Deep within the Library Pavilion of the Hongmeng Dao Academy lay an ancient fragmented scroll named Hongmeng Dao Canon. This scroll had been personally written by the Creation God and recorded the origin of the Longevity Dao Rhyme and the ultimate principles behind the workings of heaven and earth. Yet after the ravages of countless years, the scroll had become incomplete, and the contents of its latter half had vanished without a trace. Ever since Shen Hao had taken charge of the Hongmeng Dao Academy, he had devoted himself to finding the missing portion of the fragment. Recently, a disciple traveling abroad had found fragments from the latter half of the Hongmeng Dao Canon within an ancient ruin. When Shen Hao learned of it, he was beside himself with joy and immediately decided to personally complete this peerless masterpiece.
On the day the fragmented scroll was completed, the Library Pavilion was utterly silent, save for the soft rustle of a brush tip gliding across paper. Shen Hao wore a plain-colored Daoist robe and sat upright before a broad white jade desk. Spread across it were the first half of the Hongmeng Dao Canon and the newly found fragments. In his hand, he held a writing brush made from wolf hair and spiritual bamboo. Its tip was dipped in liquid mixed with spiritual ink as he carefully copied the words from the fragments into the blank spaces of the first half.
Zi Xuan sat beside Shen Hao, holding an ancient book as she searched through relevant materials for him. Her expression was focused, and from time to time, she raised her head and said, "Brother Hao, there is a passage here concerning the Origin Dao Rhyme. Perhaps it can corroborate the contents of the fragments."
Hearing this, Shen Hao paused his