The Divine Realm's understanding of the Divine Dao was extraordinarily thorough.
Whichever Divine Dao one singled out, it was a mature and complete system in its own right.
But after countless years of research, some geniuses had severed the Dao Connotations within the Divine Dao, then combined them with their own insights to create cultivation arts that stood on their own—for example, Nightingale Saint's Ice Soul Demonic Flame and Han Yaozhi's Five Elements Illusion Extinction.
These cultivation arts had a unified name in the Divine Realm: Divine Power Beyond the Dao. In other words, they were divine powers outside the Divine Dao...
Some Divine Powers Beyond the Dao were extraordinarily formidable. Take Ice Soul Demonic Flame, for example. Even now, countless True Gods still wished to become disciples of Nightingale Saint in hopes of cultivating it.
Five Elements Illusion Extinction, by comparison, was rather ordinary. It was not much more powerful than the divine powers of the Five Elements Divine Dao itself. Rather than spend the effort cultivating Five Elements Illusion Extinction, one might as well devote that time to the Divine Dao itself. Thus, its value in the eyes of True Gods was merely average, and they had little interest in it.
The debate between Divine Powers Beyond the Dao and the Divine Dao itself was also an enduring Dao dispute. Some said that the Divine Dao was the foundation of the Divine Realm, and that focusing on cultivating the Divine Dao was the proper path.
Others said that Divine Powers Beyond the Dao were the future of the Divine Realm. The three thousand Divine Daos had also been deliberately created by powerful lifeforms; beyond the Divine Realm lay an even vaster chaos, and limiting oneself to the three thousand Divine Daos was no different from shutting one's own