Why did the chaos beyond the heavens draw Foundation Establishment Celestials into ascension?
Xiao Yuanjun had given the answer to this question in her book.
It was because a Celestial Person's cultivated body, soul and Primordial Spirit, and Divine Ability imagery were almost equivalent to an embryonic world. With an existential rank already equal to that of heaven and earth, returning to chaos was only natural. To avoid that return, they needed to forge a Dao Domain and thereby anchor themselves.
Put this way, it was rather obscure, but Zhang Yuan had his own understanding of it.
Suppose the final step in attaining Celestial Personhood was to raise one's existential rank into an entirely new territory. Forging a Dao Domain was roughly equivalent to building oneself a house in that new territory.
Some of the details might be off, but that was more or less the idea.
With this in mind, Zhang Yuan stilled his divine sense and gently closed his eyes. A moment later, his figure suddenly vanished from the eastern room of Brightheart Residence.
When Zhang Yuan opened his eyes again.
He had arrived in a murky, chaotic place with no distinction between up and down, left and right. It closely resembled the chaos beyond the heavens, yet was not that chaos.
Cultivators of the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm call this region the Chaos Void. It lies between the layers of the realm's heaven and earth, a blind corner left over from the world's first opening, where yin and yang and the five elements never arose to form heaven and earth.
*At the same time, because it is not a true world, it has no concept of space or time. Thus, although there is only one void, it exists separately for every cultivator who reaches it, as