This was also why Lin Tian had not thrown open the gates from the very beginning and allowed all humans to take up cultivation.
Ultimately, the present world still constrained the Human Race's development. If heaven and earth were as they had been in the Primordial World during the Ancient Era, when humans possessed the strength of an Earth Immortal from birth, it would have been enormously beneficial to their cultivation.
Lin Tian would no longer have needed to worry about people's food, drink, and bodily needs. But the world had changed, and he could only proceed step by step.
Lin Tian felt deeply helpless about the Human Race's current circumstances. He could only continue developing it step by step, allowing it to grow truly strong first.
As for cultivators, he could only begin with the academy. Only when enough cultivators emerged among the Human Race could they better lead the remaining humans to rise fully.
While Lin Tian was cultivating in seclusion, something he had not expected happened: the Buddhist Sect's retaliation arrived remarkably quickly.
Lin Tian had previously reached an agreement with Guanyin Bodhisattva. He would not interfere with the Journey to the West, and the Buddhist Sect would not interfere with the Human Race's development.
This time, Lin Tian had only acted to take away the three Demon Kings of Lion-Camel Ridge after the Journey to the West Calamity had passed, so he had not violated that agreement.
However, taking Immortal Ling Ya and the others away in front of the two Bodhisattvas was tantamount to leaving the Buddhist Sect no face whatsoever. Coupled with his earlier killing of Ancient Buddha Randeng, this had created an irreconcilable conflict between him and the Buddhist Sect.
For precisely this reason, after the two Buddhist Bodhisattvas returned to the Western