Fish and Bear's Paw Cannot Both Be Had

Fish and bear's paw could not both be had.

Memories of the past drifted through his mind. The young man's lips curled slightly, and he could not help feeling somewhat pleased with himself.

Compared to those he had seen over the past decade or so, wasting away day after day, he was clearly fortunate.

Blessed with spiritual root aptitude that ordinary people could only dream of, his path of cultivation had been smooth sailing. Since entering the Immortal Path over a decade ago, he had encountered almost no obstacles.

He was like the protagonists from the storybooks he had heard in the county tavern as a child—smooth sailing, blessed with immense fortune...

Only after a long while did the young man slowly suppress his tangled thoughts and refocus his gaze on the Jade Slip in his hand.

The Jade Slip was not the usual grayish-white. Amid that grayish-white color shimmered a faint blue halo.

This undoubtedly meant that the Jade Slip had been fused with a Heavenly Mark Crystal Stone, allowing it to imprint and record deeper mysteries.

The Blade Path Cloud Inscription he had longed for could not have its essence fully imprinted upon ordinary Image Recording Stones, ordinary Jade Slips, or spiritual paper.

Unable to hide his anticipation, the young man stirred a wisp of Divine Sense and cautiously extended it toward the Jade Slip. The instant his Divine Sense touched it, time and space seemed to whirl around him, as though he had traveled upstream through the river of time and returned to that year, that scene.

A palace towered amid the clouds. In the heavens hung a Cloud Inscription like a great sun, while countless cultivators on the ground gazed up at it.

The young man looked up. The figure standing atop the Cloud Top Palace