After a brief silence, one of the mighty beings answered:
"Perhaps we would have made the same choice, whether to settle a personal grudge or to eradicate a cancer like the Ten Thousand Snakes Cave Heaven."
The indifferent voice spoke again. "As I said, everyone has their own perspective. What had the Ten Thousand Snakes Cave Heaven endured? Why did it become such a cruel, vicious sect? How could you judge that?"
One mighty being answered, "Without the right conditions, causes bear no fruit. Without the right opportunity, nothing comes to fruition. Everything is the consequence of causes and conditions."
"In a world like this, it is naturally a matter of karmic retribution," the indifferent voice said. "But every wrongdoing has its origin. Everything has a reason."
The mighty beings fell into quiet contemplation.
The indifferent voice said softly, "In Ancient Times, there were also many mighty beings who felt such compassion and concern for the world.
"After countless years of quiet contemplation, one of them concluded that the fault lay in the human heart. All sins arose from human desires: the desire for immortality, for power, for status, for freedom... These were original sins that could never be washed away. So that mighty being became an evil demon and tried to flood the world with the waters of the Celestial River. After being stopped, he even broke the Heaven Pillar, seeking to destroy this world and return everything to chaos."
Naturally, all the mighty beings understood whom Outer Path Pangu was referring to.
The indifferent voice continued, "Another mighty being believed that human desires were infinite, while the world was finite, and could therefore never satisfy them-except in dreams. So that mighty being created the Dream Realm Method that enveloped the Three Realms, hoping that one day he could