Tribulation Space

Ever since scriptures about merging with the Dao had appeared on the golden scroll, Qin Huaian had sat quietly in the Limitless Secret Realm for fifty years.

From what he had gleaned from the scriptures, his first step was to merge the Yin-Yang Laws into his Immortal Essence Power, so that his power would begin to contain them.

Before merging with the Dao, he could use Immortal Essence Power bearing the characteristics of the Yin-Yang Laws, but that was only a combination of the laws he had comprehended and his power.

That combination did let him bring out some of the Yin-Yang Laws' effects.

But it was nothing like merging with the Dao, after which his Immortal Essence Power itself would carry the power of those laws. Even if his power did not grow at all, his strength would undergo a transformation in kind.

After fifty years of study and attempts, Qin Huaian had made no further progress in comprehending the Yin-Yang Laws, but his understanding of them had deepened.

He had also gained an initial understanding of merging with the Dao, something he had once known nothing about, and found a way to do it.

Yet when Qin Huaian tried to merge the Yin-Yang Laws into his Immortal Essence Power, he suddenly found that they would not merge at all.

After all he had learned over the years, he had thought it would happen as naturally as water flowing into a channel. Instead, the process seemed stuck at some unseen point.

Was it because the laws were incomplete? Because I haven't fully comprehended the Yin-Yang Laws?

That doesn't seem right either. According to the scriptures, I should be able to merge with the Dao in part even without fully comprehending the Yin-Yang Laws.

As Qin Huaian puzzled over it,