[To be honest, I'm the same in that regard, and I don't actually know much either.]
At this point, the Ancestral Dragon's tone became exceedingly candid. [Because I attained the rank of Sacred Venerable precisely in that era when joining with the Dao was easy.]
[Once this realm is attained, it is attained forever. Even if Huaixu no longer supports it now, I am still in the Dao-Joining Realm.]
[So even I, as I am now, have no way to join with the Dao a second time... I can only tell you all the known paths that may perhaps lead Above Lingxiao.]
Light and shadow flowed, and the Ancestral Dragon displayed the first path to An Jing.
Endless streams of light converged. The Heavenly Sea hung down, the Earth Veins swelled upward, and Heaven and man became one.
[The first method, the most primitive and ancient one, is 'when thought reaches the Dao, Heaven and Earth unite.']
[This is Huaixu's most common method of joining with the Dao, and also the Heaven and Earth Venerable's 'method of surpassing the ultimate extreme.']
[For Heaven and Earth stretch infinitely onward, while the boundless forever remains. Any existence within any great Heaven and Earth, even if the immeasurable power of infinitely many Lingxiao Heavenly Venerables were added together, could never equal an entire great Heaven and Earth.]
[This is a leap that cannot be reached through mere accumulation. Thus, rather than pondering how one might become the universe, it is better to directly merge with a Heavenly Dao that acknowledges you, become part of it, and thereby reach an existence beyond every rank below.]
[This is feasible—it is not truly the most ancient method, but for Huaixu, it is the oldest. The earliest experts who created Huaixu and attained Dao-Joining or even realms