After listening to the system sprite's explanation, Xuanming finally understood why that old bastard Hong Jun was so determined to merge with the Dao.
Because it really was the easiest way.
To transcend the Heavenly Dao and shatter the shackles binding you, one way was to be like Pangu or the other Chaos Gods of old: rely on your own immense perseverance, unparalleled talent, and overwhelming strength to smash through everything.
But clearly, that method was only suited to peerless geniuses.
The other method was much simpler.
The Heavenly Dao was heartless because it had no independent consciousness. It only mechanically carried out the Great Dao—or, in other words, the rules laid down by the Creator.
That gave them an opportunity to exploit a loophole.
As long as they gave up their physical bodies and merged their souls with the Heavenly Dao, they could gradually take control of the rules of creation, ultimately seize the merit of creating the world, and transcend the Heavenly Dao in one fell swoop.
However, this method had a drawback: it was easy to offend the creator of the world.
Hadn't they gone to all that trouble to create a world for the merit of creation and the faith that would come afterward?
And now you'd swooped in and stolen it all?
Who else would they go after?
That was why the most important prerequisite for merging with the Dao was finding an ownerless Great World like the Great Desolation World.
Simply put, you had to find an unlucky sod like Pangu.
Otherwise, did you really think those Chaos Gods had come to sightsee when the world was being created?
Only once the world's creator was gone could they recklessly torment the Heavenly Dao without worrying that someone would come after them.
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