When heaven and earth first opened, the principles were manifest, holding no profound mysteries. To gaze upon them was like looking at the lines on one's palm.
Lu Xuan closed his eyes, listening to the calls of the barbaric creatures of the great wilderness, listening to the rhythm of every minute and every second between heaven and earth. He had achieved a great enlightenment.
"What is the Dao?"
He asked himself, then answered:
"From Jade Capital outward, within a radius of ninety million li, I shall be the Dao."
"I am the Dao."
A smile appeared on the young man's face. When he opened his eyes again, in the span of a single birth and death, it was as if he had experienced endless years and personally witnessed the seas turn to mulberry fields.
In the flick of a finger, sixty instants passed;
In one instant, nine hundred cycles of birth and death.
