As Su Daji explained, Ling Qing gradually came to understand some of the ancient secrets.
According to her, when heaven and earth had first opened, all things possessed spirits, and countless beings had been born.
Each of these living beings had been born bearing the workings of heaven and earth, and thus possessed their own innate gifts and mighty powers.
They were known as innate deities.
The appearances of innate deities were bizarre and varied, most resembling the wild beasts commonly seen today.
Some had wings upon their backs, three eyes on their foreheads, a hundred arms growing from their bodies, a thousand eyes, and so on.
The word "demon" did not yet exist.
Among them was a great cultivator who, by integrating the abilities of some innate deities, created the Zhou Tian Star Dou Method to set the laws of heaven and earth in motion.
The human race had been created by the great goddess Nuwa. Later, conflicts gradually arose between their acquired bodies and the innate bodies of the innate deities.
The course of that war was no longer known, but clearly, humanity had won.
Or rather, the great shamans among humanity had won.
But according to Su Daji's tale, what did she have to do with any of this?
Ling Qing looked at her and asked, "What does any of this have to do with why you came?"
Su Daji shook her head. "This is merely a lead-in, to tell you where the methods cultivated by you and Xu Fu came from.
"At the same time, it is to explain the uniqueness of the method you cultivate."
Seeing her pause, Ling Qing gestured for her to continue.
Su Daji went on, "I'll keep the rest brief. After the Heavenly Court established by those innate deities known as