In the Ancient Saint Domain, cultivating a domain was, in essence, cultivating laws.
Put another way, comprehending and cultivating a domain meant comprehending and cultivating laws.
The laws were the truth of this world.
Cultivation was a defiance of heaven, a way of seizing from fate!
Fate was the laws—the Heavenly Dao Law and the Great Dao Law!
That was why cultivators' lifespans grew longer as their realms rose.
At the World Realm, living for more than a thousand years was no difficult feat.
The Great Dao contained three thousand paths, and laws were countless!
Though there were countless laws, the most fundamental ones were limited in number.
These were the Nine Great Foundational Laws!
The Nine Great Foundational Laws were the laws of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, light, and darkness.
Everything in heaven and earth had evolved from these nine laws.
One could say that heaven and earth themselves had formed through the evolution of the Nine Great Foundational Laws.
The Nine Great Foundational Laws were not difficult to comprehend. In fact, just about everyone could comprehend the Five Elements Law.
That was because every cultivator possessed the power of the Five Elements within their body, in greater or lesser amounts. Once they reached the World Realm, they could draw that power out.
Thus, anyone at the World Realm could possess laws with Five Elements attributes.
Of course, some special races in the Ancient Saint Domain were not included in this.
For instance, the Spirit Race, which lived in the Spirit Domain—a place composed entirely of pure spirit energy—had no Five Elements attributes.
As for the four laws that followed the Nine Great Foundational Laws—wind, lightning, light, and darkness—they were somewhat uncommon.
But they were only uncommon by comparison. In reality, there were still plenty of