The Foremost Scripture of All Time, the Three-Life Primordial Spirit, and the Third Rank of the Immortal Dao
Great Wei's Capital.
The Pacification Prince's Residence.
Xu Qingxiao had entered a meditative trance.
Nothing in the outside world could affect him.
The seventh rank of the Immortal Dao was Scripture Inscription. The process was exceedingly dangerous and naturally could not tolerate outside interference.
A Spirit Stele appeared within his mind.
Xu Qingxiao used spiritual energy as his brush, intending to inscribe a scripture.
Naturally, the scripture was the Dao De Jing.
But the fundamental reason Xu Qingxiao had deliberated for so long was that he needed to comprehend the Dao De Jing.
Surely he could not simply take up his brush and write without comprehending anything?
That was clearly impossible.
Before the Spirit Stele.
Xu Qingxiao quietly sought enlightenment.
The Dao De Jing was the guiding canon of all Daoist scriptures, containing inexhaustible principles. It was a teaching of the "inner sage and outer king," profound in meaning and vast in scope-the king of all scriptures.
It embodied Laozi's understanding of the Dao of the universe, as well as his understanding of heaven and earth.
The beginning of heaven and earth was the Dao. Thus, the Dao gave birth to one, one to two, two to three, and three to all things, in an endless cycle of creation.
To comprehend and understand the Dao De Jing.
The Dao could not be named or described.
Mortal eyes could not see it.
Yet it was the foundation of all things, the origin of everything in the world.
Everything followed the Dao of nature, the Dao of heaven and earth.
The entire Dao De Jing surfaced in Xu Qingxiao's mind. At that moment, every word transformed into a True Dragon, leaping out of his thoughts.
At that moment, a universe of stars took shape within Xu Qingxiao's mental world.
The universe was