Only after Yi Guye disappeared did Bai Yi slowly withdraw his outstretched finger.
He lowered his head and gazed at his fingertip. Only then did understanding sweep through his mind.
After stepping into the Origin Realm, he had harbored a few doubts. Ever since he had set foot on the Ancient Road and entered the Origin Realm,
apart from the concentration of spiritual energy and the degree to which the Great Dao manifested, everything he had seen and sensed suggested that this stretch of the Ancient Road differed little from Langyu Qingming Heaven in many respects.
Perhaps because of that spiritual energy and the manifestation of the Great Dao, the cultivators here far surpassed those of Langyu Qingming Heaven in average cultivation and talent.
Yet its prodigies were not as overwhelmingly superior to those outside the Ancient Road as his master Xiang Kuang had previously described.
But in this battle, after experiencing how that Wood Dao prodigy employed Great Dao intent, he finally understood.
The true way to unlock this Ancient Road lay in the application of one's own Great Dao.
Unlike outside the Ancient Road, here, once cultivators comprehended their own Great Dao, every cultivation method and protective art they practiced became fuel for it.
Every means at their disposal was incorporated into their own Great Dao.
"So this is what Master has always meant by saying that, on the road of immortal cultivation, only the Dao Path is true."
At that thought, Bai Yi once again recalled his second master Chen Fuye's expression that day, when Xiang Kuang comprehended the Great Sun Origin, broke through Spirit Transformation in Langyu Qingming Heaven, and ascended to Mahayana.
There had been no joy, no wistfulness-only unconcealable regret and helplessness.
For Chen Fuye, who had also set foot on the Ancient Road,