Dao Yin sensed the surging Dao power within Xu Ying. It was already in no way inferior to his own, and faintly showed signs of surpassing him.
"If he completely unifies his Dao power, his cultivation will indeed surpass mine. But how difficult is it to unify Dao power? Especially since the technique he cultivates is a Chaos-state technique—that makes it incomparably difficult."
Cultivating the Chaos state was extremely complicated. First, one needed attainments in the Reincarnation Great Dao like Tai Huang's. Even that alone was beyond the reach of most people. Second, a cultivator needed extraordinary insight into the Chaos Great Dao, reaching at least the level of the end of Chaos.
But the most crucial part was infinitely subdividing one's past and splitting off a self from every tiniest fragment of time.
Treating each self as an independent individual, one would comprehend, cultivate, create divine abilities, and experience everything in the Sea of Chaos.
When faced with choices, these selves would make different decisions, and their lives would therefore take different directions.
A person's experiences could not be repeated, but the Chaos state experienced every possible choice once.
Thus, countless selves formed one's own Chaos state.
This cultivation method was complicated enough in theory, and even more complicated in practice. In Dao Yin's eyes, it was fundamentally an impossible cultivation art to master.
Moreover, the Chaos state was not the goal of cultivation. The purpose of cultivating this technique was actually to unify the Chaos state, thereby increasing one's cultivation and Dao power countless times over!
That was even more difficult.
Yet Xu Ying had somehow mastered this impossible cultivation method.
Not only that, but the unification of his Chaos state was also about to be completed!
"As he said, the only thing he lacks is a little