"Originally, there was no need for me to explain these things. Once you attained the Dao Realm, you would naturally comprehend them. But since you have asked, I will tell you something of them."
"Attaining the Dao Realm signifies the perfection of one's Dao Fruit and the merging of the Three Treasures. One has indeed reached a point where there is no further progress to be made. As I said before, our Dao Fruits and natal Dao Qi are, to this heaven and earth, like great trees and ripe fruit. Though from this perspective, the essence of us Dao Realm cultivators may be regarded as existing on the same level as the essence of the world we inhabit, a seed and a great tree are ultimately different."
"This also means that we can continue to grow further. The specific methods of growth, too, have continued to advance with the changes of the ages."
"It is said that among the first generation of Immortal Dao cultivators, aside from the very few who could break through their limits through self-enlightenment and elevate their natal Dao Qi, they could also seek out the innate remnants left between heaven and earth. Through wisps of primordial Qi born before heaven and earth, they purified their own foundations and broke through their original limits step by step."
"But as time passed, by roughly the ancient era, there was no longer any ownerless primordial Qi between heaven and earth. Many Immortal Dao cultivators who had attained the Dao Realm, with the road ahead unclear, repeatedly swung between the Divine and Immortal paths."
"Not until the Primordial Dao Ancestor opened Great Firmament Heaven and established the Nine Heavens cultivation system, throwing wide the gate of convenience for those of us who came after, was the present balance between