The technique was called the Heartless Treasure Scripture.
It resembled the Purple Firmament Dao Scripture in that it placed great importance on laying foundations, yet it did not rigidly determine one's future choices.
The Heartless Treasure Scripture was inferior to the Purple Firmament Dao Scripture when it came to foundations, but it had one advantage: this technique possessed complete advancement methods that were nearly perfect all the way up to Dao Monarch. One merely had to proceed step by step without straying from the path.
Yet precisely because of this, the paths available after the Heartless Treasure Scripture would diverge severely.
One without a heart was without emotion and desire; it could also be said that they had no personal feelings and no personal wants.
Thus, later cultivation gave rise to paths such as the Path of Emotionlessness and the Path of Heartlessness. Even the Path of Emotionlessness continued to split apart. One could pursue absolute impartial justice, neither favoring nor opposing anyone, with no selfish motives whatsoever; or one could follow a path untouched by the emotions and feelings of others.
There were simply too many choices for this "heart."
At its root, one first had to lose before one could gain.
Qin Yang greatly disliked techniques like this, where one had to abandon part of what made one human in order to obtain something.
In ancient times, there had been two famous great figures who had used the Heartless Treasure Scripture as their primary cultivation method.
One had followed the Path of Emotionlessness, while the other had followed the Path of Heartlessness. The former had become devoid of all warmth of mortal life, lofty and aloof, coming and going upon the Cloud Top like an immortal of legend, before ultimately defecting to the Heavenly Emperor.
The latter had