Humans ultimately have to live within a collective, because an individual's power is truly scant.
But once integrated into a collective, much of one's identity and individuality can be overlooked, including things that seem to "belong" to oneself.
The so-called variance in self-interest is actually the measure of how much an individual, integrated into a collective, considers their own needs.
The achievement of the third sacred path of Taiyin Heaven was pointed out by Tang Luo, but the true force that enabled Wu Hao to make the decisive move came from within himself.
Hence from the start, he never intended to follow Tang Luo's laid-out pace step by step, but relied on his own divine authority to skip parts he deemed ignorable and accelerated the progress that benefited him.
At the same time, he was also guarding against Tang Luo's constraints; the first batch of eight thousand criminals was his means of precaution.
