"Do you mean Senior Shishou's strength at the time was insufficient to complete the Body Devouring Heart Sutra? But he was a Jailer Marshal capable of contending against the Emperor. His strength should have matched his personal comprehension of the Great Dao. That shouldn't have been possible, right?"
Zhang Chen found it difficult to believe that Shishou's strength had been insufficient to complete the Body Devouring Heart Sutra.
Leaning against the bookshelf, Xingshi looked Zhang Chen up and down. "A person's strength is indeed related to the depth of their comprehension in a particular path, but that has nothing to do with whether the Body Devouring Heart Sutra is complete. Why is the Body Devouring Heart Sutra unique, to the point that even I want to learn it? Precisely because even the path Shishou walked was not the new road opened by the Body Devouring Heart Sutra."
"What do you mean by that?" Zhang Chen did not understand Xingshi's words.
"Still don't understand? The path Shishou initially walked was merely one of the known paths within the Ghoul Dao. When he reached the end of that path, his strength had nearly reached its limit. It was impossible for him to undergo any further fundamental improvement. The only way to improve qualitatively was to create a new path of his own."
Another question surfaced in Zhang Chen's mind.
"I remember that when someone has only just entered a Great Dao and has not delved too deeply into it, they can indeed return to the starting point and choose again. But you said Shishou had already reached the deepest level of a Great Dao. How could he possibly choose again?"
Xingshi nodded, acknowledging that Zhang Chen was correct. "I don't know why Shishou went to such lengths to create the Body Devouring