Time flowed on like a murmuring stream, silent yet never still.
A thousand years, two thousand, three thousand...
The wheel of time rolled forward. As the Eight Dao Lords and eighty Yamas took their places, Reincarnation Tokens spread through the Heavens and Myriad Realms with astonishing speed, as though each held a living spirit.
Jiang Yun, the master behind it all, keenly felt the powerful feedback pouring in from every direction. It surged in wave after wave, washing through his Source World.
To Jiang Yun, every Reincarnation Token was an eye—one that could peer into another world and discern its Grand Dao Laws.
Through those countless "eyes," he looked down upon all living things across the Heavens and Myriad Realms, from towering mountains and mighty rivers to the smallest blade of grass and leaf.
Like a hermit beyond the mortal world, he quietly observed the course of all things, deriving the Daos of the heavens as he searched for the universe's deepest truths.
Jiang Yun treated all things and beings in the heavens as a vast scripture, one bearing the accumulated wisdom of endless ages.
He studied it intently, carefully observing and comprehending the Dao Marks within.
Those Dao Marks were like stars in the night sky, each shining with its own distinct light.
Jiang Yun turned them into firewood and fed them to the roaring furnace in which he refined his Heaven-Piercing Dao Path, steadily perfecting himself.
Jiang Yun had a clear plan. His first step was to gather the foundations of the Grand Dao accumulated across the Heavens and Myriad Realms over endless ages.
Those foundations might lie hidden in ancient ruins, flow through the bloodlines of the powerful, or dwell within spiritual treasures born of heaven and earth.
He would then use them as his foundation, cast