The Heartless Path inheritance he had obtained was not, in fact, the entirety of that medieval demonic sect's legacy, but merely a portion of its foundations.
The method he cultivated was likewise only one of the Heartless Path's direct lineages, not its strongest.
Yet this portion of the inheritance was indeed one of that medieval demonic sect's foundations, and naturally had corresponding reserves left behind.
What Wu Huaien relied upon was the strongest martial art he had learned from the Heartless Path inheritance—one could also call it a Forbidden Killing Move: Heaven and Earth Mourn Together.
This move had been created by the seventh patriarch of the Heartless Path.
This patriarch had been a heaven-sent genius. He entered the Heartless Path in his youth, possessing exceptional talent and extraordinary comprehension.
To cultivate the higher realms of his sect's methods, he slaughtered all his friends and family, even murdered his benefactor and master, thus attaining a powerful realm of martial arts. After reaching a bottleneck, he then deliberately sought out a love affair that would carve itself into his bones and heart, embarking on a stirring, twisting journey of love with a famed heroine of the martial world.
He wished to use the power of love to awaken his emotions, then use the Heartless Path's mental cultivation method to sever those emotions. Naturally, this would allow his cultivation to soar by leaps and bounds, his combat strength advancing a thousand miles in a day.
Such an idea could not be called anything less than genius, and it achieved immense, unprecedented success.
Yet only a genius like him could drift amid the true and false of emotion, dreamlike and illusory, unable to distinguish truth from falsehood, yet still move through it all with consummate ease.
To gain and then forget the Dao,