The Fourth Pillar of Incense (Fourth Update-Please Vote for the Monthly Ticket)

The Meng Family's cultivation method came from kowtowing. It was the most wicked and foul of arts, and no one thought highly of it.

From any angle, the Meng Family seemed to have lived their lives as a joke. So, at first, although Hu Ma had wanted to interrogate Meng Family's Great Master and find out how he had cultivated his abilities into Nine Pillar Incense, he had also looked down on him in his heart. He had assumed the man had merely taken a few wicked methods and pushed them to the extreme, achieving a level of cultivation that others could only dream of.

And when Meng Family's Great Master had laid everything bare, it had indeed turned out to be connected to Meng Family Ancestors. Hu Ma had promptly set the matter aside.

He hadn't looked into it any further.

Not until Old Abacus had explained the proper method of cultivation—the life-seizing method that followed the broad, sunlit road—did the truth dawn on him.

The Meng Family's method was wicked and foul, yet beneath those unorthodox techniques, they had somehow found the most upright path of all?

It was simply absurd!

And yet, though he didn't want to admit it, his hard-won experience had given him the discernment to see that this absurdity wasn't entirely baseless.

The method was real. It was only the way of cultivating it that differed greatly.

The Meng Family's method, for instance, relied on Meng Family Ancestors to help them enter the Middle Yin Realm and borrow extra "lifespan" from the unseen forces of heaven and earth, thereby achieving cultivation.

No one but the Meng Family could pay respects to Meng Family Ancestors, so no one else could use this method.

Even the Meng Family themselves had never considered its true potential. After