Li Su drew a deep breath. The problem with the Nine Tribulations Scripture was actually that the greater environment itself did not permit it. That truly caught him off guard.
No wonder the sects of the Nine Provinces no longer cared about body-tempering arts, and most believed this path had already been severed, impossible to continue cultivating.
The root of it was probably here.
Even if both races had suffered devastating losses in the War of Witches and Demons, and those ancient clans had been completely wiped out, the Witch Clan's arts should not have vanished so thoroughly. After all, in all these years, Li Su had obtained only one body-tempering art. His Golden Core physique had in fact been achieved entirely through his talent. Whether in the Hundred Demons Palace, the Azure Luan Sect, or even the Heavenly Corpse Sect, he had never seen anything related to body tempering.
It had truly been abandoned far too completely.
Even if no one cultivated them, some classics could still have been preserved, allowing people to draw inferences from them and gain insight from different perspectives.
If the greater environment did not permit it, then everything made sense.
Once things became like this, even a complete cultivation art would develop problems so long as one practiced it. Naturally, people would question it and conclude that the art itself was flawed.
Once that way of thinking took hold, it would be a miracle if the Witch Clan's arts could have been preserved.
If the cultivation art itself was problematic, then would using it to draw inferences not produce problematic conclusions as well?
Li Su rubbed the center of his brow, a chill creeping down his spine.
The Nine Tribulations Scripture he had acquired was extraordinarily powerful. Not only could it stack his combat