"Supreme Cavern Abyss Divine Incantation Scripture—Volume Thirteen—Dragon King Chapter."
Cheng Xinzhan looked at those words, and his heart jolted.
The Supreme Cavern Abyss Divine Incantation Scripture comprised twenty volumes and twenty chapters. It had not been written by one person at one time, but compiled jointly by dozens of accomplished, virtuous Daoists during the two Jin dynasties.
This was one of Daoism's supreme canons. Few outsiders had even heard of it, let alone read it. Cheng Xinzhan knew of it because Ge Hong, Immortal Elder Ge, the founding patriarch of Three Pure Ones Mountain, had been among its compilers. He had learned this on one of his frequent visits to chat with the sect leader.
The period around the two Jin dynasties had been Daoism's third great flourishing, following the pre-Qin and Eastern Han periods. Many Celestial Masters and true immortals had established their teachings and founded the illustrious immortal sects that survived today during that era, including Shangqing's Juqü Mountain, the myriad arts of Three Pure Ones Mountain, Lingbao's Gezao Mountain, and Jingming's Sanyuan Mountain. There had also been figures such as Celestial Master Kou, Master Zhenbai, and Master Jianji, who had reformed a teaching, advanced one, or even united several.
During that period, Daoist schools and sects exchanged teachings frequently, giving lectures and discussing the Dao, producing many doctrinal classics, ritual offerings and ceremonies, and all manner of wondrous spells. Among them was the Supreme Cavern Abyss Divine Incantation Scripture, a comprehensive culmination of the spells of the Dao tradition of the Supreme Lord of the Great Dao, the Celestial Worthy of Numinous Treasure. Celestial Master Ge Xuan had initiated it, gathering dozens of masters who possessed the Celestial Worthy of Numinous Treasure's Dao tradition to create this supreme Daoist scripture on Prayer to the Gods and summoning