All paths to the Great Dao converged at the same destination.
If an ultimate truth existed within the Myriad Heavens Universe, and virtuous cultivators, wise men, and great sages all stood extremely close to it, then it was only natural that what they saw, heard, knew, and felt would be the same.
The ultimate principles of the various Dao paths were astonishingly similar to begin with. Only their perspectives differed, giving each its distinctive qualities. Sometimes they seemed to stand at opposite ends of a circle, opposed to one another, yet they still pointed toward the same center.
Thus, although no outsider in the world had mastered the Spirit Firmament Gate's Three Pure Ones from One Breath, similar methods abounded. Some principles within the Creation-Promotion Secret Art likewise captured several parts of its true intent.
Heavenly Will, however, was interesting. In Li Chen's eyes, it could be called "Three Pure Ones Unite as One Qi"!
It turned the memories, knowledge, and ideals of numerous Great Powers, experts, grandmasters, and sages into kindling, jointly sustaining a virtual Heavenly Dao or deity to achieve intellect and abilities far beyond those of mortals.
The Spirit Firmament Gate's method, however, centered on the self. The practitioner's own will commanded the three Pure Ones' primordial spirits, thereby achieving a primordial spirit Dao fruit that allowed divine sense to proliferate and split at will.
By cultivating this method, practitioners could maintain clarity with their own will in command, while their incarnations possessed experience, intelligence, Dao fruits, and magic power as though they were independent personalities. Even at the level of the Heavenly Dao, they bore different karma and destined connections.
Heavenly Will had no way to accomplish this.
The Heavenly Ghost Dao Li Chen was researching differed from both.
"I will refine my true spirit into