Threads of Dao rhythm, like trickling streams, seeped along the surface of the Nine-Sided Dao-Comprehension Stone into his Sea of Consciousness, where they intertwined with and elevated his original five Great Daos.
"Within the cave, there are no suns or moons; only the Dao heart shines eternal..."
Every breath Jiang Fan took synchronized with the rhythm of heaven and earth.
Under that rhythm, he seemed to see the chaotic scene of heaven and earth first being cleaved apart...
He saw the essence of yin and yang dividing, and the five elements restraining one another...
He saw the surging waves of the river of time and space...
Countless fragments of Dao laws flashed and reassembled within his mind, slowly beginning to condense into an entirely new Dao...
"The Dao is the beginning of all things, and the destination of all laws..."
"It embraces everything, and it evolves everything..."
"It is an existence even more fundamental than the five elements..."
"..."
Days passed one after another.
Jiang Ming sat quietly in meditation on the other side of the cave. A faint golden-red glow spread around her, the power of her bloodline growing ever fuller as her aura became increasingly steady...
Meanwhile, all kinds of strange phenomena began to emerge around Jiang Fan...
At times, five-colored radiance revolved around him; at times, the void warped and blurred; at times, life force surged; at times, deathly silence descended...
As all those phenomena gradually receded, a hazy vortex condensed and enveloped his entire body...
As the vortex revolved, the aura field around it grew more and more powerful...
On this day.
The Nine-Sided Dao-Comprehension Stone in Jiang Fan's hand suddenly trembled lightly.
Brilliant rosy light erupted from all nine sides of the stone at once, shooting straight toward the cave ceiling.
The entire cave was