"It's unclear what went wrong with that being's breakthrough," Shandal said. "The cultivation journey followed different paths back then that even They couldn't retrieve. Yet, it was clear that it lacked something and that it wasn't ready to give up on the tenth rank after just one failure."
Noah's group had long since forgotten that they were in a separate dimension inside the enemy territory and that they were speaking to the will of a divine entity. The story that they were hearing was too interesting for them to mind anything else.
After all, Shandal was speaking about the origin of Heaven and Earth!
They were the very foundation of the cultivation journey and set the rules for everything in the world. Their fairness was what forced the Mortal Lands to be in their current state, and their laws set the foundation for every living being striving for the divine ranks.
Also, Shandal had mentioned the tenth rank, which was one of the most difficult topics among the higher-ups of any organization.
"This powerful existence fused with the world upon its failure," Shandal continued. "It used its immense power to create a system that could give birth to the answer that it had missed. The Tribulations appeared, and the path to godhood became limited to personal laws that escaped what Heaven and Earth were capable of providing. All the cultivators became their guinea pigs meant to find the missing piece that would open the path to the tenth rank."
No matter how absurd Shandal's words appeared, the cultivators on the scene couldn't reject them.
Noah and the others didn't know how he knew so much, especially since they were matters that belonged to the first era of the cultivators. Yet, they fit the current system perfectly and even gave meaning to the behavior of the world toward certain events.
"Heaven and Earth created a higher plane from the pieces of multiple Mortal Lands and used it to push the gods to their limits," Shandal said. "The Tribulations, the fairness, and the ascension are just tools that the world uses to create an elite group of cultivators that has more chances to uncover the path that surpasses the divine ranks."
Shandal appeared tired after that explanation. The structure of the will didn't lose any energy, but its expression was one of helplessness.
"Fusing with the world had its drawbacks though," Shandal continued. "Heaven and Earth started to lose their individuality as they remained trapped in the system that they had created. Flaws started to appear in the world, and their control over the rules began to falter as the millennia passed. You are just one of a series of mistakes mitted by Heaven and Earth as their original will dissolved."
Shandal had turned toward Noah at that last line, and the others in his group couldn't ignore that information anymore. They started to glance at Noah with curious gazes, and even June showed some confusion when she looked at him.
However, Noah's gaze didn't move. It remained fixed on the will.
"Who are They?" Noah asked, but the will shook his head and continued his story.
"The Attunement method leads to a dead-end because it imitates a copy of what once ruled the behavior of the "Breath
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