him off for a while. But Xingtian's first axe strike split the Haotian Pagoda! His second shattered the Haotian Mirror! His third severed the Jade Emperor's head and cut through Lingxiao Palace!
"If the Saints hadn't intervened in time, Xingtian might have torn down the entire Heavenly Court! They sent him back to Northern Jambudvipa, but by then, the Heavenly Court lay in ruins. Countless treasures and resources had to be spent repairing it, and even more people had died. Worse, Xingtian's axe and techniques carried Fiendish Qi. His blows destroyed not just bodies, but Primordial Spirits too! Most of his victims were wiped out completely, leaving their Divine Positions vacant!
"The Jade Emperor couldn't deal with any of that at the time. Fiendish Qi had invaded his own Primordial Spirit, so he had to pass through a hundred reincarnations to restore it! After returning to the Heavenly Court, he tried to recruit Loose Cultivators at the Flat Peach Banquet to fill those vacancies. Guangchengzi ruined that plan, and that was how we ended up with today's Investiture of the Gods!
"You could say Xingtian was the root cause of the Investiture of the Gods! One man devastated the Heavenly