At these words, Qiao Rui was not the only one startled enough to look up at Chen Heng.
Even Chen Heng's eyes stirred, their corners lifting almost imperceptibly.
According to the Jade Dawn School's rules,
anyone who entered the Jade Dawn School as the foremost of the Ten Great Disciples would receive an access Talisman Edict bestowed personally by a High Immortal of the Dao Registry Hall.
With this edict, they could enter the Dao Registry Hall and freely choose an orthodox method to cultivate.
This was also the Jade Dawn School's way of rewarding achievement and encouraging its younger disciples.
As for these so-called orthodox methods,
they were the supreme wondrous arts by which the Jade Dawn School had maintained its lineage from the ancient age of the Dao Court to the present.
Unless one had experienced and comprehended them personally, their many lofty wonders were all but impossible to understand or describe. They were the Jade Dawn School's true foundation, an accumulation of methods across countless ages!
Divided into categories,
they were:
the Three Scriptures, Five Canons, Eight Merits, and Nine Books.
Taken together,
they were known as the Twenty-Five Orthodox Methods!
Or the Jadechen Twenty-Five Scriptures!
But as the saying went:
the teaching was not passed to six ears, nor the Dao imparted to the unworthy.
These Twenty-Five Orthodox Methods had never been easy to obtain.
However extraordinary their talent or far-reaching their fame, those of the Four Great Lower Courts did not possess even the slightest qualification to consult them.
Only by becoming the foremost of the Ten Great Disciples, standing alone at the head, could one select a method from the Twenty-Five Orthodox Methods to cultivate.
Even for disciples who had entered the Yuchen Upper Sect, consulting the Twenty-Five Orthodox Methods was not as easy