With no one around, Fang Qianyuan finally had a chance to study the incomplete manual carefully. He discovered that Luo Zhen had copied it out specifically as a memory aid and kept it as a secret record of the true teachings.
Not only did it faithfully preserve the painstaking work of the Blood Demon Sect's accomplished predecessors, but it also contained Luo Zhen's own annotations, drawn from decades of arduous cultivation, contemplation, and synthesis.
"Most people harbor a serious misconception: they treat cultivation manuals as indivisible wholes, as though anything incomplete cannot be valuable, and anything that is not ancient cannot be powerful."
"In truth, whether they are the divine abilities and secret arts of mighty ancient cultivators or the clever little techniques of people today, neither is inherently superior to the other."
"Beneath the Great Dao, all are equal. None is inherently more precious than another."
"What truly makes them valuable is their understanding and insight into the Great Dao of heaven and earth-the ideas and Dao path of a particular mighty expert."
"Only by thoroughly grasping these things can one master the secret arts of the true teachings and inherit the genuine Dao lineage."
"Without that understanding, no amount of cultivation, however prolonged, will accomplish anything."
Fang Qianyuan understood deeply that certain mighty techniques and secret arts had earned that distinction not through one person's efforts, but through the work of an entire school and its like-minded practitioners. Only after countless rounds of contemplation and improvement over millions upon millions of years, with continual revision and synthesis, could they take shape.
They represented the mysteries of a sect's Dao path, something studied and cultivated across many eras. That was what made them precious.
Although this Blood Refinement Great Art was only an incomplete manual, it still held tremendous