The "Mystic Gate Secret Record" was actually much like the "Mystic Notes." The difference was that the "Mystic Notes" mainly addressed the various doubts and cultivation problems of martial artists below the Creation Realm.
The contents recorded in the "Mystic Gate Secret Record," however, concerned more of the cultivation issues and difficult questions faced by Creation Realm Divine Beings.
It comprised five volumes. The first volume opened with how, after one's cultivation reached the peak of the Dao Realm, one could break through into the Creation Realm, along with the many methods of doing so.
Ye Zhen was already certain that the "Mystic Gate Secret Record" most likely contained a method for Proving the Dao by Force. Still, he patiently continued reading.
Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles. Only by first understanding the other ways of breaking through to the Creation Realm could Ye Zhen better comprehend Proving the Dao by Force.
According to what Master Lu Li had written in the "Mystic Gate Secret Record," there were no more than two ways to break through into the Creation Realm: relying on one's own strength, or borrowing external power.
The most common method was naturally to borrow the Power of All Beings.
Yet breaking through by relying on one's own strength did not mean Proving the Dao by Force was the only path. Many Demon Race members with extraordinarily ancient and powerful bloodlines could directly rely on their bloodline power, or awaken that power, to break through into the Creation Realm.
For example, the Dragon Race!
This was also one of the fundamental reasons why Creation Realm experts of the Dragon Race were stronger than martial artists of the same rank.
The Dragon Race's breakthroughs followed part of the path