The legends about the Dao Ancestor were common knowledge to Chu Huai Xu.
It was said that Inquiry Peak had originally been home to an ordinary Daoist temple with a bizarre name: Junzi Temple.
The Dao Ancestor had once been a Young Daoist in that temple.
By chance, he obtained a Nameless Art of the First Realm and began cultivating.
Some said that his later cultivation methods had been pieced together from various sources, while others said that he had created them all himself.
In any case, that Young Daoist had risen from a Daoist to a Dao Master, and then become the Dao Ancestor.
The name "Dao Canon" had been given to it by later generations—or rather, it was a title of respect.
The Dao Ancestor had never named his cultivation method at all.
"The Dao Canon is divided into nine volumes, corresponding to the First Realm through the Ninth Realm." Chu Huai Xu thought.
The cultivation system of the Xuanhuang Realm was strange.
In truth, cultivation methods for different realms were not connected to one another, because the cultivation system differed in each realm.
The First Realm had its own cultivation method, and the Second Realm had its own.
What was called cultivation was actually the continuous development of the Spiritual Embryo Treasury within the body. By developing it, one could store more Spiritual Power, strengthen the divine sense in the Sea of Consciousness, and gain supernatural abilities of one's own.
The Nine Realms were, in truth, nine stages of developing the Spiritual Embryo Treasury, progressing step by step.
A cultivation method was essentially the way and means of developing the Spiritual Embryo Treasury.
Once one reached the next realm, the "place" being developed was already different. It had nothing to do with the previous realm and was