Because rules were made by people.
To break the rules was to provoke those who made them.
Xu Zimo began to ponder.
How could he lay down these rules?
He first came before the Heavenly Dao of the Divine Continent. The current Heavenly Dao had already begun to take shape.
The Heavenly Dao looked incomparably majestic. It had not materialized, instead taking the form of wind and thunder as it coiled through the heavens.
The Great Way roared endlessly around it, its Great Way Power so dense that it was impossible to withstand.
Standing here, Xu Zimo completely merged with the Great Way.
Beyond the Great Way, Xu Zimo could see countless threads spreading outward from this place.
These threads represented the power of rules.
They extended from the Heavenly Dao, eventually reaching every corner of the world.
What Xu Zimo needed to do was add several rules to them.
One of them was the rule of karma.
The Heavenly Dao delighted in reincarnation; all things in the world already had a predetermined fate in the unseen.
If one slaughtered wantonly, one would accumulate karmic debts.
These karmic debts would ultimately descend fully upon one after death.
Scheming and fighting among cultivators did not count, but wantonly slaughtering ordinary people—
That was committing sin.
Xu Zimo sat cross-legged where he was.
First of all, the Divine Continent had originally possessed an underworld.
It was an institution Xu Zimo had established early on when he created the world.
But that underworld was merely an empty shell.
After death, people could still reincarnate, but the underworld merely went through the motions.
Thus, what Xu Zimo needed to do was perfect the underworld.
The first step was to condense the Six Paths of Reincarnation and establish the eighteen levels of hell.
This was