Heavenly Dao Sect, Heavenly Secrets Hall.
Shen Xiu sat cross-legged on a cushion at the center of the main hall, gripping the golden Jade Slip in his hand as his mind sank completely into it. The contents recorded within the Jade Slip far exceeded his imagination—it was not merely a cultivation art for breaking through to the Saint Emperor Realm, but also the insights into Heaven and Earth Law accumulated by generations of Heavenly Dao Sect patriarchs, the ultimate understanding of the "Dao."
Time trickled away second by second. The light in the hall faded from bright to dim, then brightened again. One day passed, then two, then three. Shen Xiu remained motionless on the cushion like a statue. His breathing became exceedingly slow, his heartbeat exceedingly faint, as though his entire body had entered some deep state of hibernation. Yet his soul was operating madly, like a top spinning at high speed, digesting, absorbing, and integrating the information within the Jade Slip bit by bit.
The Saint Emperor Realm was a massive watershed on the path of cultivation.
The Saint Emperor Realm and the Saint Venerable Realm cultivated "power"—the quantity of spiritual power, its quality, and its application. No matter how powerful one became, it was still only an advancement on the level of "power." But the Saint Emperor Realm cultivated "law"—Heaven and Earth Law. Saint Emperor Realm experts no longer simply wielded spiritual power; they could mobilize the power of the laws between heaven and earth, using laws as weapons and laws as shields. Every move contained the might of heaven and earth, and every gesture could alter the course of battle.
The key to breaking through to the Saint Emperor Realm lay in "comprehending the Dao." It was not cultivation, not accumulation, but comprehension. Comprehending the most