Upon the Profound Dao Chapter, with the Seal of Self-Existence at its center, the Six Rectitude Seals formed a neat circular ring around it. Beyond the Six Rectitude Seals, six more Seal Glyphs derived from them had now appeared.
Yet the Seal Glyph that surfaced at this moment did not settle in the outer ring. Instead, it appeared directly within the Seal Glyph of Self-Existence, except it bore none of the names that had always appeared on Seal Glyphs before.
When Zhang Yu saw this Seal Glyph, a faint realization stirred within him.
He immediately steadied his mind and fixed his gaze upon it. As his Divine Essence was drawn away bit by bit, the Seal Glyph lit up, and the two words "Heartlight Seal," in raised vermilion script, gradually emerged upon it.
He drew a breath. With a turn of intention, his mind shook, and a radiance like leaping flames emerged from his body. It then swiftly contracted, flowing over the surface of his body like water, glittering and luminous, like the warm glow of jade beneath the sun.
As the Heartlight Seal was stirred, he now understood why this seal had appeared within the Seal of Self-Existence.
For planting the Seal of Self-Existence in the Seal of the Great Dao meant establishing a starting point with oneself as the core, while Heartlight was a form of rejection—a rejection by the "self" against the world.
What cultivators sought was transcendence. Transcendence itself meant breaking free from established rules and restraints, leaving oneself unbound and reaching a state of freedom and ease.
Yet the connection between man and heaven and earth could not be severed in a single stroke. Heaven and earth gave birth to man, and man existed between heaven and earth; the ties between the two were inseparable.