Da Chen Imperial Dynasty, You Heavenly Sect (33) Thanks to the Alliance Leader, the Virtuous Man with a Clear Conscience!

"This little one was a manifested True Spirit, born from the combined strength of heaven and earth. If nothing had gone wrong, its birth would surely have been accompanied by a vast heavenly phenomenon. It should have been when sweet dew descended from the skies after the Frost Calamity, or perhaps during the time of your Nirvana battle."

Yun Yanxia looked at Little Qi with considerable emotion, and she had indeed arrived at the correct answer. "This actually wouldn't be unfamiliar to humanity either, because... the essence of [Fate Grid], especially [Divine Fate], is in truth a kind of 'manifestation'!"

"Heaven and earth bestow boundless power, transforming it into Fate Grids and granting them to living beings that meet the requirements. Isn't that heaven creating the most perfect acquired manifested True Spirits?"

Although putting words like acquired and manifestation together sounded a little strange, An Jing understood it easily—there was no distinction between acquired and innate to the Heavenly Dao. Whatever It created was naturally made by heaven and established by earth, with no definition of before or after.

"So that was how it was?"

Yet precisely because of this, his brows suddenly drew tight.

For he had realized that since Little Qi was a True Spirit manifested by heaven and earth... then without a doubt, the Undying Tree of the Emperor Court was as well!

And if manifestation meant that a power chose to give birth to itself, then both Little Qi and the Undying Tree could be said to have been created by the descent of heaven-and-earth power—the direct manifestation of the Heavenly Dao's will. And that was indeed the case. The Undying Tree's essence was a fragment of the Heavenly Dao, a manifestation of the Heart of Heaven and Earth.

The Heart of Heaven and Earth was