A thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.
Ming Xin opened his eyes and began expounding the most fundamental principles of the Great Dao, profound truths that pointed directly to its very root.
The spacetime around all of Mount Sumeru seemed to enter a peculiar state of "Dao-ification."
"The Great Dao flowed everywhere, capable of going left or right. All things relied upon it for life, yet it did not refuse them; it accomplished its work, yet claimed no possession.
It clothed and nourished all things without becoming their master, and thus could be called small; all things returned to it, yet it did not become their master, and thus could be called great. Because it never made itself great, it was able to achieve greatness..."
As he spoke, the Three Thousand Great Dao Buddha Statues that had been floating behind him all along seemed to come alive!
The manifestations were no longer motionless phantoms, but began evolving the Great Dao laws corresponding to each of them!
The Killing Buddha swung his sword, and what it cleaved forth was not destruction, but life force born from breaking and rebuilding!
The Compassionate Buddha lowered his gaze, scattering not pity, but the light of wisdom that purified the soul!
The Five Elements Buddha revolved, evolving not mutual generation and restraint, but the primal cycle that formed the world!
The Fate Buddha plucked at its threads, revealing not the shackles of destiny, but limitless possibilities within the threads of cause and effect!
The Reincarnation Buddha turned the Dharma wheel, elucidating not the endless cycle of life and death, but the eternal ascension of life itself!
Three thousand manifestations, three thousand Great Daos! They evolved at once, their Dao auras intertwining and resonating, until, under Ming Xin's will—
They transformed into