He Pingsheng had heard Wang Dun's explanation before.
It meant that if you did not want to become a Dao Lord, and only wanted to cultivate peacefully, with your ultimate goal being a Divine King, a Divine Emperor, or even the Divine Emperor Realm-
None of that mattered!
You could simply devour and use someone else's Dao essence.
But if you wanted to become a Dao Lord, that would not do.
To put it plainly, what was Dao essence?
It was the crystallization of an Ancient God's or a fallen mighty being's understanding of the laws and rules of heaven and earth. It was someone else's insights.
By swallowing someone else's insights, you seemed to have taken a shortcut, but in reality, you had lost yourself.
Having lost yourself, you would use those failures' Daoist Laws to contend with the Great Dao, strive to become a Dao Lord, and even cross weapons with the current Dao Lords to take their places.
Was that possible?
So Wang Dun was right. To become a Dao Lord, you had to comprehend the Dao yourself.
By the same reasoning, when the time came to fuse with a Divine Spark, you could not fuse with someone else's attribute-bearing Divine Spark either, but had to seek your own.
"There's quite a bit of solid divine gold!" A pile of divine gold lay before Wang Dun.
And it was all middle grade.
He Pingsheng had plenty of middle-grade divine gold, and so did Wang Dun. After all, back at the entrance to the ruins, he had even won supreme-grade divine gold in his wagers.
"I don't need any divine gold..." He gestured with his lips. "Little brother, divide it among yourselves!"
He Pingsheng shook his head. "I don't need it either. Baobao, Taizhen, you two split it!"