Accumulated Skill, On the Path to Breaking Through Contemplation

When Duan Rong left Lü Yinlin's cave dwelling with the bamboo tube containing the complete Garbha Sutra in hand, his eyes still shone with deep contemplation.

What Lü Yinlin had told him was like opening a door to a new world.

Only now did he finally understand why the Cave Illumination Realm was called the threshold between mortal and saint.

The truth was, once one crossed this mountain top, the world became completely different.

After Cave Illumination, all martial arts beneath heaven were but dust.

The cultivation method of the Cave Illumination Realm also felt novel to Duan Rong. Unlike the cultivation before Cave Illumination, which was rooted in martial arts, this path consisted of four steps: Object Investigation, finding a medium, contemplation, and breaking through contemplation. Thus, its cultivation method was called the Four-Step Cultivation Method.

Moreover, Lü Yinlin's quite thorough explanations gave him a relatively deep understanding of these four stages. Though many aspects still required his own exploration before he could truly comprehend them, Lü Yinlin had given many examples and explained them in a manner both profound and easy to grasp.

Within the Taiyi Sect, Duan Rong was the fifth person to cultivate under Lü Yinlin. He did not know whether Lü Yinlin had analyzed things so meticulously for the previous four as well. But Lü Yinlin's willingness to explain things to him in such depth filled Duan Rong with gratitude.

He had read through the Daoist canon, yet had not found even a fragmentary mention of this cultivation method. Clearly, it was an Esoteric Transmission, a Non-Verbal Transmission.

If Lü Yinlin had explained it roughly and briefly, he would have understood it only superficially. Since Lü Yinlin had explained it in such detail, he could understand it more deeply. He even somewhat suspected that Chu