Some had already taken notice of the Dao Lord of Unity before he attained the Dao, but he had attained it too quickly and traveled too far along the path of the Great Dao.
Thus, even if they wished to win him over, they could no longer do so.
After all, at this stage, discussing the Dao together was about the only way they could offer each other anything to draw upon.
The experience of predecessors might be useful to an ordinary Dao Lord, but to that one, it amounted to no more than that.
He came from Profound Heaven, and such great immortal sects had never lacked the experience of predecessors and teachers.
Otherwise, there would never have been that ripple through time back then, from which an elder of his from an ancient age had emerged.
"It seems the geniuses of the world are rising in this age."
If that were so...
A glimmer of calculation crossed the old man's aged eyes. "Rather than openly placing their pieces, they are indirectly guiding them into tribulation and reincarnation. It seems there may be certain benefits to this."
These people would not lay plans without benefits. Their indifference to the seven emotions and six desires, their hearts' abandonment of feeling, did not mean they were Heaven's Way, utterly impartial and selfless.
There was more than one great tide of events. If they could form one powerful enough to overturn the chessboard...
That would be ideal.
Generally speaking, however, such a tide had rarely been able to accomplish that in the past.
Yet judging by the Heavenly Mandate governing cultivation now, that might no longer be the case.
"Having passed through reincarnation once presumably also means more variables will emerge."
For that also meant that, at least on the surface