Experimental Box
"Lies," "artificially modified Heavenly Demons," "the truth of ascension," "the Second Heavenly Dao"... He Ping had not expected Dark Ice Ancient Immortal to reveal the secrets of the Sky Star Continent without the slightest hesitation.
"So the ascenders of this world ultimately only became sacrifices of Xuantian Temple—materials for researching Dao contamination, remade into these so-called Heavenly Demons."
"What is the Second Heavenly Dao? Could it be that Xuantian Temple's research goal is to recreate the circumstances of the current world within this 'experimental box' known as the Sky Star Continent? Their ultimate goal is to create another Source of Heavenly Dao. What wild fantasy."
At this point, He Ping was genuinely rather shocked by the Xuantian Temple cultivators' wildly unconstrained ideas.
"No, it cannot be dismissed entirely as baseless nonsense. Though the concept is somewhat too fanciful, it may still be possible to succeed. The key lies in this... how exactly did the Source of Heavenly Dao itself come into being? To this day, the cultivation world's understanding of the Source of Heavenly Dao remains limited, with only a few incomplete conjectures."
Regarding the origin of the Heavenly Dao Mother Body—the Source of Heavenly Dao—the cultivation world had various speculations. The first was the External Origin Theory: the Source of Heavenly Dao was an alien thing from beyond the celestial spheres of the outer cosmos. After intersecting with this vast time-space, the various currents emitted by its Heavenly Dao entered this realm, forming all manner of vast mirror-image projections and giving birth to the Three Thousand Great Worlds;
The second was the Mirror Image Theory: the Heavenly Dao Mother Body itself was the grand mirror image of the Three Thousand Great Worlds. Like two mirrors facing one another, they reflected each other and brought forth the innumerable