"Is this one of the 129,600 spells of the Shangxuan Chiding Sandong Gong?"
The Holy Emperor blurted it out. Tao Guanhong immediately knelt and said, "Your Majesty's insight spans ten thousand miles. This is indeed one of the 129,600 spells of the Shangxuan Chiding Sandong Gong: Air Fire."
"How did it come about? Tell me every detail!"
Tao Guanhong said, "It is a cultivation method traded privately among some low-level disciples. Such methods mostly circulate around the outskirts..."
Tao Guanhong carefully explained the origins of this cultivation method.
The Holy Emperor shook his head. "Ban it. Ban every last copy. Any low-level cultivator caught privately spreading similar transcriptions shall be stripped of one cultivation realm. Those who refuse to mend their ways after repeated warnings shall be executed without delay."
"Yes!"
Tao Guanhong acknowledged the order and turned to leave.
The Holy Emperor called him back and issued another command. "Summon Ji Tangdi."
"As you command."
Ji Tangdi, master of Tianshu Tower, was known as Lord Tangdi.
While waiting for the master of Tianshu Tower, the Holy Emperor leafed through the Air Fire manual in his hand, comparing it against the Air Fire manual he remembered seizing from Mount Luofu Mystic Clarity Palace.
Only after he had finished reading the entire book did the Holy Emperor reveal a disappointed look.
This cultivation method looked genuine.
It was genuine! It was actually genuine!
That was the part the Holy Emperor could not understand.
It was easy enough to understand why they let those low-level cultivators practice tampered cultivation methods. It was to establish Path Methods and further control the power of the Human Dao.
But the Shangxuan Chiding Sandong Gong was not a Path Method. It was an utterly orthodox immortal path method, a road toward individual transcendence. Cultivating it would