Demon Emperor Daochen looked at the medicinal herbs across the continent. Having already been harvested once, they were still tender shoots and had yet to fully mature.
This stretch of time was their chance to rest, leaving him with nothing to do.
The Demon Emperor began exploring how he could increase his strength and store more energy without enlarging his body.
Demon Emperor Daochen recalled Fuxi's theory.
That fellow's research into the human body had also gone beyond imagination.
In Fuxi's research, there had once been a theory of the Inner Universe and the Outer Universe.
The place they lived in was called the Outer Universe, which provided them with a place to survive.
Within their bodies, they each had an Inner Universe of their own. Every person's body contained numerous acupoints, and each acupoint corresponded to a star. Under the guidance of those countless stars, an Inner Universe took shape.
The function of the Inner Universe was to establish a self-contained internal cycle, one that could circulate endlessly and bring about a state of eternal life.
In Fuxi's view, aging was the process of losing energy and matter.
As long as an Inner Universe took shape, a state of eternal life could be achieved.
That way, they could escape the constraints of the entire world.
After all, most of the Sages who could live forever at present did so by attaching themselves to a greater world.
But if that greater world were destroyed, eternal life would be out of the question.
Fuxi had always been researching how to free everyone from the world's shackles so they could together form a land of eternal life and a people of eternal life.
His theory was sound and very enticing, but no matter how everyone tried, they could not form an Inner