Under the original judgment of the shadows of old causality, Yang Lingrui had lost the aid of two exceptional beings, Chen Yang and Xu Cang. With his own cultivation and Dao attainment alone, he could no longer produce any variable capable of swaying the predetermined path of causality, so there was naturally no need for excessive intervention.
Yet judging from what followed, Yang Lingrui and those insignificant "minor cultivators" in their eyes truly had, through their combined efforts, pried open little by little the gate of causality that had already been about to close.
Even when the Soul Law Spirit chose to devolve itself and return to a state of unity with the core, it was merely gambling that Yang Lingrui's blade could not sever it. It had no other means left to stop him.
And once Yang Lingrui successfully severed the connection between the "soul" and the "realm" formed by the Soul-Returning Method, the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord, who was within the Sea of Corpse Souls resisting the Void-Stepping Lightning Tribulation with his gravely wounded body, would lose yet another exceedingly crucial portion of the power of worldly hearts and minds.
Given the Old Devil's current condition, as long as he refined Cui Shenyoo's soul fragment, he still had hope of succeeding in his Tribulation Crossing and stepping through the void to ascend to heaven.
But if he also lost this power of worldly hearts and minds, his situation would become exceedingly perilous. Whether his chance of succeeding in the tribulation would even remain at ten percent was difficult to say.
It was precisely because they discovered this that, after sensing the variables within the Soul Law Land exploding exponentially, these shadows of causality left behind from old days could no longer remain still.
They withdrew the power of