Cang Ming's question successfully drew everyone's attention to Lin Yi's cultivation path.
They had all gone through this stage and knew full well how crucial the choice of rules was to the path that followed.
For a moment, everyone's gaze focused on the youngest junior brother, who had joined the sect most recently.
Lin Yi immediately felt an invisible pressure, but he understood that this was not only a test, but also guidance. Besides, it was an opportunity to gain resources and learn about the temperaments of his powerful senior brothers and sisters.
He took a deep breath and pondered briefly before replying, "To answer Ninth Senior Brother and all my senior brothers and sisters, after careful consideration, I truly do intend to comprehend the Space Rule as my next one."
"The Space Rule? A Higher-Order Rule?"
At his words, a flicker of surprise passed through the eyes of several senior brothers and sisters.
On the path from Star Domain Rank to Yan Realm, one needed to comprehend nine rules.
Among them, Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth were the five foundational rules. Though their names differed across civilizations and texts, the underlying principles were the same.
These five foundational rules were essential to completing the Star Domain Rank and attempting to create an inner world. So regardless of the order in which one studied them, anyone seeking to advance to Yan Realm would eventually have to comprehend them.
Aside from the five foundational rules, the others fell into three categories.
Advanced rules, higher rules, and Higher-Order Rules.
Advanced rules were single offshoots that strengthened one of the five foundational rules. Frost and Blazing Sun, for example, were advanced rules.
Rules such as Life, Death, Light, Darkness, Illusion, and Destruction, which developed through the fusion of multiple foundational rules, were