Ordinary Ambition

Duàn Yì's expression was dazed, the brightness in his eyes gradually clearing. His slanting brows, like swords drawn from their sheaths, slowly relaxed.

His face was serene, and a faint golden radiance shimmered across his skin as though dusted with gold powder. He naturally exuded an air of emptiness and detachment, tranquil and far-reaching.

"The Finger Profound Scripture is both a classic and a martial art. It can refine the spirit and allow one to comprehend the wonders of the Heavenly Dao and the Human Dao.

"The Thirty-Six Finger Arts are thirty-six paths leading to the heavens. Those of exceptional talent and extraordinary comprehension, with sufficient martial wisdom and accumulated knowledge, may derive world-shaking martial arts from them."

Classics contained principles. Thoroughly comprehending those principles and manifesting them through martial arts produced peerless techniques.

Some had derived the art of Supreme Forgetfulness from the Classic of the Way and Virtue; some had derived the Path of the Northern Darkness Kun Void from Carefree Wandering; some had derived Lingbo Weibu and the Dragon Subduing Overbearing Palm from the Book of Changes...

Then it was no empty boast for Duàn Yì to derive a peerless martial art from the Finger Profound Scripture.

For instance, just now, with the Sun Lord Art from the Finger Profound Scripture, Duàn Yì had used his mind and spirit to comprehend the path of the great sun.

The many acupoints within his body had opened in unison, swallowing the primal Heavenly Yang qi pouring down from the clear skies and spontaneously tempering his Yang Fire essence. His entire body was like a furnace.

His qi and blood melted together, while his true qi gathered into a sea of fire that blazed within him, hammering away the faint impurities.

His greater gains lay in the One Yang Finger