As he changed the world, he also became its greatest... most inescapable cause.
With a cause came an effect.
All the feedback was that fruit!
It could also be called a "Dao Fruit."
A Dao Fruit was not a tangible fruit, but the conclusion harvested after planting a Dao cause, and also the foundation of cultivation.
He spread his Dao throughout the universe, linking all living beings to this chain of cause and effect. He was the starting point of every living being's transcendence; whatever they achieved in the future, none could escape the foundation Ji Hao had built for them.
Thanks to this, Ji Hao's cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds over these three hundred years. The cultivators of the new era all took him as their goal. He had already become a legend, and everything connected to him was elevated to mythic status.
That went doubly for the scriptures he had personally disseminated. Every living being treasured them, reciting them day and night. Every sliver of progress fed insights back to him. Ten thousand people making breakthroughs meant ten thousand shared insights; trillions upon trillions of living beings making breakthroughs meant trillions upon trillions of shared experiences.
Though each individual's contribution might have been negligible compared to Ji Hao's scale, together they amounted to something considerable. Thanks to this, his cultivation grew every day, each day surpassing the last.
He had long since mastered all the Dao Principles from his previous transformation, even bringing forth new insights from the emperors' Dao Principles and incorporating them all into the Yiyuan Dao.
Tap, tap, tap, tap...
Ji Hao strode across Yinghuo and found the foundations of the Great Leiyin Temple, where they had taken the Buddhist artifacts all those years ago. Now, however, it was nothing but shattered walls