Endless mountain ranges stretched away, layers upon layers of forests blanketed the peaks, mist coiled around perilous crags, and the cries of birds and beasts rose from time to time.
The sky was on the verge of light, but dawn had yet to break.
On a mountain peak, Gu Shaoshang sat cross-legged. Streams of air churned between his nose and mouth, spreading an unknown distance away.
"This was the first time I'd seen a world where the laws were so active..."
Gu Shaoshang rubbed his fingers together, and wisps of the power of laws emerged beneath their friction, writhing like tiny snakes.
Dark yellow and heavy like earth, ethereal and nimble like wind, violent and invasive like fire, gentle and tranquil like water, pure and sacred light, profound and dark as ink...
Different laws revolved and intertwined upon his fingers, eventually condensing into a bronze-colored ring as though they possessed physical form.
The laws of this universe were exceptionally active and readily manifested. Let alone Gu Shaoshang, even an ordinary person with pure soul power could communicate with these laws and wield power beyond that of ordinary people.
In other worlds, this would be called sorcery. In this world, it should be magic.
Likewise, a world where laws were so active and the Great Dao so openly displayed would inevitably be highly exclusionary, rejecting other paths of cultivation.
All cultivation would inevitably have to conform to this world's cultivation system.
He raised his head slightly, and the entire world revealed itself clearly in his eyes.
This great universe was extremely peculiar. Countless planes were arranged in an orderly hierarchy, from high to low. Every plane differed greatly from the others; some were filled with chaos and darkness, some were sacred and bright, while others contained both.
Yet Gu Shaoshang knew