After Liang Yi withdrew from the Heaven-Training Dao Canon, he could not help sinking into thought.
His cultivation had already reached a bottleneck, and he needed only a few more things before he could climb to the higher realm. Thus, he could hear the meaning hidden within Daoist Wan Ming's words: if one wished to advance further, one had to study the principles of the Dao. If those principles were unclear, the Dao path would remain blocked.
Here, one could not follow others, but had to know one's own path. Otherwise, even if one attained the higher realm, one could only trail behind others.
He had some understanding of this himself and had recently been reading Daoist scriptures. After all, he too was a disciple of a Profound Venerable, and there were some things he understood.
Yet he wondered: if one had to study the principles of the Dao, would Profound cultivators not become the same as True cultivators?
One had to know that Profound cultivators bore many responsibilities. Foremost among them was cooperating with the military to resist enemies from within and without.
With the Turbid Tide receding, the landmass of the Inner Layer had begun to revive. All kinds of plants, insects, and beasts had started emerging one after another. Looking out from some Upper Continents, the land was no longer desolate but blanketed in green. Yet what came along with this were all manner of extraordinary creatures and divine monsters.
Every Upper Continent covered an immense territory, yet from the surface they looked like islands surrounded by a vast ocean, needing to withstand wave after wave of tides. And the regions of the Outer Layer had never had enough manpower.
Not to mention that with the emergence of the Heaven-Training Dao Canon, every aspect of the various