Choosing a Cultivation Method: Profound Heaven Origin Scripture

Lu Qing steadied his state of mind and felt a faint sensation of strength greater than before flowing through his body.

"So this is cultivation."

He prepared to head to the Library Tower.

The Library Tower stood nine stories high, each floor covering enough ground to encompass several cities.

There was no legendary sweeping monk at the entrance. Every disciple passed through a thin formation before entering the Library Tower.

The moment he entered, Lu Qing was stunned by the sheer size of the first floor.

Before this, he had not truly grasped it.

But this Library Pavilion could no longer be called a building, could it?

From the entrance onward, countless rows of bookshelves stood in immaculate order. More spell jade slips than could be counted glimmered with soft light, while disciples in purple and green robes streamed in and out. The scene was truly magnificent.

"There's a whole Cosmos within."

Lu Qing was slightly astonished.

Having entered by swiping his Jade Token, he now needed to search for cultivation arts suitable for himself.

He also had to see whether he had enough Spirit Stones.

One hundred Spirit Stones.

He wondered what sort of spells that could exchange for.

Because he had dripped blood onto his Jade Token to recognize it as his master, after entering cultivation, he could use his divine sense to actively establish that faint connection.

This place was far too vast, and there were simply too many jade slips containing all kinds of spells.

Who knew how long it would take to inspect them one by one?

Thus, before entering the Library Tower, there had been a dedicated notice board erected before its formation, reminding newly initiated disciples of the precautions concerning the Library Tower.

There were not many rules, and Lu Qing had already committed them to memory.

Among them was this search-and-filter function.

He stirred that thread of divine sense. With Meridian Opening Realm cultivation, he had shed the impurities of mortality.

"Meridian Opening Realm; new disciple; under one hundred Spirit Stones; foundational; capable of transitioning into other cultivation methods."

That was all Lu Qing considered for now.

After entering several combined criteria, there was a boom, and the scenery before Lu Qing abruptly changed. The vast ocean of jade slips and techniques, once like a starry sky, vanished from sight.

Looking again, Lu Qing discovered that it had not vanished. When he looked down at his feet, indistinct patterns were operating beneath him.

When he looked toward the direction he had come from, he was already a great distance from the entrance.

So he had been moved without realizing it.

Lu Qing suddenly felt that he had still underestimated this Dao Academy he had joined.

Looking ahead again, the previous scene had disappeared, replaced by clusters of light that contained jade slips.

Even after filtering, there were at least several hundred of them in Lu Qing's estimation.

He grabbed a ball of light. With a pop—like water flowing over his palm, a cool sensation entered his hand, and a method called Carefree Formula appeared in his mind.

The method naturally had a Restriction, allowing him to see only a small portion of its contents. What appeared more prominently were the messages left upon this jade slip method.

They were words left behind by seniors who had cultivated this spell throughout the ages.

They served as both warnings and guidance.

"This method cultivates movement arts. Upon reaching minor mastery, one's movement technique takes form. Yet great mastery tests one's comprehension. Those lacking comprehension, do not lead yourselves astray."

"!!Trash technique! It wasted a full ten years of my youth! Never choose it!"

"Are you a genius? A heaven's chosen? A monstrous prodigy? If not, stay far away from it."

"You can still reach minor mastery through bitter cultivation, but this Carefree Formula is incomplete. If you wish to cultivate it, you must bear the consequences."

Three warnings in a row—very grave warnings.

Lu Qing was not afraid of taking a long time, but neither was he stubbornly determined to walk a road different from everyone else's.

There were plenty of complete paths here. He had no need to challenge himself with an incomplete cultivation method.

He selected several more balls of light and examined the methods one by one. Although Lu Qing felt his mental state was excellent and his energy abundant, the repeated weighing of so many choices still left him feeling that his stamina was insufficient.

That was what he thought, but from an outsider's perspective, his selection speed was already quite fast.

Lu Qing knew his own circumstances. With his cheat, he did not need to worry about anything else, nor did he need to fear the despair of insufficient Lifespan.

Movement cultivation methods, offensive spells, daily cultivation methods.

One hundred Spirit Stones simply were not enough, so he could only choose his Life-Bound Cultivation Method first.

He chose Profound Heaven Origin Scripture.

"Not bad. Among the superior Dao arts available to newly initiated disciples, there are only a dozen or so choices anyway. Those with abundant Spirit Stones are another matter."

"The only drawback is that it's somewhat slow. I replaced it once I reached the Origin Core Realm. I still prefer leaving the mountain to fight and kill."

"I like the Spirit Essence Sword Transformation within it, but it's very difficult to cultivate."

"Not bad, not bad. Those who cultivate this Profound Heaven Origin Scripture in the future, remember this: this cultivation method is quite good. As for those saying it takes too long to cultivate, that is purely because their aptitude and comprehension are insufficient. Besides, we cultivators must still take things one step at a time."

"It combines escape arts, protective methods, and cultivation into one. This is the one."

Its reviews were good as well—steady and unremarkable, with no hidden pitfalls. It was another superior Dao art, and its only drawback was probably that reaching a profound state of complete perfection required quite a long time.

Even the Ancestor who had originally created this Profound Heaven Origin Scripture had only sorted through it from top to bottom after becoming a powerhouse, looking down from a lofty height.

Did this Origin Core Realm senior not also bid it farewell?

Someone capable of cultivating to the Origin Core Realm surely understood this cultivation method far better than most disciples.

But the other party had abandoned it because it did not suit him, so that could not be generalized.

After making his choice, Lu Qing confirmed it. The jade slip formed into a ball of light once more. Lu Qing took out his Spirit Stones and placed them into the ball of light, where they vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye.

At the same time, the disciple Jade Token in his hand hummed. He sent his divine sense inside and discovered that a jade slip imprint had appeared within the foggy, blank cultivation space of his token.

Lu Qing had chosen quickly. He had also looked over the other superior cultivation methods, but the Spirit Stone prices listed beneath them were not something a newly initiated disciple could afford.

Lu Qing guessed that quite a few others were in the same situation.

However, disciples born into cultivation Lineages probably did not have this concern.

He had not spoken to anyone else after cultivating earlier, nor was there any need to. Lu Qing had already determined his cultivation path; forming ties with people would likewise lead to enmity with them someday.

Even when Lu Qing activated his Calamity Avoidance Talent, he could not predict the direction of the Calming Hexagram at all.

For now, he was very satisfied with the Profound Heaven Dao Academy. It was neither quite like a sect nor like a mortal school, but rather a combination of the two.

Within the disciple Jade Token, he had heard that once one entered the Qi Nourishment Realm, the various sect sections would open. At present, all Lu Qing could see was that white space, containing the imprinted cultivation method.

He left this Dao Peak, and the White Crane Boy came at his invitation.

Previously, there had been a bridge spanning the mountain ravine between the two Dao Peaks, so the distance between them had not been great.

Now, this place was the central region of the Dao Academy, while Lu Qing's Dao Peak lay beyond Endless Dao Peak, a very great distance away.

White Crane Boy said, "Your Dao Peak is rather far away."

"Mm, but it's very quiet," Lu Qing did not deny.

"Eh, you've started cultivating. I still wanted to keep carrying you around. You're quite an interesting disciple."

The White Crane Boy praised him, its fluffy feathers smoothing in the wind.

"By the way, what was your name again?"

"My name is Lu Qing."

"Oh, oh, Lu Qing. I'll remember it. When you come again next time, if it's inconvenient, you can call for me."

"Let's talk about next time, White Crane Boy. I'm almost out of Spirit Stones."

"Eh, then... then we'll talk about it next time," the White Crane Boy replied after hesitating upon hearing that he had no Spirit Stones.

A quarter of an hour later, Lu Qing returned to his Nameless Dao Peak. He opened the cultivation chamber and sat upon a cushion that aided disciples' cultivation with its Spirit Condensation effect, then began cultivating.

Compared with other trivial matters, cultivation was still more interesting.