"Now, I declare the Golden Core Dao abolished, and the Heaven-Shielding Method cultivated. What are your thoughts?"
"Perhaps, speak them for me to hear?"
Given this obvious move, coupled with the fact that many clan leaders had already witnessed Fang Ming deal with the Yanwu clan leader,
Clan Leader Mingyuan naturally guessed what Fang Ming intended to do.
He calmly replied, "Human Emperor, I do indeed have some thoughts."
"I observe that the Heaven-Shielding Method created by the Human Emperor is truly peerless in combat power, invincible among peers."
"In terms of combat strength, the Golden Core Dao is far inferior."
"This is a fact, undeniable."
"However, it seems the Human Emperor only values combat power, neglecting the Golden Core Dao's function of communicating with heaven and earth, beyond mere combat."
"One must know that seeking the Dao is not solely about combat power; this approach is too radical and prone to breaking when encountering rigidity."
Clan Leader Mingyuan calmly expounded his theory.
"The Dao gives birth to One, One gives birth to Two, Two gives birth to Three, and Three gives birth to all things."
"That fundamental point of primordial energy, the creation of Yin and Yang, the operation of the Three Powers, gives rise to all things in this world."
"Whether primordial deities, post-natal beings, heavenly treasures, rivers, or mountains, all are formed by the aggregation and dispersal of that fundamental point of primordial energy; all return to Qi."
"Therefore, saints merge with the Dao and become true. With a single thought, they know all things in the universe; with the rise and fall of their minds, they can comprehend the principles of all things."
"Karma does not cling to them; they can observe the past, present, and future, immeasurable and infinite, without beginning or end. All fundamental primordial energy within the Great Desolation is without secrets in the eyes of saints."
"Saints already know everything that is happening here, Human Emperor."
Fang Ming's anger flared upon hearing this.
What did Clan Leader Mingyuan's words imply?
The Dao gives birth to One, One gives birth to Two, Two gives birth to Three, and Three gives birth to all things.
Translated into modern terms, it was essentially a process of micro-analysis of all things.
"Three" might refer to a drop of blood or a cell within a living being.
"Two" was even more minute, delving into molecular and atomic structures.
"One" had penetrated to the nucleus, the realm of quarks.
And that all fundamental primordial energy held no secrets in the eyes of saints, meaning saints could see through all fundamental particles and control all fundamental particles in the Great Desolation.
Clan Leader Mingyuan's emphasis was that, regardless of human activities,
Even a single cell, a single molecule, a single atom in the Great Desolation, with a saint's flick of a finger, they would know the fate of that atom, its future trajectory.
If even an atom could be so clearly calculated, how much more so a human being?
Humans were composed of countless atoms.
And all molecules and atoms in the Great Desolation were within the scope of a saint's calculations.
Note: "All."
What the trillions of humans in the human race did every day, saints could easily calculate.
It was perfectly accurate to the second.
Fang Ming suppressed his anger and asked, "Tell me, how powerful is the calculation ability of saints?"
Clan Leader Mingyuan calmly replied, "What every human in the Great Desolation does in every moment, whether in the past or future, saints know in an instant."
"On which day, which human's cultivation increased by how much, whether they will break through to a new realm, whether they stepped out of the door with their left foot or their right foot, saints know all, past and future."
"The countless shifts in human thoughts and personalities are all predetermined, escaping the calculations of saints."
"The fate of all beings is not decided by themselves, but by heaven."
"Human Emperor, your future possibilities have long been calculated by saints. Your current decision to abolish the Golden Core Dao and cultivate the Heaven-Shielding Method has already been known by the Grand Pure Saint."
Clan Leader Mingyuan continued, "The words of Clan Leader Yanwu during the elder council, questioning you, were already foreseen by the saint in the distant past."
"You displayed the might of the Heaven-Shielding Method with a human army cultivating it, intending to make Clan Leader Yanwu submit. This matter was already understood by the saint countless eons ago."
"Whether it was Clan Leader Yanwu's kneeling, or this conversation between us, or even the future development of the human race."
"All of it—cannot be hidden from the saints!"
Clan Leader Mingyuan spoke in a tone akin to a charlatan, "The Heaven-Shielding Method carries the intent to defy heaven."
"But Human Emperor! Do you know that your defiant ideas, your defiant thoughts, are also within the calculations of the saint, and within the bounds of the Heavenly Dao?"
"Without the permission of the Heavenly Dao, beings cannot even generate the thought of defying heaven."
"The human race's current belief that man can conquer heaven is only possible with the Heavenly Dao's permission."
"Defying heaven is merely a joke!"
"Defying heaven is just a play arranged by the Heavenly Dao! In the end, it can only lead to ruin, serving to highlight the unfathomable depth of the Heavenly Dao."
Fatalism!
Clan Leader Mingyuan did not, like Clan Leader Yanwu, directly question the efficacy of the Heaven-Shielding Method with a fiery tone.
He did not question its combat power.
Instead, he calmly presented the fatalistic theory that destiny is determined by heaven.
No matter how powerful the Heaven-Shielding Method was, what could it achieve?
Did the human race have time to develop?
Past, present, and future, all changes were under the control of the saints.
How could you abolish the Golden Core Dao? How could you contend with saints?
Saints knew everything you were doing, thinking, and capable of doing, every minute, every second.
Can Heaven be defied?
Upon hearing this, the faces of the surrounding three thousand tribal leaders and the three ancestors of the human race also changed drastically.
They felt as if powerful beings in the unseen realm, heavenly saints, and the demon court's demon saints were all watching their performance.
With a flick of their fingers, the demon court's demon saints would know that all of the human race was currently cultivating the Heaven-Shielding Method.
They would know that the human race's future was limitless.
They would know that the human race might surpass them in the future.
Therefore, were they not watching this play unfold, and before the human race felt that the day of their rise had arrived, possessing the strength to contend with the demon court—would they not descend and obliterate all of the human race?
Allowing the human race, amidst infinite hope, to face ultimate despair.
This might be the scene most favored by those demon saints of the demon court.
They enjoyed toying with the human race, with intelligent beings, and they most appreciated seeing the human race, who had strived to the utmost and were on the verge of seeing the light, be kicked into an abyss of despair.
Without hope, how could the deepest despair be born?
Had the Grand Pure Saint, in the distant past, perhaps tens of thousands of years ago, or millions of years ago.
Or perhaps before the Golden Core Dao was even passed down.
At the point in time when the Golden Core Dao was not yet passed down, had the Grand Pure Saint foreseen that in the distant future, there would be a Human Emperor Fang Ming who would abolish the Golden Core Dao?
And would cultivate the Heaven-Shielding Method?
At this moment, was he watching this scene indifferently, intending to destroy the human race?
Or—was he viewing the human race with the eyes of someone watching a monkey show?
With the advent of fatalism,
The human race was thrown into chaos.
Fang Ming let out a cold laugh.
His laughter was filled with infinite rage.
"Indeed, it is easier to conquer a mountain bandit than a thief in the heart."
"The human race did not fall into chaos even with Clan Leader Yanwu's doubts back then."