Lind kept getting smacked around. Just when he thought he had a grasp on the danger he only came to truly touch the edge of it. Even now, knowing that the scars were not just in the spirit world but all worlds, he did not fully understand how the threat worked.
Supposedly, the Great One had been punished but all it did was strip away his attempt to make a variant of the Celestial bodies. He took his whole race down with him but the Great One pushed it to consume souls as resources enough to not only survive but become a power Heaven and Earth could no longer ignore.
The Fiends were weakening the rules of Heaven and Earth at each realm and before long the very bone between all life would be broken down. The other Fiends might think that meant they would live forever but only 1 being would.
The Great One wanted all of existence to fuel his dantian and never die!