Human Dao was the strongest.
But what exactly made up Human Dao?
It was hard to describe it in detail with just a single sentient being.
Classifying it by race would be biased.
Those special existences who formed a race of one, stood apart from the crowd, possessed wisdom and souls—should they also count as part of Human Dao, an absolutely inseparable part of it?
If a Magic Treasure gained sentience and embarked on the path of pursuing independence and self-perfection... from that moment onward, would it count as a sentient being, a part of Human Dao?
Yes!
Then...
What about the "Dao"?
What about Heaven's Dao?!
There was a great figure who had laughed proudly throughout the past and present.
Although he had suffered repeated hardships and still shouted about ruling humans through Heaven, when it came to similar classification and definitions, he too belonged to Human Dao!
The Dao Ancestor... Hong!
Although the Dao Ancestor was arrogant and unruly, and had made the Witch Clan suffer greatly during the Witch-Demon Era... was that a problem? No!
Tracing back to his original Root Origin, Hong had already been active during the Dragon-Phoenix Era.
Born from the combined efforts of three thousand divine beings from the Dragon and Phoenix factions, he was the most powerful artificial intelligence created to control the myriad Daos of the Primordial World. The instant he was born, he gained sentience, possessing the strongest cultivation of any individual life-form in Heaven and Earth at the time!
And because he was powerful and ancient, he directly rebelled against time and roamed the beginning of Heaven and Earth's creation... In pursuit of freedom and a way to break free from the gods' control, he raised the Entire Primordial World three feet high, collected countless Innate Spiritual Treasures, and