"What is this...?"
Unlike what Yu Xi had seen, Di Yi had been studying the Heaven Mending Technique, hoping to see what mysteries of origin lay within this Precious Technique that purportedly could mend the heavens.
He had not expected that, after learning it and extrapolating it, gradually pushing it to heights beyond its original scope, some inexplicable substance would wash down.
Rumble...
It was as though something had been activated, sending a tremendous sound through his heart and mind.
Immediately afterward, his Sea of Potential changed as well. Above the deathly still mountains and rivers, where there had originally been nothing but profound darkness, ripples arose after that inexplicable substance appeared.
"It's useful to me... There are actually things in this Newborn World that can affect me?" Di Yi was astonished.
But he did not dwell on it. The next moment, he unfolded his Ten Cave Heavens, using them as an intermediary to establish a connection and a passage between himself and that inexplicable substance.
At first, the inexplicable substance resembled dust, like drifting ash and soil, or particles floating in the air.
But very soon, it changed, becoming magnificent in an instant, looking just like exceedingly tiny celestial bodies.
"Cosmic Dust... Is this a substance of creation?" Di Yi's "common knowledge" was inexplicably stirred. In an instant, he learned a great deal, and many terms surfaced.
All-Things Soil, for example, Three-Life Soil, Five-Element Soil... There were too many such things to enumerate.
Cosmic Dust was the primordial form of all those innumerable soils, a substance that had existed before heaven and earth were opened, the foundation of matter and substance throughout all worlds.
Viewed through this Newborn World's understanding, Cosmic Dust was the "one" in "the Dao gives birth to one," representing infinite possibilities.
In a haze, Di