After this Daoist posed the question, all the Profound Venerables within the Heaven-Training Dao Canon turned to look at Zhang Yu, eager to see how he would answer it.
Zhang Yu knew this question could not be avoided. Though this gathering was ostensibly a discussion of the Dao among profound cultivators, certain interested parties might interpret it as him using the occasion to gather the momentum of profound cultivation.
Promoting the Profound Method was a grand strategy of the Profound Court. In the past, it had indeed resolved many of Celestial Xia's difficulties and thereby altered the broader course of Celestial Xia, allowing communication between high and low to flow freely.
Yet some true cultivators were not without objections. They had simply not spoken openly of the matter before, discussing it only in private. Quite a few true cultivators also worried that it might trigger a conflict between true and profound cultivation in the future. Some had even considered suppressing it before the Profound Method gained momentum, to avert such an outcome.
But things were different now. Zhang Yu had sought the complete Dao, while Court Executor Feng had become the second among the practitioners of the Profound Text and profound cultivation to entrust his spirit and qi. The defining trait of the Profound Method was that once one person broke through, those who followed might also do so. Thus, in the foreseeable future, the Profound Method was bound to catch up from behind. Once it rose, it would be difficult to stop.
What worried some true cultivators even more was that, so long as the Profound Court endured, Zhang Yu, as a secondary executor, stood a great chance of becoming Chief Executor in the future. His wishes would greatly influence the direction of Celestial Xia. How, then, would he