The secret art of the "Three Bodies and Six Spirits" was undoubtedly a superior Daoist method. He Ping studied it carefully and grasped its mysteries.
Although the Formless Secret Treasury was divided into five volumes, the core Daoist methods in every volume involved spirit refinement and meditation. All could nurture the self from within and possessed immeasurable, irreplaceable value for strengthening one's mental power and condensing the soul.
"One can begin with any volume, and the order of cultivation does not matter. On the contrary, obtaining the core methods of the other volumes can make up for one's own deficiencies..."
The Nine Soul Palaces focused on condensing the soul. Once the soul had grown stronger, when cultivating the Living Puppet Art, one could supplement it with the Four Limbs and Five Senses of the "Body Cultivation Furnace," thereby compensating for the puppet body's flaw of having no sensory awareness.
As for the "Three Bodies and Six Spirits," on one hand, it could profoundly transform a puppet body. On the other, it could create the gods of the internal organs from nothing through a living puppet body, ultimately perfecting the transition from soul to Yin Spirit.
"Once I fully master the core Daoist method of this volume, entering the Dao through the Formless Secret Treasury will not be difficult. However, the Immortal Puppet Sect's Dao-entry method is rather unusual. It does not support cultivating other methods alongside it. In particular, the Five Oaths of the Puppet Sect still affect me to some degree. If I forcibly enter the Dao, it will inevitably cause problems—perhaps even interfere with my Dao entry midway..."
After all, the Five Oaths of the Puppet Sect might be a trap Wu Yousheng had laid, a back door he had left behind. Attempting to enter the Dao would