Zhunti's pupils abruptly contracted.
He instinctively looked at Jieyin, only to find his senior brother looking back at him. Each saw the same shock in the other's eyes.
Without Spiritual Treasures, what would hold the attachments they severed?
Almost simultaneously, they thought of the path they had spent countless years contemplating.
Sever attachments through great vow power, using grand vows as their vessel, relying not on Innate Spiritual Treasures but on their own compassion for all living beings and their vow power as the foundation.
They had never mentioned this approach to anyone, not even Hong Jun. They had merely deduced and perfected it in silence on Mount Sumeru.
Now, the method Hong Jun proposed, which required no Spiritual Treasures, bore an astonishing similarity in direction to the Vow Power Method they had been developing.
Was this coincidence, or were their deductions themselves an inevitable product of Hong Jun's Heavenly Dao system?
Hong Jun paid no heed to the stir below the dais.
He continued in an even tone, explaining the core of the method for severing the Three Corpses and attaining Primordial Unity without Spiritual Treasures.
Sever the seven emotions and six desires, taking one's own Dao heart as the vessel, borrowing nothing external and cultivating only oneself.
The seven emotions were joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hatred, and desire.
The six desires were form, sound, scent, taste, touch, and mental objects.
The seven emotions and six desires were instincts innate to living beings, attachments that arose naturally from the intermingling of the Primordial Spirit and the physical body.
The Method of Severing the Three Corpses severed the three attachments of good, evil, and self, while the method of severing the seven emotions and six desires severed attachments that were more fundamental and more subtle.
The three attachments of