Any action that was detrimental or unfavorable to the human race would result in a weakening of their cultivation by the overarching Great Dao.
There were no loopholes to exploit.
The sentient beings who discovered this Great Dao rule were once again infuriated to the point of near death.
"The extraterrestrial celestial demon, Fang Ming, is directly manipulating the rules and laws of the Great Dao!"
"Everyone, do not panic! The power of life is infinite! Thought is infinite!"
"The extraterrestrial celestial demons can restrain our actions, but they cannot restrain our thoughts!"
"We can still discuss methods to counter the human race here. As long as we pool our wisdom and all beings unite, we will surely be able to defeat the human race..."
As the alien being spoke, their intelligence suddenly plummeted, as if they had regressed to infancy, crawling on the ground.
"Wuwuwu... Wuwuwu... I want milk..."
The surrounding alien beings looked with terror at their compatriot crawling on the ground, their intelligence seemingly regressed to infancy, their IQ reduced from 100 to 1.
"This, this! Wasn't he just discussing with us how to deal with the human race?"
"Why did he suddenly become like this?"
"What is going on?"
Just as the many alien beings were in fear.
Suddenly, one alien being perceived a Great Dao rule, a Great Dao law, within the vast chaos.
They read out the Great Dao rule: "As long as alien beings have thoughts of resisting the human race, their intelligence will instantly decrease a hundredfold, from one hundred to one."
"The more intense the thought, the firmer the plan to resist the human race, the greater the drop in intelligence."
Once the Great Dao rule was revealed, the alien beings were plunged into despair!
Just as this newly inscribed Great Dao rule stated.
They were not only unable to resist the human race in their actions.
But they were also unable to resist the human race in their thoughts!
The wisdom, rooted in the soul and primordial spirit, was merely a plaything controlled by the Great Dao rules!
It turned out that the wisdom, intelligence, and thinking ability of intelligent life forms were not free either!
Thought was never free, and ideas were never free!
Even thinking about resisting the human race in one's heart was an act of treason, instantly punished by the Great Dao rules!
Only by harboring goodwill towards the human race in one's mind would one not suffer a decline in intelligence.
Harboring malice towards the human race would instantly reduce one's intelligence.
How could they possibly fight the human race like this?
How could they resist?
In the Primordial World, countless sentient beings and alien races despaired.
Furthermore, because their minds were still occupied with these thoughts, they were instantly detected by the Great Dao, which then directly weakened their intelligence.
Instantly, hundreds of billions of alien beings with an intelligence of one appeared in the Primordial World and even in the myriad great worlds within the chaos.
The intelligence of ordinary humans was at least one hundred.
But the intelligence of the alien races had now become one, or even less than one.
Given this, could these alien races, even if united, still contend with the Human Heavenly Court?
No!
They were all like one-year-old infants on Earth, incapable of anything but crying. How could they resist the Human Heavenly Court?
They could not even form the thought, as they no longer understood what an alien race was, or what a human race was.
Their minds had lost the ability to judge these concepts.
What could hundreds of billions of alien beings with the intelligence of a one-year-old human infant achieve, even if they were united?
This was destiny!
Fang Ming was the heavens!
If sentient beings' will dared to defy the heavens, dared to defy the human race, let alone in their actions, even a mere thought in their minds would be met with Fang Ming directly stripping them of the very right to think.
How could they defy the heavens?
"It's just a joke."
"Without my permission, no sentient being can form the thought of defying the heavens in their mind."
"Freedom of thought? True powerhouses directly rewrite the thoughts of all sentient beings. Has thought ever possessed sanctity?"
Fang Ming looked down at the land below with an indifferent expression.
He had once defied the heavens, had rebelled.
But it was precisely because he had rebelled that Fang Ming understood the methods of those who defied the heavens better than the original Heavenly Dao, and thus sealed off the path to defiance for all beings.
Defying the heavens was merely a means to become the heavens oneself.
When Fang Ming was a weakling, a human, he naturally raised the banner of defiance and opposed the heavens.
When Fang Ming became the heavens and ruled the Primordial World, he naturally sat in the position of the heavens, considered matters, and treated those who defied him more cruelly than the original Heavenly Dao.
Following the heavens or defying the heavens were merely tools for Fang Ming. Whichever stance he was in, whichever slogan was beneficial to him, he would adopt it.
As for which thought was correct, which slogan was correct?
Fang Ming stated: The slogan that is beneficial to his current stage is correct, and the opposite is incorrect.
Xuan Qi, representing the will of all beings, had been defeated.
And when the individual Qi of Qing, Ling, Kong, and Ming all failed,
The Primordial Beginning Spirit no longer tested Fang Ming's strength through various means.
Instead, it manifested its true form and confronted Fang Ming directly.
"Fang Ming..."
The Primordial Beginning Spirit was the Dao itself.
The Dao was naturally formless and immaterial, without a physical vessel.
Fang Ming merely sensed four streams of Qi manifesting from the highest heavens.
These four streams of Qi merged into a grand, all-encompassing existence.
This intangible existence was the Primordial Beginning Spirit.
"Immortal King giant level being..."
Fang Ming naturally perceived the power possessed by the Primordial Beginning Spirit.
The Primordial Beginning Spirit, indeed a venerable ancient sage who had cultivated for eons, was a "mid-to-upper tier ancient sage," a being only slightly weaker than "upper tier ancient sages" and "top tier ancient sages," and was originally not someone Fang Ming could contend with.
However, this was only referring to the Primordial Beginning Spirit's strength in the Upper Realm.
Its strength was reduced to less than one in ten billion upon forcibly descending, having been weakened to its limit, directly from the level of a Saint Ruin Immortal Emperor to that of an Immortal King supreme giant.
Coupled with his previous analysis of the weaknesses of the Kong, Xuan, Qing, and Ming Qi, Fang Ming did not fear it.
In this fourteen-star world.
Strength in the Upper Realm was one thing.
Strength upon descending to the Lower Realm was another.
They were clearly not to be conflated.
"Xuan Qing Qi."
As the Primordial Beginning Spirit's voice echoed,
Purple Qi floated, manifesting the Qi that embodied the true meaning of the Dao Gate, spreading across countless great worlds, heading towards Fang Ming.
The Jie Sect, by intercepting a sliver of life from the heavens, represented the path of defiance.
The Chan Sect, by following the heavens and obeying the Dao, represented the path of compliance.
The Xuan Qing Qi encompassed both the path of compliance and the path of defiance, achieving a state of defiance within compliance and compliance within defiance.
This was the marvel of the orthodox Xuanmen.
Within the purple Qi, which seemed to encapsulate the profound truth of the Dao, was mixed with a half shade of green.