Unwilling to give up, Jiang Fan guided another strand of light toward his own Great Dao.
It offered no resistance and smoothly approached his pillar of Great Dao light, even showing faint signs of merging with it.
Yet the moment he released his mental hold, the strand slowly drifted back to its original position, like a visitor peering through the doorway but refusing to step inside.
"Could it be... that the Dao within these ten Great Dao Fragments are all highly independent, individual entities?"
Jiang Fan murmured to himself, all sorts of conjectures churning through his mind.
The Great Dao encompassed all things.
Some Dao favored strength and ferocity, while others favored softness and subtlety.
Some Dao governed slaughter, while others governed vitality.
Most of the Great Dao Fragments he had obtained before had been damaged and incomplete, their Dao intent muddled and indistinct. Once they entered his body, his Great Dao had devoured and merged with them without any resistance.
But the Dao within each of these ten fragments was excessively complete, like an individual with its own independent consciousness.
Two rival tigers could never coexist.
These ten powers were like ten tigers, each ruling its own mountain, unwilling to surrender its territory, let alone merge into one.
"So... is each Dao within these Great Dao Fragments an independent, individual entity? Are these Dao mutually incompatible?"
"Or am I simply using the wrong method?"
Jiang Fan frowned and pondered for a long time, but found no answer.
"Perhaps... this is simply a characteristic of complete Great Dao Fragments like these!"
Jiang Fan slowly stopped what he was doing, his gaze settling on the final ten hovering strands of light.
"So be it!"
"Since I can't merge them for now, I'll set them aside. Once I make further progress with