"Ah, judging by that look in your eyes, you think you've stumbled upon some great fortuitous encounter, don't you? Don't get your hopes up. Back then, many Dao Lineages had an idea called 'Spreading Across the World.' They wanted to spread the Dao throughout the land, so everyone could hear the Dao and walk its path." Seeing Li Qi's expression, Shen Shuibi seemed to have seen it many times before and immediately added this.
"Everyone being able to hear and practice the Dao, to study whichever path they wished and put their own path into practice—this was the shared desire of the great powers of countless Dao Lineages. Once they reached an agreement, they began this plan," Shen Shuibi explained.
"And so~." She raised one finger, a proud expression appearing on her face. "Now, everywhere and everyone bears traces of cultivation methods. Everyone can learn cultivation methods. Everyone has cultivation methods to strengthen their bodies, improve their health, and grant all kinds of strange abilities. Those are all the results of that plan."
But after saying this, she grew dejected again and fed Li Qi another spoonful. "Still, the plan ultimately failed. It became too easy for all living beings to hear the Dao. Even common folk and plain peasants could listen to sages expounding the Dao. Thus, during the first hundred years, the Dao spread across heaven and earth, and all living beings rejoiced. But over the following thousand years, it gradually became a world where no one revered the Dao. Some even altered Dao Lineages at will to establish themselves, and chaos soon engulfed the world."
"After that came the Great Chaos of Ten Thousand Paths. Old Dao Lineages, new Dao Lineages, and Dao Lineages that did not even count as Dao Lineages became a catastrophe that swept