Watching Li Dalong depart through the phantom of the Bronze Gate, Guan Tong and all the Fate Masters present were at a complete loss.
A Union with the Dao Realm cultivator barely over a thousand years old!
As Fate Masters of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, they had always calculated heavenly fate. They had seen every kind of genius in the mortal world, yet never had they encountered something so terrifying. It was not as though there were no thousand-year-old Body Integration cultivators in the world. Many great factions would often pour all their resources into guiding their most outstanding disciples under famous masters, lest their ranks suffer a generational gap. Yet such "geniuses," force-fed into existence, were often born of desperation. Some could not even attain enlightenment.
Dao Insight was different. So long as one's talent was not utterly hopeless, and one spent years contemplating objects left by Body Integration Realm predecessors that carried Dao resonance, it was not difficult to draw forth a Dao Gate and Dao Path over time. Dao Comprehension, however, was another matter. It required one to thoroughly grasp the essence of the Great Dao. It was like martial arts: knowing how to use one's fists and feet to kill was worlds apart from flailing about with turtle fists.
Dao Insight Realm cultivators wielded the Great Dao. Dao Comprehension Realm cultivators, meanwhile, used one Great Dao within its own domain to forge a stronger Dao. Take the Heavenly Fire Great Dao: beneath it, one could summon a vast blaze of heaven and earth to incinerate the world—but in the end, that fire still had to be lit. Yet if one gained understanding beneath Heavenly Fire, comprehending how flames could burn from within a person's body, or directly assail the divine soul, how could the two be