Most were honest monkeys and honest bulls like Sun Wukong and the Bull Demon King.
The strength they normally displayed was all they had. If you ran into someone like Sun Wukong, who loved unleashing sudden bursts of power,
you had to knock their actual strength down another notch.
After all, most such bursts in the Primordial World had another name: the Heavenly Dao's protection.
Simply put,
the lordly Heavenly Dao thought you were a decent fellow and found you pleasing to the eye.
So it rewarded you with a spiritual energy boost!
And threw in a hidden spell of heaven and earth to clear your mind and restore your clarity!
Even those who truly unleashed bursts through their insights and the laws of heaven and earth gained little from it.
The Immortal Path devised by that scheming old bastard, Old Ancestor Hongjun, might not have been the cultivation method best suited to the myriad races of the Primordial World.
It might not even have been a cultivation path suited to Old Ancestor Hongjun himself.
But it was absolutely the cultivation path best suited to the Heavenly Dao!
For no other reason than this:
this form of cultivation emphasized insight!
And the highest state of insight was called Heaven-Earth Resonance!
Wasn't that absurd?
Your own insights never mentioned yourself at all!
Every thought went straight to heaven and earth!
Simply put, if someone wanted to cultivate and deepen their understanding of their own state of mind,
and raise their cultivation realm along the way,
then very well, off they went to contemplate heaven and earth!
And what did that lead to?
Whatever new ideas a cultivator had, even a mere flash of inspiration, a novel insight they might not have grasped themselves,
as the recipient,
the Heavenly Dao got a