Late Stage Violet Palace (Bonus Chapter, Seeking Subscriptions)

"Uh... it probably isn't that simple. Otherwise, the Great Sun Tathagata would have become [Year Guardian] long ago."

"Once I take the wrong path, it may not merely mean my cultivation can no longer advance, or something as easy as exploding on the spot... There may even be some hidden consequence that I cannot shake off even through reincarnation?"

"But don't I still have the Dao Birth Pearl? I can wait until after becoming a True Lord and see..."

Having made up his mind, Fang Qing instead found his thoughts clear. He took out another jade slip and transcribed, one by one with his divine sense, the two inheritances he had acquired earlier.

"This Cloud Sea Hidden Scale Scripture and Gongsun's Reflections on Watching Clouds belong to [Zhen Water] and happen to complement the 'Standing at the Abyss' I obtained before. Each of the three divine abilities holds its own mysteries; they have very little conflict within the Purple Palace and can smoothly achieve a [Zhen Water] Great True Person... More importantly, they share the water virtue with [Ji Water], so I can draw some reference from them. That should greatly speed up my compilation of the 'Primal Spring Ripples' divine ability chapter..."

As for Scattered Wood True Person's set of inheritances?

He placed far less importance on them. He merely studied the "Bridge Sinks the Moon" divine ability in detail. It required consuming two streams of true qi, which was somewhat interesting, and could also borrow a little of the profound mysteries of the lunar yin. It was rather novel...

Time flowed like water; the years sped by like a shuttle.

Fang Qing immersed himself in secluded cultivation, and in the blink of an eye, five or six cycles of cold and heat had passed...

"Mm... After several