Everyone looked up at the sky.
Sure enough, they saw that the Heavenly Dao was furious!
"The balance of heaven and earth, the constraints of the rules-yet you dared disregard the natural order and abandon baby girls, throwing the mortal world into chaos and upsetting the balance of yin and yang!"
"You people of Hezhou have truly violated the way of heaven and earth!"
The proportions of men and women were governed by rules established when heaven and earth first parted.
If the people of Hezhou favored sons over daughters, leaving more men than women...
Once that precedent was set, countless people across the world would follow suit!
When that happened, the world would descend into chaos, and the rules she held as the Heavenly Dao would lose their authority!
Moreover, this was an immense cycle that would set off a whole chain of butterfly effects.
Heaven would fall into chaos, and so would the Underworld!
How could that be allowed?
The people below trembled all over in terror.
Xia Wanwan continued, "Those countless infant souls you helped me ferry onward when you blocked the blazing sun just now were all baby girls abandoned by the people of Hezhou!"
At Xia Wanwan's words, the Heavenly Dao frowned. "So many, and they came from just one city?"
"You are truly unworthy of the rules of heaven and earth!"
With a wave of her hand, the Heavenly Dao swept away the clouds above Hezhou City. A transparent wisp of heavenly energy slowly gathered in her palm.
The sky over Hezhou suddenly seemed to have lost some restraint.
"I hereby reclaim the rules governing this land. Henceforth, no baby girls will be born in Hezhou City!"
"Hezhou City will no longer fall under heaven's protection."
The Heavenly Dao's figure slowly faded from the