Choose Good Land and Gain Earth Dragon Aura; Do Good Deeds and Receive Imperial Investiture

Then he turned his gaze inward. As his Heartlight flared, he saw a book floating in his Sea of Consciousness, rising and sinking beneath the light of his Spirit Terrace and Heavenly Heart. It was the Great Void and Abundance Scripture.

The book was written in Ancient Seal Script, and Tang Changsheng did not recognize a single character. Yet under his Heartlight, he understood its meaning perfectly.

"Daoist Secret Characters..." Tang Changsheng guessed at once. They seemed to have been lost after the Ming and Qing Dynasties!

Daoist Secret Characters belonged to a kind of Heavenly Book Characters: Scattered Characters that fell outside the eight grades of Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow, and Cosmos and Primordial...

These Daoist Jade Characters were not even Innate Scattered Characters, but Acquired Secret Characters.

That did not mean Acquired Secret Characters were inferior to Innate Scattered Characters.

Their origins were simply different. Innate Scattered Characters formed their patterns naturally, direct and inadvertent manifestations of Great Dao Secrets.

Acquired Secret Characters, on the other hand, were created by powerful masters who observed the mysteries of Heaven and Earth and grasped Great Dao Secrets. Their characters recorded the secrets those masters had discovered in the Great Dao and the Mortal World...

Acquired Secret Characters recorded by a truly formidable master might even surpass the four heavenly-book grades of Cosmos and Primordial!

Now, within Tang Changsheng's Sea of Consciousness and Spirit Terrace, the characters peeled away from the book and transformed according to his will into words he could read.

They rose one by one and circled his Heavenly Heart like a dancing dragon.

Beneath the radiance of his Heavenly Heart, another Tang Changsheng faintly appeared. He flickered in and out, seeming to exist one moment and vanish into the light the next.

"Yin Spirit... To think