"It really did follow..."
While those who had been rescued rejoiced and celebrated their hairbreadth escape, Fang Qianyuan was watching the movements of the Heavenly Dao Will.
The Heavenly Dao Will was not a living being, nor was it inherently good or evil. It merely acted according to particular patterns and instincts, which made it appear to possess a certain capacity for action.
Yet through his in-depth investigations over the years, Fang Qianyuan had confirmed that it possessed no independent consciousness like that of a living being.
One could also suppose that the form taken by the Heavenly Dao's will lay beyond the comprehension of any sentient being. It was like a country bumpkin who had never seen an emperor imagining that His Majesty chopped firewood with a golden axe. Was that not absurd?
It arose from the Spirit Essence origin of an entire world, for reasons similar to those behind the belief that all things possessed spirits and that rocks, plants, and trees could become sentient. Yet its fundamental nature was different: it was an existence on the scale of the starry sky.
That alone meant that sentient beings could not understand its essence, fathom its intentions, or even touch its existence.
Thus, heaven's will was formless and heaven's heart unfathomable, yet it was everywhere, exerting a tangible influence on every living being and material thing within its domain.
Even so, if the Heavenly Dao was to interfere with reality, it inevitably had to intersect with real people or things. What was called cause and effect arose from this.
That was also why Fang Qianyuan had previously been able to discern its patterns and learn how to avoid the Heavenly Dao Will's attention.
*Previously, I likened it to a fist striking a wall, with the wall exerting force back