"Because I said so"...
Chu Ge's actual cultivation did not even qualify him as a Profound Immortal, and his understanding of the "Dao" was still at the Mortal Realm's level. Ordinarily, how could he possibly be qualified to say whether a Golden Immortal could attain Great Luo...
But he really could say, "Because I said so."
Within this world's framework, the Dao was his to define.
Even though the Heavenly Emperor, Chu Tiange, and others were already walking their own paths, their cultivation framework still lay within the Heavenly Dao's definitions. They had not broken free of it.
What was the Heavenly Dao? Even Chu Tiange and Yan Qianlie often failed to grasp what Chu Ge's existence meant. Of everyone present, only Qiu Wuji understood it most deeply.
In a sense, for anyone within the World Within the Book, understanding Chu Ge's ideas meant understanding the Heavenly Dao. Whether or not that held true on a broader scale, it was at least true within the World Within the Book.
Chu Ge looked around and suddenly lowered his voice. "Now that you all understand the whole story, do you know what comes next?"
Qiu Wuji said, "Why are you lowering your voice? Don't tell me you lack even that much control now, and someone can still eavesdrop on you?"
"It's called a sense of occasion. What would you know?"
Qiu Wuji gritted her teeth. "I'll teach you a lesson when we get back."
Dabei murmured the Buddha's name, interrupting the pair's public display of affection. "Please instruct us on our next step, Father God."
"He can't break through to Great Luo. Being just short of it still means being short of it, and that will make him increasingly fixated. He'll start wondering whether it's because he hasn't truly unified everything. For