Purple energy rose, golden flowers fell, auspicious energy filled the sky, and the essence of creation turned into substance. All of this was because Nuwa was demonstrating the Dao of Creation.
Heavenly Dao Saints could also be called avatars of the Heavenly Dao, Innate Divine Beings who were born embodying a great Dao. Their physical bodies were the embodiment of the Dao.
Pangu transformed nine times a day, divine in the heavens, saintly on the earth, which was actually the evolution of the Pangu Great Dao.
And at this moment, Nuwa was doing something similar. Now, empowered by the Heavenly Dao, she was like the origin of creation itself. Every movement, every smile, contained the supreme true meaning of creation.
Xuan Qing seemed to gain some insight.
The "Creation Yuan Gong," which he had found obscure and difficult to understand in the past, now operated on its own. His body became a universe, and endless essence of creation shaped his spirit.
"What is creation?"
At this moment, Xuan Qing suddenly understood the question Nuwa had first posed.
The Great Dao of Creation was the foundation of the world, the origin of life, encompassing all phenomena. Birth and death were creation, as were yin and yang and the five elements.
Cultivation was also a form of creation!
The essence of cultivation, as Nuwa had said, was a leap in the level of life.
Mortals, cultivators, True Immortals, Golden Immortals, Grand Unity, Grand Unity, Quasi-Saints, Saints...
From mortal to immortal, from immortal to saint, the process of cultivation was a transformation towards an indestructible state, impervious to all harm.
Xuan Qing couldn't help but think of the concept of dimensions.
Zero dimensions were points, one dimension was lines, two dimensions were planes, three dimensions were solid space, and four dimensions introduced the variable of time on the basis of solid space...
But if life itself were considered a dimension, wouldn't the essence of cultivation be dimensional ascension? A leap to a higher dimension of life?
Ordinary mortals were merely three-dimensional beings. Once they transformed from mortal to immortal, especially cultivators of the Heavenly Immortal path, they would involve time. The characteristic of infinite other selves at the Heavenly Immortal realm was based on infinite timelines!
Because, Heavenly Immortals could be considered to be at the level of four-dimensional beings.
The other self incarnations of Heavenly Immortal cultivators, with their single spark of spirit eternally preserved, could reflect onto parallel universes at various temporal nodes through the timeline, thus glimpsing the birth, growth, aging, and death of mortals.
After condensing the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit, with the blessing of the Golden Immortal's immortality, cultivators at this stage could initially resist the erosion of time and revert their bodies to infancy.
At this point, the cultivator's life level was equivalent to a five-dimensional universe.
By extension, Grand Unity Golden Immortals, who could freely control timelines and manifest infinite other selves, were equivalent to the life level of a six-dimensional universe.
As for Great Golden Immortals, they achieved eternal enlightenment, their true spirits imprinted in the eternal Great Unity Heaven, truly standing in the river of time to glimpse countless future possibilities.
This was equivalent to a seven-dimensional life!
In fact, Great Unity could already be considered omniscient and omnipotent. However, in the Primordial World, there were more than one Great Unity, and their authorities were intertwined, overlapping, and influencing each other, creating many variables for the future.
As for realms above Great Unity, Xuan Qing did not understand much, but he could roughly judge that they belonged to the eighth and ninth dimensional life levels, above seven dimensions.
"Life leap!"
Xuan Qing couldn't help but murmur, "Is this the essence of the Great Dao of Creation?"
Boom!
As if a divine being had shouted and the Great Dao had guided him, Xuan Qing's understanding of the Great Dao of Creation rapidly improved. The Dao Tree in his Inner Scenery Land suddenly grew wildly, instantly reaching a height of a thousand zhang.
The "Forge of Creation" transformed again, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth's creation like a black hole, devouring everything and sweeping away all the Innate Spiritual Qi within a radius of ten thousand li.
The Essence of Wood and Essence of Gui Water intertwined upon it, and phantom images of the Azure Dragon and Black Tortoise manifested, melting everything and erupting with immortal light and divine radiance like a great sun.
"Not bad!"
Nuwa praised.
At this moment, when Xuan Qing looked at Nuwa again, he felt a different sensation.
All beings in the Primordial World knew that Nuwa became a Saint through the merit of creation, but the faint white qi behind her was not purely the Dao of Creation!
"The Dao of Grand Simplicity!"
Xuan Qing suddenly realized. Innate Divine Beings were born embodying great Daos. Nuwa, as one of the most outstanding among them, had a Dao body that perfectly matched the profoundness of the Innate Dao of Grand Simplicity.
At the same time, he also understood Fuxi's Great Dao, which was the "Innate Way of Change" that he had proven through the "Innate Eight Trigrams." The two paths converged.
Fuxi and Nuwa both had human heads and snake bodies. The sun was their head, and the moon was their body. Their Dao bodies revealed the mysteries of yin and yang, and they each represented a supreme Innate Great Dao.
Fuxi was the Dao of Grand Yi.
Nuwa was the Dao of Grand Simplicity.
Grand Yi: Yin and yang have not yet changed, vast and empty void, without light, without form, without name.
Silent and indistinct, this is called Grand Yi.
Grand Simplicity: Formed from the transformation of Grand Origin, having substance but not yet a complete body. It is the state of the primordial material universe, more ancient and primitive than the Grand Ultimate universe.
Both were among the Five Primes of the Innate. The Dao of Grand Yi was the beginning of spirit, and the Dao of Grand Simplicity was the beginning of substance, simultaneously containing the supreme principle of creation from the void.
"Creation!"
At this moment, Xuan Qing thoroughly understood the "Turning Creation" divine ability. It not only involved the application of creation laws but also encompassed the Dao of Grand Yi and the Dao of Grand Simplicity.
The Dao of Grand Yi bestowed spirit, the Dao of Grand Simplicity shaped the body, and the Dao of Creation initiated spirit and life. The combination of these three Daos, along with innate divine objects like the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Three Lights Divine Water, possessed the power to transform the rotten into the miraculous.
Thus, one could mold earth and create humans!
Nuwa, however, did not comprehend pure Dao of Creation. Instead, she integrated her own Dao of Grand Simplicity and Fuxi's Dao of Grand Yi with the Dao of Creation.
"Thank you, Holy Mother!"
Xuan Qing bowed again.
Though he still lacked the ability to create a race, he now understood the core of creating humans. In the future, he might be able to create a race like Nuwa.
"Let's go!"
With that, Nuwa prepared to send Xuan Qing out of Grand Simplicity Heaven. Having bestowed the creation she intended, she had no plans to interfere further with the future of Xuan Qing and the Human Race.
"Wait!"
Having finally gained the attention of this "Holy Mother," Xuan Qing was unwilling to miss this opportunity to latch onto a powerful figure. He immediately bowed to Nuwa and said, "Holy Mother, this child has one more question I wish to ask your guidance on!"
"Speak!"
Nuwa waved her large hand, and the surging power of time and space immediately subsided.
Xuan Qing quickly organized his thoughts: "Holy Mother, while comprehending the Innate Eight Trigrams, I glimpsed a corner of the future where countless demons slaughtered the Human Race. Since you are the Empress Wa of the Demon Clan, could you perhaps issue an order to restrain them?"
He still wanted to struggle, hoping to use the power of Nuwa, a Saint, to prevent the Demon Clan from wantonly slaughtering humans to forge the Witch-Slaying Sword.
"Why stop them?"
Nuwa's expression was indifferent, as emotionless as the Heavenly Dao. "Demons eat humans, and humans kill demons; both are ordained by the Heavenly Dao! Just like wolf packs and sheep flocks, when you use your power to protect the sheep from the wolves, have you ever considered that this protection of the sheep might be the greatest harm to the wolves?"
"Heaven covers impartially, Earth bears impartially, the sun and moon shine impartially. For a Saint of the Heavenly Dao, the most important thing is to follow the fundamental laws of the Heavenly Dao's operation!"
"I do not care what you have seen. But you also know that I am both the Holy Mother of the Human Race and the Empress Wa of the Demon Clan. Therefore, I cannot show favoritism to either one!"
Xuan Qing was struck as if by lightning.
He instantly understood why, when the Human Race faced slaughter in the future, both Nuwa, the Holy Mother of the Human Race, and Grand Pure One Laozi, the Sect Leader of the Ren Sect, chose to stand by and watch as the Human Race was slaughtered by the Demon Clan.
No wonder!
Whether the Human Race or the Demon Clan faced calamity, Nuwa remained indifferent!
Heaven's heart is utterly impartial, and the Heavenly Dao is selfless. As Saints of the Heavenly Dao, they ought to follow the Heavenly Dao and conform to nature. How could they show favoritism to the Human Race or the Demon Clan?
"Was my perspective too narrow?"
Xuan Qing believed that the Human Race was the future protagonist of the world, and he himself was human. When he considered issues, he always did so from the perspective of the Human Race.
However, he had never considered the issues between the Human Race and the Demon Clan from the perspective of the Heavenly Dao.
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