Chapter 87: [Blood Qi] once bore oaths; [Pure Qi] upheld mystic words
[Dao Wisdom increased slightly, spiritual essence by a sliver. Accumulate grain by grain, inch by inch, and there may be a fortuitous encounter in which literary Qi pours into your crown!]
The tiny tadpole-like characters reflected in Jiang Yi's eyes. He was slightly surprised. "A great advance in cultivation, a breakthrough past a barrier-reciting poetry helps. It sounds mystical, but it really works!"
He had originally thought it nothing more than a joke, trying it with the simple notion that he had nothing to lose.
He had never expected the answer obtained through Supplicating the Heavenly Book to be "it works"!
"From the look of it, [Literary Dao] must once have manifested in the Five Domains of the Jambudvipa Vast Land. Otherwise, it would never have left such rules in heaven and earth.
"Even if its inheritance can no longer be seen, the faintest lingering resonance of its great Dao remains."
Jiang Yi pondered inwardly. So sword cultivators' openly unrivaled killing power, supreme among those of the same realm,
was probably also because [Sword Dao] had flourished at its height a hundred and twenty thousand years ago, illuminating the heavens and earth of the Five Domains.
Even after [Buddhist Dao] had spared no effort to suppress it, nearly severing it entirely, had it still never been completely erased?
"Following this line of speculation deeper, the continued existence of orthodox lineages seems more like cultivators' personal verification of heaven and earth, of the great Dao."
Jiang Yi had only recently broken through. With the spiritual light of Dao Wisdom still blazing, his thoughts could not help spreading outward.
Could the four Dao lineages currently manifest in the Jambudvipa Vast Land be regarded as four supreme and unsurpassed forms of