"Creation and Destruction was not only a Great Dao, but also a profundity," True Venerable Wen Xian explained solemnly.
Simply put, the opportunity everyone had been pursuing this time should actually be considered a living thing!
Of course, before it was nurtured into being, a living thing was also dead, so there was no question of trampling on life.
This living thing should have exceeded the scope of Sunset Glow. It was not merely a Heaven and Earth Spirit; it might truly have been the embryonic form of a Small World.
During its development, it was targeted by high-level lifeforms. That was perfectly normal—growth was always arduous.
The thing had already been a very difficult birth to begin with, and then it suffered the crushing of seven grindstones, so... it was done for.
Then came the question: for an existence like this, when it was completely destroyed, what was the most precious thing it left behind?
Those rules and the like might not truly be the most precious things. They were merely the most fundamental underlying logic.
Fundamental logic was indeed very important as well. Only with rules in existence could various ecologies and orders be constructed.
But the overwhelming majority of rules did not exist out of thin air. If one wanted fundamental logic, there had to at least be a subject first!
Without a vessel, where would fundamental logic come from? Rules could indeed be ancient and eternal, but how were they to manifest?
This treasure, suspected to be a living thing, had a very broad range of upper and lower developmental limits, which was why everyone's divinations had never been particularly accurate.
Now that the living thing had completely become a dead thing, the most basic foundation of its existence was Creation and Destruction!
It could be