The Heavenly Road! Nine-Life Great Luo!

Inside Biyou Palace, Ye Li publicly expounded on his Dao fruit.

After several months of lectures, the subjects Ye Li described grew ever more unrestrained, soaring like a heavenly steed across the skies.

His subjects ranged from the initial creation of heaven and earth to the beginnings of personal cultivation.

Though the topics differed, anyone who listened with care could glean insights that would benefit their cultivation.

Under such nurturing, everyone felt their wisdom steadily rising: +1+1+1+1...

Jiang Shiyu sat among them with her hands behind her back, an increasingly complicated expression on her exquisite, childish face.

She was both enthralled by the principles Ye Li described and astonished by the depth of his analysis of the Great Dao.

The Dao De Jing said:

The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao! The name that can be named is not the eternal name.

A Dao that could be clearly explained in words was not the eternally unchanging "Dao."

A name that could be defined through naming was not the eternally unchanging "name."

An ancient sage had also said: the wonders of the Dao could only be grasped intuitively, not conveyed in words.

Yet cultivation was the process of deepening one's understanding of the Dao, and its purpose was to define the Dao through one's own being.

The Dao could not be named?

The very purpose of a cultivator's cultivation was to make a single utterance into a law for all beneath heaven.

The Dao lay in shit and piss?

Shit and piss were the Dao!

If I was strong enough and declared it the Dao, then shit was the Dao.

Thus, when describing the same thing, the fewer the words, the greater the matter.

Likewise, if one needed more numerous and convoluted principles to describe one's cultivation,