Lind had wondered what was holding him back and he now understood it was his own harmony. It was the Dao of Defiance and it recognized the trap of its enemy Fate ahead of his next step.
If Lind had simply tried to improve his Laws to the point he would take the next step and accepted the tribulations without that critical understanding of his Dao, he would have been locked into a future before the Divine Realm!
He would have been forced to accept being a sacrifice to stop the Great One or walk away from it and be killed so the many seeds he planted could take his place.
He had thought he was wrong about being used and mostly that was correct. He was not being used by Heaven and Earth as a whole. Heaven and Earth encompassed all of existence but that singular aspect that troubled cultivators all over was against disruptions.