The Bucket Principle

Although there were quite a few disciples in the sect, seeing Huiming condense the Limitless Seal still gave Yuanshi Tianzun an undeniable sense that his Dao was not alone.

Lord Lao might have felt something similar before, but probably not as deeply as he did. After all, when the other man had taken in Xuandu, he should have experienced a similar feeling once already.

The Dao De Jing was the closest to the Great Dao, which came with both advantages and disadvantages.

Even if one could not fully comprehend it, his Primordial Limitless Sutra still allowed people to feel their way around it like blind men examining an elephant. Different disciples could each grasp a different aspect of it. Regardless of how high their achievements might be, at least they would survive.

Lord Lao's was different.

Let alone learning it—across all worlds, apart from Huiming, Xuandu was the only person who had read the complete Dao De Jing without immediately merging with the Dao.

When Xuandu had appeared back then, the other man's emotions probably had not been much weaker than his own were now, right?

After a long while, Adam finally opened his eyes.

So this is the complete Primordial Limitless Sutra...

Compared to the Dao De Jing's inaction and preservation of the center, and Tai Shang Eighty-One Transformations' maintenance of an unchanging true spirit, which passively embraced and allowed different paths to coexist—

The inclusive nature of the Primordial Limitless Sutra... how should he put it? It possessed far more subjective initiative, making it better suited to the path he walked.

Yuanshi Tianzun, under the alias of Grandmaster Subhuti, had taught Sun Wukong a fragmentary version of the Primordial Limitless Sutra under the name Grand Celestial Art. Later, Sun Wukong had been able to wield it with ease