Discussing the Dao, Expounding the Dao

Time flowed on, years passing like a shuttle. The entire Primordial Wilderness seemed to be asleep, silent and still. Yet amid that tranquility, the voice of the Great Dao rang out from Inverted Mountain, like a great bell, resounding between heaven and earth.

The voice seemed to contain endless profundities and mysteries. It passed through the void and spread to every corner, making heaven and earth tremble. Under its influence, Di Kun could not help but enter a state of comprehending the Dao.

As one sermon after another was delivered, the laws between heaven and earth began to circle and arrange themselves, as though carefully woven by an invisible hand. These laws had originally been chaotic and disorderly, but they gradually became ordered, intertwining and merging, making heaven and earth even more stable.

Within this wondrous atmosphere, everyone became immersed in it and forgot the passage of time. Once one person finished speaking, the next immediately continued, without the slightest pause or hesitation. After all, there was no strict order here, since everyone's progress in comprehending the Dao differed.

Some might have already completed their comprehension, while others might be at a crucial point or had only just gained some insight. If an order were forcibly imposed and someone was interrupted while comprehending the Dao, it would be the sin of obstructing another's Dao, likely leading to a fight to the death.

Di Kun calmed himself and carefully sorted through his own path of Dao. He analyzed each Dao he had comprehended one by one, considering how to better merge them together and form a unique path that belonged to him alone.

Throughout this process, Di Kun continually incorporated Daos that were useful to him. Some came from his own experiences, while others were borrowed from other powerful beings. All manner of Daos and ideas collided fiercely in Di Kun's mind, intertwining and sparking countless flashes of inspiration.

Everyone gained something to varying degrees throughout this process. Some merely gained a deeper understanding of a certain Dao, while others might have achieved major breakthroughs in merging their Dao paths. However, Di Kun could not say that his gains were the greatest.

Di Kun's Dao was extremely special, encompassing the traits of nearly every other Dao. Thus, when the Daos of others exchanged with Di Kun's Dao, they often produced unexpected effects, allowing everyone to benefit.

It was like Pangu's Great Dao of Strength, which contained the Three Thousand Great Daos within it, all-encompassing and all-embracing. Although Di Kun's Dao was not so powerful, it possessed similar qualities, allowing him to offer others much inspiration and help through exchanges with their Daos.

Among them, Di Kun's greatest gains were Zaohua, the Five Elements, and the Dao of Qiankun. The Earth Dao Di Kun cultivated actually encompassed elements such as Zaohua, water, earth, and kun. These could be said to be the most core components of Di Kun's Great Dao path. Because of this, the foundation of Di Kun's Great Dao became increasingly stable.

After all, for so many years, Di Kun had almost always dealt with Earth Veins. Because of this, his understanding of earth and kun was relatively deep, while his comprehension in the other aspects was somewhat shallow. Although this would not have greatly affected Di Kun, without this discussion of the Dao, he could only have relied on himself to comprehend them afterward, inevitably spending more time and effort.

As time passed, everyone had finished expounding their Dao, leaving only Di Kun. When the final person finished, Di Kun opened his eyes. However, rather than directly expounding his Dao, he used his Mana to communicate with all of Inverted Mountain, connecting the Earth Vein nodes and releasing Leyline Energy. Many were utterly baffled, unable to understand what Di Kun intended to do. As boundless Leyline Energy enveloped the area, Di Kun spoke. "Heaven is vast, earth is broad, the source of all things. What is clear becomes heaven, what is turbid becomes earth. Heaven is light and nimble, earth is heavy and solid. Earth gives birth to all things and nurtures all living beings. Born above the earth, dead beneath the earth. Trees wither and flourish, living beings cycle endlessly..."

As Di Kun expounded his Dao, his words, filled with wisdom and experience, flowed ceaselessly into everyone's hearts like a clear spring. The dense Leyline Energy around them seemed to be the source of that spring, constantly nourishing and enlightening them.

In such an atmosphere, more and more people began to gain a profound understanding of the Earth Dao Di Kun described. Their previous understanding might have been incomplete, but under Di Kun's guidance, that knowledge gradually became clear, like a mountain shrouded in mist suddenly revealing its true form.

This was precisely what Di Kun had hoped to see. He knew that Innate Beings usually focused on cultivating Innate Spiritual Energy, while making comparatively little use of Leyline Energy. This was the conclusion he had reached after carefully observing the Innate Gods and Demons around him expound their Daos during this time.

Although Leyline Energy also released a certain amount of Innate Spiritual Energy, most of that energy was transformed by the Innate Spiritual Roots growing upon the earth. Those spiritual roots absorbed Leyline Energy, nurtured themselves with it, and transformed it into Innate Spiritual Energy.

However, Di Kun discovered that although Leyline Energy could likewise be cultivated, few chose to walk this path. This undoubtedly gave him an excellent opportunity—an opportunity to forge a new path and create a cultivation method of his own.

If the path of cultivating Innate Spiritual Energy was the Heavenly Dao, then the path of Leyline Energy was undoubtedly the Earth Dao. If he could use this sermon to widely spread the cultivation of the Earth Dao, Di Kun might very well, like the future Hongjun, be honored as the Dao Ancestor. Although Di Kun's current realm had not yet reached such heights, his reputation had already spread, and karmic ties had already formed.

This meant that anyone who cultivated Leyline Energy would inevitably bear karma connected to Di Kun. Even if someone refused to acknowledge it, heaven and earth would naturally recognize this fact. Moreover, the Earth Dao itself might benefit immensely because of this. If so, Di Kun would truly have struck it rich.

Although the Earth Dao was still under the care of the Great Dao, when it truly descended into the world, it would surely feel gratitude toward Di Kun. After all, Di Kun's act of expounding the Dao made an indelible contribution to the development of the Earth Dao. Even now, as Di Kun continued speaking, he could clearly feel the Earth Veins becoming increasingly close to him. Things that had originally required ten portions of effort now required only eight.

As the sound of Di Kun expounding the Dao spread across heaven and earth, Leyline Energy rose throughout the Primordial Land. In particular, when living beings who felt an affinity with the Great Dao Di Kun taught changed to cultivate Di Kun's Dao, Leyline Energy enveloped them as well, accelerating their cultivation while deepening their understanding of the Earth Dao.