Wu Jixing had carefully read every book on those two shelves. She could even recite and write out some of the more important ones from memory.
According to those texts, there were roughly three paths to breaking through the limits of the Innate Realm and reaching Return to the Natural State.
The first, and easiest, was to have a Longevity Bearer—an Immortal, Buddha, or Demon God—send a wisp of their Primordial Spirit into your body and demonstrate the abilities of that realm for you to experience firsthand.
Unless someone was exceptionally slow-witted, a person of average talent would find the way after three to five demonstrations. Then, with steady effort, they would become a True Person in as little as three to five months, or at most seven or eight years.
That was why any sect with a Longevity Bearer in residence was sure to produce generation after generation of True Person Grandmasters. It was the fundamental difference between a "top-tier renowned sect" and an ordinary "great renowned sect."
Take the Qionglai Sect. Brilliant masters appeared there often, and more than once, they had stormed Heroic Peak, Qionglai's main summit, and driven off Kongkong'er and Jingjing'er, the two Immortals who had seized their old mountain headquarters. But none of those geniuses had attained Longevity. After they died, their disciples could not hold Heroic Peak, and the two Immortals took it back. Who knew what those two were thinking, devoting themselves to making life miserable for their juniors?
Now, though, the Qionglai Sect had an Immortal of its own. Once Ren Changsheng stabilized his realm, he could lead Qionglai's masters back up Heroic Peak. They would not only reclaim their headquarters; generation after generation of Qionglai's True Person Grandmasters would help him hold it. Those two shameless Immortals would never seize