That soft sigh echoed through the empty cave abode, carrying seven parts drunkenness and three parts melancholy no one could understand.
Indeed.
The countless wondrous manifestations and the resonance of the golden lotuses earlier had not been the result of deducing some earth-shaking divine art.
Rather, he had been... seeking the Dao.
Seeking an unprecedented Dao, one that all living beings could not even comprehend.
More precisely, the various supernatural powers and Dao arts reflected upon the Great Dao Golden Lotus represented the various laws and order Gu Changqing now commanded.
Ten thousand laws melded into a single whole.
What Gu Changqing had attempted earlier was to unite all those laws and order as one.
Once the myriad Daos merged, they would surely give rise to a Great Dao without precedent or equal.
Such boldness was unmatched.
Even beings like Tongtian and Houtu would have marveled had they learned of it.
For Gu Changqing, however, this was a path he had to take.
Previously, Gu Changqing had helped Hong Yun, Ji Ren, and the others find their own Daos, allowing them to attain the Dao and become Sages.
Yet Gu Changqing had now reached the realm of a Hunyuan Limitless Daluo Golden Immortal.
How was he to walk the road beyond?
Since the founding of the Primordial World, no one had ever walked it.
One could even say that before the Primordial World's heaven and earth were opened, perhaps only Great God Pangu had reached such a realm, or even higher.
And what he cultivated had been the true Dao of Hunyuan.
As for the other Great Dao Demon Gods, presumably they had perished in that Heaven-Opening battle before even reaching the realm of a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal.
He had no example to follow. Everything depended on his own