Jiang Ding's fingertips flickered with unsteady spiritual light. The Six Paths of Order within his Sword Qi revolved through creation and destruction, constantly arranging and recombining as he sought the Six Paths structure best suited to himself.
The aura of the Sword Qi rose and fell unpredictably, collapsing and exploding from time to time.
Only once, as though he had struck it lucky, did the Sword Qi's aura grow somewhat stronger. Yet the principles behind it and the reasons for its formation remained a foggy mess. Even his spirit, seven times stronger than those of his peers, could not scan it clearly. Everything was chaos.
"Doing it by hand won't work."
"I need to build a grand formation, or an ultra-high-standard laboratory. I wonder if the Immortal Sect has anything similar..."
Jiang Ding stopped his attempts at exploration.
This was the difficulty of creating a breakthrough cultivation technique. One person alone simply could not manage it; all manner of external conditions fell short.
When ordinary sects encountered such a situation, they generally waited until their cultivation became stronger—for example, until they advanced to Refining Void. Once their Spirit Calculation Power, perception, and scanning abilities underwent a major leap, they could continue their exploration. Otherwise, inspiration would ultimately remain mere inspiration, separated from true results by a long road.
As for trying to solve it with formations?
That was another difficult problem, likewise requiring him to advance to a higher realm.
It was a paradox.
In the Cultivation World, those who explored the road ahead were often the strongest cultivators. This was not without reason; it was the result of many factors combined.
Even the Immortal Sect could not escape this common rule.
The difference was that the Immortal Sect had been walking this path since its weakest days. By now,