"So that's how it is! So that's how it is!"
Gonggong slapped his thigh hard. The stone table boomed from the blow as he laughed gruffly. "Brother Lingxiao, you're incredible! Such a difficult principle, and the moment you explained it, I understood!"
Zhurong nodded again and again, his eyes full of admiration. "Brother Daoist Lingxiao's wisdom reaches the heavens, just as his reputation claims. We have guarded Pangu Hall for countless Yuanhuis, yet failed even to grasp this most fundamental Three Talents Principle. What a shame."
Di Jiang's six legs and four wings trembled faintly, layers upon layers of spatial ripples spreading around him. He said gravely, "Brother Daoist Lingxiao, since the Earthly Dao encompasses Reincarnation and Earth Veins, where should we begin? Please enlighten us!"
Lingxiao smiled faintly and raised a hand, pressing it downward to signal everyone to quiet down. "Completing the Earthly Dao cannot be done in a day, and we must not rush it. In my view, it can be carried out in four steps, proceeding in order."
"We are all ears." The Ancestral Witches straightened up and listened intently.
"The first step is to establish a Temporary Reincarnation and resolve the urgent crisis." Lingxiao spoke fluently. "The Netherworld is now choked with the souls of the dead, resentment soaring into the heavens. If this drags on, it will surely become a great disaster. Once the Dao Ancestor's third lecture at Violet Firmament Palace concludes, Fellow Daoist Houtu and I can go to the Netherworld together, open up a temporary space, and condense the embryonic form of Reincarnation."
"At that time, we can use this Postcelestial Merit Supreme Treasure, the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler, formed from one-tenth of Creation Merit fused with Hongmeng Qi, to measure the Netherworld's territory and delineate the boundary between Yin and Yang,