The Inside Story

"Primordial... Heavenly Demon?"

Hearing the Jade Emperor's words, Xu Yang frowned deeply.

He had only heard of the Primordial Heavenly Venerate.

The Primordial Heavenly Demon?

He had never heard of it—there was nothing to speak of.

"I know only Primordial; I have never heard of a Heavenly Demon."

Xu Yang shook his head and went straight to the point. "What kind of being is this Primordial Heavenly Demon, to dare claim this as its venerable title and name?"

Back in the Blue Star Realm, after discussing the Dao with Jun Qing, the Alliance Heaven Dao Master, he had already learned why the venerable titles of immortals and gods were shared across worlds.

Shared venerable titles did not mean shared names, much less identical beings. It meant the commonality of the Great Dao's foundations.

Whether the Daoist Sect's Three Pure Ones or the Buddhist Sect's Shakyamuni, these were not their actual names, but the venerable titles of their "Dao."

Put more simply, these immortal and divine titles were in fact a kind of profession. So long as one walked that path and comprehended that power, one could claim it as one's venerable title and name.

Because every world had its own principles and laws, every world had its own Three Pure Ones and its own Tathagata, just as every nation had its own monarch.

If one day Xu Yang reached such a realm and grasped such principles, he too could call himself one of the Three Pure Ones. It was a professional title, not one's true identity or name.

Yet one could not claim such a professional title lightly. The more one saw the vastness of heaven and earth, the more one knew one's own insignificance. To assume such a venerable title without reaching that realm would only make one a