765. Shattering the Old to Forge the New

Having obtained the devil bone, Ning Ye truly threw himself heart and soul into cultivation in the days that followed.

It should be said that since arriving in Heaven's Center Realm, this was the time he had gained the most. All those Divine Artifacts and resources from before were unimportant; only the secrets of Saints truly mattered.

Back then, because of that Saint from the Evergreen Realm, he had officially become fortune's favored child, laying the foundation for his journey through the myriad realms. This time, he had obtained another Saint's secret, and the aid it would provide naturally would not be small.

Yet a Saint's secret was, after all, a Saint's secret. Even though the Evil Rakshasa Devil Ancestor had made things convenient for him, and Ning Ye alone was favored by fortune, deciphering it remained exceedingly difficult.

It was not that there was no method, but that the act of deciphering itself was fraught with hardship at every step.

"The Great Dao cannot be passed on" was no empty saying. Many mysteries could only be grasped through intuition; once spoken aloud, they were no longer quite the same thing, at best barely described. It was like saying that the path of cultivation was rowing a boat against the current—if one did not advance, one would retreat. You could understand those words, but could you complete cultivation merely by relying on them?

Clearly not.

When a Saint's Dao was put into practice, it was still filled with endless profundities. Even Ning Ye could only barely glimpse its inner mysteries.

As a result, his research progressed at an extremely slow pace, and a single period of study lasted twenty years.

Over those twenty years, his true body had also continually endured pursuit by the Seven Nights Star Lord. By now,