The river surged backward, waves leaping skyward as whirlpools erupted across its surface. The entire River of Destiny boiled and roared! Its course, undisturbed for countless ages, stirred to life. Ancient fate patterns hidden on the riverbed, the destinies of the heavens, and the paths of past and present all rose to the surface, tossed by the waves.
Like a dragon awakening, the river roared with myriad Daos. An irresistible force dragged every fragment of destiny into the depths of its source!
In the violent currents, the countless gilded fragments were torn apart by Dao power, layer by layer. Whole fragments of Origin shattered into countless fine points of glowing Dao Patterns.
Nothing was lost. Nothing dispersed. Strand by strand, speck by speck, the shattered Dao Patterns of destiny seeped through the river's channels, dissolved, and became part of Xuan Qing's own Great Dao of Destiny.
As the last fragments dissolved and merged with it, a profound transformation quietly began!
The Great Dao of Destiny, which had always carried slight flaws and relied on outside power to make up for them, rapidly approached perfection before his eyes!
Its Dao Patterns went from mottled to orderly, from incomplete to flawless, from muddled to pure!
The paths of destiny ran unbroken through past and present. The fates of the heavens came wholly under his command, while every old flaw in his Origin and Dao Foundation was filled and eradicated!
In an instant, a vast flood of profound insight into the Great Dao rushed into Xuan Qing's Dao Heart and Primordial Spirit!
The principles that held destiny in balance, the interplay of the Fixed Number and its variables, the secrets of obeying or defying the Heavenly Mandate, the roots of the Myriad Spirits' destinies... Supreme truths he had once found obscure and impossible