Chapter 1470: Tongtian: Can the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords Be Exchanged for Holy Law

"To stand for the Interpretation Sect is to follow the will of Heaven. Your own heart's intent does not matter."

"To stand for the Severance Sect is to seize that one thread of life, even if beneath that one thread lies infinite danger—you still do it. I, Tongtian, must seem, in the eyes of others, a reckless fool who cannot read the will of Heaven, yes?"

"To stand for the Humanity Sect is to protect and shelter the human race. That must put you at odds with me, the Severance Sect's Sect Master who teaches without discrimination and seizes that one thread of life between Heaven and Earth."

"Matters of the world, in a Saint's eyes, are like reading the lines on one's palm. You've all come today for the Investiture of the Gods, I suppose? ~"

Zhao Gongming was startled.

He hadn't expected that his own Master had already divined so much.

He hadn't expected that the Severance Sect's doctrine was, by its very nature, set against all the other sects—a doomed situation from the start.

All of this, his Master had foreseen.

"Master also knew the Investiture of the Gods tribulation was perilous?" Yunxiao said, astonished.

Tongtian laughed heartily: "All Saints stand beneath Heaven. Only I, Tongtian, am willing to seize that one thread of life between Heaven and Earth, to unfold immeasurable creation, to help sentient beings transcend. From the very moment the Severance Sect was founded, it stood against all the other Saints."

"Back then, your First Senior Uncle already said this sect could not last; better to change its doctrine and take the human race as its root, only then could it enjoy immeasurable fortune, all the way through immeasurable kalpas."

"Your Second Senior Uncle also once said, Heaven is high and cannot be questioned—why go looking for trouble?"

"But I, Tongtian, have my own reason. How could I be bullied by Heaven? Intimidated by the great tide? What others dare not do, I will do precisely!"

Yunxiao and Zhao Gongming only felt immense shock.

So the Masters of the Three Sects had known of the coming tribulation from the very beginning.

The Three Sects were not as heartless as imagined.

It was simply that Heaven's will stood above, and the three, their doctrines at odds, could only oppose one another.

In the end, none of the Three Saints of the Mystic Sect emerged a victor.

One could say that the moment the Three Sects were founded, this outcome was already sealed.

The Investiture of the Gods was not because Jieyin and Zhunti were so persuasive—it was the doctrines at work. Yuanshi and Taishang merely followed their own duties and acted with the tide.

After all, those two sects—the Interpretation Sect, following Heaven's will, could only side with the human race, and the human race was represented by the new power, the Zhou Dynasty. This too sealed that the Interpretation Sect could only place its bet on Zhou.

The Humanity Sect was the same.

Wherever the human race's fortune lay, the Humanity Sect could only place its bet there.

Their stance was already fixed!

It was fixed that their two sects could never stand together with the Severance Sect, which represented the ten thousand races and the old human-race power of the Shang Dynasty.

The Investiture of the Gods tribulation was a struggle over fortune, and a struggle over doctrine.

Of course, behind all this there must also have been Hongjun's scheming.

To intercept Heaven's secrets is to represent the one that escaped from Heaven's fifty.

The one that escaped represents that everything in the world has variables, represents instability.

Variables—the sort of thing the one who controls the world absolutely does not wish to see.

At least, before refining the world's authority, absolutely does not wish to see.