"All power returns to the flesh.
Your path to enlightenment leaves you no room for retreat; even your Innate Indestructible True Spirit has merged with your physical body. Doesn't that mean that if this path fails, there's no turning back?
You can only persistently adhere to the path of physical enlightenment..."
"No wonder I sensed that you are out of sync with the world, yet terrifyingly powerful. You possess a chaotic aura of both destruction and creation. It seems you've been refining your body with chaotic energy long ago.
Chaos, unwelcome by the world, can nurture it gently or destroy and assimilate it violently. Thus, your path of physical enlightenment is essentially a path of transcending the world.
You will eventually need to leave the Eternal World to survive. If successful, it seems quite promising."
"Can you show us the results?"
Upon hearing Pan Piao's words, the gods, demons, and Daoists immediately understood the pros and cons of this enlightenment path. They also knew that it was a path with no return, regardless of success or failure. Compared to the enlightenment of laws or the enlightenment of worlds, this path was undeniably gentler and safer.
However, it was still a direction for enlightenment.
Therefore, some interested parties soon inquired if he could demonstrate the efficacy of his physical enlightenment method.
Daoist Pan Piao was direct and immediately agreed. He waved his hand, breaking through the world's barrier and directly entering the chaos. Simultaneously, other Daoists and Innate Gods and Demons followed suit. However, unlike Pan Piao, they did not dare to plunge directly into the chaos with their physical bodies. They either set up barriers with the power of laws or used innate spiritual treasures to resist the chaotic energy.
Those with insufficient strength and low-level innate spiritual treasures could only join forces, some in groups of a few, or even dozens, to ensure their safety in the chaos.
Of course, the weaker ones didn't dare to go at all.
They could only wait for the results at the Sacred Land of Creation.
The scene shifted to the inner chaos on the edge of the Eternal World. Pan Piao first opened his mouth wide, drawing in all the chaotic energy within a radius of tens of millions of light-years into his body to accumulate power, and incidentally reducing the amount of chaos in the vicinity.
Then, he manifested the divine form of the God of Strength.
And directly commenced the creation of heaven and earth:
"My cultivation foundation lies in nurturing my physical body with the three thousand laws of the world. This can also be called the Law of Strength, which I have personally created. My physical body *is* the Law of Strength, and then my physical body, through the Law of Strength, commands the three thousand laws.
The world itself evolved from chaos. Theoretically, chaos itself contains the three thousand laws.
At least, it contains the rudiments of the three thousand laws.
Furthermore, having just heard the Spirit Lord's discourse on the methods of cave-heavens and blessed lands, and the concept of forcibly creating heaven and earth, I've had an inspiration. Perhaps I can directly manifest my enlightenment method through the creation of heaven and earth. Please observe, esteemed ones."
As he spoke, Daoist Pan Piao took out his only supreme treasure, the Chaotic Divine Axe. Imbued with his vast physical power, he forcefully cleaved the chaos.
Immediately, the surrounding Innate Gods, Demons, and Daoists could perceive a pure and boundless force tearing through the infinite chaos. The region of tens of millions of light-years, having been depleted once by Pan Piao's absorption, was now thin, though replenished by surrounding chaotic energy. This thin chaotic energy was instantly shattered, giving rise to Yin and Yang.
Space was born within Yin and Yang, and also outside of it, forming a vast Yin-Yang space, also known as the space of pure and turbid energies. Simultaneously, the pure and turbid energies within constantly converged, seeking to evolve back into chaos. The external chaotic energy continuously eroded, aiming to destroy the nascent Yin-Yang space and revert it to its chaotic state.
In short, facing internal and external pressures, the formation of a world was extremely difficult.
Subsequently, Daoist Pan Piao continued to hack at the surrounding chaos with his divine axe, simultaneously expanding the spatial range and stabilizing it. After thirty-six such strikes, Pan Piao felt his stamina severely depleted and his vital energy weakened. He wisely ceased his efforts to expand the world's territory.
Instead, he used his physical strength to forcibly draw out fragments of the three thousand laws from the shattered chaos. Based on his understanding of the Eternal World, he regulated the balance of the three thousand laws to evolve the world. Only when the three thousand laws were meticulously arranged and stabilized did the new world achieve a state of equilibrium.
The Gods, Demons, and Daoists who had been observing from the side immediately moved forward to examine it closely.
"Although the three thousand laws within the world are incomplete, the quantity is generally sufficient. The overall scale of the world has already reached the perfection of a Middle Thousand World. However, why does it feel like the world is constantly being eroded by chaotic energy? Most of the energy from the world barrier converting chaotic energy is used to reinforce the barrier and resist the erosion of chaotic energy.
According to this, if there's any minor disturbance within the world, or if the world barrier is damaged for an extended period, the world's origin could be damaged, or it could even downgrade!"
"Wait, didn't the Eternal World experience a similar situation in ancient times? Although the overall situation was much better than this Middle Thousand World. Later, as the world gradually reached perfection, the Eternal World's barrier became increasingly sturdy and less susceptible to chaotic energy erosion.
Only then was there enough energy to expand its territory!"
"That makes some sense..."
"The physical enlightenment method is indeed powerful. While the Law of Space that I control can also forcefully open up a space, I lack sufficient involvement with other laws. The Law of Space also lacks the ability to command other laws. To create a similar world is currently beyond me."
"It seems that truly creating heaven and earth, and bringing forth a world, is far beyond opening up the Nine Heavens or the Underworld. I recall that when the Nine Heavens Gods and Demons created the Nine Heavens, it was remarkably easy. After the heavens appeared, there was no internal risk of collapse, nor the risk of external chaotic erosion. Without these two risks, Pan Piao could have at least expanded the current world's total area by more than ten thousand times, making it a definite Great Thousand World.
Perhaps with some preparations beforehand, Pan Piao, you could truly create a Great Thousand World, and incidentally verify the feasibility of the world enlightenment method. Or perhaps you could pursue dual enlightenment, which might be even more formidable."
"Pan Piao, how do you feel now?
After creating this Middle Thousand World, have you experienced any improvement or other sensations?"
"Some innate origin energy within the world seems to be gestating innate life. Good heavens, this is just like the Innate Gods and Demons of ancient times.
However, due to the lower level of the world.
The origin of these gods and demons is relatively inferior.
They are basically at the level of ordinary innate beings."
"There doesn't seem to be much conflict between world enlightenment, physical enlightenment, and law enlightenment. Isn't physical enlightenment actually a blend of laws, creating a new law that one controls exclusively?"