"There was the Dao that formed as one, born before Heaven and Earth, silent and vast, standing alone and unchanging. I gave it a forced name, calling it Chaos, or Menghong. To leave the limitless was to be called distant; to preserve Taiyi was to be called Hunyuan. Reincarnation followed transformation, cause and effect brought order. Some evolved into tribulations, some ended in slaughter, some finally fell into nirvana, and some drifted free. That was called the Void."
Within the Void Realm of the Three Realms, Xu Ying calmly expounded his understanding of the Dao. Yet for everyone's convenience, he still used the Innate Nine Daos and the Void to explain what the Dao was.
He wanted to spread the principle of using the Postnatal to control the Innate, but discovered that only a handful could understand it, and even fewer could put it into practice.
After he finished explaining his Great Dao, no one below the dais responded. All he saw were blank, bewildered gazes.
After a moment, Xu Ying let out a long, quiet sigh. Disappointment was hard to conceal in his eyes as he rose and walked down from the jade platform, yielding his place to the Void Emperor.
The Void Emperor took the platform. He had spoken for only a short while when the atmosphere below grew heated.
Yuan Weiyang saw that Xu Ying looked somewhat displeased and came over to ask him the reason in a low voice.
Xu Ying said, "True Lord Daoji said that on the path of the Nirvana Great Dao, I am not alone—he has fellow travelers. The Dao Venerable also said that when one sees the divine being at the end of the Great Dao, one realizes that one is not alone, and that someone had already gone ahead. Yet