Chen Shu had sat in on a few classes called "Detailed Guide to Cultivation Systems."
The teacher had briefly introduced them to some little-known workings of this world, including the World Will and the World Memory.
This world had a mechanism that recorded everything born within it and everything that happened, exactly as it was. Every person, every event, every reaction of the tiniest particle of matter or Spirit Power. Its detail went far beyond the concept of a "historical archive." In theory, if someone extracted any instant from the World Memory and possessed boundless power, they could perfectly recreate the entire world as it had existed in that instant.
He had heard that the World Will and the World Memory held many other mysteries, and that the Daoist Order had developed all sorts of mysterious uses for them.
But that teacher had said nothing about those. Perhaps he did not know either.
The Spirit-Invoking Art was one such use.
Outsiders did not really understand how it worked.
The teacher had guessed that it involved finding a complete record of a historical figure at a particular moment in the World Memory, obtaining that figure's historical projection, then briefly linking oneself to the projection through a secret art and merging with it. Yet other mechanisms and restrictions remained beyond outsiders' grasp. A Daoist disciple could acquire not only that figure's memories but their other abilities as well, as though the historical figure had been reborn through the practitioner. Even the practitioner's Spirit Power and Spirit Sea would change temporarily. Once the art ended, however, the practitioner could retain none of the figure's memories, experience, or other abilities. Their Spirit Sea and Spirit Power would return to normal, and they would remember only what they themselves had done while using the art.