After hearing this, Zeng Dong felt a wave of disappointment and calmed down. Setting aside whether the Evil Weapon Limit Break method even existed, his current Postnatal Great Perfection Stage cultivation alone doomed him to have no connection with it.
Heaven knew whether he could step into the Innate Realm. Even if he luckily did, could he cultivate all the way to the Great Perfection of Innate Realm?
Thus, this crooked-path secret art for breaking through to Grandmaster held far less value for him than one might think.
As for Meng Zhao, he too sank into his own thoughts, recalling certain secret and wondrous methods that had come up when the three Grandmasters discussed martial arts at Mishui Immortal Palace.
Among them, Evil Weapon Limit Break was merely one. According to that Palace Master, this method was an evil art and demonic technique created by the Thousand Demon Sect, which had once run rampant during the Great Han Dynasty of the Medieval Era. Its core principle was that the Way of Heaven depleted the surplus to make up for the deficient.
The surplus referred to divine weapons and evil weapons—dead objects that, through fortuitous opportunities and creation, nurtured spiritual intelligence and gave birth to Weapon Spirits. Thus, they bore traces of life and were no longer withered, silent dead things, but spiritual objects blessed by Heaven and Earth.
The deficiency referred to a martial artist's innate endowment, foundation, and aptitude being lacking. Take the bald strong man, Zeng Dong. Though he appeared to be at the Postnatal Great Perfection Stage, this was in truth the limit of his potential. Without a fortuitous opportunity, he would find it difficult to achieve the Innate Martial Dao even in his entire lifetime.
Likewise, some martial artists could break through the barrier of the