Every profession has its specialty.
Since the Middle Ages, spells had already developed stable inheritances.
After several epochs and millions of years of transmission, the system of spells had become extraordinarily vast and complex.
Even a ninth-rank powerhouse could at most specialize in one discipline, while cultivating other methods alongside it on that foundation. So-called inclusiveness and synthesis inevitably required priorities. It was absolutely impossible to master all ten thousand arts.
Even the legendary god-kings and Buddhist patriarchs were no exception.
In this epoch, the Creation Golden Book had systematically classified all the arts of heaven and earth. Cultivators had to obtain a seed of the Creation Golden Talisman to possess power of the corresponding level, and the restrictions imposed upon them had reached their peak.
A ninth-rank powerhouse of this epoch needed to unite body and Dao to obtain ninth-rank power. In turn, both body and divine soul were bound by the laws of the Great Dao, leaving them greatly restricted in every respect—especially in cultivation.
Yuan Tianying continually reincarnated anew in exchange for vitality and vigor.
Each reincarnation cost her a portion of her cultivation, even some of her memories. Yet it was precisely this repeated cleansing and tempering that made the source of her divine soul ever purer and more condensed, ever stronger and more profound.
Gao Xian was indeed formidable, possessing power far beyond the eighth rank—power even comparable to Dao Wuji's avatar.
But powerful cultivation and a powerful divine soul were two different things.
Even if Gao Xian's divine soul was strong, the roots of his power lay in sword cultivation and the Five Elements spells. They touched upon the divine soul, but it was impossible for him to possess any especially profound attainments at that level.
The Heavenly Demon Codex specialized in methods of