Heaven and Earth held their mysteries, and within their myriad manifestations dwelled spiritual essence.
I shall take my body as the root, model it on the wonders of Heaven and Earth, and learn from the mysteries of the Primordial Wilderness. With the Great Heaven-and-Earth Cosmos, I shall remake my own Lesser Cosmos, seize the mysteries of creation, and forge a true body that ten thousand Tribulations cannot destroy. Thus, this path may be called Creation!
As Chen Cuo read the many records of the Creation Dao, his astonishment grew.
According to them, the Creation Dao had also originated in Primordial Antiquity. During the Three Dynasties, it had been a prominent school throughout All Under Heaven and, alongside the Primordial Beginning Way, an orthodoxy of its age.
That description is practically spelling it out. Add the Merit Way I read about earlier, and Merit, Primordial Beginning, and Creation are clearly the lineages of the Three Pure Ones. So the origins of this world's ancient past seem rather similar to that whole Primordial Wilderness Seal-Gods framework. But there don't seem to be detailed records of the investiture. These bamboo slips on the Creation Dao only mention the Battle of Muye, when Zhou replaced Shang.
After the war between Shang and Zhou, the Creation Dao suffered grievous losses and fell into decline.
Now they even call it the Demonic Dao...
Chen Cuo shook his head. He was beginning to suspect that many prevailing views owed something to how public opinion had been shaped.
*The Creation Dao's account of its origins is a grand and open path, lofty in its aims. Its founder must have been extraordinary. But struggles between lineages are fought to the death. Once this path lost, being smeared and reduced to the Demonic Dao was only natural, just as Jie