"Unfortunately, it was too incomplete to be of much use... I couldn't even deduce a method beyond the Holy Dragon Heart Method."
Gu Shaoshang's thoughts flickered continuously as he sought to glimpse a cultivation method more advanced than the Holy Dragon Heart Method.
If his guess was correct, that should have been the fundamental reason this fist technique had been imprinted by the Great Dao.
The Dragon Nurturing, Dragon Creation, and Holy Dragon Heart Method alone certainly could not have been enough to receive the Great Dao's imprint. There had to be something beyond them.
Gu Shaoshang even felt that the Human Dragon Fist was merely secondary. The unknown method beyond it might have been what truly mattered.
Perhaps what the Lord of Systems had praised was that unknown method.
Or rather, it could no longer be described as a method. Perhaps it could be called a Dao.
"What lies beyond the Holy Dragon Heart Method? Ancestral Dragon? No Dragon?"
Gu Shaoshang murmured softly.
From this Human Dragon Fist, he had deduced countless fragmented cultivation arts and the essence of Daoist magic. Among them were far too many things like Dragon Nurturing, Dragon Creation, and Holy Dragons.
By his conjecture, there should have been one more step beyond them—one that unified all Daos and could be called the origin of this path, containing all its mysteries.
This was not something a cultivation method could describe. It should have been a residual shadow of the Dao essence of some great figure within endless space-time.
It was a trace of the manifestation of that figure's Dao.
This manifestation of Dao contained endless insights into cultivation, whether it was the Way of the Physical Body or the path of the primordial spirit, the principles of heaven and earth or the principles of civilization...