This person divided the stages of a mage into three levels.
Technique, law, Dao.
Technique referred solely to spells. When one's understanding of a particular technique surpassed all who came before and all who would come after, and one had a bit of fortune to slay one's other self, one could enter the Extreme Realm and become an Extreme Realm Master.
Law referred to laws and principles. This part was merely this person's fantasy.
He believed that if someone completely comprehended a certain law, they could become a heavenly being.
But in truth, laws were both important and unimportant to heavenly beings.
Laws could not affect heavenly beings, which made them unimportant.
What mattered were suitable and more correct laws. Such laws could help heavenly beings grow stronger.
But precisely because he had not become a heavenly being, he proposed a new perspective on the path that lay ahead for mages.
Origin was the sum of Dao and reason.
When Chen Yi first read through it, he had also classified Dao under origin.
Because origin was a person's unique interpretation of a path.
The materials recorded a story describing the author's understanding of Dao.
A little fish living in the ocean searched everywhere for the sea, until it once again encountered an older, larger fish.
The big fish told him, "Child, the place where you live is the sea. This is the sea."
The little fish was unconvinced. "How is this the sea? It's clearly just water!"
It was a very simple little story.
One cannot see the true face of Mount Lu, only because one is within the mountain itself.
The ocean was used as a metaphor for Dao.
Yet the story's ending did not state who was right.
But after Chen Yi finished reading all the materials and