Mustard Seed Space.
A vague, ethereal figure sat cross-legged within this river of stars, while the resonance of the Great Dao lingered without fading.
Jiang Yan had maintained this mysterious, unfathomable state for an unknown length of time.
His entire body was wrapped in seven-colored mystical radiance, crystal-clear from head to toe, spotless and immaculate. Something formless yet greater than form drifted over the surface of his body.
It seeped through his skin, saturated his flesh and blood, and cleansed his bones. Every drop of blood was steeped by the mysterious Great Dao into divine nectar. Were ordinary people to see him, they would likely mistake him for a god and kneel in worship.
The Hunxu Ancestral Spirit stopped feeding and slowly sank into Jiang Yan's body, the two gradually merging as one.
"Great Evolution Dao Spirit..."
Jiang Yan silently recited the words as these characters flashed through his mind.
Suddenly, he spread open his palm, and a wisp of colorless Qi slowly emerged within it.
"So this is the Great Evolution Dao Spirit?"
Jiang Yan pondered the origin of the name, suddenly recalling the words that had drifted through his mind during his enlightenment.
"When all beneath heaven is chaos, devouring it makes the ultimate; evolving it makes the ultimate beyond the ultimate.
Sitting in Forgetfulness within the Mysterious Female, the spirit roamed the Great Void. Push it onward, and it transformed in a thousand myriad ways.
"Evolution as the ultimate beyond the ultimate... does that mean evolving all laws?"
Jiang Yan closed his eyes. Almost at the same instant, his state of mind became lucid and empty, while his mind grew more active than ever before. The doubts that had once plagued him now unraveled as easily as a knife through bamboo.
That invisible, colorless wisp slowly floated