The firmament hung heavy as an iron curtain. Amid interwoven daylight and cloud shadows, an enormous wheel began turning slowly like a stone mill, and a weighty, solid presence suffused heaven and earth.
The entire Six Paths Heavenly Wheel resembled the spindle of a spinning wheel, drawing on densely packed threads, all of them powers of law connected to the origin of reincarnation.
They intertwined and wound around one another, weaving a netlike shape in the void.
Then, drawn by some mysterious force, they surged into the spacetime of this universe, connecting with countless living beings.
Unseen, these powers began producing their respective effects.
At that moment, Li Ling was still cultivating in seclusion on the Floating Cloud Platform.
Once again, he sensed a tremor in the origin, then saw countless threads seep out of the void like tentacles.
The Dharma Body Realm allowed him to resist the power of other laws. In an instant, his body became like the void, letting those threads pass straight through him.
He was like a sage impervious to all arts, exempt from the influence of these powers.
Even so, he could not avoid being disturbed. Puzzled, he looked at the threads manifested from the powers of law.
What exactly happened? Has the Heavenly Court tampered with another origin Dao Fruit?
Doing this again and again was getting rather excessive.
But Li Ling soon noticed something amiss.
This doesn't seem to be the Heavenly Court's doing. This has never been how they operate!
As an order-abiding power that governed a region, the Heavenly Court emphasized Dao-Heaven-Earth-Human and an orderly hierarchy. Even if it controlled origin Dao Fruits to manage the operation of laws and establish new heavenly decrees, it would never act so crudely and directly.
This manner of doing things looked more like