"Dong!"
Beneath the Ten Thousand Daos Tree, rumbling rang out without pause, accompanied by an unending chorus of scripture. Rules had become a vast ocean, enveloping the place in dazzling brilliance.
Lin Fan's primordial spirit shone, resonating with them. At that moment, each and every factor composing the rules seemed to become clear, laid bare before his eyes.
Then he arranged and combined them. The golden particles turned accordingly, swirling like a river of stars to form a galaxy.
For a time, Lin Fan's body trembled involuntarily.
"Boom!"
In a haze, he felt certain "gates" appear within his body, resonating with those golden particles.
Lin Fan was surprised and delighted, as though he had glimpsed success. He began reorganizing them again and again, constructing rules.
And so he became engrossed. The sensation was marvelous, and from the most fundamental elements to the most intricate laws, he came to understand a great deal.
"Bang!"
Suddenly, it was as though a great hammer had fallen out of thin air and smashed into Lin Fan. He coughed up great mouthfuls of blood on the spot, nearly having his body shattered and bones crushed.
He snapped awake. What had happened? Had Heaven and Earth begun to punish him?
"No, this was formed from rules, a manifestation of the Great Dao. Its overarching force struck my body," Lin Fan mused.
He had become too engrossed in dismantling the Order Divine Chains and studying the golden particles, neglecting the supreme truths of the Great Dao and the laws governing its operation.
Thus, he had confined himself to a single corner and overlooked the whole world. That vast Dao was the foundation, and sometimes it required no specific means.
For beneath that overarching force, everything would be crushed.
Simply put, the Dao was inherently formless, with no