The radiance of the Reincarnation Pure Land was like a drop of clear water falling into an endless pool of inky deathly stillness. Though it was constantly diluted and eroded, it stubbornly spread, slowly transforming the Finality Dark Tide it touched into patches of Reincarnation Waters brimming with vitality. Li Wuyang sat cross-legged at the center of the pure land, his face the color of golden paper and his breath as faint as a dying candle in the wind. Forcibly expanding the pure land and converting the Source of Annihilation was an almost ruinous drain on his shattered Dao foundation. Every breath tugged at the spiderweb-like cracks deep within his Dao Embryo, bringing agony that felt as though his soul were being torn apart.
Yet his Dao heart was like refined gold tempered billions of times, becoming ever more radiant and translucent. Through the fierce "fusion" of the pure land and the Finality Dark Tide, what he "saw" was no longer a simple clash of energies, but the collision and permeation of two fundamental Great Daos at the level of the universe's origin.
The Annihilation Great Dao represented absolute "stillness," ultimate "nothingness." It was the endpoint of all things' development, the extreme of entropy, and its essence was "perishing," "returning to the void," "turning existence into nonexistence." His Chaos Reincarnation Great Dao, however, centered on "motion" and "change," on the eternal cycle of "existence" and "nonexistence." It nurtured new life within annihilation and began reincarnation amid extinction. Its essence was "transformation," "acceptance," and "creating something from nothing."
I understand... What the Finality Council fears is not my power, but the possibility represented by "reincarnation" itself! Revelation struck Li Wuyang. *Annihilation seeks an eternal, unchanging end of deathly stillness, while reincarnation points toward an eternal flow filled with uncertainty and change.