The ancestor of cultivation novels was Tao Te Ching. Tao Te Ching was a philosophical classic in ancient China and was considered one of the representative works of Taoism. It elaborated on the core concepts of Taoism, including Dao, De, Wuwei, Nature, etc. It advocated the goal of transcending the secular world through self-cultivation. Cultivation novels usually combined the ideas of the Tao Te Ching with the mysterious powers and cultivation techniques in the novel into literary works that expressed human nature and explored the meaning of life.