Shaking his head, the Immortal Venerable finally lifted his gaze from the chessboard. His eyes were filled with regret as he looked at the Myriad Laws Dao Venerable.
"Back then, you and the Sword Venerable were the most talented juniors in the entire immortal race. Almost as soon as you stepped into the Second Step Realm, I could already see that the two of you would inevitably break through to the Venerable Realm."
"But compared to the Sword Venerable, your temperament was far too arrogant. You looked down on everything."
"That unruly temperament allowed your cultivation to surge forward. Back then, your breakthrough speed was even faster than the Sword Venerable's."
"But it was precisely that temperament that led you into your current predicament."
"I once told you that if you bite off more than you can chew, you will choke. Our immortal race has many inheritances, but you shouldn't dream of mastering all of them."
"But relying on your talent, you insisted on walking the path of mastering all laws..."
"If you had chosen a simpler Dao back then, you might already have reached the Dao Integration Realm today."
The Myriad Laws Dao Venerable looked as if he had not taken any of these words to heart.
He merely lowered his head, despair spreading through his eyes.
The inability to comprehend the Time Dao meant that his cultivation path ahead had already been severed.
The Myriad Laws Dao he cultivated emphasized embracing a hundred rivers and gathering them into the sea.
For every Dao, he had to master at least one cultivation technique or martial art before he could smoothly break through to the Dao Integration Realm.
But now, no matter how many powerful martial arts he had mastered or how many exquisite cultivation techniques he had become proficient