Speaking of Daoist cultivation.
In the realm of integrating the Three Origins of yin and yang, the Profound Essence Treatise, in Liu Dongqing's eyes, was already flawless and beyond improvement!
But when it came to newer, flashier wondrous methods within it—
Or even all manner of intriguing ideas beyond Daoist arts—
Then—
Having lived two lives and "read widely in wet books," Liu Dongqing still had much to say!
Thus—
After delivering teachings like this, he would exchange them for a stick of incense embodying the Way of Enlightenment from the literary lineage, using it to kindle additional inspiration along his path of cultivating the Three Arts Unification.
Following the guidance of the Divine Firmament Dao Sect's forebears, he arduously carved out his own Daoist bearing through this process of cultivation.
Liu Dongqing and Zhuang Wanqing repeated this more than ten times within an exceedingly brief span of time!
Each time their figures vanished from where they stood, only to return out of thin air moments later—
The smile on Zhuang Wanqing's face grew ever more luxuriant, ever more satisfied.
By the end, even someone like Liu Dongqing found that smile somewhat "demonic."
But at this moment—
Liu Dongqing had little energy left to investigate what exactly had happened during Zhuang Wanqing and Bai Jianqing's Dao-Strife Combat.
For over a dozen incense sticks, and over a dozen rounds of the literary lineage's power demonstrating and guiding him through wondrous enlightenment methods—
Each time—
Liu Dongqing had traveled an immensely long distance in his own explorations.
With the aid of merely the first few incense sticks—
Liu Dongqing's Innate Thunder of Tremor could already manifest, in the form of vast and intricate thunder seal formations, the four star-chart formations of [Horn Wood Dragon], [Dipper Wood Unicorn], [Legs Wood Wolf], and [Well