"That's it! It's the Ancient Method!"
"The single-Secret Realm Ancient Method was revered by countless lineages. Why did it die out?"
"Why were the Ancient Methods passed down all drastically simplified into secret arts, unable to display their former might?"
"Because Heaven and Earth would not permit it!"
In a flash of insight, the Yuhua Divine Son seemed to understand everything.
There were far too many legends surrounding the inheritance of the Ancient Method.
It could cultivate every grotto-heaven Secret Realm to its limit, even evolving an entire universe within it. That required an utterly vast amount of energy.
Heaven and Earth were declining, resources were scarce, and vital essence was growing ever thinner.
It was not that the Ancient Method was weak, but that it was too strong.
If all Five Great Secret Realms of the Human Body evolved to their ultimate limits, how formidable would that be?
Yet precisely because it was so formidable, the resources it demanded were far too vast.
It harmed Heaven and Earth, and so Heaven and Earth would not permit it.
Many ancient texts mentioned the Ancient Method only in scattered words. Though they praised it to the utmost, they never revealed any of its actual teachings.
Heaven and Earth would not permit it. No one could use ordinary materials to preserve such an inheritance.
"It must be the Ancient Method!"
The Yuhua Divine Son snapped out of his daze as realization dawned, and his expression turned dark.
Heavenly Punishment!
This was Heavenly Punishment.
It was something entirely different from the so-called Heavenly Tribulation.
Heavenly Tribulation came in three, six, or nine stages, with each stage further divided into nine, thirty-six, or eighty-one lightning bolts.
Its power was dispersed, and the person who had summoned the Heavenly Tribulation guided it themselves to temper