"Pangu"
The deficiency of the Heavenly Dao lay in the endlessness of the Great Dao; the deficiency of all living beings lay in the waxing and waning of Dao nature...
Li Changshou's condition at this moment was somewhat peculiar.
He sat cross-legged above the side of the vortex, wisps of divine sense probing into every corner of it, most of his mind immersed within;
yet he was merely observing. He had not fully entered a state of comprehending the Dao, and every circumstance around him could still be projected into his mind.
Fairy Yunxiao, intently refining array foundations;
True Lord Taiyi, slacking off and practicing ventriloquism;
Great Mage Senior Brother, studying the precise arrangement of the grand array...
At this moment, Li Changshou felt like a 'portable hard drive' plugged into the 'port' of the Heavenly Dao, striving to sift through a vast amount of disorderly, meaningless information for things that interested him.
And while he was at it, he investigated a few minor questions.
For instance, the nature of the Heavenly Dao; the profound connections among the Great Dao, the Heavenly Dao, and living beings; the self-evolution of the Great Dao at the very beginning of Heaven and Earth; and so on.
There was nothing especially remarkable about it—merely the level of insight an ordinary great expert of the Primordial Wilderness might possess.
Of course, his own Dao realm and accumulation were still far from qualifying him as a great expert.
From ancient times to the present, countless beings of the Primordial Wilderness had left too many traces through the ages, and the Heavenly Dao concealed too many scattered fragments as well.
Li Changshou continued observing and thinking, utterly unaware of time's passage;
his insights kept accumulating, only to be temporarily sealed away by him, lest the Heavenly Dao