Holding a Jade Slip, Naruto used his divine sense to examine the cultivation method for the Great Evolution Art within.
The Great Evolution Art had seven levels in total, but this Jade Slip contained only the first four.
That was why Senior Brother Lin had risked stealing the remaining cultivation methods from the Thousand Bamboo Sect, only to bring a fatal disaster upon himself.
In the original story, Han Li had also traveled to the Thousand Bamboo Sect to obtain the final three levels, but unexpectedly acquired a puppet containing the Great Evolution Divine Monarch's soul.
Of course, all of that was still far beyond Naruto's reach. He would not go courting death at the Thousand Bamboo Sect in the Far West before reaching the core formation stage.
Now, after he finished reading the first four levels of the Great Evolution Art, another scripture called the Puppet True Explanation appeared immediately afterward.
It taught methods for refining puppet beasts and humanoid puppets of various ranks, and was an exceptionally detailed guide to puppet creation.
The Great Evolution Art and the Puppet True Explanation were a flawless pairing if cultivated together.
Once both reached a certain level, he would surely be able to do what Senior Brother Lin and that burly cultivator had done: use the power of numerous puppets to single-handedly overwhelm several cultivators of the same stage, denying them even the slightest chance to fight back.
A cultivation method capable of overpowering other foundation establishment stage cultivators naturally set Naruto's heart racing.
However, just as he had previously analyzed, the drawbacks of cultivating them were also very obvious!
They could very well delay his own cultivation and affect his chances of reaching core formation, making the gains hardly worth the losses.
*Still, I can give it a try. After