The light, clear Qi rose to become heaven.
The heavy, turbid Qi sank and condensed to become earth.
The enormous blade artifact cleaved down through the chaos, instantly splitting this fog-shrouded space within the boundary membrane in two!
And so, heaven and earth appeared within these Daoist Grounds.
At that instant.
Wang Ba felt his entire body shudder.
With that single slash delivered, he stared blankly at the Daoist Grounds opened out of undivided chaos.
For an instant, the sight before him seemed to overlap with the birth of a world from chaos countless millennia ago, when heaven and earth had first been sundered.
He saw Yin-Yang evolving within the chaos, saw the five elements emerge in their wake.
He saw the five elements unite, evolving once more into wind, thunder, ice, and stars...
He saw divine patterns within the chaos...
He examined them one by one, comparing each in turn.
He watched how they blended seamlessly while remaining independent.
Though the creation of these Daoist Grounds fell far short of the creation of a true world.
To Wang Ba at this moment, it was as though enlightenment had been poured straight into his crown!
To see heaven and earth was to see himself.
"So that's how it is..."
A glimmer of understanding flashed in Wang Ba's eyes.
To him, the creation of the Daoist Grounds was like a reflection and summation of himself.
Everything he had accumulated throughout his life found expression within these rapidly differentiating Daoist Grounds.
The five elements Dao opportunity, wind and thunder attributes, Yin-Yang Qi, and Star Dipper divine patterns... all had long since reached perfection, yet each had operated independently, never fully merging into one. Supported by a physical body and divine soul far beyond those of his peers, they finally seemed to find