This peculiar insight gave Xu Changxing a glimmer of understanding.
He sat cross-legged on a flat stretch of grass and quietly began to contemplate.
Without his noticing, time flew by.
When Xu Changxing opened his eyes again, towering ancient trees had grown all around him.
He paid no attention to the changes around him, still savoring his earlier epiphany.
Before this, although he had always known that new life and destruction formed a cycle, he had never experienced it for himself.
Xu Changxing had merely drawn on his understanding of the two Great Daos of life and destruction to fuse them into the Way of Life and Death.
Yet this world had displayed that cycle before him in all its reality.
Some of its finer details had even made Xu Changxing feel as though the tangled undergrowth blocking his mind had suddenly been swept away.
This epiphany had brought him another great step forward in the Life and Death Great Dao.
At this moment, he finally reached the bottleneck of Prove the Dao and becoming a Daluo.
He even vaguely felt that, had he been in a world suited to a breakthrough, he might already have been able to Prove the Dao and become a Daluo.
But this Grotto-Heaven was, after all, artificially created and was not suited to him forcing a breakthrough.
He could only suppress the urge to Prove the Dao for now and continue refining his own Great Dao.
Only after another hundred years of secluded cultivation here did Xu Changxing rise, bow slightly toward the azure sky above, and say:
"I do not know which senior left this world behind, but this junior has benefited greatly here.
"If you have any instructions, Senior, please give them directly.
"So long as it is within my power, I