Deities are all mad, without exception.
Lu Ping'an originally thought this was just a mortal's blasphemous scorn towards those lofty beings, but after true interactions, it proved to be essentially the naked truth.
"The will of ordinary people simply cannot sustain a Divine Kingdom..."
Firm will, or rather, an obsession far surpassing fanaticism, is the foundational condition for achieving immortality.
They learn the rules, understand the rules, become the rules... Without those madly obsessive notions, they would have been devoured by infinite contamination and rules long ago, either turning into unrecognizable chunks of flesh or becoming puppets of the rules and their ideologies.
"...But among the gods, Lady of the Forest is also among the most dangerous and mad."
At their first meeting, they got along very well... For two top beings sitting face-to-face chatting, before they actually came to blows, one could say the conversation went well.
