Five thousand years of contemplating the Dao.
Five thousand years studying the cultivation arts in the scripture repository of the Anyun Protectorate.
From the most ordinary Qi Refining arts to the most exalted scriptures, Jiang Ding read and worked to understand them all. He made notes on anything he could not grasp, leaving it for the future.
Was the finest inheritance of an immortal cultivation civilization found in its one or two supreme Immortal Dynasty scriptures?
No!
It was not!
Its finest inheritance lay in the Immortal Dynasty's entire body of immortal cultivation knowledge, in its most fundamental theories. As long as that system endured, supreme scriptures would continue to emerge.
This was teaching someone to fish. That was the fundamental principle. If he mastered and integrated the Immortal Dynasty's inheritance, he might one day create a supreme Immortal Dynasty scripture himself.
In fact, that was the true and open road!
A True Immortal Heir had to forge his own path.
The Human Emperor's scriptures belonged to the Human Emperor. Those who imitated him and followed established rules might become Eight-Tribulation Supremes, but True Immortal Heirs arose only among those who carved out their own paths. That road could not be copied.
"How many brilliant heroes did the Myriad Laws Immortal Dynasty produce...?"
Jiang Ding murmured, shaken to his core.
As he studied the Myriad Laws Immortal Dynasty's system of immortal cultivation inheritance, his own system advanced in leaps and bounds. It became more efficient, more complete, and more in accord with the science of immortal cultivation.
At this moment, the Great Sun Sword Heir's sword cultivation system had surpassed that of the present-day Fallen Immortal Realm by an entire level. He had selectively absorbed the Myriad Laws Immortal Dynasty's system into his own. The foundations of an immensely deep,