"Force..."
Gu Shaoshang's gaze was dark and unreadable.
The Dao itself had no hierarchy; people did.
The Innate Great Dao was not superior to the Postnatal Great Dao. It was merely because the Three Thousand Great Daos were the foundations beneath the Great Dao that formed the infinite Multiverse.
All Postnatal Great Daos emerged from them, which was why the differences became apparent.
That difference lay not in displayed power, nor in combat strength, but in potential.
Why could the Human Dao cover all worlds, run through the heavens, and nearly become the mainstream of worlds as countless as the grains of the Ganges?
One had to know that humans were not nobler than other living beings. It was only because, at the beginning of Taiyi, the Holy Mother Nuwa used the Human Dao to suppress all Daos and transcend beyond all worlds.
That was all.
And how many paths had the Human Dao spawned?
The Martial Dao, the Fist Dao, the Way of Warfare, the Dao of Laws and Decrees, the Way of Saintly Virtue, the Sword Dao, the Blade Dao... nearly endless!
Why was Empress Wa able to become the first Supreme Being to transcend from the infinite Multiverse?
It was because the Human Dao carried enough weight to mend the heavens!
Nuwa mending the heavens was the Human Dao mending the Heavenly Dao!
It was precisely because of this that the primordial phoenix of heaven and earth, the supremely noble ancestral phoenix, bore Nuwa upon its back and ascended to the utmost heights of the firmament.
The Human Dao was thus; yin and yang were thus; yin and yang were thus; fate was thus; force was likewise thus!
Without the Innate Great Dao, one could not seek Tai's Dao!
This was why Gu Shaoshang did not first