After a small test of his skills, refining ordinary herbs, Styx then used the low-level Spiritual Herbs within the formation space for refining. Since these Spiritual Herbs grew in the Sea of Blood and possessed Spiritual Roots, their properties were relatively uniform. Most were blood or soul-aligned, or some were purification herbs that grew due to extreme conditions.
Therefore, the resulting pills, apart from differing grades, had similar affinities. The uses of these pills were not much different from low-level pills. Old Ancestor Styx easily refined quite a few pills for the first and second transformations (corresponding to Earth Immortal and Heavenly Immortal), which were soul-aligned and blood-aligned. He couldn't refine any higher due to insufficient Cultivation. Old Ancestor Styx consumed one pill of each type to test its Medicinal Properties, storing the rest. After all, his current bottleneck was the Heavenly Dao's restrictions, not a lack of Magical Power!
After finishing the pills, Old Ancestor Styx reviewed his insights from alchemy before returning to the Twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus to meditate on his understanding of formations, alchemy, and artifact forging from this period. His realm also showed signs of loosening.
Old Ancestor Styx became even more immersed in his contemplation. In the blink of an eye, three yuanhui passed quietly! Old Ancestor Styx's realm had stabilized at the early Profound Immortal stage. He had fully absorbed all the insights from this period...
Old Ancestor Styx reflected on the events of this period. Every time he needed something, he had to search his mind for the Inheritance, which was cumbersome and made it difficult for him to integrate everything. After some thought, Old Ancestor Styx suddenly remembered the computer folders of later generations. Knowledge was categorized and stored, making it easy to find what he needed.
Although this was a world of cultivation and not technology, the methods of cultivators far surpassed what technology could achieve. Why not create such a "file" himself? It would not only make the Inheritance clear and organized but also serve as a learning process!
Thus, Old Ancestor Styx entered a state of meditation, performing a major consolidation of the Inheritance in his mind, his cultivation insights from this period, and his understanding of formations, alchemy, and artifact forging.
Finally, Old Ancestor Styx combined his cultivation insights from this period with the Dao charm of the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods in his mind and the incomplete fragments of Great God Pangu's Nine Revolutions Profound Origin Technique. He slowly summarized a cultivation technique suitable for himself, creating cultivation paths for Earth Immortals and Heavenly Immortals!
Old Ancestor Styx named the technique the Blood Scripture. The main text was a body-refining technique that allowed simultaneous cultivation of the Primordial Spirit, Magical Power, and physical body and blood energy, with both complementing each other for joint progress.
He also organized three volumes of the Hundred Arts Scroll, which contained Old Ancestor Styx's insights into formations, alchemy, and artifact forging, as well as methods for setting up formations, pill recipes, and artifact forging techniques from the basics up to the Heavenly Immortal realm!
Additionally, there were the Three Thousand Miscellaneous Chapters, which recorded all the insights and observations Old Ancestor Styx had gained from the incomplete Inheritances of the Three Thousand Demon Gods!
After finishing the organization, Old Ancestor Styx pondered how to record them. At this time, there were no brushes or paper, nor any memory crystals. There were also no written characters, only Innate Dao Script, and Innate Dao Script was not something that ordinary items could preserve. However, cultivators had all sorts of strange methods. Old Ancestor Styx's gaze fell upon the Blood God Fruit Tree and the Ghost Soul Treasure Tree, or more accurately, their leaves and bark.
As Upper-grade Innate Spiritual Roots, leaving behind Innate Dao Script would be incredibly simple. Without further delay, Old Ancestor Styx took action. He first plucked the leaves from both trees and then took a small piece of bark from each. Finally, he watered them with Yellow Springs Blood Water to appease them before beginning to process these materials. After all, Spiritual Treasures and Spiritual Roots had spirits; even if they couldn't undergo Form Transformation, they had their own emotions.
After Old Ancestor Styx's processing, these barks and leaves were successfully refined into the appearance of books. However, they were temporarily like Wordless Heavenly Books, and their grade was not yet apparent, merely a rough embryo of a Spiritual Treasure!
With everything prepared, Old Ancestor Styx began to use his own ordinary blood as ink, inscribing the compiled scriptures onto the Wordless Heavenly Book using Innate Dao Script. As Old Ancestor Styx wrote, an invisible Destiny began to converge towards this book – specifically, a portion of the Destiny related to Enlightenment. After all, Old Ancestor Styx was writing the first book after the world's creation, which was beneficial for Enlightenment, naturally attracting Destiny.
As Old Ancestor Styx made his final stroke, the invisible Destiny began to temper this Blood Scripture. Although, due to the restrictions of the world, Merit and the Great Dao were not bestowed upon the first book's emergence, all the Destiny that should have been given was integrated into the Blood Scripture without any loss. This book immediately ascended to become an Enlightenment Supreme Treasure. Although its grade was capped at Mid-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure, the Restrictions within would continuously increase as Old Ancestor Styx refined it further.
This would be a tremendous boost for future preaching, deduction, and practice!
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