Chapter 559: Heaven and Earth Have No Mercy, Treating All Things as Straw Dogs (7/7, Requesting Subscription)

Bai Suzhen: "As a snake demon, I understand those beast folk all too well. Sigh, if such a thing really happened, they'd likely indeed keep humans as livestock for food."

Xiao Bai: "+1, but what do we do now? That world seems to despise cultivators—we might get targeted if we go over to help."

Ling Zun: "Though I'm only a qilin, not human, I'm a sacred beast—I don't want the human race eaten! Ugh, I'm so angry—is there any way to change this?"

Xiao Sang: "I feel the same. Though I'm a beast, I'm not one of those savage, raw-meat-eating monsters! Too bad I probably can't go help."

Zhang Taixuan: "Heaven and earth are pressing hard? Uh… Master, you've got it backward."

Fa Hai: "? Backward?"

Bai Suzhen: "I don't understand."

Lin Daiyu: "I didn't get it either."

Sigong Huiye: "Me neither."

Zhang Taixuan: "It's not heaven and earth pressing on humanity—it's humanity pressing on the Dao. The heavenly calamity was meant to cleanse the cultivation world, preparing to evolve a new path of cultivation. But—He'd barely wiped out all the Gao Jie cultivators when humans immediately devised a way to replace spiritual energy with incense power, and built a whole new cultivation system."

Zhang Taixuan: "Humans are just too clever—the Dao was stunned. If the old cultivation system weren't purged, how could He evolve a new civilization?"

Xiao Mai: "Couldn't He just evolve it like that?"

Hu Yifei: "No, there's a saying: a blank sheet is easier to paint on. The Dao's evolution of a civilization must cost immense energy—any interference disrupts it. So He'd eliminate every unstable factor."

Zhang Taixuan: "Exactly. That's probably how it is."

Fa Hai: "So it's because everyone's too clever?! Then what about the beast folk?"

Zhang Taixuan: "The beast folk probably suffered the same fate—most of the great demons were wiped out, right?"

Fa Hai: "That's true."

Zhang Taixuan: "Afterward, the emergence of great demons probably only happened after humans produced their own experts, didn't it?"

Fa Hai: "That actually makes sense!!"

Zhang Taixuan: "The Dao can wipe out Gao Jie cultivators with divine calamities. But today's human strong ones are tied to humanity's destiny. As long as He doesn't want to abandon humanity—the main protagonists of heaven and earth—He won't act directly. Heaven and earth: one thought from Him could shatter the sky and split the earth, ruining the protagonists."

Zhang Taixuan: "So to purge those who cultivate the incense path, He must use the beast folk as his blade."

Su Xiao: "Thinking about it, heaven and earth really are hard—five hundred years spent erasing the virus, yet human cultivators keep growing stronger!"

Zhang Sanfeng: "Humans are truly remarkable. With their own wisdom, they played a game of chess with the Dao—even if it's pushed the Dao to the brink of flipping the board."

Fa Hai: "So that's why—the more human experts there are, the more beast folk experts appear. The Dao's been manipulating the beast folk behind the scenes, trying to purge us."

Fa Hai: "Does that mean—if humans hadn't continued the incense cultivation path, the beast folk would've been wiped out along with everyone else in the divine calamity?"

Zhang Taixuan: "Exactly. Because humans stood in the way of the Dao's evolution, the beast folk became the blade."

Fa Hai: "…"

Lin Daiyu: "Heaven and earth have no mercy—they treat all things as straw dogs. It's truly true."

Ye Hei: "Uh… Miss Lin, isn't this phrase supposed to mean heaven and earth treat all beings equally?"

Lin Daiyu: "But didn't you forget the 'heaven and earth' in this phrase? All beings are equal in heaven and earth's eyes—but heaven and earth still tower above them!"