Even the Chat Group could choose beings born among the Human Race, the Demon Race, gods, Immortals, and others as Group Members.
But it could not choose a world's Great Dao to join the Chat Group and become a Group Member.
Perhaps some powerful being could wield unimaginable might to awaken a Great Dao and give rise to a will within it.
But once a Great Dao awakened and a will was born, it would naturally form a body.
That body would be an Incarnation of the Great Dao. It could represent the Great Dao, and calling it the Great Dao would not be wrong.
Yet the eternally unchanging Great Dao itself would still exist. It would not vanish because an Incarnation of the Great Dao had appeared.
A Great Dao would never possess a will of its own. If a will arose and took form, it would only create an Incarnation of the Great Dao; the Great Dao itself would remain unchanged.
It was like the Lord Gods in After Ascension.
By the same token, the Great Dao of the Heavens could not lose its Dao, but the Great Luo Dao could.
The deeper dangers and peculiarities of those two stages were another reason Meng Chuan had not told Ruthless, Ye Fan, and the others the details of his Chaos Path.
He feared not only that the knowledge might affect their own breakthroughs at this step someday, but also that they might instinctively try to do something.
For instance, while Meng Chuan was replacing the Dao, they might grow worried and take it upon themselves to act against the Heavenly Dao, hoping to help him finish sooner.
Or, if Ruthless and the others knew exactly what happened during the Second Stage of the Chaos Path, they might find themselves