"Demon God Nine Transformations, Reverse Time Transformation, Past Body?"
When Fang Qianyuan pieced together the context and laboriously translated the precise meaning of the title, his expression filled with shock.
He had never even heard of a cultivation art like this. It felt as though the mysterious veil of the Era of the Dharma Dao had suddenly been lifted, laying the boundless Great Dao bare before his eyes.
"According to legend, Middle Antiquity and the ages before it were a golden age of cultivation, when the Dharma Dao flourished. Immortals and demons roamed freely, and mighty beings who achieved eternal life and immortality, defied heaven, and changed their fates were everywhere. Yet when the Dharma-Ending Age arrived, it all came to nothing and faded into legend..."
"The entire expanse of the heavenly realms was declining toward extinction, but cultivation always offered a way forward. Thus, the Spirit Command Dao developed..."
"According to this text, this divine ability was created by a demon god. Once perfected, it could unite indestructible adamantine flesh, an eternally enduring metal spirit, immunity to myriad tribulations, earth, wind, water, and fire, the Dimensional Dharma Body, Dimensional Transformation, and the past, present, and future bodies, allowing one to attain the Dao and eternal life. It was a grand divine ability leading straight to the supreme attainment of the tenth level of the Dao Realm!"
"Could something like this really exist in this world?"
Fang Qianyuan was deeply skeptical. Yet the bird-track script on the rubbing spoke with such certainty that he could not help reading on.
The bird script expounded on the principles of space, time, and the universe. In particular, it offered a broad analysis of temporal changes within the Dao of time, explaining profound principles in accessible terms.
According to the bird script, time was