Lu Yun said, "The root cause of this Daoist suffering Heavenly Punishment lies in my realizing that the Celestial Cycle Grand Formation had reached its end. I wished to pass information to Qianlong and facilitate the formation's repair. Yet this went against the Heavenly Dao's original intent. Thus, it blinded my eyes and crushed the portion of my memories concerning the formation's layout."
"This world's Heavenly Dao... wishes to break free?" Lin Xiaosu said.
"Yes, this is Heaven-and-Human Dao Contention! A million years ago, Emperor Kun used the Celestial Cycle Grand Formation to enact Heaven-and-Earth Severance. It was a compromise by the Heavenly Dao toward the Human Dao, allowing the spiritual energy of this world to wither away and placing it entirely under the Human Dao's control. Yet the Heavenly Dao cycles on, ceaselessly alive. Its compromise lasted only a million years, and now it wants to break free! It wants to rejoin the laws of the Heavenly Dao world. Therefore, the Celestial Cycle Grand Formation has reached the time of its destruction. Anyone who wishes to stop this process will be slain by the Heavenly Dao."
"Daoist, I do not intend to enact Heaven-and-Earth Severance again."
Lu Yun frowned...
"Heaven-and-Human Dao Contention has two methods. The first is to draw the land into a prison. That was the method Emperor Kun used—using great divine powers to draw the land into a prison, treating Heavenly Dao cultivators as floods and savage beasts. This indeed won the Human Race a million years of independent space, but it was ultimately not the proper path. So, I intend to change methods!"
"What method?"
"If they want to contend, then let us contend! Contend openly and transparently, contend honorably and aboveboard!" Lin Xiaosu said. "In every field and on every level, defeat them! No