"We share Fellow Daoist Shangyang's view, provided you really can use mortal strength and ordinary stone to craft something functional. You cannot fool us with a haphazard patchwork," Dongfang Mao added, then suddenly asked, "If I am not mistaken, did you draw on the ideas of the Mortal Dao Artifact path?"
The Mortal Dao Artifact path originated in the philosophy of a certain school within the Artifact Dao of the Ancient Cultivation World.
This school emphasized practical use for mortals and had once entertained many ideas similar to the Puppeteer Dao Path's focus on ordinary people's daily needs, but the unique conditions of this world had kept it from flourishing.
In the cultivation world, mortal strength had always been insignificant. Spiritual essence, Dao essence, and even Heaven and Earth vital energy were what truly mattered.
At its root, even mundane matter devoid of spiritual essence or Dao essence was formed from primordial energy-a unity of matter and energy. But people were accustomed to refining Magical Treasures and using convenient sources of energy such as spiritual energy. Even natural principles and physical laws differed from those of the mundane world, so pursuing a truly mortal path was neither necessary nor effective.
The Hundred Crafts Gate of the Puppeteer Dao Path had also researched such objects. Over a million years of history, it was impossible that no one had ever thought of this.
Yet anyone qualified to explore a Dao Path of their own was certain to have already attained considerable cultivation and expertise.
Such experts were steeped in the way of spiritual essence, like someone entering a shop full of salted fish: after long enough, they no longer noticed the stench and became one with it.
They constantly spoke of breaking free from spiritual essence and seeking the ultimate wonders of