As thoughts surged through Chu Mo's mind, a question suddenly occurred to him: had symbols come first, or Heavenly Venerables?
In other words, had symbols already existed throughout the myriad worlds, with Heavenly Venerables attaining them? Or had the myriad worlds originally lacked those symbols, only gaining them after Heavenly Venerables attained the Dao?
Chu Mo vaguely leaned toward the latter.
Take Heaven's Will, for example. Before the Patriarch of Heaven's Will attained the Dao, the so-called Heavenly Dao and heaven's will had merely been abstract notions. There had been no Heavenly Dao in any true sense.
Only after the patriarch attained the Dao had the Heavenly Dao become something that truly existed. The same was true of symbols such as karma, universe and space, and order. They had all come into being because of Heavenly Venerables.
Of course, that did not mean these concepts would not exist without Heavenly Venerables. It was simply that they had originally been universally present abstractions, rather than concrete existences.
"The myriad worlds and heavens need Heavenly Venerables..." Chu Mo gradually caught hold of that flash of insight. "They need Heavenly Venerables to establish symbols, so the corresponding concepts can exist forever."
But why was that so?
A thought vaguely surfaced in Chu Mo's mind, and he murmured inwardly, Could the Void Sea be a newborn land, with everything still waiting to flourish?
In the myths of his previous life, immortals routinely lived through countless kalpas, experiencing ages beyond reckoning. Yet the seventh-realm cultivators of this life, despite possessing boundless power and being capable of destroying millions of cosmoses with one hand, had certainly not existed for so long.
Fuli, for instance, could be considered one of the earliest worlds in the Void Sea, and the Dragon Ancestor had been the first Heavenly Venerable.