Spiritual light flickered between Jiang Ding's fingers. The six orders within his Sword Qi revolved, formed, and dissolved, rearranging themselves again and again as he sought the sixfold structure best suited to him.
The Sword Qi's aura rose and fell erratically, collapsing and exploding from time to time.
Only once, by sheer luck, had its aura grown a little stronger. But the principles behind it and what had caused it remained shrouded in fog. Even his soul, seven times stronger than others at his level, could not scan it clearly. All was chaos.
"I can't work this out by hand."
"I need to build a grand formation, or an ultra-high-standard laboratory. I wonder if the Immortal Sect has anything like that..."
Jiang Ding stopped trying to explore further.
This was the difficulty of creating a breakthrough cultivation method. One person alone simply could not do it; too many external conditions were lacking.
When ordinary sects encountered this situation, they generally waited until their cultivators grew stronger. After advancing to Void Refining, for example, their souls' computational power, perception, and scanning ability would improve by leaps and bounds. Only then could they continue exploring. Otherwise, inspiration remained nothing more than inspiration, with a long road between it and a real result.
As for solving it with a formation?
That was another difficult problem, one that likewise had to wait until he advanced to a higher realm.
It was a paradox.
In the cultivation world, it was usually the strongest cultivators who explored the road ahead. There was a reason for that; many factors had brought it about.
Even the Immortal Sect could not escape this rule.
The difference was that the Immortal Sect had followed this path since its weakest days. By now, it had developed the relevant academic foundations, immortal-path