Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Wang Quan walked through Stone City, watching its inhabitants and pondering certain people and certain matters.
After a long while, he returned to the area where the Fire Mulberry Tree stood, sat upright atop the Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust, and gathered his thoughts:
"My mind has grown unsettled!"
"Whether it's the organization promoting the new method or the future of martial arts, neither actually has anything to do with me."
"All I need to do is quietly improve my cultivation and raise my realm."
"As long as I'm strong enough, no problem will be a problem."
The words that the [Taboo] being had spoken surfaced in his mind.
He pondered them for a while, then opened a box.
This box had been given to him by the young men and women in the remembered past.
It held the [Imperial Scripture] treasured by the ghosts and gods of the Second Layer of the Underworld.
When they were still human, they had escorted this Imperial Scripture as they fled from place to place.
Later, they had died, their Dao extinguished, and fallen into the Underworld to become ghosts and gods, yet they had continued to protect it.
Only now had they given it to him.
Crack!
Wang Quan opened the box and saw the Imperial Scripture.
This Imperial Scripture was also made from a stone resembling gold-threaded white jade, with Dao script carved upon it:
[The Emperor Speaks of the Scripture of the Moon That Shone on Me Back Then]
This scripture was quite different from the other Imperial Scriptures.
Other Imperial Scriptures either began with the author introducing themselves or launched straight into profound mysteries.
The author of this Daoist scripture neither introduced themselves nor began with profound mysteries, instead opening with the origins of this