It made no sense for the Heavenly Dao to have relaxed its suppression of the Three Clans.
After carefully sensing what had happened,
Yuanfeng finally understood.
It was not that the Heavenly Dao's control over the Three Clans had weakened.
Rather, after she had become a Sage,
the Heavenly Dao's power of control had weakened.
In other words,
the Heavenly Dao itself had grown weaker.
Although Yuanfeng had attained the Primordial Origin Realm beyond the heavens,
she had still, in truth, plundered the power of the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao.
Those in the Primordial Origin Realm could draw on the Heavenly Dao's power.
The power they drew on came from the Heavenly Dao of their original world.
Powerful worlds could nurture more Primordial Origin Realm cultivators
precisely because the Heavenly Dao of a powerful world was also stronger.
They could even nurture cultivators in the Dao-Unification Realm or the Primordial Chaos Realm.
The Primordial World was not that powerful, but neither was it weak.
At the very least, it could nurture several dozen Primordial Origin Realm cultivators.
But as for higher realms,
the Primordial World could not manage that yet.
Although Tongtian was nurturing the Primordial World,
he did not have the ability to directly raise its world rank.
Something like that
required the combat strength of the entire Primordial World to rise.
For now, at least, this counted as a good beginning.
With Tongtian's nurturing,
the Primordial World's origin would grow ever stronger.
Once it had nurtured enough powerful cultivators,
it could also send them to plunder the origins of other worlds
and merge them into the Primordial World.
When that time came,
the strength of the Primordial World's origin could rise again.
Once the strongest cultivators in the Primordial World were a whole group in the Primordial Chaos