It’s very likely. And makes complete sense. Li Fan considered it for a long while before slowly nodding.

The conclusion also answered a long-standing question in Li Fan's mind.

When the Immortal Ruins first appeared, why hadn't it immediately devoured the Xuanhuang World? Why had the cultivators within been given enough time to seize numerous surrounding grotto-heavens and minor worlds to hold it at bay?

Given the terrifying gravitational pull the Immortal Ruins now exerted, the original Xuanhuang World alone could never have withstood it. 

And seizing minor worlds was not something accomplished overnight—the countless attached worlds were almost certainly the accumulated efforts of the Xuantian Sect and the Ten Immortal Dao Sects across thousands upon thousands of years.

All of this pointed to the same answer: the...