"At last, I've broken through to Dharma Possessing True Spirit!"
He Ping let out a long breath. He had been stuck at this realm for a very long time, never expecting to break through so easily.
"But honestly, my cultivation had already reached this level. I was only lacking that final sliver of opportunity. Once that sliver was fulfilled, advancement naturally followed, like water flowing into its channel, and perfection came of itself."
Originally, he had thought he would need to borrow methods from the divine path system—using the Dao foundations of the Ten Thousand Spirits Sect and the Fragrance Sect—to find a path to breakthrough. Who would have thought that sensing the Gods and Devils Diagram would give him such astonishing inspiration, allowing him to shatter his own limits?
"The Gods and Devils Diagram, in other words, the Clear Void Orthodoxy, is also connected to the divine path system. But the predecessors of the Clear Void Lineage did not seek to establish divine lords—they sought to create gods and devils. In the past, the so-called secret demons of the heavens were also divided into upper, middle, and lower altars. The highest achievement of Soul-Refining Demon Transformation is not creating demons, but creating gods."
There was one problem here: to create gods, one needed to rely on divine path rites and draw upon the Incense and Fire Prayer Power of all living beings, because so-called "gods" had to be forged through the power of "faith."
Believe, and they are numinous; disbelieve, and they fade away. The faith power of mortal beings was the source of Incense and Fire Prayer Power. That was the essence of the divine path.
Otherwise, did one truly expect ordinary mortals to burn a few sticks of incense, light some candles, make a few wishes, and