As Ding Yun emerged in the form of a computer resembling the Jade Disk of Creation, the innate formations of her birthplace immediately granted her full authority. Simultaneously, the laws of heaven and earth responded, emitting auspicious lights in congratulation.
However, her fundamental laws were unfamiliar to the world, and their utility was currently unclear, hence the scarce auspicious lights, comparable to those of a lower-tier innate deity or demon.
She was, in essence, overlooked.
Yet, Ding Yun did not mind. After all, the concept of a computer was indeed too alien to an eternally nascent world. Even in the early stages of technological civilization, many found the exceedingly clumsy computers of that era to be of little use, not worth researching.
The world might not value her, might not believe in her.
But she believed in herself!
After successfully emerging, Ding Yun did not immediately leave her birthplace, nor did she venture beyond the innate formations. Instead, she steadfastly continued her original plan, utilizing miniature intelligent robots to explore the world and gather information to enrich her database.
Concurrently, she leveraged the existing data.
At the core of her being, what could roughly be considered her dantian, she constructed a virtual world model. The more data collected, the more realistic the world model became. Even the previously sealed innate divine and demonic forms were integrated by Ding Yun into the world model as innate Dao patterns.
Ding Yun's goal was to perfectly replicate this world, not on a material level, but at least in terms of information and laws.
By her own estimation, even if she could only replicate seventy to eighty percent, her realm would be sufficiently high, enabling her to become a revered ancestor and spread her teachings throughout the world.
To achieve this goal, she naturally had to continue striving.
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Ding Yun had emerged with her accompanying spirit treasures. The other pioneers, who had not brought any, had naturally emerged successfully thousands of years before her.
In order to become Dao Ancestors, they had initially chosen fundamental laws with high compatibility. Laws like the Hunyuan Law or the Chaos Law, which were undoubtedly among the first innate deities and demons to be born at the world's inception, were beyond their reach. Thus, they could only choose laws like the Plane Law, the Universe Law, or the Dominion Law – laws that had not yet manifested at the world's genesis but could accommodate the three thousand laws.
Furthermore, upon their emergence, as they lacked suitable reference points, most chose to transform into human-shaped innate Dao bodies. Only a select few, due to special circumstances of their laws, could innately sense their higher-tier laws, manifesting their innate divine and demonic forms and imitating them for their Dao bodies.
In other words, the one who chose the Plane Law, his higher-tier law was the World Law. The Plane Law he chose was merely a branch of the World Law. Due to this connection, even without any innate inheritance, he could faintly sense the forms of the world's innate deities and demons, and thus, based on those forms, create a Dao body imbued with some of their essence.
However, doing so would incur a certain karma.
If the two were to confront each other.
The imitator would be easily suppressed.
Fortunately, the one who chose the Plane Law never expected to achieve anything significant before the first or second epoch and become a Dao Ancestor. In his understanding, the earliest innate deities and demons would perish as the world's laws gradually perfected. The more crucial they were to the world, the faster they would die, as they were essentially tools for the world's self-perfection and the perfection of its laws. They were born from the world's law origins, and without their demise, how could the world reclaim its law origins and achieve perfection?
Once the innate deities and demons of the future perished, he, as a plane's innate deity and demon, would naturally face fewer constraints.
His understanding was not entirely wrong. At the world's inception, due to incomplete laws, the world gave rise to a group of innate deities and demons using law origins, leveraging these beings to derive and perfect the laws. Therefore, the most crucial cultivation at the world's genesis was comprehending the perfected laws.
Utilizing the wisdom of these gods and demons.
To mend the originally flawed and incomplete laws.
During this period, Dao Ancestors were not needed and could not emerge. The laws were incomplete, and most innate deities and demons of different laws were incompatible, unable to comprehend the laws of other innate deities and demons. Where could a method of transcendence be found?
Without a method of transcendence, who would be worthy of being called a Dao Ancestor?
Thus, it would have to wait until the first batch of innate deities and demons had mostly perished, the world's laws were largely perfected, and the Heavenly Dao was about to emerge, that the best opportunity for the birth of a Dao Ancestor would arise.
It was simply too early. The four seasons had not yet appeared, yin and yang were not settled, the five elements were not formed, and time was difficult to measure. Although the world was not entirely indistinct, it lacked any rules or order.
Therefore, the pioneers who chose fundamental laws that had higher-tier laws above them were not worried about the higher-tier innate deities and demons above them dying. Most of those who could sense the forms of the opposing deities chose to simulate their forms for their emergence. Only those pioneers without higher-tier laws chose to transform into human forms.
Ding Yun was an anomaly among them.
Following their successful emergence, most pioneers did not remain idle at home like Ding Yun. Some traveled to slay fierce beasts, regulate earth veins, and gain merit. Others followed their senses to seek out their higher-tier laws, intending to pledge allegiance and serve as subordinates. Still others sought opportunities and spirit treasures.
Each of them had goals and actions.
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After tens of thousands of years of peaceful development, Ding Yun discovered that her region was merely a small island. It had taken her hundreds of thousands of years to explore her current island. The lightning-element innate deity or demon she had encountered by chance had likely stumbled upon this island while pursuing a fierce beast.
After killing the beast, it had left.
At present, the entire island, aside from a few fierce beasts, and her own innate formation, had a total of three innate formations. Excluding herself, one of the other two innate formations nurtured a White Jade Bamboo, a low-grade innate spiritual root. However, the bamboo had only just sprouted, far from being fully formed, let alone possessing sentience.
The other innate formation nurtured an innate life embryo, not reaching the level of a deity or demon, but rather an ordinary innate life. What it was specifically, Ding Yun did not know as it had not yet emerged. She could only sense that it contained water and earth laws, and its gestation was extremely slow. It was currently no bigger than a bean.
It was estimated that it would take tens of millions of years to emerge.
Just as Ding Yun was contemplating whether to explore the ocean first, bypass the ocean, or try to find other islands or landmasses to explore, a rumbling sound suddenly reached her ears, accompanied by a tone of pleasant surprise.
"There is an innate spirit treasure here that has successfully gestured!"