The Dharma Appearance Sect's Foundations

"Garbha Mandala?!"

Just from the name, Duan Rong could sense that this cultivation method had deep ties to the Garbha Sutra. His eyes flickered as he asked, "Then is the Dharma Appearance Sect's Garbha Mandala divine soul secret art more powerful than the Garbha Sutra?"

After all, it was the source cultivation method. It ought to be more powerful.

Lü Yinlin said, "The Garbha Mandala actually only has twenty-one levels. Tens of thousands of years ago, after the founding ancestor obtained this cultivation method from the Dharma Appearance Sect, he deduced its principles, removed the Buddhist cultivation portions, then used those twenty-one levels as a foundation to create the twenty-second level of the divine soul technique himself. That became the complete Garbha Sutra."

"The reason our sect's Garbha Sutra is so difficult to cultivate is largely because it was originally created by Master Ci'en through combining it with Buddhist cultivation methods. Once the Buddhist cultivation methods were removed, even though the ancestor was a peerless genius, he could only patch it together with great difficulty."

Disappointment flashed through Duan Rong's eyes. "This Garbha Mandala only has twenty-one levels?"

He did not care in the slightest whether it was difficult to cultivate. The key was that it only had twenty-one levels—wasn't that the same as the Garbha Sutra?! Had the Old Ancestor talked for so long for nothing?

Lü Yinlin naturally caught the meaning behind Duan Rong's words and said, "The Dharma Appearance Sect has another divine soul secret art."

"Another divine soul secret art?!" Duan Rong's dimmed eyes instantly lit up. This was precisely the point he wanted to seize upon.

Lü Yinlin said, "Indeed. Otherwise, even if the experts of the Nine Provinces Land gathered at the Dharma Appearance Sect, could they truly have forced Master Ci'en to hand