The Legend of Min Hong

There was also the new Dao Branch that was now growing on his Primus Dao Tree…

"Find Me!"

Just as Min Hong could finally catch his breath, he heard that beckoning whisper once again and Min Hong nearly puked his heart out…

"Fuck!" He yelled in anger...

The whisper couldn't have come at a scarier moment than when Min Hong had just escaped what was previously a certain death by the skin of his teeth…

"Guys keep watch for me, I will be right back…"

Min Hong muttered as he calmed his nerves and wrapped himself with three Daos; Space to seclude him from the effects of the void, Chaos for first line of protection and finally, Oblivion to prevent mask his presence…

"What happened to you?"

"At one point you were within the range of my Karmic Dao and in the next moment, I couldn't even sense your karmic threads again..."

"I wanted to call out to you, but Old Man Li decided against it, saying you might be distracted at a critical point…" Little Wu spoke the moment Min Hong's consciousness arrived…

"I'm sorry, but I am currently in a pinch and slight trouble…

Where is my Old Man?"

"He is out back tending to his flowers…" Little Wu gestured to the field of flowers Min Hong saw on his first day here...

Little Wu replied as he tagged along with Min Hong not willing to delay him any longer due to the sense of urgency within his tone…

"Hmm… That sounds a bit sketchy and unnatural…"

Old Man Li who had listened to Min Hong narrate his entire experience within the void responded as he sipped something out of his tea cup, and it was something Min Hong was quite familiar with, something that almost killed him…

"Do you know what it is?" Min Hong asked

"It is not something you need to bother yourself with for now, rather, we need to help you find your way back, and though that is pretty much easy, it is the materials required that might pose a little challenge…"

Old Man Li responded as he slurped another sip…

"I don't understand." Min Hong conceded…

"What I am about to tell you know is one of the biggest secrets in the world out there…"

Old Man Li placed his cup on the table and released a deep breath, and went silent for a few seconds…

After arranging and simplifying all the information he was about to dish out, he began;

"There are three realms to comprehending the Dao, do you know what they are?"

"The Concept realm for cultivators up to the Dan Formation stage, the Intent Realm up to the Saint stage and the Law Realm for the rest of the cultivation stages…"

Min Hong replied diligently and also got a nod from Little Wu…

"What is the simplest word you can use to replace the word 'Dao'?"

"Path, I guess…" He replied once again...

"Correct! What does that tell you?"

"That the Dao is the Path to divinity?" Min Hong answered a little unsurely...

"That is one crude way of putting it…"

"When one manipulates flames, you can say that person has comprehended the Flame Dao right?"

"Certainly…" Min Hong answered as a matter of factly.

"But the thing is, comprehending an elemental Dao simply means you have found the path that leads to that element and not the element itself…"

"Let us take a Spirit Stone mine as an example; if you stand about 1000 miles from it, you will notice there is a very high concentration of natural energy in the atmosphere…" 

"If you then move further to about a 500 mile mark, you will notice the thickness of the natural energy within the air, in fact, it would be somehow tangible to the touch…"

"Go further to the 100 mile mark and you will notice the natural energy has become so tangible that it liquefies, right?"

Min Hong bubbled his head up and down like an obedient student…

"If you stand at ten meters from that mine, you would surely see it has formed a stream of potent and pure Qi…"

"This analogy is the same for all these universal elements…"

"The True Flame which births the Flame Dao we are controlling is simply within a separate realm where no one, at least within the seven planes can get to…"

"It is a living entity just like every other Daos in existence…"

"Reaching the concept level of a Flame Dao is like standing at a 5000 mile mark from the Flame itself, whilst the Intent Level is like standing 3000 miles away from it…"

"Law level is standing at 1000 miles away from it… with all these I have said, do you think the three realms of the universal elements are; simply Concept, Intent and Law?" Old Man Li questioned…

"That can't be… I have always thought reaching the ninth plane of the Law level was the peak of it all…" Min Hong responded…

"From what I can sense from your soul, you should be at least within the Fourth Plane of the Law level, am I right?" Min Hong shook his head in confirmation…

"So, are you insinuating that you are only five planes away from reaching the Peak of all existence when it comes to manipulating the elements of the universe?"

Min Hong was speechless at this point, even he, himself, would not dare accept such claims even if it was just a compliment…

"I thought so too…" Old Man Li gave a light and gentle smile as he continued;

"It is called comprehending for a reason, and though, there are those who call it manipulating, but they are all just frogs not in a well, but in the deepest abyss…"

Min Hong and Little Wu looked at each other's faces and they both saw raw shock and curiosity burning within each other's eyes… 

"Please tell us more…" Little Wu blurted.

Though, he was an ancient expert with one of the most ancient bloodlines, he had never been privy to such an information before, not from his elders, teachers, or even the most sacred texts within their ancestral library…

"I can only brief you till we have found a way to get him out of trouble…" Old Man Li continued…

"The three realms to truly manipulating any universal elements are the; Dao Realm, Essence Realm and the Origin Realm, or in some cases the call it the Source Realm, but Origin sounds much befitting…" Old Man Li revealed…

"Wait, what!?" Little Fei who was supposed to be keeping watch for Min Hong blurted in shock…

"Come on! You call that being in the deepest abyss?  I call that not even knowing we are frogs in the first place!"

Daniel also lamented, after all, they were all connected to the same body and soul… Thus, the moment Min Hong got the information, they simultaneously did too…

"I don't understand…" Little Wu spoke with eyes that reflected him digging through every single reserve of knowledge he had on his person…

"I also had the same expression when the 'great creator' told me about this huge secret also, and as a matter of fact, the 'great creator' himself, is still searching for the Origin of these universal elements so he can ascend into the Origin Realm…"

Old Man Li smiled as he revealed another stunner, and this time, they couldn't even give any reaction and were all lost as they tried to reorganize their debunked knowledge and views about all creations altogether…

It took three whole hours before Little Wu recovered, and Min Hong, even double that time…

He was not even in the mood to think about his physical body that was presently within the void, his mood was really sour at this point and he was currently very disappointed with himself for being so stupid and naïve all these while…