After successfully imprinting a waterfall that resonated with oneself into one's mind, all that remained was to sit in monotonous contemplation, day after day, year after year.
Until an opportunity arose to transform thoughts into Mind Power and become a mind cultivator.
According to the Moonlit Night Waterfall-Viewing Sutra, even the step of finding a waterfall alone normally required contemplating over a hundred waterfalls and spending at least four or five years before one could imprint a suitable waterfall into one's mind.
Most people might never find a waterfall that resonated with them in their entire lives.
They could spend a lifetime crossing mountains and ridges in search of one, only to end up drawing water with a bamboo basket.
Moreover, contemplation after successfully imprinting it required another long stretch of time. The quick ones needed five or six years, while the slow ones might never produce Mind Power in their entire lives.
Chen Shi'an calculated the time. If he used the Moonlit Night Waterfall-Viewing Sutra to cultivate Mind Power, even under the most ideal circumstances, it might take at least nine or ten years to produce Mind Power.
That simple calculation alone showed how difficult it was to cultivate Mind Power and become a Mind Master.
Of course, Chen Shi'an also had his doubts. Cultivating Mind Power probably was not this difficult. Perhaps it was only particularly difficult when using the Moonlit Night Waterfall-Viewing Sutra.
"That old monk actually tried to fob me off with an incomplete cultivation art that's this difficult to practice."
Chen Shi'an snorted softly. "Luckily, what I wanted wasn't a cultivation method, but techniques for wielding Mind Power."
Whether the Moonlit Night Waterfall-Viewing Sutra had already been incomplete when Jueming acquired it, or whether he had held something back and deliberately cut off the later