Several Origin Xia True Ones rode aboard a golden vessel, continually heading deeper into the Land of Pure Spirits.
Here they witnessed many wonders. The Land of Pure Spirits did not contain only pure spirit creatures; there were also all manner of drifting spirit threads, scattered everywhere like ocean waves and air currents, strand upon strand, seeming broken yet continuous.
Pure spirit creatures generally clung to these things to anchor themselves, traveling wherever the spirit threads moved. Even when these creatures went to the present world, it was likewise because the spirit threads first drifted outward, carrying the creatures along with them.
After reaching the present world, these spirit threads did not simply cease to exist. Instead, they transformed into another form, seeming to be the very foundation that constituted the Land of Pure Spirits.
Merely observing this, those aboard the vessel seemed to faintly glimpse a certain principle. Everyone here had reached the realm of Pursuit of Completeness, and their cultivation was almost incapable of climbing any higher. To continue upward, they would have to become mighty beings of the higher realm.
Yet upon seeing these things, they all felt that a road lay ahead, one that seemed capable of helping them glimpse a higher level.
This was because, after Miao Yi attained the Dao, the path for pure spirit creatures to attain the Dao had been opened. This path was not limited to pure spirit creatures; even present-world beings could follow it, provided they spiritized themselves and became pure spirit creatures.
Moreover, because the Pure Spirit Dao lay on the reverse side of material things, attaining the Dao in the Land of Pure Spirits theoretically had no Heavenly Gate limit. Though it was still exceedingly difficult, there was ultimately a sliver of heavenly opportunity. It was vastly better