What was life?
Life was a system that maintained its own stability by drawing negative entropy from the environment.
How did it draw negative entropy?
The simplest ways were absorbing sunlight and eating.
The former was for plants; the latter, animals.
Plants seized the initial low-entropy power from sunlight and relied on the inorganic matter they absorbed to solidify that power. Herbivores absorbed the organic matter produced by plants and claimed that negative entropy for themselves. Carnivores ate meat, absorbing the animal Path of Living Beings Source of herbivores.
All of these were "drawing negative entropy."
The Human Dao: take from those who lacked and offer it to those who had abundance.
Ai Qinglan's Primordial Spirit Domain perfectly displayed this trait of living creatures.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth around them was seized by Ai Qinglan in an instant. After Wang Qi unfolded his Primordial Spirit Domain, he could only retain the most basic amount of power. Having absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the Double Helix chains behind Ai Qinglan underwent enormous changes, becoming narrow, long, and gigantic, like heavenly pillars reaching straight into the firmament.
Spiritual energy from beyond the heavens poured straight into those chains like waterfalls.
At a glance, Ai Qinglan actually resembled a Humanoid Great Demon trailing several long tails behind her.
"Impre—" Wang Qi had just forced out a sliver of a smile when the attack before him had already arrived. Ai Qinglan's attack was unexpectedly simple. One Double Helix chain behind her suddenly dropped from the clouds, like a heavenly pillar toppling over. This lash was not only incredibly fast, but also carried terrifyingly immense spiritual power. If ordinary transformed Demon Race members or Nascent Soul Cultivators had faced it, this single blow would have been enough to smash