The more Ethan thought about it, the more it made sense. The Tao Te Ching described the Way as the origin of all things—the invisible law that gives birth to the universe, that nourishes and sustains life, that flows through heaven and earth. Wasn’t that exactly what Essence Energy did? The vital force that coursed through the world, unseen yet omnipresent, creating, balancing, and transforming everything it touched.
Perhaps the ancient sages had already grasped the truth long before modern cultivation existed. Perhaps what they called the Tao was simply a different understanding of the same primal energy—the source that cultivators like him now sought to refine and master.
If the Tao was Essence Energy—then every cultivator, including himself, was merely walking the same path Laozi had
