Succession of the Torch, Everlasting

Before Ancestor Sui, Jiang Yuan did not conceal anything and gave a rough account of his recent experiences. However, he omitted the part about the Creation Jade Disk, only saying he had encountered another opportunity.

Among cultivators, who doesn't have a few secrets?

Thus, Ancestor Sui did not press Jiang Yuan on what his opportunity was, but instead grew very curious about the Breathing Method he had created and began to study it seriously.

"A Breathing Method, how interesting. By adjusting the way one breathes, you improve the efficiency of absorbing spiritual energy. This cultivation technique of yours complements my Torch Method quite well."

With his cultivation at the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, Ancestor Sui saw through all the mysteries of the Breathing Method with just a few glances, and then praised it.

"It cannot compare to the Torch Method!"

Jiang Yuan was not being modest. Just moments ago, Ancestor Sui had implanted a torch in him, and he was stunned.

The Torch Method was too overpowering. It was not an active skill but a passive one. Once a torch was implanted in the body, there was no need to cultivate—just breathing normally would make one stronger.

In the current Primordial World, innate spiritual energy was abundant. Even Acquired Living Beings would unconsciously inhale some spiritual energy while breathing.

However, merely inhaling spiritual energy was useless. One had to find a way to refine it and keep it in the body.

What Acquired Living Beings lacked was precisely this: though they could absorb spiritual energy, they could not refine it.

The emergence of the torch undoubtedly made up for this. By planting a wisp of torch in the body, spiritual energy entering the body would be refined by the torch, becoming nourishment for growth.

This turned cultivation into an instinct—as long as one was alive, one was cultivating. Compared to this, the Breathing Method Jiang Yuan had created was indeed nothing special.

Of course, that did not mean Jiang Yuan's Breathing Method was meaningless. On the contrary, his Breathing Method was very significant and could complement the Torch Method.

No matter how good the Torch Method's refining effect was, what use was it if you didn't inhale much spiritual energy into your body?

The same went for the Breathing Method. No matter how much spiritual energy you inhaled, if you couldn't refine it, it was useless.

Using both together was the true path, greatly improving cultivation efficiency and shortening the time needed to break through realms.

That was why Ancestor Sui praised the Breathing Method Jiang Yuan had created. He had gone from zero to one but hadn't yet figured out how to go from one to many, and Jiang Yuan had given him a surprise by walking the subsequent path.

The Breathing Method was the continuation of the Torch Method.

In the future, the Human Race would take the Torch Method as its foundation and, following Jiang Yuan's ideas, create more Breathing Methods.

"The Torch Method is good, but there is one problem that needs solving. Right now, our people are few, so implanting them one by one is no issue."

"But as time passes, our numbers will surely grow. Then, Ancestor Sui, you will certainly be too busy. How to implant torches in all our people will become a major problem."

Thinking of the terrifying reproductive speed of his people, Jiang Yuan suddenly spoke with worry.

"You truly possess great wisdom. I have thought of this too and already have a solution. But I still want to hear your idea."

Ancestor Sui smiled, his gaze toward Jiang Yuan growing more satisfied. He had many descendants, but one as intelligent as Jiang Yuan was the first.

"I only have a little cleverness, not great wisdom. The solution I can think of, many others can too. It's simply to bind the torch to bloodline and then pass it down through inheritance."

"That way, as long as all our people are implanted with torches, their descendants will be born with torches and won't need to be implanted again."

Jiang Yuan was truly not being modest. His greatest strength was self-awareness—he knew his own limits.

"Yes, that is indeed a solution, but it's not enough." Ancestor Sui paused here, then spoke gravely:

"Except for Sages, everyone will die, including immortals and gods."

"Our Human Race has Heavenly Immortals, Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, and in the future will have Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals, and even Quasi-Saint Realm cultivators."

"After they die, the torches within them will also go out, which is a great waste. So, I have linked the torch to the Human Race's destiny."

"Thus, whenever an immortal or god of our race falls, the Human Race's destiny will shatter their torch into countless fragments before it goes out, scattering them randomly into the bodies of our people, to benefit future generations."

After Ancestor Sui finished, Jiang Yuan couldn't help but tremble. So this was what Succession of the Torch and endless continuity meant. With Ancestor Sui's method, the future Human Race would never lack prodigies.

Could the torch fragments of immortals and gods be compared to the torches of ordinary cultivators? The former's efficiency in refining spiritual energy far surpassed the latter's, even by tens of thousands of times.

And most crucially, Ancestor Sui's method broke the limitation of bloodline, being completely random. This gave ordinary people a chance to rise.

Without a powerful bloodline, one could still rise by relying on the torch fragments of immortals and gods.

Huh?

Wasn't this the special physiques of later generations!

Those who could contend with the God-Devil Bloodline were often prodigies with special physiques.

Everyone knew where the God-Devil Bloodline came from—passed down from ancestors. But special physiques—could they appear out of thin air?

Now Jiang Yuan understood. So-called special physiques were formed from the torch fragments of immortals and gods. They merged into the bodies of ordinary humans, transforming into various powerful special physiques.

"Ancestor Sui, you are truly brilliant!"

At this moment, Jiang Yuan was genuinely in awe of Ancestor Sui. This was a true great wise one.

Since ancient times, the path of cultivation in the Primordial World had always been tied to bloodline. Even someone as powerful as the Ancestral Dragon could not bypass this.

Yet Ancestor Sui could find a different path, bypassing the limitation of bloodline to create special physiques.

This...

How to put it? The last person to bypass the limitation of bloodline was Hongjun Daoist, the first Sage of the Primordial World, now revered as the Dao Ancestor.

Ancestor Sui's wisdom was nearly that of the Dao Ancestor!

"You're still too modest. Compared to you, my wisdom is nothing."

Ancestor Sui smiled, then suddenly turned very serious as he looked at Jiang Yuan.

The Breathing Method was good, but it was merely a minor path, nothing truly great. What really made Ancestor Sui value Jiang Yuan was another technique he had created.

A method that could allow Acquired Living Beings to skip the Primordial Bloodline and True Spirit Bloodline, directly awakening the God-Devil Bloodline.

That was the key point. Even the mighty Dragon Race and Demon Race couldn't make all their descendants awaken the God-Devil Bloodline, but Jiang Yuan's method could let the Human Race achieve this.

What did that mean?

Even if awakening the God-Devil Bloodline didn't guarantee an Ancestral Return into an Innate God or Devil, it at least made it possible.

And for a race where all members had the potential for an Ancestral Return into Innate Gods and Devils, the implications for their potential were clear—they would inevitably become the future overlords of the Primordial World.

This was Jiang Yuan's method, giving the Human Race the possibility of becoming the Primordial World's overlords. With this in mind, how could Ancestor Sui not value Jiang Yuan?

Inside the Kun Fish's belly, Jiang Yuan had made his body cycle endlessly between destruction and rebirth in order to awaken a stronger bloodline.

In the end, he got what he wanted and awakened the Innate God-Devil Bloodline.

And based on that experience, along with the negligible help of the Creation Jade Disk, he created a Body Refining Method that could allow others to awaken stronger bloodlines.