"Wonderful, wonderful."
Lingxiao was overjoyed. He stroked the warm jade ruler in his palm, Dao rhythms flowing through his eyes.
The path he had chosen was one of illuminating all things in the Primordial World and establishing the order of Heaven and Earth. What he needed most was the support of Creation Merit and treasures possessing the origin of order.
Creation Merit was the supreme catalyst for Proving the Dao through Merit.
As for treasures of order, they were like the River Map and Luo Script that had accompanied his birth—they were already inscribed with the operational trajectories of the sun, moon, and stars. That was why he had been able to follow the natural course and establish the Twelve Time Markers, easily earning the Heavenly Dao's recognition and bringing down an ocean of Merit.
When Pangu created Heaven and Earth, he refined the remains of the three thousand Great Dao Demon Gods into the Primordial World. Thus, the Heavenly Dao that was born from it, as well as the Earthly Dao and Human Dao that were still only budding, should all have possessed the mysteries of three thousand laws.
Yet one Primordial World could not ultimately compare to boundless Chaos. The three thousand laws were flawed everywhere, unable to stand shoulder to shoulder with the true three thousand Great Daos.
—This was also the limitation of the Primordial World's rank. The incompleteness of the Heavenly Dao's laws meant that, for all living beings, if they cultivated the Heavenly Dao mystery of Three Corpses Severance to attain sainthood, then a Heavenly Dao Sage was the upper limit. To advance further, they would need to achieve Transcendence beyond the Primordial World.
After Pangu exhausted his strength in creating Heaven and Earth, his obsession with establishing the order of Heaven and Earth