"You guessed right."
In the Five Elements World, the Heavenly Dao suddenly lifted his gaze toward the empty Sea of Consciousness. His eyes were distant, as if recalling the past.
"Let's start with the speculation itself!"
The Heavenly Dao spoke slowly, his voice drawn out, as a scroll of secrets from ten thousand years ago gradually unfurled.
It had happened sometime after the Heavenly Dao had given Tai Yi and Yuan Chu an item of the Heavenly Dao to wield each.
"One day, those two came to me at the same time..."
When Tai Yi and Yuan Chu had come to see the Heavenly Dao, he had assumed they were there to ask him for something again.
He hadn't been as foolish as Hanyu imagined, either. After all, he had been born from all living beings. Perhaps his nature was benevolent, but that didn't make him stupid.
He had naturally noticed Tai Yi and Yuan Chu constantly drawing power from him.
But on the other hand, the Heavenly Dao had been eager to open up the path of cultivation, so he had turned a blind eye.
He simply hadn't expected—or, rather, had underestimated—the greed of the Heavenly Beings.
"They proposed a speculation: Where did the Heavenly Dao come from? Could the Heavenly Dao exist first, and living beings come afterward?"
At this, Hanyu felt a chill run down his spine. His first thought was of what Tai Yi and Yuan Chu were doing now.
If the Heavenly Dao came before living beings, wouldn't that mean the Heavenly Dao had created the world?
The Heavenly Dao nodded, making no attempt to hide the truth. "You're right. They asked me whether this path could bring the Heavenly Dao's power to its utmost limit."
According to Tai Yi and Yuan Chu's speculation, if