Over the preceding ten million years and more.
Lin Tian had not preached the Dao here in the Primordial World.
Much less had he preached or lectured on the Dao in public.
And yet.
Over those ten million years, Daoist Spirit Vine had long since become renowned as one of the foremost Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortals among the towering figures of the Primordial World.
Lin Tian had not followed the example of the future Daoist Hongjun, who would become the first Heavenly Dao Saint and impart the three thousand great daos to the Three Thousand Purple Heaven Guests in the Zixiao Palace—first attaining Sagehood, then preaching the Dao.
To truly command the course of heaven and earth's ultimate Heavenly Dao principles in the Primordial World, the approach Hongjun would take in the future was, in fact, an open and upright path.
Though Daoist Hongjun's eventual methods of controlling the Six Heavenly Dao Saints were utterly despicable, that did not prevent his actions from aligning perfectly with the ultimate principles of the Heavenly Dao.
But in Lin Tian's eyes.
Hongjun's sin was not attaining Sagehood, preaching the Dao, or controlling the Primordial World.
Rather, this first true Saint of heaven and earth would repeatedly exploit the immeasurable calamities, allowing the Primordial World to shatter within them time and again.
And after the Demon Dao Calamity, the three thousand great daos he imparted in the Zixiao Palace would ultimately become flowers in a mirror, a moon reflected in water.
The Three Thousand Purple Heaven Guests would ultimately become dust in the history of the Primordial World.
Indeed.
The three thousand great daos, once illustrious throughout the Primordial World and radiant across the ages within Chaos, would ultimately become mere legends and myths after the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
And what