In this world, some principles naturally emerged between heaven and earth.
For example: "A space composed of hexagons uses the least material while remaining sturdy." Many shields supported by martial arts and Dharma Artifacts were built from hexagonal structures. That was the reason why.
So how did the first person to discover this know?
The answer was "observation."
Observe.
He observed nature. He observed bees and their hives.
A honeycomb naturally formed a hexagonal lattice—strong, resilient, and the most economical in material.
So how did bees know?
That seemed attributable to "evolution."
Through evolution, bees had gradually worked this out over countless ages and inscribed it into their genes—after all, bees that used other shapes either consumed too much material to form hives or died out because their hives were not sturdy enough.
But in truth, that was not the case.
The reason honeycombs were hexagonal was not because bees deliberately made them so.
When bees first built their hives, what they actually created were circles. As they secreted wax and spun around, they formed naturally circular cells—the "circle" that possessed the greatest area for the same perimeter.
And once these similarly sized, newly built soft circular cells connected together, their surfaces naturally tugged at one another through surface tension, naturally forming the most material-saving and strongest hexagons.
The Dao revealed itself just like that.
All cultivation methods in this world ultimately relied upon heaven and earth themselves. Ancient beasts evolved over long ages, bearing the Dao within their bodies; humans, meanwhile, used wisdom to observe the principles condensed through those vast ages, then combined them into cultivation methods of their own. Ever-evolving observation and practice—this was the essence of the path of cultivation.
And now, An Jing was observing, understanding, sensing.
Sensing that "natural inevitability."
The Holy Demon's demise