The cultivators of the past truly performed feats akin to plucking stars from the sky and seizing the moon. Li Fan mused inwardly, awestruck by the countless grotto-heavens and minor worlds within the Xuanhuang World.

It was precisely the accumulation of their efforts that had forged the world's exceptionally deep reserves. This was what had allowed it to endure millennia of plunder by cultivators.

When cultivators of this world die, their Dao returns to heaven. This is a countermeasure that the world itself spontaneously developed after sensing the threat to itself. Li Fan reasoned. This method of reclamation has also significantly slowed the rate of “weight loss.” Li Fan pondered.

The so-called weight was just a term he had come up with, coined with limited information, to describe the...