Hearing the Words, His Resolve Settled; a Clear Breeze and Bright Moon Shone in His Heart

"Find a Heart Moon?"

At those words, a strange thought stirred in Chen Cuo's mind.

Instinctively, he focused inward, fixing his attention on the bright moon deep in his heart.

After so many changes, the moon in his heart had dimmed slightly, yet it had grown ever more closely fused with the Mind Daoist, as though the two had always been one.

Daoyinzi glanced at him.

Chen Cuo's heart skipped a beat. Seizing the chance, he asked, "This last-resort Legalism doesn't seem so different from the best approach Master described. Why is it considered the last resort?"

"The best approach requires another's help, and we have no grounds to ask anyone to spare no effort for us. The last resort requires us to gamble thousands of years of our sect's legacy. You must understand: the Dao Sun and Heart Moon may look alike, but they are utterly different, their meanings worlds apart. To condense a Dao Sun is to open the earth, cough, cough..." Daoyinzi broke into another coughing fit.

"Let me explain." Yan Yin Zi took over. "Forming a Dao Sun marks the Sixth Step. Manifesting a Heart Moon goes a level higher—it marks the Seventh Step!"

He pointed to the two silent crimson suns outside.

"A Dao Sun means a cultivator's understanding of the path of cultivation has grown bright enough to illuminate others. It holds Legalism within it, the order and path followed by all beings in a Secret Realm. Legend says a Dao Sun can even serve as a treasure! The clearest examples are the gods of Primordial Antiquity. Born as gods, many possessed Dao Suns from birth as part of their Divine Bodies, much like hands, feet, ears, or eyes..."

The more Chen Cuo listened, the stranger he felt. He could not help thinking of