"These... these are Law Shackles?"
Guye Bai and Xue Shaohua froze briefly at the sight, then stared intently at the chains in disbelief.
Neither had ever seen such things before. They had only learned from ancient texts and dust-covered secret records that all things in Heaven and Earth possessed spirits, including the unseen grotto-heaven worlds and even the Great Dao itself.
The grotto-heaven worlds inhabited by ordinary living beings could be classified as lesser thousandfold worlds or greater thousandfold worlds according to their size and the completeness of their laws, bearing the respective names of "grotto-heaven blessed lands" and "worlds."
All this was the origin of the term "grotto-heaven worlds," and these worlds were also constituent parts of the myriad worlds.
Within them, the various laws and origin powers that operated throughout the grotto-heaven worlds, including the starry sky of the Outer Domains, were natural principles spread densely across the heavenly realms, utterly rigorous and omnipresent.
From the workings of the cosmos and the birth and death of celestial bodies to the withering and flourishing of plants and the rise and fall of tides, nothing could escape their influence.
The mighty experts among ancient immortals and cultivators had long recognized their existence. They collectively named the sum of all these powers of law and natural principles a single entity-the so-called "Heavenly Dao"!
Each world had its own heavenly dao. Small worlds had lesser heavenly daos, and great worlds had greater heavenly daos. Although these were all obscure, uncomprehending existences, lacking the emotions and intelligence of sentient beings, they truly possessed instincts and wills unique to themselves.
The sum of all these heavenly daos, encompassing the entire cosmos and infinite space-time, in turn formed the legendary "Great Dao" that governed the myriad worlds!
The ultimate mysteries pursued by the immortals of