Previously, he had possessed the Order-Setting Divine Art: the Dao Lord Seed was the vessel, and the divine art was its contents.
Now the boundary between vessel and contents blurred. In his perception, the Dao Lord Seed's shell became transparent, and within that transparency, the Ten-Bone Ring's mechanical form melted into a flowing, adaptive stream of laws.
The gaps between the seven bones filled in. The independent structures of the Focusing Ring and Harmonizing Ring merged into the overall flow, while Return to Source's dark-gold light spread evenly throughout the stream of laws, with no distinction between center and outer edge.
He tried a simple definition command.
He looked at a piece of chaos origin stone on the ground and issued a definition through the new flowing structure: "Light as a feather."
The stone's weight vanished as the definition settled. The gray-white stone naturally rose from the Light Membrane, hovering at chest height before continuing to drift upward at an extremely slow pace.
There was no delay throughout the process, no perceptible interval between his issuing the definition and the stone leaving the ground.
The Ten-Bone Ring's layer-by-layer command processing had been compressed into a single synchronous process within the new flowing structure, like every tributary of a river joining the main current at the same instant, none before or after another.
The second condition had been fulfilled when verification succeeded. Now the third condition, "universal acceptance," completed its final closed loop.
The newly emerging fourth condition had an outline entirely different from the first three.
It had no scale, no threshold, no observable external indicators.
Its source lay within, in his own will.
He needed to "acknowledge that he was already an Eternal Lord."
This was not an acknowledgment in terms of laws or energy, nor any acknowledgment that