Guangning City.
The Inspection Office.
Inside the study.
[Literacy experience +13] [Literacy experience +15] [Literacy experience +17] [...]
Jiang Ning was wholly absorbed in Ninefold True-Spirit Metamorphosis, and his Literacy experience kept rising.
A long while passed.
He finished reading the writing on the thin golden sheet, then slowly looked away.
[Reading Ninefold True-Spirit Metamorphosis increased Literacy experience by 3,147 in total] [Skill]: Literacy (Elevenfold Limit-Breaking 12180/30000) (Traits: Photographic Memory, Dao Follows Nature)
He glanced at the panel and closed it.
His experience had not yet reached halfway, so there was no need to pay it much attention.
Then a thoughtful look entered his eyes.
His close reading had taught him much about Ninefold True-Spirit Metamorphosis.
It was a method for nine blood exchanges.
Or rather, it did not strictly require any particular number of exchanges.
One could perform one, three, or five.
Or one could perform nine.
The key lay in anchoring the True Spirit and understanding the true self.
Each blood exchange brought the body from dormancy into new life. Each was a chance to understand the true self and seek the True Spirit.
Each was also a metamorphosis of life.
Through exchange after exchange, metamorphosis after metamorphosis, and revelation after revelation of the true self, one would ultimately find that wisp of True Spirit one had possessed since birth.
According to Ninefold True-Spirit Metamorphosis,
a person was born as the reincarnation of a wisp of True Spirit.
The True Spirit was the original self, the original source.
Through reincarnation after reincarnation, through passage after passage into the cycle of rebirth, however one changed, that wisp of True Spirit determined everything.
And the Ninefold True-Spirit Metamorphosis method was about anchoring the True Spirit and understanding the true self, again and again.
The crucial part