“If you’ve played with blocks before, then you know that you can form a castle or anything out of them that you’d like,” the Sword Sovereign continued. “The great dao is like building blocks, or actual bricks. You can build whatever you’d like, so long as it doesn't collapse! Who says that you need to make a building out of them?”1

You can do whatever you want, so long as it stands!0

Li Hao was once more gripped by emotion and asked, “So… the myriad of daos… are bricks and building blocks?”0

“That’s right, doesn’t that make things simple?”0

Did it?0

I suppose so!0

The Sword Sovereign’s lecture reminded Li Hao of his own teacher. Yuan Shuo had once told him a similar notion, that certain things were very simple in their eyes. All it required was for someone to think outside the box. But the problem was… how many could actually break the mold?0

Li Hao considered his river, then at the stars within. His own dao stars were arranged according to the order he’d found in dao chess. But based on Li Changsheng’s words, he didn’t have to arrange them that way.0

He didn’t have to imitate the order...0