Many martial artists had heard of the "Black Tortoise Battle Qi." It was a divine power recorded in the Heavenly Cauldron Divine Power Index. Over the past three hundred years, only a handful of people had successfully cultivated this divine power.
The mystical power arts circulating throughout the world had, in fact, originally been born from the human body.
Martial artists with powerful cultivation could perceive the reason divine powers were born within their bodies, locate the fundamental form in which those powers existed, then record the divine powers born within themselves, compile them into cultivation manuals, and pass them down to later generations.
Of course, anyone capable of organizing formless divine powers into tangible manuals had to be an exceptionally powerful martial artist, and at the same time possess wisdom beyond that of ordinary people.
There were tens of thousands of these recorded divine power manuals. Some were preserved in royal and marquis estates, some in the Heavenly Emperor Academy, while others circulated among the common folk... Among them were incomparably powerful divine powers, as well as weak ones.
The most powerful divine powers among them were recorded in the Heavenly Cauldron Divine Power Index, engraved upon the Heaven Worship Divine Cauldron at the Heavenly Emperor Academy.
The Heaven Worship Divine Cauldron recorded one powerful divine power after another, along with one glorious tale after another.
Half the martial artists who came to take the Heavenly Emperor Academy's examinations did so because they wanted to cultivate the divine powers recorded in the Heavenly Cauldron Divine Power Index. They would squeeze their way in even if it meant breaking their heads.
A person's potential was limited. It was impossible for nine Innate Divine Powers to be born within one's body. In the end, one still needed to cultivate Acquired Divine