Primordial simplicity: the state of the universe in which primordial matter appeared before Heaven and Earth opened, the beginning of substance before it had taken form.
Taiji: the state of the universe before Heaven and Earth opened and Yin and Yang separated, when Heaven and Earth remained unopened and chaos had yet to divide into Yin and Yang.
These were the five stages through which Heaven and Earth passed from "nothing" to "being," and therein lay the true mystery of opening Heaven and Earth.
Ji Hao had opened heavens before, but those acts had all been confined to the material level. In essence, he had not created a new universe.
Without passing through the five primordials, it could only be considered another opening within the Taiji stage, a creation founded upon someone else's Daoist principles.
But the heaven Ji Hao was opening now belonged entirely to him. Every principle and rule operating within it had been created and comprehended by Ji Hao himself.
Each of the five great eras contained a power-the power of an entire great era! How could any stray cat or dog possibly block it?
Once one comprehended this mystery, one would have seen through the essence of the world's existence.
These five powers stood apart from every power currently known, and they could not be stopped. How could beings who existed after the five primordials withstand powers from before Heaven opened?
Gradually, ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years, and ten thousand years passed.
Thirty thousand years slipped by here in a flash. Throughout those thirty thousand years, no one discovered that someone had invaded the Soul River.
It sounded inconceivable, but this was perfectly normal. Ji Hao was merely in one tributary of the Soul River, yet even that tributary covered an area no