"What if I'd agreed to merge with you just now?"
"Simple. You would have become the foundation for my breakthrough to the Fifth Heavenly Layer," the guardian said.
"The Fifth Heavenly Layer?" Primordial Beginning asked, puzzled.
The guardian smiled. "Right, I should introduce myself. Shi Changfeng!
"The Fifth Heavenly Layer is rather complicated to explain. All you need to know is that Hunyuan Supremes are divided into Nine Heavens.
"The gap between each Heavenly Layer is immense.
"Breaking through from the first to the second is harder than cultivating from nothing to the first.
"Take you, for example. You've just entered the second, which is what you call the Great Dao Realm."
"I..."
"Come with me!"
He took Primordial Beginning with him, and their figures flickered. The two seemed to rise without end, until a thunderous crack rang out.
They broke through space and arrived somewhere devoid of rules, where they could sense no Dao.
The moment he arrived, Primordial Beginning felt as though he had undergone a cleansing.
Before him stretched a boundless expanse without rules or Dao. Behind and beneath him lay a vast halo radiating purple light. That was their Hongmeng world.
A Supreme Treasure shaped like an enormous palace floated within Primordial Beginning's phantom figure. It was the palace that had evolved from the river of laws within his Primordial Spirit.
When Primordial Beginning looked at the guardian, he saw a vast river surging within the man's figure. It was the River of the Great Dao. So this is its true appearance?
Primordial Beginning said, "I came for another reason as well. I wish to revive my Dao companion, Wangshu. I hope you'll agree."
"Heh. Of course."
"Gather!"
Splash!
With a wave of the guardian's hand, a figure began to take shape at the end of