What Is the Dao? What Is the Dao?

- Origin: The formless and limitless source from which the universe is born, shapeless and imageless, yet giving rise to all things.

- Laws: The underlying rules of space, time, causality, and more. After glimpsing the Dao, cultivators can speak the Law and make it manifest.

- Personal Dao: The path of cultivation a cultivator chooses, such as the Sword Dao, the Alchemy Dao, or the Heartless Dao. By aligning the heart with the Dao, one becomes one with it.

- Progression through realms: From cultivating immortality, seeking magical power and eternal life, to cultivating the truth, understanding one's true nature, and finally cultivating the Dao, becoming one with it.

At the bottom of the Fallen Immortal Abyss, where spirit mist roiled, Li Meijiu clutched his chest and coughed up blood. His pale golden blood burst into a mist amid the fog, like shattered stars. He had just woken from the dizziness of transmigrating into a book. Before him floated a white jade Dao platform, its center carved with eighty-one spiraling Dao patterns. This was the foundation on which the Supreme Clarity Dao Ancestor in The Heavenly Book of Dao Evolution, the novel he'd written into a mess, had attained the Dao.

"The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao..." The fragment of a line suddenly sprang into his mind. He had casually copied it from the Dao De Jing while writing his outline. Before he could finish speaking, the platform trembled, and the eighty-one patterns turned into streaks of light, wrapping around him and the unconscious Jiang Ning'er beside him.

Jiang Ning'er was the heroine of the book. She was supposed to find the Dao Ancestor's legacy at the bottom of the abyss, but the transmigrator had disrupted causality. Her eyelashes fluttered as her jade-green eyes opened, reflecting the Dao patterns filling the sky. "Meijiu, this isn't a dungeon... This is the true Dao."