Fate Weaving
"Divine Shaman Lord..."
Tie Shugu bowed to Mo Hua.
Mo Hua asked him, "Have the ancestors of your Shugu Tribe always woven straw dogs from the same variety of Human-Clothing Grass for sacrifices?"
After pondering for a moment, Tie Shugu shook his head. "Not necessarily..."
Mo Hua said nothing.
Tie Shugu explained, "In ancient times, Human-Clothing Grass covered the mountains and plains. The ancestors used this grass to weave straw dogs for sacrifices."
"But after a thousand years had passed, the climate of heaven and earth changed. Human-Clothing Grass dwindled in number and became ever more precious."
"To emulate the ancient ways and prevent Causality inheritances that used Human-Clothing Grass as a medium from vanishing into the history of the Great Wilderness, many tribes preserved seeds and cultivated them. Thus, different regions and tribes developed many variations of Human-Clothing Grass."
This was knowledge known only to tribal ancestors. Ordinary Barbarian Tribe cultivators would never even realize it.
Mo Hua frowned. "So there are actually many varieties of Human-Clothing Grass?"
"Yes," Tie Shugu said.
Mo Hua nodded slightly, and understanding dawned on him.
In seeking truth and pursuing the Dao, cultivators divided the studies of their predecessors into four levels: Dao, law, art, and artifact.
This was something he had learned while studying at Void Gate.
Even earlier than that, his master seemed to have mentioned it vaguely.
But Mo Hua had been young then, and Mr. Zhuang had not gone into depth, merely touching upon it in passing.
Only now, after experiencing more, learning more, and comprehending more, did Mo Hua begin to understand the essence within those four words.
Dao and law were concepts on the level of Divine Thought.
Artifacts were concepts on the level of matter.
Art was the level where Divine Thought and matter