After Black Mountain Old Demon was wiped out by Lin Yu years ago, Yan Chixia took possession of all the legacy he left behind, including many Cultivation Methods from different paths.
Some of these methods had been acquired by Black Mountain Old Demon by chance, some had been created by him personally, and others had been extracted through interrogation from the memories of the wronged souls in the City of Wrongful Deaths.
The latter in particular were all fairly ordinary, but they covered a vast range of subjects and came in countless varieties.
They included not only Buddhist and Taoist Cultivation Methods, but even mortal martial arts and the path of imperial dynasties.
After Yan Chixia arrived in Myriad Worlds City, he exchanged all of these Cultivation Methods for Myriad Worlds Coin.
Yun Ye saw these Cultivation Methods in the Scripture Repository and was struck by an idea. He acquired all of these low-level methods, intending to use them as the key to beginning Great Tang's Spiritual Energy Revival.
The first step he took was to spread the Martial Cultivation Path among the common folk, along with the Military Formation Method.
The Martial Cultivation Path was easy enough to understand. It was simply entering the Dao through martial arts, like Yan Chixia and Xiahou the Swordsman.
The drawback of this path was its relatively short lifespan. Before entering the Dao, one was no different from an ordinary person, save perhaps for living to the very limits of a mortal lifespan due to superior physical constitution.
However, in exchange for sacrificing the advantage of longevity, it offered greater combat power and an extremely low threshold for entry.
Battle-hardened generals like Cheng Yaojin and Qin Shubao found it difficult to absorb spiritual energy because murderous aura had entered their bodies. Yet if