Legend had it that of the Great Dao's fifty, Heaven evolved forty-nine, and one escaped...
That one was the single thread of opportunity for all living beings to transcend.
Yet precisely because one had escaped, the Heavenly Dao was incomplete, and its laws were incomplete.
Later, Patriarch Hongjun joined his body with the Dao and made the Heavenly Dao whole, and from then on, acquired life began to evolve.
That era was far too ancient, so Lu Chuan had not witnessed that magnificent feat with his own eyes.
He had not even seen what that grandmaster of his looked like.
Originally, his grandmaster had had one chance to show his face in Investiture of the Gods.
That was after the Three Pure Ones battled the Ten Thousand Immortal Formation, when Hongjun personally manifested his divinity and came to resolve the dispute among the Three Pure Ones. But this time, because he had such a good disciple's grand-disciple, even the Ten Thousand Immortal Formation had never been set up.
His grandmaster's one and only chance to show his face had naturally vanished just like that.
After Hongjun joined with the Dao, there was no doubt that he had to be equated with the words "Heavenly Dao."
In a certain sense, Hongjun was the spokesperson of the Heavenly Dao.
It was just that his grandmaster was equivalent to the Heavenly Dao, but the Heavenly Dao was not his grandmaster.
Put that way, perhaps it sounded a little awkward, but an analogy made it much clearer: the Heavenly Dao had originally been like a great round cake.
The one that escaped was a slice that had been cut out!
The Heavenly Dao was lacking; his grandmaster had merely used himself to plug that gap.
Lu Chuan gazed at the heavenly flowers and