"Was this an attempt to deduce the Battle Saint Method?"
Qin Tian stayed there and enthusiastically began his own deductions.
Following the images carved into the stone, Qin Tian assumed the corresponding stances. He followed the line of thought left by his predecessor, incorporated his own insights, and practiced those hundred moves over and over.
At first, Qin Tian matched the stone carvings exactly. After one round of practice, changes began to emerge. The moves first multiplied, then dwindled. Each successive round was different, until only a single move remained.
A supreme fighting spirit surged into the sky. Qin Tian unleashed that sole move as though he meant to punch through the heavens.
Then Qin Tian tried to turn that single move into hundreds and thousands, weaving the Kunpeng true meaning he had comprehended into them. Through the incomplete Battle Saint Method and its underlying principles, he sought to turn decay into wonder and complete the Kunpeng Method.
Originally, Qin Tian's Kunpeng King Fist had possessed only a trace of intent and a hint of exceptional spiritual charm.
Everything else fell short. Its moves and methods of circulating divine power, for instance, were things Qin Tian had cobbled together himself. Compared with the Kunpeng Method's intent, they were unbearably crude.
Now, by using the incomplete Battle Saint Method to deduce the Kunpeng Method, he transformed the rotten framework of his Kunpeng King Fist into something wondrous.
First attaining one, then transforming it into ten thousand, and returning to one at the pinnacle of complexity-Qin Tian condensed a hundred moves into a single form. With that, his Kunpeng King Fist gained another variation, and his Kunpeng Method Loose Hands gained another move.
Only after a long while did Qin Tian open his eyes. Yin and yang energies appeared within them, and the sounds of wind and thunder accompanied his movements. Wisps of Immortal Qi flashed past and vanished.
"Not bad. Though it's still a hundred and eight thousand miles from the true Kunpeng Method, at least I've deduced a second move for the Kunpeng Loose Hands."
Qin Tian pondered, If I obtained the true Battle Saint Method, perhaps these Kunpeng Method Loose Hands I've comprehended on my own could gain another variation or two.
"Looks like I have another reason to go to Purple Mountain."
Having finished deducing the Kunpeng Method, Qin Tian continued forward and soon stopped again.
"Finally found it!" Qin Tian smiled.
A blurry sun came into Qin Tian's sight. Barely the size of a palm, it looked more like someone's graffiti.
"Though I don't have the guiding passage of the Western Emperor Scripture and can't reproduce Ye Hei's approach, this mountain hermit has a clever plan of his own."
A silvery-white halo rose in Qin Tian's left eye. He directly summoned sounds from a particular moment in the past, projecting the Dao Palace's guiding passage into the present.
Although the Temporal Eye was of little use in improving his aptitude for cultivation,
when it came to assisting cultivation, nothing in the world could surpass it.
Boom!
Suddenly, the sound of the Dao rang out in the void. Radiance surged skyward, and a blazing sun rose from the stone cliff, swallowing Qin Tian whole.
The entire stone mountain turned crimson. Flames roared, setting half the sky ablaze. The red sun hung overhead, vast and vigorous, while Qin Tian sat within it, his bearing solemn and majestic.
Above the stone cliff, the great sun loomed like a mountain, filling the sky. White brilliance blanketed the surroundings as though daylight had descended.
Qin Tian sat cross-legged at the sun's center, utterly motionless. His expression was serene, detached from worldly affairs, as he immersed himself completely in a Dao realm.
That palm-sized sun was an unimaginable Dao pattern containing the imprint of the Queen Mother of the West. Even after more than a hundred thousand years, it remained undying, enduring in the world.
Qin Tian's mind was clear as he bathed in the flames. His heart divine treasury glowed fiery red like the sun, its splendor soaring skyward and illuminating the Dao Palace with brilliant light.
Innate essence gave rise to life, while acquired essence nourished it. Fiery-red vital energy and surging Dao power flowed from that sun within the human body into every inch of his flesh.
His entire body turned crimson, then slowly became translucent. Fiery clouds shrouded him, and his heart essence washed away every impurity. The Dao Palace became clear and pristine, inside and out, while his flesh gradually grew crystalline.
This was an entirely new transformation. Within his heart divine treasury, fiery-red vital energy, both innate and acquired, circulated along more intricate pathways.
Qin Tian remained motionless, sensing this transformation with his heart.
The great sun filling the sky contained neither scripture nor sound. There was only a resonance of the Dao, yet it expounded the heart divine treasury of the Dao Palace secret realm in exhaustive detail.
This inheritance left neither a spoken word nor a written character. It held only its creator's intent, which unfolded the ancient scripture's myriad transformations. Though it contained none of the Western Emperor Scripture's actual text, it rivaled the ancient scripture itself.
Qin Tian sat motionless until Taiyang began to rise and morning clouds shone upon him. Only then did his eyes snap open. At the same time, the great sun overhead burst into ten thousand streams of fire with a bang, rushing into the imprint on the stone cliff.
What followed went smoothly. On a stone mountain carved with an ancient tree, he found the unfolding of the lung divine treasury chapter.
It expounded everything to the utmost, transmitting the Dao without words.
The lung divine treasury stirred the myriad energies, mobilizing essence, energy, and spirit and distributing them throughout the body, reaching outward to the skin and hair. It breathed in and out the world's primordial essence, brimming with vigorous life!
He soon found the liver divine treasury chapter as well and comprehended the foundation of growth. Upon finding the spleen divine treasury, he grasped the source of the generation and transformation of energy and blood, the foundation of acquired vitality. Within the kidney divine treasury chapter, he comprehended black water xuanming and the storage of kidney essence...
The five Divine Treasures of the Dao Palace were now complete, committed silently to memory.
At last, he had obtained the Western Emperor Scripture's Dao Palace Scroll and possessed a complete cultivation method.
Qin Tian stood silently for a long time, unable to conceal his shock. This scripture was incomparably profound, its mysteries unfathomable. It laid bare heaven's secrets and seized the creative wonders of heaven and earth!
Next, Qin Tian wanted to continue using the same method to draw out the true meanings of the scripture's other secret realms.
Indeed, the Jade Pool Ruins contained the complete Western Emperor Scripture. It merely required the corresponding Dao guides to draw it out.
This was also a safeguard in case the Jade Pool Holy Land was someday overthrown and its line of inheritance severed.
At least one inheritance would remain in the world, awaiting a future return to glory.
After all, this world was not safe. An Extreme Dao holy land was ultimately only a holy land, far beneath a true Extreme Dao being.
Once the dark turmoil erupted, even an Extreme Dao holy land could meet destruction with a single misstep.
An Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon meant little to a true Supreme, for it was simply a weapon forged by someone at their own level.
Leaving behind an inheritance was a safeguard, a ray of hope.
Just as Qin Tian was about to activate the Temporal Eye again, a pained groan suddenly escaped his lips. He clutched his left eye, and streams of blood flowed between his fingers.
Drawing forth the Dao resonance of the past had once again damaged the Temporal Eye's already meager origin power. Blood flowed from it, and its origin was on the verge of depletion.
"What a pity. Powerful as the Temporal Eye is, its scant origin is far too great a limitation. I can barely use it a few times."
Helpless, Qin Tian could only stop. He resolved to stay in the Jade Pool Ruins for the long term. He was determined to obtain the complete Western Emperor Scripture.
"Hmph, mere female ghosts! Come on, all of you!" Qin Tian shouted brazenly.
"I'll take you all on!"
The instant his words fell, a terrifying surge erupted from the direction of the Immortal Pool. Billowing black mist shot into the sky, and the interior of the Jade Pool Ruins abruptly turned pitch-black as ink.
"Holy crap!" Qin Tian jumped in fright. He decisively brought out the wooden plaque and placed it in front of him, then hid behind it and shouted:
"Who dares act so brazenly before the founding patriarch!"
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