Li Yan had his own guesses about this outcome. Buddhist monks often took the opposite approach to cultivation from Daoists.
Daoists pursued breadth in their arts and the great principles of heaven and earth, as though there was nothing they did not understand. They were versed in alchemy and artifact refining, and wielded a wide variety of magical treasures.
Monks, on the other hand, were rather like sword cultivators. They generally devoted themselves to cultivating their own bonded magical treasures and looked down somewhat on other treasures.
As a result, sword cultivators and monks often attacked in very limited ways, but with immense power, usually aiming to kill in a single strike.
Li Yan then turned his attention to the jade slips. He quickly removed them from his forehead one after another, his face betraying neither joy nor sorrow, leaving his thoughts unreadable.
After roughly a hundred breaths, a flicker of expression crossed his impassive face. The jade slip currently in his hand recorded a cultivation art called "Secret-Traces Vajra Mountain Suppression."
At its highest level, this art could refine eighteen prayer beads into eighteen manifestations of Vajrapani Bodhisattva, each capable of suppressing heaven and earth.
Once all eighteen manifestations of Vajrapani Bodhisattva had been refined, they could form the "Vajra Mountain Suppression Formation." Even a genuine vajra of the true immortal realm might be suppressed by this art.
Reading this, Li Yan could not help drawing in a sharp breath.
I remember Master Dajing only summoned one bodhisattva back then, and my speed was immediately reduced by about thirty percent.
If I hadn't made some small progress in Five Elements Return to Primordial Chaos over these nine years, that suppression would have made it difficult for me to take even a single step.
*If there had been another one