Chapter 517

In one of Bufa Temple's highest-standard rooms, among the residences reserved for Outstanding Disciples, He Zhao held three Kapala Spirit Bone Prayer Beads high in one hand. Like a heretic offering sacrifice to an Evil God, he called out softly.

"Please—"

He had only just uttered two words when the rest of what he wanted to say stuck in his throat. For the moment, he had not decided which of the Seven Universal Cultivation Methods to use as his starting point.

Cross out Vajra Surge. Its prerequisite techniques are Vajra Lock and Vajra Shrink, two whole methods. Treasure Vase Qi has to be crossed out too. Its prerequisite universal methods are Great Vajra Yogini Forty-Six Fists, Fourteen Sounds, Sound Movement Technique, and Four Sound Resonance—four of them. In that case, only Blazing Fire Meditation is left. After all, its only prerequisite is Light Sound Heaven. Once I deal with that, I can smoothly begin cultivating Blazing Fire Meditation.

Having made up his mind, he continued speaking.

"...raise my Light Sound Heaven to the limit of what you can achieve."

After his voice fell, there was no reaction whatsoever for a long while, as if the Kapala Spirit Bone Prayer Beads in his hand were fake.

"What's going on?"

He patted the three prayer beads engraved with different Sanskrit characters, looking utterly baffled.

"Well, great. It can't even complete one of the Seven Universal Cultivation Methods. Good thing I didn't directly try the Great Vajra Yogini Cultivation Method." He sat back down in the chair, rubbed his chin, and wondered whether he had overlooked something that caused the Spirit Bone Prayer Beads to fail.

"The first possibility is that traveling through the space-time tunnel made the power of the prayer beads impossible to use. The second possibility is that my wish