The vast void.
The Ember World shrank from vast to tiny.
It became a yellow-skinned gourd the size of a thumb.
With a casual gesture, Yin Ming drew the yellow gourd into his body and followed the trajectory of his deductions into a chaotic domain with neither above nor below, neither time nor distance.
Who knew how many ages had passed? The traces grew ever clearer.
Yin Ming sensed a wisp of aura and looked toward it. "Found it!"
With that, he vanished from where he stood, clearly sensing a world equal to his own in scale—the Primordial World.
Before he could even approach, the Primordial World released a force of repulsion. The two worlds were like magnets with opposing poles; no matter what, they could not draw close.
Yet the instant he saw the Primordial World, his Heavenly Dao-level thought model began operating, and he comprehended much information he had never understood before.
Although the Ember World could wield time and space and generate all Taiyi-level models, its root lay in the form of the Terminal Law he had proven.
A masterless world was iron; a world with a master was a magnet—and magnets whose magnetism was never quite the same.
The Ember World had attained the Dao through the Terminal Law, and thus bore the traces of Finality. The Primordial World before him, meanwhile, was—Primordial.
Among all worlds, the first Taiyi had been born in this world. Those who attained Taiyi in all worlds inevitably had threads of connection to this world stretching in a thousand directions.
Either they had originally been Primordial World lifeforms like Yin Ming, or they had obtained the Primordial World's inheritance, or they had been influenced by travelers from the Primordial World.
From Primordial beginning to Finality's end, no more "Taiyi" would be