"Quiet." Chen Lin snapped coldly.
The Demon Saint immediately froze, his face mournful. "Master, you really can't blame this old servant for being incompetent. I fully absorbed the medicinal power, but... it's as though there's a lid clamped over my head. The most crucial pillar of law power is missing. Without that pillar of Heavenly Dao law to support me, I can't even transform my primordial spirit!"
"Incomplete laws?" Chen Lin's gaze shifted slightly.
In that instant, a long string of clues flashed through his mind, linking together at lightning speed.
No wonder, over the past eight hundred years, no matter how abundant Earth's spiritual energy became, everyone had remained stuck at Nascent Soul or the half-step stage without exception-even Kunpeng and the Giant Turtle, who had lived in the deep sea for twenty thousand years and possessed terrifying bloodlines, and even Heavenly Hatred True Lord, who had once rampaged unchecked.
Blue Star was a crippled prison where the Heavenly Dao had physically cut off the entire Deity Transformation realm!
But that thought brought another disturbing inconsistency to mind, one that grew more chilling the longer he considered it. It pierced Chen Lin's heart like a thorn-
"No."
Chen Lin rose and stood before the window with his hands behind his back, looking out at the thriving Chen Family Village beneath its formation.
"If this world's laws are incomplete, then even if its depleted spiritual energy recovers, its absolute ceiling is half-step Deity Transformation..."
He recalled the scenes he had obtained through soul-searching in the Amazon Rainforest, along with the hysterical obstinacy and resolve of the Sacred Spirit Sect's Deity Transformation Ancestor beneath the Arctic ice.
"One supreme old monster at mid Deity Transformation, five elders at early Deity Transformation, a hundred thousand elite cultivators, plus three top-tier spiritual veins