The Meeting of Ten Thousand Gods would take place ten epochs later. Xuan Yin was in no hurry; he planned to use this interval to establish a dojo on Mount Sumeru.
As he imparted the Dao, he also came to understand why all the sages established their own Dao lineages!
The Great Dao was supreme and boundless, but without living beings to support them, even the loftiest ideals of the sages were nothing more than castles in the air.
Taking disciples was a means of spreading the Dao, verifying one's own Dao, and, above all, perfecting it through the Daos of one's disciples.
Take the Interception Sect, for example. Sect Master Tongtian governed acquired enlightenment; the more disciples he had, the greater the benefits he could reap.
Xuan Yin pioneered the great Dao of calamity immortals, Zhao Gongming established the Dao of wealth, and Yunxiao developed the rudiments of the numerical Dao from the Formation Dao and the talisman Dao-on a certain level, they were also perfecting the Dao of acquired enlightenment.
Leaving the registered disciples aside, anyone who became a direct disciple was undoubtedly someone whose Dao could corroborate a saint's Great Dao.
The Interception Sect's core ideals were education for all and seizing a thread of survival for all living beings.
Among its principal direct disciples, only Duobao, Jin Ling, and Zhao Gongming had taken disciples so far, but the others had also frequently preached the Dao to living beings.
That was education for all!
Yet the Interception Sect's direct disciples each had a different understanding of seizing a thread of survival.
Duobao Daoist's understanding was the purest: to seize a thread of survival meant giving creatures with nowhere left to turn a path they could walk.
If there was no road ahead, they could turn back. Even