"You really are a genius of the strangest sort!"
True Person Miaobao was speechless for a long while before he seemed to regain the ability to think and offered that heartfelt praise.
"You've almost convinced me. Perhaps cultivation, transcendence, and laws really don't exist in this world, and everything is simply the workings of natural principles themselves."
He understood what Li Chen meant: roughly speaking, the natural Great Dao and creation itself were supreme, while cultivation, transcendence, unsurpassed might, and the power of law were all human definitions.
The power of the Dao was infinite, but human understanding was limited.
"But our predecessors and sages have long proven cultivation correct through practice. The science of Dharma's Decline is merely an imagined falsehood. Why do you think this way, Fellow Daoist?"
True Person Miaobao shook his head and sighed. He truly could not see through Li Chen.
Li Chen could hardly explain this subject to him in detail. He hastily laughed it off and said, "Just one man's opinion. No need to dwell on it."
"In that case, let me take care of your business first," True Person Miaobao said. "How would you like to eliminate the hidden danger?"
Li Chen said, "Simply asking whether experts from the Immortal Alliance have left any contingencies here seems somewhat vague. If it answers yes, where would I go looking?"
"Precisely," True Person Miaobao said. "That is the flaw in this treasure of mine. Like the Root Dao Arts mastered by Primordial Spirit cultivators, it is limited by its authority over the Great Dao and its scope of operation."
"It amounts to an embodiment of my Dao arts, and only my true spirit can activate it. Otherwise, though it would offend Heaven's harmony, I would find a group of people to take my place