The Difficulty of Deriving New Techniques

He had been the first cultivator in the Dharma Weapon Realm to touch upon cultivation and reach the threshold of the supernatural.

Since the very concept of "cultivation" had first appeared,

over the next 1,989 years, Lin Chen had witnessed the birth and rise of the Dharma Weapon Realm's cultivation system. He had also lived through its golden age, when forty-nine Nascent Souls existed at once.

Then the Dharma Weapon Realm could no longer bear the strain. The Nascent Souls began slaughtering one another, and the nine survivors used their bodies as material and their souls as kindling, tempering their wills together with the laws of heaven and earth until they were forged into Dharma Weapons.

It was no exaggeration to say that he had witnessed the rise and fall of this world's cultivation system with his own eyes.

Yet in all his years of cultivation, he had never encountered a method like the Basic Qi Refining Formula: one that could guide spiritual energy into the path of cultivation without relying on the power of Dharma Weapons, and that was absurdly accessible to all.

Su Jian frowned.

"You've never seen one. So what does that prove?"

Hm?

Had Master of Fate Cultivation still not grasped the significance of this?

At that moment, Lin Chen sensed that something was wrong, but patiently began to explain.

"I witnessed the Dharma Weapon Realm's cultivation system grow from nothing. Yet even in the golden age, when forty-nine Nascent Souls coexisted, there was never a Qi-refining method this wondrous."

"Could someone have found a new path while you were in slumber?" Su Jian asked gravely.

"A new path?" Lin Chen was briefly at a loss. "With the useless lot of the present day, who only parrot others and live off old achievements?"

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