Wu Chu came back to his senses, shook his head, and said nothing.
Houtu looked at him suspiciously and finally asked, "Why are you searching for that world?"
Wu Chu shook his head. After thinking it over, he decided to tell Houtu a lie. "I don't know whether that world exists either. But before I even knew how to cultivate, I had some dreams. I learned this Civilization Dao of mine from those dreams."
Although a Sage could easily tell whether someone was lying, once Wu Chu treated that former life as a dream and spoke of it that way, Houtu had no way of discerning the truth.
As Wu Chu spoke, he casually stretched out his hand. The Civilization Dao he had laid down, its Great Dao Chains winding around his hand, looked like a divine tree formed from light.
"See that? Within my Dao, many other Daos have only just developed their initial forms! The prosperous age has only arrived, and these embryonic Daos are still growing. Once they all mature, I may be able to attain the Dao through this without even needing Merit..."
Seeing dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Great Dao branches of varying lengths growing from the trunk of the Civilization Dao Tree in Wu Chu's hand, Houtu was utterly dumbfounded.
Among them was one branch whose radiance outshone even the trunk. That should have been the Dao of Benevolence Red Cloud had comprehended and used to attain the Dao.
She knew Wu Chu's Civilization Dao was complex, but she had never expected it to be complex to such an extent. Such a vast Dao—he really dared to dream big!
It reminded Houtu of that Old Demon, who had once manipulated the Three Primordial Clans from behind the scenes and sent them to their graves in