Chapter 1193

As long as the Dao of Heaven does not strip away the title, it can be held indefinitely.

Under normal circumstances, the Dao of Heaven would not arbitrarily revoke the Saintly Title.

The Human Dao Saintly Title is different—it is formed from the convergence of Human Dao fortune.

Once the Human Dao fortune gathered upon one's person becomes insufficient to sustain the Human Dao Saintly Title, the Saintly Position may be lost.

The Dao of Heaven is constant; Human Dao values change.

The Dao of Heaven represents the most fundamental order of a world, and stability is the most essential quality of order.

Human Dao represents the development of a world, and development requires constant change.

Therefore, the Human Dao Saintly Title is not a one-time, permanent attainment—it changes continuously with shifts in fortune.

The Human Dao Sub-Saintly Titles held by the Three Sovereigns have remained virtually unchanged for countless eons, which is unreasonable for Human Dao.

And the root of all this lies in Ancestor Hongjun.

Huoyun Cave can sever Human Dao fortune: as long as the Three Sovereigns enter Huoyun Cave, no matter how great their achievements among the human race or how much reverence future generations hold for them, the Human Dao fortune generated can never converge upon them.

This thus blocks any possibility of the Three Sovereigns forming a Human Dao Saintly Title.

The Human Dao fortune possessed solely by the Three Sovereigns, even if combined, is insufficient to coalesce into a Human Dao Saintly Title.

This is also why the Five Emperors were not sealed alongside the Three Sovereigns in Huoyun Cave.

The Human Dao fortune held by the Three Sovereigns alone is inadequate; but when combined with that of the Five Emperors, it may not be.

Huoyun Cave not only blocks external fortune from converging upon the Three Sovereigns, but also prevents the Human Dao fortune within them from leaking out.

This means the human race will permanently lose the vast fortune necessary to coalesce a Human Dao Saintly Title.

The human race's fortune has already been greatly divided among the Six Saints.

Now, with the vast fortune needed to form a Human Dao Saintly Title sealed away, the remaining fortune faces immeasurably greater difficulty in coalescing even one Human Dao Saintly Title.

Any endeavor is relatively easier to complete halfway.

But completing seven, eight, even nine or ten tenths is no easy matter.

With vast amounts of Human Dao fortune sealed by Ancestor Hongjun,

the human race's Emperor Xuanyuan must truly unify the human race to gather enough fortune to coalesce a Human Dao Saintly Title.

With the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors sealed, it has become nearly impossible for the human race to produce another such supreme ruler.

Even the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors never fully unified the human race.

Leaving aside other matters, the human race of the Western Continent has never been unified.

Even so, Ancestor Hongjun remained uneasy and orchestrated the Divine Investiture War, directly eliminating Emperor Xuanyuan from the human race.

Since then, the human race has had no Emperor Xuanyuan, and must surrender a portion of its own fortune to the Heavenly Court.

Thus, the human race has been utterly reduced to Ancestor Hongjun's puppet, with not the slightest possibility of coalescing a Human Dao Saintly Title.

One could say that from the moment the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were born, the fate of the human race was already sealed.

Without Luo Fu's appearance, the human race would forever remain Ancestor Hongjun's puppet.

Boom!

The immense Saintly might of Human Dao engulfed the entire Honghuang.

All beings of Honghuang once again felt the pressure of Human Dao.

"I, Youchao Shi, solemnly obey the edicts of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and pledge allegiance to Luo Fu as the supreme ruler of the human race—may Human Dao bear witness!"

The imperial might of Human Dao enveloped every human.

In the minds of all humans appeared the figures of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors—epics of human civilization, the inheritance of human culture.

Before other humans could speak, the Human Dao Sacred Hall spoke first, obeying the edicts of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

The Human Dao Sacred Hall is an extremely ancient organization, existing even before the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were born.

Those admitted to the Human Dao Sacred Hall are all human sages or human geniuses.

Though the human race has a poor origin, as the protagonists of all beings, their fortune is thick; even without aid from Human Dao, over countless yuanhui, many geniuses have emerged.

Many of these geniuses were absorbed into the Human Dao Sacred Hall.

The purpose of the Human Dao Sacred Hall is to ensure the continuity of human civilization.

It rarely interferes in internal human affairs.

During the Divine Investiture War, the Human Dao Sacred Hall did not intervene.

Because, on the surface, the Divine Investiture War was an internal human conflict.

Both the Shang and Zhou dynasties belonged to human factions.

Of course, this was merely on the surface.

The Human Dao Sacred Hall had also perceived some of the hidden meaning behind the Divine Investiture War.

But the Divine Investiture War involved the intervention of Saints; though the Human Dao Sacred Hall possessed some strength, its gap with the Saints remained immense.

Not to mention the Saints—even the powerful ones within the Jie Sect or Chan Sect were beyond the Human Dao Sacred Hall's capacity to confront.

Humans are born with an extremely poor origin, short lifespans, and insufficient depth, utterly unable to rival the Saintly Sects.

Even so, the Human Dao Sacred Hall's strength still pales compared to those Saintly Sects.

There may be a few Pre-Saints, but they are exceedingly few; not a single Pre-Saint has reached the peak.

For the human race to truly rise, it still requires time and the support of Human Dao.

Though the Human Dao Sacred Hall is weak in strength, among countless human factions, it still holds great prestige.

To gather talented individuals born among the human race, the Human Dao Sacred Hall must establish ties with countless nations.

For the vast majority of human nations, the Human Dao Sacred Hall is the sole ancestral land and sacred site of humanity, holding extremely high status.

Of course, the Human Dao Sacred Hall's prestige also stems from its refusal to interfere in internal human disputes.

No faction dislikes an organization that provides protection yet never interferes in its affairs.

Under the division of the human race, the Human Sacred Hall can be considered, in a certain sense, the strongest force among humans.

Unfortunately, the Human Sacred Hall never ruled over the human race, and the amount of human destiny energy it could gather was extremely limited.

This is one of the reasons Ancestor Hongjun tolerated the existence of the Human Sacred Hall.

Had the Human Sacred Hall ever shown any intention to unify the human race, Ancestor Hongjun would never have allowed it to continue existing.

Before it were the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors; after it came the Human Sacred Hall.

Countless humans made their choice without hesitation.