Zhong Yue had entered the Dao Realm roughly a million years ago, but he had never managed to escape. He had vanished from the world.
The real Taihuang had been lost.
But Zhong Yue's Yi Dao was ever-changing and could encompass the Myriad Daos. It excelled at learning, and in that respect, it was extraordinarily powerful.
So long as Zhong Yue survived the initial period after entering the Dao Realm, he could rely on the Yi Dao to gradually master every Great Dao within it as he fought against them all.
Then he could contend with the Dao Realm.
Zhong Yue, who had manifested the Yi Dao's true form and remained alive in the Dao Realm, was now in precisely that state.
But even though Zhong Yue could contend with the Dao Realm and had mastered all its Great Daos, he still could not win this contest.
The Dao Realm's power remained greater than his. After all, beyond the Great Daos of every Dao God, it also possessed its own power.
When it came to Great Daos, Zhong Yue was in no way inferior to the Dao Realm.
The Dao Realm held the Great Daos of every Dao God, Zhong Yue included, and Zhong Yue did too.
In that respect, they were evenly matched.
If a new Dao God emerged in the future, once his Great Dao was imprinted upon the Dao Realm, Zhong Yue's Yi Dao would gradually encompass it as well.
Unfortunately, Zhong Yue could not control the Dao Realm's own power. That gave the Dao Realm the edge it needed to suppress him.
For Zhong Yue's battle with the Dao Realm was unlike an ordinary fight between cultivators. This was a contest of pure Dao.
In a normal battle, a weaker cultivator could still turn the tables