"There are no lesser or greater Daos. The Dao has no hierarchy—only cultivators do!" Gu Yuanqing spoke calmly, with a faint smile. To the Demon Lord, this visit was about suppressing or killing Gu Yuanqing, forcing him to reveal his trump cards to determine his relationship with the Creation God King, and reclaiming his own physical body from him.
But to Gu Yuanqing, the more important reason to clash with the Demon Lord was to test his understanding of the Great Dao.
The Fa Yuan Realm called the Great Dao the Demon Lord cultivated the Demonic Dao, but his true divine name was actually God King Yuanchu, and what he cultivated was one of the most fundamental Great Daos that constituted a world.
Demons existed only in relation to orthodoxy. When the Divine Court and all living beings defined themselves as righteous, those who remained outside their command, wandering beyond their ranks, were called evil or demonic, or followers of the Outer Dao.
Most followers of evil, demonic, and outer paths defied established teachings, revered the law of the jungle, and pursued unfettered abandon and the absolute freedom of perfect liberty.
They were inherently destabilizing forces within a world, and naturally, those who upheld order did not welcome them.
Most who revered the Demonic Dao also cared little for external reputations or the opinions of others.
You call me a demon. So what if I am?
That was, in fact, how the title Demon Lord had come about, and it happened to match the Ten Thousand Demons Heavenly Fortune Banner he controlled!
Other practitioners of the Demonic Dao might pursue power through inferior means and stray from the path, but the Demon Lord's Dao was incomparably pure.
The primordial was the state before heaven and earth divided, before all things