The Power of Heavenly Dao Rules

Within Purple Cloud Palace, Dao Ancestor Hongjun, unchanged for countless ages, sat high upon the platform!

At this moment, Hongjun looked like an ordinary, gentle old man, his white hair flowing, making people unable to resist feeling close to him!

However, Mu Jizi did not dare feel that way. They said the Heavenly Dao was merciless; as the spokesperson of the Heavenly Dao, Hongjun naturally would be no different! Even if he had feelings, they would be feelings for all things between Heaven and Earth!

With a single stride, Mu Jizi quickly reached his seat, respectfully performed a salute, and said, "Greetings, Teacher. May Teacher's sacred lifespan know no bounds!"

"Mm!" Hongjun nodded and looked down at Mu Jizi as he said calmly, "Sit!"

"Yes!" Mu Jizi immediately sat down cross-legged upon his violet jade cushion!

"Is your heart filled with doubts?" Hongjun looked down at Mu Jizi. A faint smile actually flashed across his face, unchanged for ten thousand years! "You wonder why, when you used your innate divine ability in the chaos, you controlled that inexplicable power, yet when you used it upon 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 gasping in alarm!

Saints possessed boundless magical power. It was one thing for Hongjun to know that Mu Jizi had grasped that inexplicable power in the chaos, but he even knew that when Mu Jizi had used his innate divine ability upon the Primordial Wilderness before becoming a Saint, nothing had changed?

"Indeed!" Mu Jizi nodded without denying it, saying directly, "This disciple is indeed filled with doubts!"

"Mm!" Hongjun nodded, his smile fading as he sighed. "In truth, you did not grasp that kind of 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 limitless living beings. Their cultivation levels differ, and the powers they wield naturally differ as well. Every kind of power has its own name!" Hongjun said slowly. "For example, for those who have yet to attain the Immortal Dao, the magical power within their bodies is also called spirit power! For those who attain the Immortal Dao, their magical power is called immortal power! And for those who prove the Dao and become Saints, the magical power within their bodies has yet another name!"

"I call it Heavenly Dao Power!"

"A Saint in the Primordial Unity Realm entrusts their true spirit to the Heavenly Dao, thereby attaining the state where the Heavenly Dao remains undestroyed, and they themselves remain undestroyed!"

"But what is the Heavenly Dao?"

"The Heavenly Dao is merely a name forcibly imposed by living beings! In truth, it can only be said to be formed from the ultimate principles and rules of Heaven and Earth!"

Mu Jizi was completely bewildered!

The Heavenly Dao was merely a name imposed by living beings? The Heavenly Dao was formed from the ultimate principles and rules of Heaven and Earth?

"Then what exactly is the Dao I seek? The rules of Heaven and Earth? Their ultimate principles? Or something else?" Mu Jizi's heart was filled with doubt. He had never possessed a clear understanding of the Heavenly Dao before, but after hearing Dao Ancestor Hongjun's words, earth-shaking doubts could not help filling his heart!

"The Dao is said to exist everywhere, and that is precisely why!" Hongjun continued. "Thus, the Dao has no physical form. It is merely a kind of rule. If one wishes to entrust one's true spirit to these rules, one can only become part of the rules oneself!"

"But how does one become a rule?" Hongjun looked down at Mu Jizi and said calmly, "If one's own body becomes a rule, 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 peak of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal will gradually come into contact with Rule Power!"

"However, for Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals, the Three Corpses within man are an obstacle. Though they begin to touch Rule Power, countless stray thoughts such as good, evil, and self become layer upon layer of membranes, blocking off Rule Power!"

"If one wishes to truly touch this Rule Power, one must cast aside these stray thoughts and break through those layers of membranes. That is why there is the Three Corpses Severing Method!"

Mu Jizi sighed!

So the Three Corpses Severing Method had originated from this!

He did not know whether Dao Ancestor Hongjun had figured it out 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 rules become within reach. Then one may discard the Three Corpses and merge into the rules!"

"This is the Saint Realm of entrusting one's true spirit to the Heavenly Dao, so that while the Heavenly Dao remains undestroyed, one's own body remains undestroyed as well!"

"Yet rules also differ. The Heavenly Dao is everywhere, and rules are everywhere as well. Generally, upon first proving the Dao and reaching the Primordial Unity Realm, one can only control the simple Space Law!"

"Only by continuing to seek the Dao can one control the Time Law beyond space, and 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 that of a Saint?"

Hearing this, Hongjun seemed not the least bit angered by Mu Jizi's interruption. Without even thinking, he said, "Naturally. The Saint Realm is also called the Primordial Unity Realm. Upon first stepping into the Primordial Unity Realm and controlling the Space Law, one is called a Primordial Supreme Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal. Once the Space Law is fully controlled and one controls the Time Law, one is called a Primordial Infinite Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal. Finally, once time is fully controlled and one controls Creation, one is called a Primordial Grand Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal!"

Having said this, Hongjun abruptly 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 Dao of Creation, this Creation was not that Creation; the two could not be mentioned in the same breath!

"When you used your innate divine ability in the chaos earlier, you touched upon a trace of the Space Law!" Hongjun looked down at Mu Jizi. Only now did he explain the doubt in Mu Jizi's heart. "Of course, this was because chaos itself is the embryonic form from before Heaven and Earth were opened. The various rules contained within it evolve at every moment!"

"For example, upon the Primordial Wilderness, though Rule Power is everywhere, it never changes. It is like a dead thing. If one wishes to borrow it, one must possess an extremely profound comprehension of that rule!"

"Yet within chaos, endless rules evolve at every moment. Not only can they be used to comprehend rules, but the power within them can be drawn upon at will!"

"When you used your innate divine ability, you happened to stir the Space Law. That was why the change occurred!"

Only then did Mu Jizi suddenly understand! His innate divine ability in his true form, Space Lock, borrowed merely a trace of the Space Law. Yet when used in chaos, that trace had drawn upon the Space Law, causing his strength to surge severalfold!

"No wonder, in later generations, after Saints prove the Dao, they all establish their Daoist grounds in chaos. So it is to observe the evolution of the rules within chaos at close range, thereby deepening their comprehension of the rules!"

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