Source Marrow, Blessed by Heaven

"Patriarch Tai Shuo... Celestial Venerable Taishuo..."

As Liu Dongqing sensed the inspiration gradually taking shape in his mind, he murmured the names softly.

Even though he was a notorious "slacker" of the Innate Sacred Sect,

Liu Dongqing had worked hard during his early years of cultivation and lectures at Sunward Dao Academy. He had memorized the entire lineage and history of the Innate Sacred Sect.

This secret scripture of the Nayin Five Elements Path had long been buried in the dust and ashes of time. It had vanished so completely that the Innate Sacred Sect's records of its lineage made no mention of it.

But Liu Dongqing remembered Celestial Venerable Taishuo well.

That was because, by order of ascension, he ranked among the earliest of the Innate Sacred Sect's Celestial Venerables to attain the Dao in an exceedingly ancient age!

If necessary, Liu Dongqing could even recite fragments of that ancient patriarch's honorific invocation.

In that ancient age, before the Zhaijiao Ritual had taken its present form in the Era of Dao Strife, ten thousand paths had shone in splendor. Yet the age had also been truly chaotic and lawless. To tower over an entire era and attain the Dao as a Celestial Venerable then—

That had been harder than in the later Era of Dao Strife by no one knew how much.

But regardless of the era,

Whether one cultivated the old arts or the new, anyone who became a Celestial Venerable had to be the most gifted of countless generations of prodigies and monsters across at least ten thousand years!

And a secret scripture created by such a peerless monster

Was proof enough of the Nayin Five Elements Secret Scripture's worth!

It made sense.

Had this scripture truly flourished within the Innate Sacred Sect,

The sect, seated in