Where did you come from, and where are you going? At the pinnacle of Heaven and Earth, the Heavenly Gate stood wide open.
It was clear and simple, yet contained Heavenly Secrets. Daoist Hunyuan carefully pondered these four simple phrases. Where did he come from, and where was he going? Lingbao Tianzun knew his origins: he came from the Mortal Realm, born when that strand of Primordial Violet Qi seized another's body. Because the body he had taken, True Monarch Ziyang, had been entangled in Karmic Debt, he needed to accumulate merit to gradually resolve it.
In his first reincarnation, he entered the Animal Path and became a tiny Purple-Gold Fire Ant. Though weak, he possessed the Law of Fire and accumulated merit by sacrificing himself for righteousness.
In his second reincarnation, he again entered the Animal Path, but this time his body was a spirit vulture. He bravely protected his master and punished evil while promoting good, accumulating much merit and completely cleansing his Karmic Debt.
In his third reincarnation, he entered the Human Dao and was reborn as Hua Dou. Saving lives and healing the injured was also a great merit.
In his fourth reincarnation, he entered the Heavenly Dao and incarnated as Kong Qiu. He established Confucianism and earned merit by educating all living beings. Kong Qiu lived to the age of seventy-three before passing away. His soul did not enter the cycle of reincarnation, but instead devoured Heaven and Earth Power in a space opened by a Sage and was reborn.
Through this rebirth, Daoist Hunyuan understood his origins. He was a mass of Chaos Origin Qi, and this mass of Qi had evolved into the other kinds of spiritual energy in the world, including Xuanhuang Qi, which gave rise to the Chaos Demon God, the