True Word

Many people knew that Edict Professionals and Curse-level Professionals were worlds apart, but only after truly taking that step could one understand just how vast the gap was.

"Among the Four Skills, the Eye and Hand secure the lower limit, while the remaining 'Word' and 'Foot' secure the upper limit."

The East's "True Words" and the West's "secret codices" were, in the end, actually the same thing.

"So just by saying a sentence, I can achieve an effect comparable to a 'rule'? That's too absurd. Even a 'curse' can have its contents copied and spread around. Wouldn't anyone who learned it be able to imitate it?"

"The key isn't 'what is said,' but 'who says it' and 'where they say it.'"

When Lu PingAn first learned of True Words, he had been somewhat bewildered.

Big Cat gave him an example, a rather famous True Word.

"He sighs, raises his head, looks to the sky, and says, 'I didn't bring an umbrella today. Please don't rain.' Then, in the next moment, rain pours down in torrents."

Words alone could alter the weather. Lu PingAn was a little dumbfounded.

Was it really that simple? What was the principle behind it? Then what were they cultivating for?

"That person borrowed authority from the King of Storms and Thunder. As long as he is in a world connected to that deity and recites a 'fixed key,' he can guide the deity's power and borrow its authority."

Now Lu PingAn understood.

True Words were not one's own power, but borrowed "rules," or even the "World's Logic."

They restricted both their users and their "slots." Only those who met the requirements could recite "True Words," "secret codices," "prayers," and so on to produce their designated effects.

"So it's like 'By decree of the law, hasten to