Meng Qi "looked" at the Primordial Beginning Daoist before him, neither surprised nor worried.
Had he been unprepared and unaware of the circumstances, the sight would certainly have sent a chill down his spine.
He had encountered a Primordial Beginning Daoist within his own innate nature.
Had he escaped the Demon Buddha's grasp only to fall into the palm of the Primordial Heavenly Venerable?
But Meng Qi was calm.
During Self-Proven Legend, clearly seeing oneself and glimpsing the forms of famous great figures within one's innate nature is actually quite common.
Many ancient texts recorded similar experiences. Meng Qi was far from the only one.
Take the Lingbao Heavenly Venerable, for instance. He symbolized "being": from being to nonbeing, the end of Heaven and Earth. He was the source of the spiritual light of all creation, its origin and innate nature.
To sever the false self and see the true self, to return to the innate, was to pass from all things into nothing.
Thus, "seeing" this Heavenly Venerable within one's innate nature made sense.
Then there was the figure of the Virtuous Heavenly Venerable. He was the Incarnation of the Great Dao, from which the innate True Self directly arose.
The two were closely connected in a certain sense, and many people "saw" the Virtuous Heavenly Venerable as well.
Cultivators of other Dao Lineages had their own experiences. Buddhist Sect cultivators, for example, might see the Tathagata during Self-Proven Legend.
A Tathagata who looked exactly like them.
Had the Heavenly Court not fallen, its Divine Way cultivators might have seen the Heavenly Emperor.
Seeing Primordial Beginning, however, was rare—so rare that no account of it had been passed down.
A cultivator with traits of the Other Shore, even one who did not cultivate the Primordial Beginning Great Dao, had