Great Dao

Biodata

Nature

The Great Dao is the underlying framework of laws governing the Primordial World. Its laws are described as vast, boundless, and endlessly changing; cultivators draw upon them to give divine power the transformative might of the Dao. 13 24

A cultivator who forms a Grand Unity Dao Embryo resonates with a corresponding Great Dao. This resonance allows the cultivator to employ its laws in battle and cultivation. 13

Classification

The Primordial Water Great Dao, for example, gives rise to Acquired paths including Cloud and Mist, Ice and Snow, Rainwater, and Tide. 24

Cultivation and Authority

Dao Embryos and Dao Fruits

Advancing to Primordial Unity Golden Immortal requires the Primordial Spirit, True Spirit, Dao Seed, and Gods and Demons Path body to reach their limits and resonate. Their combined power transforms the Dao Seed into a Grand Unity Dao Embryo. 24

• A Grand Unity Dao Embryo merges with corresponding Great Dao laws and can use those laws to drive divine power. 13
• An Innate Dao Embryo may develop into a Great Luo Dao Fruit, then a Quasi-Saint Dao Fruit, and finally a Primordial Chaos Dao Fruit. 29
• Great Luo Dao Fruits embody a cultivator’s lifelong comprehension of the Dao; their holders transcend the River of Destiny and are untouched by karma. 41
• Acquired Dao Embryos were once considered unable to reach Quasi-Saint, until the Four Seasons Daoist created the Four Epochs Dao Fruit. 29 136

Dao Contention

Cultivators of the same Great Dao compete for its Authority. Greater Authority improves one’s ability to comprehend the Dao’s laws, borrow its power, and strengthen combat ability. 143

Complete control differs from merely holding Authority. A true Lord of a Dao has grasped all of its mysteries and can alter its laws according to their will; this is identified with the realm of a Primordial Chaos Saint. 143

Influence on the Primordial World

The establishment and elevation of major Great Daos can directly alter the Primordial World.

• The spread of the Four Seasons and Twenty-Four Solar Terms caused the Heavenly Dao Laws to become more complete and showed signs of birthing new laws. 27
• The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches rearranged Great Dao laws, separated Pure Qi from Turbid Qi, stabilized the environment, reduced natural disasters, and adjusted stellar trajectories. 50
• The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches Great Dao functions as a governing Dao: it coordinates Yin Yang, Reincarnation, Time and Space, Stars, and Five Elements laws to promote the Primordial World’s development. 128
• The Four Epochs Great Dao governs the rise, decline, renewal, and dormancy of all things through the Spring Birth, Great Summer, Autumn Wither, and Cold Nether Epochs. 133
• When the Four Epochs Great Dao was elevated, its laws imprinted upon the Great Dao Origin alongside Innate Great Dao laws; the Primordial World became more stable and its innate vital energy increased. 250

Great Dao Shackles

At the end of a Great Dao Torrent lie the Great Dao Shackles, a barrier preventing ordinary advancement through Dao comprehension to Primordial Chaos Saint. 171 183

Gu Xi concludes that Hongjun placed the Shackles after discovering them, while Luohu likewise attributes their creation to Hongjun. 171 183

• A Sub-Saint’s power is insufficient to break the Shackles. 183
• Primordial Violet Qi resonates with the Shackles; fusing it with one’s True Spirit permits passage and leads to becoming a Heavenly Dao Saint whose True Spirit is entrusted to the Heavenly Dao. 171
• A creator of an Acquired Great Dao is regarded as that Dao’s ancestor and highest controller, which prevents Hongjun from placing Shackles upon that newly created path. 179 216
• Gu Xi, the Four Seasons Daoist, and Luohu jointly attacked the Shackles through the Innate Reincarnation Great Dao Torrent. 254