His skepticism was understandable. After all, every dao—whether minor or major—was a bottomless pit. To interact with one was to stare into an endless abyss, a vast expanse of knowledge and principles that no amount of time could ever fully unravel. No matter how many years one spent exploring and studying, the true depth of a dao would always seem beyond reach.
This was why mastering even a single dao was an arduous task, even for the truly gifted. Yang Qing considered himself fairly talented in the palace realm, his comprehension abilities bolstered by his peerless jade physique, which gave him an edge when deciphering cultivation arts—one of the many windows into the dao.
Yet, despite his talent—despite even evolving an art to the blue grade—he still felt as though he had barely scratched the surface of his dao. It remained as vast, mysterious, and unfathomable as it had been before he ever stepped into the palace realm.