[At a thought from you, the wind and snow around you seemed to lose their pull and stopped gathering toward you.]
[Snowflakes fell into the courtyard like goose feathers.]
[The fifth technique of the Hidden Talisman Scripture corresponded to Object Driving, the fifth realm of Divine Soul cultivation.]
[The realm was easy enough to understand: it allowed one to move objects with the Divine Soul. It was the first step toward the legendary "flying sword that took a head from a thousand miles away."]
[You could now move a brush to write on paper. Keeping the snowflakes in the courtyard from touching the ground was already your limit.]
[Just then!]
[The snow drifting down from the sky thinned considerably.]
[Lu Hua said from the side, "The Bird of Prey Corpse-Devouring Method harms the harmony of heaven. If all I had weren't these perfectly ordinary Daoist Heavenly Arts, I would never have passed the Hidden Talisman Scripture on to you so readily."]
["But if you're willing to join the Three Truths Sect now, you'll be finding your way back from the wrong path and leaving darkness for the light. When that happens, what difficulty would there be in granting you a few Heavenly Arts manuals that lead straight to the Ninth Primordial Spirit Realm?"]
[The Three Truths Sect had three thousand years of heritage. Generations of patriarchs had built upon it, so it had naturally accumulated several Daoist Heavenly Arts.]
[The tenth Divine Soul realm, the Yang Spirit, however, remained elusive and impossible to grasp. Only one's own insight could bring it within reach.]
[That was what the Buddhist School called "affinity" or "fortune." One day, the Academy's Third Master saw an old tree greet spring and put forth new branches, and that very day he entered the Yang Spirit realm!]