Flip the Table

"You..."

Chen Nan opened his mouth, about to say something, when Gu Shaoshang suddenly spoke. "My martial cultivation, in its rudimentary stages, is divided into body, heart, qi, and soul."

His voice was not particularly booming, yet it pierced deep into Chen Nan's heart like a nail, jolting him and swallowing the words he had been about to speak.

"When the body becomes imperishable, the heart reaches eternal stillness, the soul attains indestructibility, and qi becomes self-generating, that is merely minor accomplishment."

Gu Shaoshang's voice exploded in Chen Nan's mind like bolts of thunder.

He had once met Gu Shaoshang's incarnation from the Main God Hall in the Shrouding the Heavens World. From him, he had learned of the Main God Hall's cultivation systems, its countless paths, and the ways of many great powers.

Yet whether one sought the Dao through a spiritual treasure, through the Supreme Purity, or even through Pangu—

All of them walked the path of the four Heavenly Passes of the divine gate!

Body, heart, qi, and soul were the four Heavenly Passes of the Main God Hall. Any one of them could allow one to advance into the Divine Demon Realm!

However, to break through the innate realm, all four had to reach their peaks. The four passes had to merge and complement one another, their different powers permeating each other, before one could break through the final barrier.

Gu Shaoshang's Primordial Golden Scripture, on the other hand, followed the path of "one." In essence, it cultivated all four paths together. Though different from the Main God Hall's methods, their core principles faintly overlapped.

The difference was that in the Main God Hall's cultivation, if the heart was primary, the other three passes served as support; if the body was primary, the other three were