Chapter 96: Watching You
After returning to his residence, Wei Yuan produced the duplicate copy of the Supreme Yin Lunar Essence Myriad Manifestations Chapter and reread it from the beginning.
It was a cultivation method that allowed one to become an immortal without fail. Naturally, its depths were limitless. Every time he reread it, he would gain new insights—even if these insights sometimes contradicted one another.
The Supreme Yin Lunar Essence Myriad Manifestations Chapter was famed for its infinite flexibility. Naturally, it was immeasurably complex. The cultivation method alone comprised tens of thousands of words, but the masters who successfully cultivated it added numerous annotations, supplementary notes, and interpretations as well. The masters who left behind these notes rarely agreed with each other as well, refuting each other’s views while leaving behind traces of Dao essence as proof. If these debates spanning across different time and space were included into his reading as well, then the duplicate copy easily comprised over hundreds of thousands of words.
It was worth noting that Wei Yuan was just holding one of the three duplicate copies. Naturally, the insights in those copies were markedly different from the one he was reading, and the debates were no less fierce.
This was just a duplicate copy. The original copy contained a lot less comments, but a lot more Dao essences. First, the vast majority of Palace Lords and Deputy Palace Lords had left behind their Dao essences in the copy. Most of the Immortal Lords had done the same thing as well. These Dao essences were really meaningless; it merely proved that they had reviewed the cultivation method much like a traveler sometimes left a message on an object that stated, “XXX was here.” The Supreme Yin Lunar Essence Myriad Manifestations Chapter was the renowned method left behind by a senior Immortal Lord. Marking it with one’s Dao essence was like stamping one’s private seal on a treasured painting.
Thankfully, everyone’s Dao essence was unique. Otherwise, the jade wall might not have been big enough to fit everyone’s Dao essence. They might have had to set up a different wall just to store the Dao essences, and this wall might have turned out to be far bigger than the jade wall containing the original copy.
Even for Wei Yuan’s unusually powerful primordial spirit, it took him an entire half a day to memorize hundreds of thousands of words and all of the Dao essences. As for mastering it all, it simply wasn’t something that could be done in a matter of years.
The Dao essence the Immortal Lord had left behind in the original copy was deep and vast. The insights Wei Yuan had gleaned from his first reading did not even amount to one-ten-thousandth of the whole thing. Worse, the Dao essences the True Lords had left behind in the duplicate copy were markedly different or even contradicted one another. As if that wasn’t enough, Wei Yuan’s own insights were different from the True Lords. If he was an average beginner, he would be struggling to learn anything right now.
In fact, the essence of this immortal method lay precisely in its diverse interpretations. The reason the Dao essences left behind by every True Lord was different was because the energy of Supreme Yin was infinitely transformative. In essence, the method required the cultivator to construct a nucleus within their sea of consciousness with Supreme Yin energy and use it as a foundation to absorb worldly origin qi. The nucleus of Supreme Yin might manifest in various forms, but a full moon was generally viewed as an excellent manifestation. After a nucleus was constructed, the cultivator would need to plant the seeds of their Avatar in it. Then, they would gradually absorb their Dao Foundation and ultimately form an Avatar.