"Then the War Ancestor!"
Xu Xiaoshou's first choice was still the "War" Character and "Hua" Character from method two.
There was no other reason—he wanted to brute-force both the Body Dao Disk and Spirit Dao Disk to at least 99%.
Besides, Hua Changdeng's "Hua" Character might yet have some contingency hidden within Shennong Hundred Herbs.
By comparison, the War Ancestor, who had come infinitely close to falling or had already completely fallen, carried a lesser risk.
And perhaps if he seized the War Ancestor's Dao first, he could draw over all knowledge related to the Dao of Gu Wu, apart from insights into the Way of Body.
At present, he had only mastered Fourfold Renunciation...
Shen Yi's Three Realms had been comprehended with Resentful Buddha's aid, and the Dualities he had opened were also the War-Buddha Twin Images. They were irreplaceable.
Xu Xiaoshou had seen Shen Yi use them.
But unlike Ba Zunan, he was not proficient in the Dao of Gu Wu. He could not make much sense of it, could not fully understand it, and did not wish to burn nine ordination scars onto himself just to cultivate the Buddhist Dao alongside it.
Still, if possible, he wanted to glimpse the ultimate principles of the War Ancestor's Three Realms, Dualities, One Venerable, and Infinity, and perhaps help complete them.
Surely, if the old War Ancestor saw that a Gu Wu practitioner of later generations possessed such towering ambition, He would feel gratified too, right? "It can be done!"
"It will definitely work!"
The silvery-white tentacle gently wriggled behind his backside, as though it could no longer wait.
Xu Xiaoshou waited no longer. He tried controlling the tentacle and suctioned onto the Origin True Stele: War Character. It worked!
The thing instantly went from solid to somewhat illusory.
"So