"Sure."
Li Hao was also curious about this legendary stone.
Everyone had heard their conversation. When Lu Chunsheng led Li Hao forward, the disciples instinctively stepped aside, curiosity filling their eyes.
The rules of the Heavenly Shadow Steles had nothing to do with cultivation level. What mattered most was comprehension.
The youth before them was renowned throughout the world, with the fastest cultivation speed in a thousand years. They wanted to see just how wide the gulf between his comprehension and theirs might be.
Sometimes, cultivating quickly did not mean having exceptional comprehension.
After all, below the Heaven and Man Realm, one could advance rapidly as long as sufficient resources were available.
If one disregarded the foundations of cultivation, one could even swallow pills in vast quantities and advance a thousand miles in a day.
Entering the Heaven and Man Realm, however, required not just comprehension but a measure of luck.
Some people watched a leaf fall or scooped up a handful of water and quietly attained enlightenment.
Others rode across the world, challenging the great sects until their bodies were covered in wounds, yet still halted before that Heavenly Gate.
"These hundred Heavenly Shadow Steles record the cultivation method mastery of all our Heavenly Secrets Pavilion disciples over the centuries."
Lu Chunsheng smiled. "When the cultivation method you demonstrate surpasses the level of the recorded image, the stele's Dao resonance automatically records your mastery within it, replacing the original image. That is what we call leaving an image in a Heavenly Stele."
Li Hao nodded. He already knew all this.
Still, hearing of something was no substitute for seeing it. As he approached the pitch-black stele, he faintly sensed the rich Heaven and Earth energy covering it, along with a mysterious, elusive trace of resonance.
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