Seeing Through Hidden Secrets, Seizing the Initiative

"Although, starting with the Dharma Rhyme True-Form Diagram at Foundation Establishment, one could already resonate with a Spirit Transformation Dao Lord through a mingling of thought-force and Daoist arts."

"However."

"A Spirit Transformation Dao Lord could never rely solely on the resonance and response generated by younger disciples cultivating the Dharma Rhyme True-Form Diagram for their own cultivation!"

"Never!"

"The Moral Immortal Sect's vast collection of Daoist texts and notes cited case after detailed case on this point, even though this was already the new method's revised Incense Divine Power, made more compatible with resonance in Daoist arts."

"If one did nothing but draw upon the thought-force generated by those younger disciples' resonance and response, then, given enough time, a Spirit Transformation Dao Lord would still inevitably come to resemble an ancient god."

"They would inevitably become an ancient god!"

"And if, in that skewed state, they stubbornly resisted becoming an ancient god, a Spirit Transformation Dao Lord would be driven to the opposite extreme in a very short time—becoming an earth immortal!"

"Whether one became an ancient god or an earth immortal, both were dead ends in this age!"

"Dead ends with no path forward whatsoever, paths for which even the world and its ten thousand Daos were no longer suited!"

"In cultivating at this realm, the resonance and response arising from present-day practitioners were indispensable resources. But they could never be all one's cultivation resources. They should, in fact, make up less than half."

"The greater share of cultivation resources..."

"Had to come from one's own Blessed-Land Domain!"

"From this point on, a Spirit Transformation Dao Lord holding the Mountain Gate could throw open their Blessed-Land Domain, taking in the finest prodigies before they had even embarked on the Dao."

"From the outset, those prodigies would sense the