Origin Continent, Rainbow Splendor Sect, the mountain behind the sect.
Dongguan exchanged for the first volume of the "Heavenly Secrets Manual," then began reading.
"So this is what the so-called 'Heavenly Secrets Manual' is." He sat in his chair, pondering with a somewhat solemn expression.
Besides the actual contents of the "Heavenly Secrets Manual," there was a complimentary account of the life of this inheritance's creator.
Simply put, this creator came from a rather unusual Source World, whose internal Supreme Rule
had mutated, in particular using the Cause and Effect Great Dao to write the fates of all living beings.
This was the same as what Wuyin had done back then.
But Wuyin had done so to become the Controller of a Source World, whereas that Source World's Supreme Rule was not actually a true living being. Rather, the Source World had begun to grow rigid, and the beings within it had also lost a certain "vitality."
It was at this point that the creator emerged in response to the times. Originally, he too had fallen into rigidity like the other beings, but through a certain fortunate encounter, he gained an opportunity to connect with other Source Worlds.
The Great Dao numbered fifty, of which forty-nine remained; this was the One that Escaped.
Thus, he gained the opportunity to defy heaven and change his fate.
But contending with the web of fate encompassing an entire Source World through such a minute variable was still extremely difficult.
That expert came into contact with the system of "Witch Cultivation." Of course, he did not directly practice its cultivation involving the study of things, but merely drew upon its concept of "equivalent exchange."
The reason the so-called "Heavenly Secrets Manual" was "secret" was that it exchanged greater costs for greater power to sway