Primordial Unity Celestial Palace and Golden Court both cooperated with and opposed one another. They were hostile sides, yet also possessed a rare tacit understanding and trust. This was because one was the principal body and the other its reflected body.
Though the Dao methods they upheld differed, it could be said that they were both one person.
What they clung to was the Dao, the most fundamental source. Only by taking this as their cornerstone could both sides achieve such a thing.
Yet it was precisely because they understood each other that Golden Court had always sought to balance the two sides, such as by narrowing the gap between their supreme treasures.
Daoist Primordial Simplicity swept his sleeve, and the Clear Vault Heavenly Ark appeared within the Pure Water. This supreme treasure was wholly condensed from clear qi. Though called an ark, this referred to far more than its manifested appearance. In the eyes of a great power such as Zhang Yu, this treasure could be called the vessel of all principles, a container for the Dao.
Daoist Primordial Simplicity said, "Because Clear Vault Aura can bear all things and transform into all things, according to the theory of the Five Qi, it may be called the qi of water and earth. If I were to gather other treasures and use them together, condensing the Five Qi, I had believed at the time that this should be able to contend against Origin Xia's treasures."
He paused. "If this can be done, then the Azure Spirit Heavenly Branch of Upper Firmament Heaven should serve as wood qi, Nether City Golden Sand as metal qi, the Void-Refining Calamity Sun of the Vast Yang Dao Lineage as fire qi, with the Clear Vault Heavenly Ark as the vessel. In this way, the