Take Lu Ye, for example. The mere identity of a rebellious son had already cost him a great deal.
The other cultivators were not in the same situation as Lu Ye, but once Abyss's consciousness fully awakened, every thought and movement of its will would have an enormous impact on the entire Cultivation World. By then, all cultivators would be manipulated by it to varying degrees.
Such a cultivation method, where one could so easily be controlled by another, was naturally unreliable. The Dragon and Phoenix Ancestors had foreseen this long ago, which was why they had left the Small World Secret Technique within this Ancestral Abyss Restriction, waiting for the day the Dao Tree's inheritor came to claim it.
Nurturing the Crag Mountain Saber took little effort, but cultivating the Small World Secret Technique was no longer as it had been before.
Inscribing each Dao Pattern was far more difficult than before, requiring many times more time and effort. The closer he came to completing the Secret Technique, the more apparent this became.
This should have been a characteristic of the Secret Technique itself, not a problem with Lu Ye's cultivation, so he had no good solution.
That was also why he had specifically come here to cultivate. Only here could he improve his strength while spending the least amount of time.
He calmed his mind and inscribed, tempered, and refined Dao Patterns one after another.
The Ancestral Abyss Restriction was dark and tranquil, without any disturbance.
Every Dao Pattern he inscribed was an increase in strength.
No one knew how many years this continued, until at some moment, Lu Ye slowly opened his eyes from meditation.
The Small World Secret Technique had reached completion at the ninth layer!
Within his Inner Realm, he could no longer inscribe any