There were no concepts of anything in the nothing.

But once a powerful existence appeared within it and was defined as “something”, then the nothing was affected by the “something” and generated the concepts of up, down, the four cardinal directions, and time.

In other words, direction and space came to be when there was a frame of reference to refer to. At the same time, this reference object needed to be strong enough so that its “something” wasn’t assimilated by the nothing.

That reference object could be a Supreme Immortal of Original Order of the new immortal dao, for example.

Lu Yun had exceeded that level and reached the higher immortal emperor realm. His external circulation of heaven...