With Li Yun's cultivation at its current level, a Great Dao Divine Lord was no longer the mystery it had once been to him.
The Dao of a Great Dao Divine Lord was no longer one of the original Three Thousand Great Daos.
It was the Plane Ancient Dao, which stood above the Three Thousand Great Daos.
It was the supreme Plane Laws that spanned an entire plane.
If the Plane Ancient Dao was a great tree, then the countless worlds within the plane and their various Three Thousand Great Daos were merely branches growing from it.
Compared with the Plane Ancient Dao itself, they were hardly worth mentioning.
A Great Dao Divine Lord had walked the Three Thousand Great Daos to their ends and, following those branches, had begun to touch the supreme Plane Laws themselves.
But how vast were the Plane Laws themselves?
And how complex?
Before the Plane Ancient Dao, even a Great Dao Divine Lord was but a tiny mayfly gazing up at the boundless sky. How could he take in the whole Plane Ancient Dao at a glance?
So he could only fuse all the Three Thousand Great Daos he had cultivated and condense them into a Great Dao Divine Image. It was a process of seeing himself clearly before looking toward the ancient Dao.
The Great Dao Divine Image was merely a medium through which a Great Dao Divine Lord could touch, and even glimpse, the Plane Ancient Dao.
But even if it was only a medium...
It still allowed him to touch a trace of the Plane Ancient Dao. Compared with before, that was a transformation in kind.
That was why the aura around Li Yun had changed so profoundly.
Put simply...
It was a sublimation of the self.
Through that sublimation, Li