Under Lady Jade Mother's puzzled gaze, Xu Taiping said, excitement in his eyes:
"The fortuitous opportunities of these heavens, of this Greater Domain, have never been fixed!"
"They were fought for by every living being in this world!"
"The mortal bones the cultivation world sees as utterly worthless, even the crawling insects and ants on the ground-however weak they may be, even if they live only from dawn to dusk, they are all striving to live, striving to wrest their lives from Heaven!"
"And to the Heavenly Dao, the living beings of this world have never been divided into high and low, noble and base!"
"When more beings in a great domain contend with it, it bestows a little more upon them."
"When fewer contend, it bestows a little less."
"And when it discovers that one kind of living being has seized nearly all the fortune and vitality of a realm..."
"It erases that kind of living being."
"And restores balance to that Greater Domain."
At this point, Xu Taiping turned a keen gaze toward Lady Jade Mother, then drew a deep breath and said:
"So the Great Void Calamity is not a calamity! It is Heavenly Retribution!"
Hearing this, the Ancestral Dragon's phantom image suddenly opened his half-lidded eyes wide and nodded in great satisfaction.
"Heavenly Retribution is precisely the right term."
The Ancestral Dragon's words clearly affirmed Xu Taiping's deduction.
Lady Jade Mother froze on the spot.
Lin Buyu, who had said little all this time, suddenly spoke thoughtfully:
"To all the living beings of this world, we cultivators have indeed been far too arrogant."
"The mere statement on the Spirit Bone Stele that mortal bones cannot cultivate made the cultivation world abandon the mortal world outright, regarding it only as a place of reincarnation."
"If the cultivation