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Chapter 691 - 67 Designing the World (1/3)

Chapter 691: Chapter 67 Designing the World (1/3)

"Heavenly Dao is a Formation... The Formation Path is the world?!"

Although An Jing had some difficulty accepting this way of "brainwashing" Enlightenment, the moment he truly understood what the previous scene represented, he immediately rejuvenated his spirit, concentrating fully to comprehend the Dao Formation Patterns, which he currently had no capacity to understand.

What else could describe those Formation Patterns, which have been inscribed upon the heaven and earth, carved into the universe, and made all phenomena more susceptible to change?

Only the Great Dao.

It is not about description or depiction, nor is it close imitation or tracing, it is...

The Great Dao itself.

The Immortal Venerable continued to wield. Han Yue Immortal Venerable, the disciple of the Supreme Grand View Huai Xu Immortal Venerable who founded the Tianyuan Realm, now appeared like a painter engrossed in enthusiastic creation, portraying with ease and joy the world he wished to create within the Void of the Celestial Domain.

He formed a Dao, established Yin Yang, divided the heaven, earth, and the murky Three Realms, wedged the four poles, four symbols, and four seasons, endowing all beings with the Five Elements and five colors... His power endowed a universe, which otherwise had no Spiritual Fiends, with Spiritual Fiends, and scripted the Paths and Realms for cultivation that rely on Spiritual Fiends in detail, transforming them into the foundations of the heaven and earth, and engraving them upon the essence of all things.

The silvery azure light that enveloped the entire universe gradually faded away, not into nothingness, but because the Great Dao is nameless, formless, and ineffable.

The Immortal Venerable ceased painting.

He looked around at heaven and earth, nodding in satisfaction.

He said: From now on, the land supports the seas, the seas uphold the heavens, the heavens connect to the earth, all phenomena are solidified, and all laws are orderly.

He said: I will teach you here in this peach garden to thrive and reproduce, to erect temples and schools, and have billions upon billions of descendants of Immortal beings to inherit the Great Dao of our Dao Courtyard.

He said: I hereby bestow the name ’Tianyuan’ upon this realm, for it is situated outside the central axis, amidst the chaos of all heavens.

He said: Descendants and mighty ones of Tianyuan in future generations, this is the Dao legacy that I leave behind. The heaven was opened, the Dao was founded, derived from the Supreme Grand View Huai Xu Immortal Venerable. Do not forget the source, do not forget the foundation.

Before An Jing’s eyes, the text on the techniques of "Sky in the Cauldron, Sun and Moon in the Pot" shattered and reformed into many more intricate Mysterious Profundities, and regardless of whether An Jing could understand, all were infused into him through the Power of Enlightenment.

— The Formation Path has always been the skill of creating worlds.

The Dao rhymes passed down by the Heavenly Dao of Tianyuan Realm seemed to be expounding this fact.

This should have been unquestionable, as An Jing had seen it with his own eyes.

But in An Jing’s heart, a hint of doubt arose.

Because he possesses Innate Wisdom, a visitor from a world without miracles, therefore, he could not fully agree with one thing.

A minor matter that all beings, enveloped by the vast Luotian, consider an absolute certainty.

"Everything in Tianyuan Realm, including the existence of Spiritual Fiends, and even the entire cultivation system, are creations of the Immortal Venerable, transformed into reality with Supreme mana."

"But what about the very beginning?"

"The very first Formation, the very first Spiritual Fiend, the very first cultivation system, where did they originate from?"

An Jing asked this question to heaven and earth.

Heaven and earth did not respond.

Yet the Immortal Venerable, who should have been just an illusion and a memory, turned his head, crossing through ancient time, and looked towards An Jing.

"Good question, only by seeking the root of the matter can one reach the pinnacle"

The apparition spoke gently, like a kind teacher instructing a diligent disciple: "The very first Formation did not exist within real time and space, but within people’s imagination and virtual data, like the concept of nation, like laws, like the rules of virtual games, the constants of a physics engine... They are not naturally occurring but are ’Created from Nothing’ by humans."

"There is nothing naturally sacred; from beginning to end, it is all about the wisdom created by humans, the skills... and the Great Dao created by humans."

"First by imitating the fish to create boats and paddles, then imitating the birds to create wings; imitating the flying squirrels to develop radar, and imitating the scales and unique structures of insects to create various Wondrous Machines capable of operating in space and foreign lands."

While the words spoken by the Immortal Venerable seamlessly paralleled the creations from An Jing’s former life, they took it for granted: "First imitation, then using this as a foundation for development, creating entirely new entities—Imitation is the simulation of the Path of all things under heaven, as well as the foundation of all laws and all Dao. The ships, submarines, Flying Wings, and flying shuttles we create are bigger, faster, and stronger than nature’s fish and birds."

"Likewise, the planets, worlds, universes, and Great Dao we create are no exception."

[First comes simulation, then improvement, and finally creating something wholly new, which did not exist before and will be real in the future... This is, of course, for ’nature’ is but a fragile and failed primal structure. Once we, the Leader of Ten Thousand Spirits, emerge, we will redefine what it means to be ’successful’.]

The phantom of the Immortal Venerable gradually disappeared.

Yet Their gaze seemed to linger on, watching over An Jing: [Billions of years later, through many epochs, We will imbue our Dao into all heavens, becoming an ’inevitability’!]

[This is the ’correctness’ that our faction has chosen.]

The silhouette of Han Yue Immortal Venerable completely vanished.

The Enlightenment also came to an end.

The power of Enlightenment, fully infused by Heavenly Origin Heavenly Dao, could only support the phantom of the Immortal Venerable to utter just a few sentences.

But that was completely sufficient.

At this moment, An Jing had fully understood everything the other party wanted to tell him.

"Not everything is as it should be..."

He murmured softly: "Transforming the cosmos, transforming heaven and earth... First, it is imagined, then it becomes reality..."

"Formation is not merely about creating worlds with a template, but about simulating the original world, then improving it, transforming it, setting a brand new heavenly principle different from the previous, designing a whole new Great Dao law..."

"The original Formation might not exist in the real world, but in the computer’s Spiritual Network, within the purely informational ’simulated universe’, until technology is capable of treating reality as a ’simulated universe’ to be modified, to be set..."

"I see, I see, the Heavenly Mandate is not to be feared, ancestors are not to be emulated, the words of others are not to be concerned over... Even the heaven and earth are the same, if it needs to be, then transformation it shall be!"

"If this is true for Great Heaven and Earth, then all the more so for the Small World!"

At this moment, the Tai Shi Taiyi Formation inside An Jing began to operate rapidly!

In fact, An Jing’s martial arts cultivation had hit a bit of a snag before.

With An Jing’s talent, after creating the strongest Tai Shi Taiyi Inner Array Realm, his cultivation progress should have been very fast, but throughout the past half year, he accumulated only basic Spiritual Fiend power, and his realm progress could only be described as standard.

This was not because An Jing encountered a bottleneck, but because he was suppressing it himself.

He felt that to lay his foundation without knowing anything would only waste several times more effort to modify later.

Yet, An Jing could not fathom what the correct Path was for a while, and he did not even know whether his own course was right or wrong.

The Tai Shi Taiyi Formation, even if left to natural derivation, would evolve into a perfect world, meaning that even without contemplation, if An Jing simply allowed his Cultivation to advance naturally, his foundation would be exceedingly perfect.

But he was unwilling to accept this.

——Is what is natural always good?

——Can that which is man-made, acquired, truly be more powerful than the Innate?

——If nature is perfection, then why do humans engage in Cultivation, create objects, use their wisdom, and exhaust their minds to achieve ’higher and stronger’ rather than conform to the Heavenly Mandate and lead a life as designed by nature?

And now, all the doubts have been unraveled.

"Learn from nature... and then surpass it."

"Simulate the heaven and earth... then redesign it."

"The Inner Array Realm of a Martial Artist is not for replicating heaven and earth, but for imitating and then transcending them!"

Lifting his head slowly, An Jing’s gaze seemed to penetrate layers of obstructions, looking towards ’heaven’, he suddenly realized: "Bestowing Martial Artists with a Fate Pattern, creating a Martial Arts that can craft an Inner Formation Path, so this is it, were these the true thoughts of Huai Xu Heavenly Dao?"

"Not just a jungle that grows quickly on a desolate wasteland, not merely a simulation of a perfect world, but to also find a better ’sample’ that can make the world flourish once more, perhaps even better than the last time!"

"This is truly... what the Heavenly Dao wants us to do!"