Nearly a thousand Twelfth Order inheritances made for an enormous amount of reading.
Of course, Chen Fei could have skimmed through them without seeking a thorough understanding. The panel could still merge them afterward, just as it had when Chen Fei was in Pingyin County—back then, he had not understood the principles behind many cultivation arts and had merely read through them once.
Yet the panel had still been able to simplify and merge them in the end.
But Chen Fei's foundation, cultivation, and ambitions were now completely different from what they had been back then.
Back in Pingyin County, Chen Fei had sought only a decent life. It could even be said that he had merely wanted to survive. As for understanding cultivation arts, he had known absolutely nothing.
Chen Fei's understanding of the panel had likewise been extremely superficial back then.
By now, Chen Fei had uncovered many of the panel's wondrous uses. For example, when merging cultivation arts, he could either let the panel swallow them whole and merge them indiscriminately, or he could direct the merge with precision.
There was also the method Chen Fei was using now: understanding the meaning within the cultivation arts, peeling back the layers like drawing silk from a cocoon, extracting the profundities he needed, and incorporating them into an entirely new cultivation art.
Striving for perfection, Chen Fei could fully accomplish this with his current understanding of heaven and earth. Otherwise, if he merely merged things vaguely, cultivation arts below Top-grade Twelfth Order would not even be worth merging, as they would instead drag down the art's grade.
Starting with Low-grade Twelfth Order cultivation arts, Chen Fei picked up jade slips one after another, read them, and then set them back down.
Occasionally, Chen Fei paused for a moment to