Immortal arts were difficult to cultivate to begin with.
The Three Purities Companion Scenery Immortal Art was even more so, placing particular emphasis on comprehension.
This art emphasized meaning rather than construction, sought the forgetting of form rather than control, and differed entirely from the cultivation methods of ordinary landscape arts in the Immortal Alliance. Not one in ten thousand could cross its threshold.
The reason was simple: the Three Purities Companion Scenery Immortal Art cultivated not technique, but the Dao.
Prodigies like Chen Beiwu, who could forget nine parts of the art and grasp one part of its true meaning upon first encountering the Three Purities Companion Scenery Immortal Art, were rarer still. Even Yu Yuanlong, who had guarded the Scripture Transmission Pavilion for years, broadened his horizons over that time, and encountered countless prodigies, could not help voicing a word of praise.
"Thank you for imparting the art, Senior."
Following the principle that no one took offense at an excess of courtesy, Chen Beiwu bowed slightly.
An expert capable of guarding such an immortal art in the Scripture Transmission Pavilion was certainly no ordinary figure. His cultivation might already have reached the realm of returning to simplicity and truth.
As a junior, a seeker still walking the path of immortal cultivation, he too understood reverence.
"No need for thanks. This is merely my duty."
Yu Yuanlong shook his head slightly, unmoved by Chen Beiwu's approach.
Appreciating a junior was one thing, but he held no affection for that old undying Cave-Ming Everlasting True Venerable.
Thus, disliking even the crows upon the man's roof, he felt little affection for Chen Beiwu either, though he would not go so far as to make him a fish caught in another's calamity.
Hearing this, Chen Beiwu said no more and turned to