At this point, Ling Qing had no way to salvage them. He could only watch them perish.
Yet from this clash between the true Dao and the false Dao, he could glimpse the projection of the true Dao.
Bit by bit, he began sorting through anew the principles of the Great Dao he had comprehended.
Only then did Ling Qing understand why Nie Yinniang had said that a Heavenly Immortal could not, upon first giving birth to a mystic embryo and opening a world, attain Great Luo in a single stroke.
He also understood why Senior Brother Wan had told him to treat the Three Lights Divine Sword as expendable material, constantly dismantling the chaos mystic embryo.
Ling Qing had thought he had already comprehended things thoroughly, grasped the true principles.
Who would have thought that before the true Great Dao, they would prove to be so riddled with flaws?
Likewise, if a chaos mystic embryo were built with such error-riddled principles, using equally error-riddled methods, how could it withstand the Great Dao's obliteration?
Had there not been this process of constant dismantling, the mystic embryo he had first given birth to would have been obliterated by the Great Dao in an instant.
Then he would not even have had the chance to observe the process of obliteration and comprehend its principles.
He waited until only several hundred stars remained upon the sword light, their worlds sparse with living things.
Yet under the Great Dao's tempering, they no longer collapsed. Instead, after shining with a brilliant glow—
Ling Qing understood that this chaos mystic embryo had undergone the Great Dao's tempering and passed the High Emperor Tribulation.
When the sword light dispersed, his consciousness entered the spirit treasure space once more. He looked at the chaos mystic embryo within, radiant