While Grand Elder Pei was revealing the secrets of higher cultivation, a thread of radiance pierced the mysterious depths within the Que Luo Immortal Abode at the Incense Accumulation Sect's Mountain Gate. It seemed to penetrate the boundless heavens, shooting straight from the earth into the void and toward the vast, limitless universe.
Yet a closer look would reveal that this radiance did not actually exist. If one insisted on tracing its origin, it was merely someone's will extending from the earth into the heavens, then sensing infinitely distant space and time as though undertaking a Divine Journey Through the Great Void.
The source of this radiance lay at a mineral vein deep within the spiritual mountain's blessed land, in a valley roughly a hundred li across. It was the place with the richest spirit vitality and most abundant resources in the entire Immortal Abode.
Within it was a place filled with crystalline treasure ore, where spirit stones formed naturally in continuous sheets, creating a magnificent crystal cavern.
Li Ling sat cross-legged in meditation on a stone platform within, cultivating in seclusion. All signs of vitality seemed to have vanished from him as he sat there, withered and utterly silent, for a full hundred years.
Suddenly, his body seemed to tremble slightly. The radiance emanating from the crown of his head dispersed with a strange rhythm, merging into heaven, earth, and the universe.
In the flash of a spark, his mind caught hold of an elusive opportunity for advancement.
As the Dao Ancestor of a sect, he had cultivated his power of laws to the threshold of Dao Transformation. He was already thoroughly familiar with its myriad changes and had tempered it to pure perfection.
More than a hundred years had been entirely sufficient for him to organize the Dao