"Bringing everyone into equality and achieving great unity truly isn't simple. Birth, cultivation, wealth, power... there are far too many factors that divide human lives into the precious and the cheap. No wonder you isolated yourself from worldly influences, Master, and pursued empirical certification only within the Bone Kun Warship."
"The Materialized Heaven inside the Bone Kun Warship is essentially a closed ideal society-an experimental environment."
"No wonder the Materialized Nine Realms must proceed in nine steps rather than be accomplished in a single leap."
Han Li suddenly felt some sympathy for her master. It seemed the Sky Cities of Puppet Dao experts were not merely tools for evading Outer Dao attacks, but also their own refuges from the mortal world and grounds for empirical certification.
Every Puppet Dao expert's Sky City embodied the fruits of their own Dao Path, technology, and ideals, developing in a different direction.
The signs had been there from the beginning, when her master had chosen not to bring those people aboard immediately, instead establishing a selection system for mechanical ascension.
Sooner or later, more and more people would drift away from the Materialized Heaven, until, a few generations later, they became strangers.
Even now, the Materialized Heaven was already showing signs of gradually severing its ties with Guangyun Domain. Delegating authority and allowing them to govern themselves did not mean Li Chen no longer wanted those resources and wealth; rather, he wanted to purify the Materialized Heaven.
The people of the world should manage the affairs of the world. A vast heaven and its sprawling lands were always governed by the people living within them. Even with the divine sense and will of immortal Great Powers, how could anyone achieve true omniscience and omnipotence?
The Materialized Heaven's path of universal ownership was not so