Inside the Scripture Repository.
The ancestor had already sat down on the spot and begun to "comprehend the Dao."
Chen Changqing could only smile helplessly at the sight.
Sending a message to the entire clan through the Dao-Comprehension Heavenly Net had taken no more than a thought.
Now he could sense countless clan members swarming toward the Artifact Refining Pavilion. Their fervor far exceeded his expectations.
He paused.
Chen Changqing was in no hurry to leave.
Since he was already at the Scripture Repository, where the Chen Family had amassed countless cultivation manuals over the ages, he might as well take care of them too.
He picked up a yellowed beast-hide scroll and swept his divine sense across it.
The Purple Sun Heart Sutra was a low-grade Earth-rank technique with plenty of flaws. Its true essence circulation route was slightly off, and its method of refining spiritual energy was far from complete.
A thought stirred in Chen Changqing's mind, and his million years of accumulated comprehension began to work through it.
In the blink of an eye, an entirely new Purple Sun Heart Sutra took shape in his sea of consciousness, leaping straight from low-grade Earth-rank to peak-grade Emperor-rank.
He picked up a second scroll.
The Azure Wood Longevity Technique was a low-grade Saint-rank technique. It used wood spiritual energy to nourish the body.
With another thought, he refined it to peak-grade Emperor-rank as well.
The third scroll.
The fourth.
The fifth.
Chen Changqing worked at astonishing speed.
One cultivation technique and spell after another flashed through his sea of consciousness.
Whatever their original rank, each needed only an instant in his hands to become a peerless Emperor Scripture radiating the pressure of the imperial Dao.
It was not that he could not refine them further.
With his heaven-defying comprehension, raising every one of those techniques and spells to immortal grade would hardly have been difficult.
But—
Emperor Scriptures already stood at the very pinnacle of the mortal path!
Immortal Dao techniques were too profound. The laws and principles they involved lay far beyond the understanding of ordinary cultivators.
Given the Chen Family Members' current cultivation and Root Bone, forcing them to practice immortal techniques would be like asking three-year-olds to solve advanced mathematics problems. Emperor-rank techniques were far more practical.
Of course!
Peak-grade Emperor-rank was merely a simple restraint Chen Changqing had placed on the techniques for the clan members' sake.
The Great Emperor techniques he had refined were nothing like ordinary Emperor-rank techniques. Once the clan members reached the Great Emperor Realm, a little further refinement would be enough to transform those techniques into immortal-grade ones.
When he finished refining the final scroll,
every spell and cultivation technique in the Chen Family's Scripture Repository had become a peerless Emperor-rank scripture.
Chen Changqing nodded in satisfaction.
Then,
he uploaded all those improved Emperor Scriptures to the Dao-Comprehension Heavenly Net.
Once every clan member had crafted a jade talisman, they could use it to read the scriptures anytime, anywhere, without ever needing to visit the Scripture Repository again.
With that done, Chen Changqing dusted off his hands, shook his head, and smiled. "Finally finished!"
"What other family's ancestor works himself as hard as I do?"
Fortunately, he had gained plenty from refining those techniques and had grasped many more divine abilities along the way.
Without question—
This day was destined to enter the Chen Family's history.
First, the arrival of the Dao-Comprehension Heavenly Net had sent the entire clan into an uproar.
Before the clan members could settle down, another explosive piece of news arrived.
"The Purple Sun Heart Sutra... peak-grade Emperor-rank?!"
A Chen Family member who had practiced the Purple Sun Heart Sutra for years had just crafted his Link Jade Talisman. The moment he used it to see the new technique, he sprang straight off the ground.
He had practiced it for so many years he had lost count, and he had long believed he knew it like the back of his hand.
Yet he had never imagined it could be refined into an Emperor Scripture.
At first, he thought it had to be a mistake. Then he read the opening passage, and his whole body shook.
That true essence circulation route was millions of times more exquisite than the original!
An Emperor Scripture!
It really was an Emperor Scripture!
A mere Earth-rank technique had become an Emperor Scripture!
Just what heaven-defying methods did Ancestor Changqing possess?
Trembling with excitement, he sat cross-legged without another word and circulated his true essence according to the new version.
Moments later, a series of sharp cracks rang out from within his body. The cultivation bottleneck that had held him back for years suddenly gave way.
"I broke through! I finally broke through!"
"Thank you, Ancestor Changqing!"
He threw back his head and laughed, unable to contain his wild joy.
Scenes like this unfolded in every corner of the Chen Family.
"An Emperor Scripture for every member... Every single one of us gets an Emperor Scripture!"
A venerable Chen Family elder trembled, tears streaming down his aged face. "I've lived all these years, and I never dared dream of such a thing!"
"And it's more than that!"
Another elder beside him chimed in, his voice trembling too. "Look closely. Every one of these Emperor Scriptures was refined from a technique we already practice! That means there's almost nothing standing between us and mastering them. Everything will flow naturally!"
"Ancestor Changqing is invincible!"
"The Divine Son is invincible!"
Their earthshaking cheers rang across the entire Purple Star Domain once more.
If the Dao-Comprehension Heavenly Net had shown the Chen Family Members hope for the future, then an Emperor Scripture for every member had turned that hope into tangible strength.
With Emperor Scriptures and the Dao-Comprehension Heavenly Net, what could possibly stop the Chen Family's rise?
Even the older experts who had maintained their dignity earlier abandoned all airs. Like children who had just stepped onto the path of cultivation, they devoured the Emperor Scriptures in their hands.
Some wept as they cultivated; others laughed...
In the days that followed, the entire Chen Family was swept up in a fervor unlike anything it had known before.
And not only that—
It was not just the Chen Family Members. Thanks to the Dao-Comprehension Heavenly Net, even the spirit beasts raised by the clan were now "listening to the Dao."
A few of the brighter spirit beasts even began imitating the clan members, trying to comprehend something for themselves.
No one knew whether they understood a word, but their earnest expressions looked remarkably like those of Chen Family Members cultivating in seclusion.
The Chen Family's three most extraordinary young talents had long since taken up their respective Emperor Scriptures and immersed themselves in cultivation.
Deep inside a cave dwelling, Chen Zhian and his wife, Qin Mengyao, sat facing each other, their faces filled with shock and pride.
"That child..."
"How many more surprises will he give us before he's satisfied?"
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