Dao Integration was the merging of oneself with the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, the alignment of one's thoughts with the will of the world. It was like remaining in a perpetual state of unity of heaven and humanity, able to draw freely upon world force.
Gu Yuanqing, who controlled the North Spring Realm, was thoroughly familiar with this.
Know yourself and know your enemy, and a hundred battles would pose no peril.
However overwhelming the five men's might, however profound their spell arts and divine abilities, they still could do nothing to him.
The Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm was boundless, and its power was undeniably formidable, but their control over it clearly fell far short of Gu Yuanqing's control over the North Spring Realm.
Moreover, the Dao they had integrated with was only the Great Dao corresponding to their own cultivation, not the entire heavenly Dao.
This bore some resemblance to the God King level in the Fa Yuan Realm, yet lacked the tremendous might of controlling a Rule Divine Artifact.
Here, the emphasis was on tempering the will, supplementing another route along the divine path. It allowed cultivators who entered to gain a deeper, fundamental understanding of the Great Dao ahead of time, laying the groundwork for a smoother God King path in the future.
In a sense, these benefits were no less valuable than the power origins of Divine Artifacts.
And for Gu Yuanqing, after waiting so long, this day was precisely what he had been waiting for.
Clashing with numerous Dao Integration cultivators, experiencing the distinctive flavors of different worlds through combat, comparing and verifying them from multiple dimensions—this was far more useful than obtaining a Divine Artifact's origin.
All of this would become nourishment for his path to Golden Immortality.
These ten thousand years had