Within the battlefield, in Gu Daotian's spiritual world, heaven, earth, water, fire, wind, thunder, mountain, and marsh—eight vast spiritual forces collided, surged, and evolved.
The eight aspects themselves were not the key. The key lay in the process. It was not merely a key to activating some hidden vital point within the earth; it was also a key to unlocking the upper limits of human potential.
The Way of Changes had long been passed down in the human world. Every school and sect bore traces of it; even within the purest path of letters, its shadow could be found. People of ancient times summarized the phenomena and laws of heaven and earth, and after the sedimentation and inheritance of countless long years, the Changes came into being.
But such Changes possessed no extraordinary might. Even if one mastered it completely, it would only deepen one's understanding of the phenomena behind the world's workings. It still remained on the surface.
It was like someone learning the complete map of a region, along with all its details. In that place, they would hold a certain advantage in many matters.
But if someone understood the microscopic structure of an entire region, then they would have the potential to become a "god."
Gu Daotian was in precisely such a state. This other version of the Changes had shifted his perspective from appearances to essence. Even if it was only a beginning, it was no less than a paper man in a two-dimensional world suddenly becoming aware of the existence of height.
Even if that awareness was only a fleeting glimpse, from then on, the end would no longer be the end. The road ahead had always existed; only the angle had been wrong.
Meanwhile, every change in Gu Daotian was reflected within Zhao Cheng's