Long ago, Dao Ancestor Hongjun had done the same. He had comprehended the ultimate and transcended above all!
Now, the Human Race was doing the same. Like those with innate roots, every member of the Human Race would be able to transcend above all!
Now, the Great Dao acknowledged them!
Beneath the Great Dao, the Heavenly Dao and Human Dao coexisted!
The Human Dao stood alongside the Heavenly Dao!
As for cause and effect, the Human Dao stood alongside the Heavenly Dao and was acknowledged by the Great Dao!
Even the cause and effect of a Sage could not compare!
The Human Dao, acknowledged by the Great Dao and coexisting with the Heavenly Dao!
It was a path belonging solely to the Human Race!
Its future was destined to be extraordinary!
The Ancestral Witches could not tell whether a great river of the Human Dao had truly appeared beside the Heavenly Dao.
But when they looked at the myriad beings of the Human Race, they felt as if they had been transported to another world.
It was not as though a world lay between them, but a Dao!
A distance far greater than the edge of the sky, the furthest corner of the sea, or the Four Extremes of Heaven and Earth.
"He... is so powerful..." Houtu parted her lips slightly as she gazed up at Jiang Chen.
A Sage's face could not be looked upon directly. But Jiang Chen possessed only the cultivation of a Sage, not a Sage's Dao Fruit, so she could see his face clearly.
He was someone who had led his people onto a path belonging solely to them.
Houtu yearned for Jiang Chen's state of mind—not his strength, but his state of mind!
A divine state of mind bold enough to establish justice for the Human Race, brave the thorns for them, and scale the absolute peak for them!
Among the Witch and Demon Clans, none could surpass him!
In the Primordial World, none could rival him!
In Houtu's heart, Jiang Chen was a true guide, one who would do anything for his people!
From that moment on, a seed was planted in Houtu's heart.
She, too, wanted to lead the Wu Clan forward as Jiang Chen had, and reach that same height.
Though the road ahead was uncertain, she would have no fear and no regrets!
The Ancestral Witches were all stunned.
The two mightiest members of the Demon Clan were dumbfounded as well.
What they had seen and heard today was unprecedented and unheard of!
Even the powerful Two Sages of the West and Saint Nuwa had left their secluded retreats and hurried to the summit of Shouyang Mountain, at the Human Ancestral Land!
At last, all Six Saints had gathered. Their overwhelming Saint's Pressure made no one dare gaze for long at the heights of the firmament.
"The Human Dao... the Human Dao..." Saint Nuwa's peerlessly beautiful face was hidden in the mist of Chaos as she murmured to herself.
She recalled creating humanity back then. She had never known that beneath the Great Dao, beside the Heavenly Dao, there was also a Human Dao!
Alas, among the myriad races of the Primordial World and its countless living beings, even if someone knew of the Human Dao, who could have imagined—
that the frail Human Race, the antlike Human Race, was the sole bearer of the Human Dao!
"Elder Brother..." Upper Pure and Jade Pure turned to look at Grand Pure. They had something to say, but did not know how to begin.
Grand Pure was the leader of the Human Teachings and had once been the Human Race's faith.
He had even established the Golden Elixir Path for the Human Race.
They had thought that Grand Pure had cut off the Human Race's Golden Elixir Path, and that even if the Human Race reclaimed its boundless fortune, it could never rise again.
Who could have expected Jiang Chen to find the Human Race a Great Dao that could rival the Heavenly Dao?
"How could this have happened..." Grand Pure strained to see the great river of the Human Dao, which had broken free of the Heavenly Dao's restraints.
But now, he had severed all cause and effect with the Human Race. He could no longer have anything to do with the Human Dao.
That should have been an opportunity to reach an even higher Great Dao!
An opportunity that could have let him attain the same level as Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
Alas, there was no going back.
Even if Grand Pure regretted it, it was too late!
He had severed all cause and effect with the Human Race, leaving no ties between them.
From then on, they would each follow their own path.
"What tremendous fortune! Even we Sages, with our Sage's Dao Fruits, cannot directly perceive the Human Dao's great river, which has broken free of the Heavenly Dao!"
The Two Sages of the West were astonished.
"Perhaps only someone at Master Dao Ancestor's level, having joined with the Heavenly Dao, can truly sense all that the Human Dao entails beneath the Great Dao."
Zhunti gazed toward the Thirty-Three Heavens, toward the Purple Heaven Palace.
Suddenly!
Above the Purple Heaven Palace!
A voice that reached every corner of the Primordial World and rang in the ears of all living beings boomed forth!
"I speak on behalf of the Heavenly Dao! Beneath the Great Dao, the Heavenly Dao and the Human Dao coexist!"
Chapter 34: The Human Dao Is Rising; Nuwa's Choice
Across the vast Primordial World, only Dao Ancestor Hongjun's voice, coming from the Purple Heaven Palace, remained.
His voice was calm, yet thunderously loud.
It carried an unsurpassed power that permitted no doubt. Countless living beings heard it whether they wished to or not.
The Heavenly Dao and the Human Dao coexisted!
Beneath the Great Dao, another path had appeared!
"Lord of the Human Race, founder of the Human Dao, you have broken free of the Heavenly Dao's great river. But the Human Race was born from innate beings beneath the Heavenly Dao and still dwells in the Primordial World."
The long reverberation pierced the heavens. Jiang Cheng gazed toward the Purple Heaven Palace.
Hongjun had joined with the Heavenly Dao and was the teacher of the Sages!
He had founded the Human Dao and was the Lord of the Human Race!
But even Jiang Chen, who now possessed the cultivation of a Sage, felt a profound sense of danger when facing Hongjun.
The Human Dao had only just been born, so naturally it could not yet compare to the Heavenly Dao.
But this did not mean it was inherently inferior.
By rights, beneath the Great Dao, the Heavenly Dao and the Human Dao were one and the same!
It was simply that the living beings of the Human Dao were far inferior to the beings of the Primordial World under the Heavenly Dao.
They could not bring the Human Dao to maturity.
With that, Jiang Chen suddenly understood. He had a goal now.
He would raise the myriad beings of the Human Race until they could rival—or even surpass—the myriad beings of the Primordial World!
He would perfect the entire Human Dao!
Then, even the Heavenly Dao Sages would be his equals!
Fortunately, there was one advantage for now: Dao Ancestor Hongjun, who had joined with the Heavenly Dao, could not easily attack him. Otherwise, he would suffer the backlash of the Great Dao's cause and effect.
Before the Human Dao was founded, joining with the Dao had been an unsurpassed advantage.
But after the Human Dao's founding, it came with restrictions.
Hongjun had likely understood this as well, which was why he had emerged at this moment to warn the entire Primordial World.
"Lord of the Human Race, the Human Dao has only just begun to rise... Put the living beings of the Human Race first in all things..."
Those words were transmitted by Hongjun directly to Jiang Chen's ear.
Among the Witch and Demon Clans present, only the Sages could make out the message and hear part of it.
Jiang Chen did not answer Hongjun at once.
How could he fail to understand what Hongjun meant?
What Hongjun had said was true: the Human Dao had only just begun to rise.
But the words "Put the living beings of the Human Race first in all things" were really an indirect warning not to bring cause and effect upon the Human Race still living in the Primordial World.
To put it more plainly, he was being told to stop pursuing what had happened in the past.
Grand Pure had already lost his Sage's Position because of the Human Race. His strength had fallen from being the foremost beneath Hongjun to roughly the same level as the bottom-ranked Sages, the Two Sages of the West.
Besides, Jiang Chen had already slain a Demon God.
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