A dark place of unknown location.
The Silent One was playing chess with the being seated on the Dark Throne.
"I lost again."
The Silent One sighed, his brows knitted tightly.
The one on the Dark Throne merely said:
"Forget it. I'm done. If we keep playing, it'll start to look like I'm picking on a child."
With a wave of his hand, the chessboard vanished.
The Silent One thought for a long while, then said:
"Your Dao... truly isn't the Dao of Ignorance?"
During this time, he might have seemed to be doing nothing but playing chess with the being on the Dark Throne, but in truth, he had been testing him all along!
Even beneath the vast Darkness Dome, the Silent One was one of the most learned experts.
That was because the one he sought to surpass was the Shamanic Dancer. The Shamanic Dancer cultivated the Dao of "Ignorance," knowing everything and standing ahead of many supreme half-step beings.
To achieve the Silent Dao and surpass him, the Silent One first had to learn from him. He couldn't follow the Dao of Ignorance and casually glimpse the true meaning of every Dao, so he had studied under a hundred schools, using tremendous resolve to master their teachings.
From the very first game he played after arriving, he had used a different Dao in every match!
The Great Daos he had learned beneath the Darkness Dome!
But without exception, each one had been effortlessly dismantled by the being on the Dark Throne. The Silent One had the feeling that his opponent stood at the end of every Dao, making whatever path he chose seem like a novice showing off before an expert.
This... looked far too much like the Dao of Ignorance.
Hearing this, the being on the