"Thank you for clearing up my confusion, fellow Daoist. So that was it! Then Jianmu's purpose is to replace the Heavenly Pillar and allow the spiritual energy of the Three Realms to regenerate, correct?"
Lin Tian nodded. "Yes. Cultivating through faith is riddled with hidden dangers and cannot compare to cultivating through spiritual energy. If the Three Realms had an endlessly replenishing supply of spiritual energy, then the faith-based cultivation of the Western Lands would no longer be necessary. Even if the Journey to the West continued, it would no longer be the path the Heavenly Dao was bound to choose!"
Upon hearing this, Yunxiao immediately asked, "Fellow Daoist, what hidden dangers do you mean? Please tell me!"
Lin Tian pondered for a moment before saying, "Those hidden dangers arise when all the immortals and gods of the Three Realms go among the mortals of the Human Race to compete for faith. What they lose is that ethereal air of standing apart from the worldly dust. Immortals would no longer deserve to be called immortals. They would fight over incense offerings, each steeped in the dust of the mortal world, their hearts filled with greed, anger, and delusion. Tell me, would such immortals still have any reason to exist?"
As Lin Tian described this scene, Yunxiao's mind automatically conjured images of immortals descending to the mortal world like peddlers to compete for fortune.
Every immortal was like a street hawker.
Could they still be called immortals? Would such immortals still have any reason to exist?
Yunxiao immediately rejected the notion. Immortals and gods like that had no reason to exist at all!
Lin Tian drew a deep breath. "Fellow Daoist, you already have the answer in your heart. For both the common good and our own sake, we must do