Yun Yi’s struggle to survive in the primordial world turns into an intense tug-of-war with the Heavenly Dao, his “dear wife”: he has to rely on her power to turn danger into safety, while carefully maintaining their “marital harmony” and avoiding “domestic violence” (backlash from the Heavenly Dao). He gradually discovers that the Heavenly Dao is not all-knowing or all-powerful, and has its own “emotional blind spots.” Behind the Investiture of the Gods calamity and the Dao Ancestor’s merging with the Dao, it seems to conceal a deep terror that even the Heavenly Dao cannot put into words.
