Li Ping carefully examined the description of the Eight-Nine Arcane Art.
He discovered that, once its derivation was complete, the cultivation method differed little from the Nine Tribulations True Spirit Sacred Canon in either body refinement or qi refining. It merely removed the portions that required the Blood-Colored Scale to cultivate.
He could switch seamlessly and continue cultivating its subsequent stages.
Of course, the restored method would still be carried by the Blood-Colored Scale, so he would only be able to see the next level after cultivating the preceding one to perfection.
As for Sudden Premonition, Disaster-Evasion, Illusory-Breaking Golden Eyes, Form and Face Alteration, Flood-Dragon Wrestling, and its many other divine abilities, these were wondrous functions inherent to the extraordinary Eight-Nine Arcane Art.
He would not lose them even after switching methods.
Precisely because the sinister Nine Tribulations True Spirit Sacred Canon was founded entirely upon the Eight-Nine Arcane Art, whoever had deliberately spread it had merely wrapped an outer shell around the original. Thus, Derivation Island needed very little time and energy to deduce and restore it.
It would take only one hundred mid-grade spirit stones and a single day.
Knowing he could resolve the hidden danger in his cultivation method, Li Ping breathed a sigh of relief.
The Eight-Nine Arcane Art was immensely powerful and possessed many useful divine abilities. It had helped him enormously on his journey to Nascent Soul formation.
He truly would have been reluctant to abandon it.
However, Derivation Island offered two directions for derivation. Li Ping had only examined the result within the second mass of gray mist, so he was in no hurry to make his choice.
After selecting no, his consciousness was immediately ejected from the second mass of gray mist.
He then turned toward the third mass and extended his