The records of the Dao Sect are incredibly cryptic. Or, one might say, they say absolutely nothing at all. Talk of "the spirit merging with heaven and earth," "the mind blending with the cosmos," and "the Great Dao manifesting itself"—it is all just a fog of jargon that leaves one hopelessly confused.
In truth, Xiayu understood these concepts; he could grasp the literal meaning of the words. But for the life of him, he wanted to know how it actually worked. If they had just been clear, it would have been so much easier to comprehend. But they weren't. And as for the "how"? Not a single mention. To put it bluntly: they handed him the theory and left him to figure out the practice on his own. Because of this, Xiayu lived in his "Inner World" like a man in a dream, truly unable to make heads or tails of it.
What frustrated him most was that, apart from Xia Lei, no one else had ever successfully woven an Inner World. Xia Lei, the Emperor Shi, had been killed by Emperor Haotian not long after ascending to the Great Emperor Supreme Realm. In a previous conversation, Xiayu had tried to discuss the Inner World with him, but Xia Lei couldn't articulate anything. His most frequent response was, "Just do it like that, and it’ll be fine."
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