Rollback
The Earth Aspect Lodge of the Earth Master Sect, where Old Daoist Wu belonged, was also a rather unusual branch among the Three Master Dao lineages.
The founding patriarch of the Earth Aspect Lodge was known as "Patriarch Ji." His identity and origins had always been a mystery. Even the Black Register and Azure Record ledgers of merits and sins kept by the Netherworld's underworld offices contained no information whatsoever on him. He was practically a figure out of legend.
Any disciple of the Earth Master Sect who cultivated their divine soul to the realm of Great Cheng became qualified to enter the Earth Aspect Lodge and pay respects to the ancestral image of the Earth Master Sect's patriarch.
Once the worship succeeded, they would be granted a strange divine ability that could be called "time reversal."
Earth Master Sect cultivators visualized a divine temple within the void of their mind-sea. By lighting a stick of heart-incense within it, they could gain one chance to reverse time over the next twelve hours.
Each time they activated time reversal, they could return to the moment when they had lit the heart-incense—as though creating a "save point."
In other words, so long as it was within the next twelve hours, the span of a single day, no matter when they were killed, they could return to the point where they had "saved."
To the Earth Master Sect's many cultivators, this was extremely important. A save point could be called the key to preserving one's life.
As long as they cleverly made use of this ability, "time reversal," cultivators from the Earth Aspect Lodge could evade all manner of dangers and nimbly maneuver through the pursuit of various immortal sects, aristocratic clans, and deities such as City Gods and Earth Gods.
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