Even so.
There were no fluctuations around Gu Changqing suggesting that his cultivation was about to break through, nor any grand manifestations of laws and order.
He simply lay sprawled crookedly on the bluestone, clutching the Wine God Gourd, his face flushed and his eyes hazy with drink.
Had an outsider seen this scene, they would only have thought a drunkard was spouting nonsense. They would never have imagined what the "breakthrough" this Wine Sword Immortal spoke of truly meant.
The reason was simple.
The breakthrough Gu Changqing spoke of was not in his own cultivation, but in...
The Forging the Sacred Court Method.
Long ago, Gu Changqing had deduced the Sacred Court Method and passed it down throughout the Interception Sect.
This method differed from every known cultivation method. It did not take absorbing spiritual qi as its foundation, tempering the physical body as its priority, or comprehending laws as its core.
It was a method of... uniting the multitude.
It gathered the disciples' collective will and the Interception Sect's fortune accumulated through the ages to forge a Sacred Court-formless and immaterial, yet truly existent.
Once the Sacred Court took shape, the Interception Sect's fortune would remain gathered without dispersing, never waning through countless generations.
Once the Sacred Court took shape, the Interception Sect's disciples would achieve twice the results with half the effort in cultivation, blessed with profound good fortune.
Once the Sacred Court took shape, the Interception Sect would possess a true foundation of its own. No longer merely a sect dependent upon a Sage Dojo, it would become an independent, supreme Dao lineage with enduring fortune.
No!
More precisely, it would be an existence that completely transcended a Dao lineage in the ordinary sense.
Calling it... a fortune dynasty would be more fitting!
Such a method