Within Purple Cloud Palace, the Dao Ancestor Hongjun, unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, sat high upon the platform!
At this moment, Hongjun looked like an ordinary, gentle old man, his hair white as snow, making people unable to resist drawing close to him!
However, Mu Jizi did not dare think so. They said the Heavenly Dao was merciless; as the Heavenly Dao's spokesperson, Hongjun naturally would be no different! Even if he possessed feelings, they would be feelings for all things between heaven and earth!
Taking a stride forward, Mu Jizi quickly reached his seat. He respectfully performed a salute and said, "Greetings, Teacher. May Teacher's sacred life know no bounds!"
"Mm." Hongjun nodded and looked down at Mu Jizi, saying blandly, "Sit."
"Yes!" Mu Jizi immediately sat cross-legged upon his purple jade prayer mat!
"Is your heart filled with doubts?" Hongjun looked down at Mu Jizi. A trace of a smile unexpectedly flickered across his face, unchanged for ten thousand years! "You wonder why, when you used your innate divine ability in Chaos, you could command that inexplicable power, yet when you used it in the Primordial Wilderness, there was no difference at all?"
Mu Jizi's eyes widened. He blinked, confirming that a smile had truly appeared on Hongjun's face, before inwardly being startled!
Saints possessed boundless magical power, so it was understandable that Hongjun knew Mu Jizi had grasped that inexplicable power in Chaos. But he even knew that, before Hongjun had become a Saint, Mu Jizi's innate divine ability had shown no changes when used in the Primordial Wilderness?
"Indeed." Mu Jizi nodded without denying it and said directly, "This disciple's heart is filled with doubts!"
"Mm." Hongjun nodded, withdrew his smile, and said with a sigh, "In truth, you have not mastered that power!"
"Oh?" Mu Jizi's heart stirred, and he listened carefully.
Yet Hongjun did not continue. Instead, he began speaking of something else. "Between heaven and earth are countless living beings. Their cultivation differs in height, and the powers they wield naturally differ as well. Every kind of power has its own designation!" Hongjun spoke slowly. "For example, for those who have not attained the immortal path, the magical power within their bodies is also called spiritual power! For those who have attained the immortal path, it is also called immortal power! And for those who have proven the Dao and become Saints, the magical power within their bodies has yet another name!"
"I call it Heavenly Dao Power!"
"Saints of the Primordial Unity Realm entrust their True Spirits to the Heavenly Dao, thereby reaching a state where, so long as the Heavenly Dao is not destroyed, they themselves will not be destroyed!"
"But what is the Heavenly Dao?"
"The Heavenly Dao is merely a name imposed upon it by living beings! Properly speaking, it can only be said to be formed from the ultimate principles and laws of heaven and earth!"
Mu Jizi was dumbfounded!
The Heavenly Dao was merely a name imposed by living beings? The Heavenly Dao was formed from the ultimate principles and laws of heaven and earth?
"Then what exactly is the Dao I seek? The laws of heaven and earth? Their ultimate principles? Or something else?" Mu Jizi's heart was full of doubts. He had never possessed a clear understanding of the Heavenly Dao before, but after hearing Dao Ancestor Hongjun's words, earth-shaking questions filled his heart!
"It is said that the Dao exists everywhere, and that is precisely why!" Hongjun continued. "Thus, the Dao has no physical form; it is merely a kind of law. To entrust one's True Spirit to this law, one can only turn oneself into a part of that law!"
"But how does one become a law?" Hongjun looked down at Mu Jizi and said blandly, "If one turns oneself into a law, then one is no longer a Saint, but an incarnation of the Dao!"
"An incarnation of the Dao?"
Hearing this, Mu Jizi's heart stirred, and the way he looked at Hongjun could not help changing!
At this moment, Dao Ancestor Hongjun continued, "Thus came the term Heavenly Dao Power!"
"Heavenly Dao Power naturally refers to Rule Power. Those who reach the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Peak will gradually begin to touch Rule Power!"
"Yet for Daluo Golden Immortals, the Three Corpses within a person are an obstacle. Though they begin to touch Rule Power, countless distracting thoughts such as goodness, evil, and self are like layers upon layers of membranes, blocking Rule Power!"
"To truly touch this Rule Power, one must cast aside these distracting thoughts and break through those layers of membranes. That is why there is Three Corpses Severance!"
Mu Jizi sighed!
So the Three Corpses Severing Method had originated from this!
He wondered whether Dao Ancestor Hongjun had explored it himself or comprehended it through the Creation Jade Butterfly!
"Once the Three Corpses are severed, one returns to the self, understands one's original heart, and the laws can be grasped at one's fingertips. Then one may discard the Three Corpses and merge into the laws!"
"This is the Saint realm, where one entrusts one's True Spirit to the Heavenly Dao, such that if the Heavenly Dao is not destroyed, one oneself will not be destroyed!"
"Yet laws also differ. The Heavenly Dao exists everywhere, and laws exist everywhere as well. Ordinarily, those who have just proven the Dao and reached the Primordial Unity Realm can only command simple Space Law!"
"Only by continuing to seek the Dao can one command the Time Law beyond space, or even reach the Creation Law beyond time!"
Space Law! Time Law! Creation Law!
Saints actually had such distinctions?
Mu Jizi listened with bated breath! Then he could not help asking, "Teacher, are there realms above Sainthood?"
Hearing this, Hongjun did not seem angered in the slightest by Mu Jizi's interruption. Without even thinking, he said, "Naturally. The Saint realm is also called the Primordial Unity Realm. When one first enters the Primordial Unity Realm and commands Space Law, one is called a Primordial Supreme Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal. Once Space Law is fully mastered and one commands Time Law, one is called a Primordial Infinite Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal. Finally, once time is fully mastered and one commands Creation, one is called a Primordial Grand Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal!"
Having said this, Hongjun changed the subject. "Of course, all this is still very far away for you!"
Mu Jizi nodded. He knew his own limits. Though he cultivated the Creation Dao, this Creation was not that Creation; the two could not be mentioned in the same breath!
"When you used your innate divine ability in Chaos earlier, you touched upon a trace of Space Law!" Hongjun looked down at Mu Jizi. Only now did he address Mu Jizi's doubts. "Naturally, this was because Chaos is the rudimentary form from before heaven and earth were opened. The various laws contained within it are constantly evolving!"
"For example, upon the Primordial Wilderness, though Rule Power exists everywhere, it does not change. It is a dead thing. To borrow it, one must have an extremely deep comprehension of that law!"
"But in Chaos, endless laws evolve at every moment. Not only can they be used to comprehend laws, one can also freely draw upon the power within them!"
"When you used your innate divine ability, you happened to stir the Space Law, and that was why the change occurred!"
Only then did Mu Jizi finally understand! His innate divine ability as his true body, Space Lock, merely borrowed a tiny scrap of Space Law. Yet when used in Chaos, that tiny scrap had stirred the Space Law, causing his strength to multiply!
"No wonder that in later generations, after Saints prove the Dao, they all establish their Dao grounds in Chaos. So it is to observe the evolution of laws in Chaos at close range and thereby deepen their comprehension of laws!"
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