After Kong Xuan left Phoenix Perch Mountain, Qing Yi and Nuwa finally resumed their unfinished discussion of the Dao.
Nuwa followed the path of creation.
A strand of clear Creation light rose behind her. Plants, trees, insects, fish, birds, beasts, and all manner of living creatures in varying forms manifested within it one after another.
At first, they possessed only outward forms. As Nuwa's Dao gradually unfolded, flesh, blood, and organs began to develop, spiritual vitality was infused into them, and each kind of creature began to exude a distinct aura.
In comparison, Qing Yi's Creation Great Dao was far more vast.
She created neither grass nor trees, nor did she deliberately bestow life upon all things.
Chaos opened behind her, the clear and turbid separated, Yin-Yang intertwined, the Five Elements circulated, and mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, sun, moon, and stars were born in turn.
World after world arose from nothing, then moved toward perfection beneath the cycle of the Great Dao.
Nuwa created life; Qing Yi created worlds.
One bestowed Creation upon the myriad races of living beings, while the other began with Creation and evolved heaven, earth, and all existence.
Qing Yi neither deliberately suppressed her cultivation nor explained her Dao word by word.
Yet as world after world opened before Nuwa's eyes, many matters that would once have required painstaking deduction naturally yielded their answers.
The countless living beings Nuwa had evolved also entered the worlds Qing Yi had opened at that moment.
The mountains and rivers, once empty and orderly, soon began to undergo different changes.
Birds carried seeds into the distance, beasts migrated through the mountains, and plants grew and withered with the seasons.
Even the framework of mountains and rivers Qing Yi had initially established quietly changed as all things multiplied.
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