From what he saw before him, combined with the knowledge he had gained from later generations, Jiang Yuan had a vague idea. He immediately focused all his attention on developing it.
The wonders of the Daluo Realm lay in eternal freedom.
In this state of mind, Jiang Yuan encountered no obstacles as he worked out the method. Before long, he had smoothly created the technique he wanted.
He would transform the runes into great acupoints in the human body, hide them within the body, and pass them down through the bloodline.
That way, if future generations of the Human Race wanted to master Blood Rebirth, all they had to do was open the great acupoints hidden within their bodies, one by one, and they would naturally acquire the ability.
They would no longer need to risk their bodies breaking apart as he had, refining every Innate Rune into themselves.
"Where is this so-called peace and ease? It's all because those who came before bore the burden and suffered through every hardship of creating a method."
"So when it's the later generations' turn, they don't have to suffer so much. They just need to follow the path their predecessors opened, step by step, and they'll reach the same heights."
Jiang Yuan stopped cultivating and sighed with deep feeling.
Now he finally understood how difficult it was to create a method. Whatever the undertaking, the pioneer always had the hardest time. There was no experience to draw on, and they had to find a way to overcome every obstacle they encountered.
Once the creator had found a way through, they not only cleared the obstacles from the path but also left behind precious experience for those who came after.
So when later generations walked the same path, wouldn't it naturally become easier?
Take Jiang Yuan's method, for example. As an Acquired Living Being, he had recklessly tried to refine Innate Runes into his body, risking its destruction every time.
But his successors wouldn't have to. He had successfully created the method, transforming the Innate Runes already refined into his body into acupoints and hiding them within, making them an inborn talent of the Human Race.
Thus, later generations naturally wouldn't need to refine Innate Runes themselves. Those runes were already within them, hidden inside one great acupoint after another.
They only needed to open those great acupoints to master the corresponding runes and, in turn, gain the ability of Blood Rebirth.
Talents might be said to be inborn, but in the end, they were the legacy of one's forebears.
Otherwise, if all the living beings of the Primordial World belonged to the same world, why would every race have different talents? Wasn't it because some ancestors had been stronger than others?
The stronger the ancestors, the stronger the talents they passed down. Conversely, weak ancestors couldn't pass on powerful talents.
"This method creation was supposedly a success, but in truth, I've only completed half of it. The other half is beyond what I can do right now."
After his excitement faded, Jiang Yuan began to lament his cultivation level. He was still too weak. There were many things he could think of but couldn't accomplish.
For instance, passing down the method...
He wasn't the source of the Human Race's bloodline. So even though he had successfully created the method and turned the Innate Runes into acupoints hidden in his body, he could only pass it on to his descendants, not spread it throughout the entire race.
After all, his method was passed down through bloodlines, and most of the tribe members weren't related to him by blood.
Normally, he would need to become the source of the Human Race's bloodline. Then he could imprint the method onto his bloodline and, through the connection between bloodlines, pass the seeds of the method to every member of the race.
"The source of the Human Race's bloodline is Lady Nuwa. To awaken the Empress Wa Bloodline, one must first reach the Heavenly Immortal Realm. Only a Heavenly Immortal can bear the sacred power contained in that bloodline."
He had successfully created the method, but to pass it on, he would first have to become a Heavenly Immortal. Therefore, Jiang Yuan's next goal was to reach that realm as soon as possible.
"Becoming a Heavenly Immortal shouldn't be difficult for me. If I don't hold back on spending Merit, I can do it in ten years."
"But reaching the Creation Heavenly Immortal described in the Creation Scripture will take decades, or even over a century, even with Merit to help."
Thinking of the method for becoming a Creation Heavenly Immortal recorded in the Creation Scripture, Jiang Yuan felt a headache coming on.
Blood Rebirth was only the beginning. Next came Myriad Transformations: the freedom to adjust one's body and change into other races.
This transformation wasn't an illusion. It completely changed one's origin, making the body exactly like the real thing and granting it all the talents and abilities of the form it took.
Once that was achieved, Myriad Transformations would be complete. Then, by mastering nine transformation methods, one could raise their cultivation to the peak of the Void Refining Realm.
After that came ascension to Heavenly Immortal.
This was the hardest part. First, the nine transformations had to be separated from the body, each becoming an independent incarnation. Then they had to be fused together to form the Creation Dao Fruit.
At that point, one would become a Creation Heavenly Immortal, peerless among those of the same realm in combat and possessed of nine extra lives.
That was right—the most heaven-defying aspect of the Creation Scripture was that each incarnation was a life. Nine incarnations meant nine lives. Ninety incarnations meant ninety lives, making one incredibly difficult to kill.
It sounded wonderful, and it truly was. But becoming a Creation Heavenly Immortal was far too difficult. The hard part wasn't forming the nine incarnations, but figuring out how to fuse them together.
The nine incarnations were nine bombs. A single misstep while fusing them could blow a person's body and spirit to smithereens.
This wasn't a breakthrough at all. It was a deadly tribulation: survive it and live; fail and die.
"This cultivation method is too dangerous. Practicing it is practically nine deaths for every chance of survival. Fortunately, I have the Creation Jade Disk. Otherwise, no matter how good it was, I wouldn't dare cultivate it."
Jiang Yuan glanced at the Creation Jade Disk in his sea of consciousness and felt reassured. He prepared to go outside and see how many Fierce Beasts the tribe's Heavenly Immortals had hunted for him during his years of seclusion.
The easiest way to form the nine incarnations was still through eating. The stronger the Fierce Beasts he ate, the faster he could form his incarnations.
"Yuan, you're out of seclusion. The tribe members have hunted quite a few Fierce Beasts for you over the past few years. They're all stored here. Take a look and see if there are enough."
"If not, just tell us."
Outside, when the Heavenly Immortal responsible for guarding Jiang Yuan saw him emerge from seclusion, he immediately brought out the Fierce Beast corpses he had been storing.
There were more than a hundred corpses, large and small. Piled together, they stood ten thousand zhang high, like a small mountain.
Jiang Yuan stepped forward and took a look. Some were familiar to him, such as Kun Fish, Dragon Whale, and Ox Python, while others were unknown.
But without exception, they all emanated powerful auras. The weakest were at the Half-Step Heavenly Immortal level, and ten of them had even reached the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
"That should be enough, right?"
Jiang Yuan reckoned that even if he needed dozens or hundreds of times more resources than an ordinary person, these Fierce Beast corpses ought to suffice.
"As long as it's enough."
The Heavenly Immortal smiled and left.
Afterward, Jiang Yuan put away the Fierce Beast corpses. Instead of returning to cultivate, he summoned his students to inspect their progress.
Jiang Yuan hadn't forgotten that he was responsible for educating the tribe members. He wasn't just teaching them the Body Refining Method; he also had to teach them to read and write, and to think for themselves.
While he was at it, he would also put them to work, directing them to gather materials and try making paper.